Everyday Life of Superheroes Writing Prompts

A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.

You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that.

You are a 'Professional Hostage' hired by villains to secretly arrive at robberies and other crimes to be taken prisoner should the police or local heroes get involved. While out shopping you accidentally get taken hostage by a complete amateur who has no idea who you are.

Life has definitely slowed down since retiring at 70 as a super hero. To your surprise, your old evil arch nemesis appears at you door, claiming the doctors said he doesn’t have much time left. You two decide to spend a day golfing to reminisce about your glory days one last time

You are the child of two famous superheroes and their nemesis has kidnapped you in the hopes of getting under their skin. A week later your parents still haven't come to rescue you.

You work at a retirement home for superheroes who've gotten too infirm and senile to continue their work. The hardest part of the job is keeping them here, instead of gallivanting off on a foolhardy quest to relive their glory days.

After you, as a superhero, decided to reveal publicly your secret identity, your high school days bully decided to turn criminal since he could beat you. It genuinely doesn't occur to him that you were faking taking his beating way back then.

"Listen. Those dishes need to be washed, these lights need to be kept on and these bills gotta be paid. I don't care if I'm the only one able to defeat the big bad guy- I'm not working for free."

You are a retired super heroine. Your son has recently gained superpowers and secretly moonlights as a super hero. He sucks at lying, though, so you've known since the beginning.

Your superpower is to "respawn" anytime you get killed or seriously injured. While initially dismissed as you're otherwise a normal human the cape scene is slowly learning to respect and/or fear you.

You are a cabdriver. But you don't drive any cab, you drive The Herocab, a cab that any superhero can call if they need to be somewhere urgently. Today you were called, only to find the hero a bloody mess on the ground and a villain, the hero's phone in hand, standing over them.

The hero's identity was accidentally revealed, but it turns out they are moderately poor, have no friends or family, and their civilian life is frankly...sad.

You are a superhero in the countryside and mostly deal with low level villains and petty crimes, but that doesn't mean you are weak. So when a full-fledged villain suddenly turned up on your doorstep you found them significantly easier to handle than your condescending big city colleagues.

A hero and villain put aside their differences so that they can spend time with their kids in daycare

You’re a therapist for a superhero, and know all of his fears nobody else knows. At night, you become a super villain and realize you don’t want to tarnish your reputation by ruining your patient confidentiality agreement.

After months, the villain finds the hero, but upon arriving at his home, he discovers the hero in a stained robe, baby food splattered, huge dark circles under his eyes, and a non-stop crying baby. The only thing the hero says is, "My wife left me."

You were born without powers, which made you the black sheep of your superhero family. Eventually, you became the director of an agency that deals with superheroes (a la Nick Fury), and now you are the boss of the family that shunned and picked on you.

You have a café shop, and you always treat everyone kindly, whether they are heroes or villains. Everything was going well until a young hero decided to read your mind.

A AskReddit post which reads: "Superheroes/Supervillains, what's the most awkward situation you found yourselves in during your career?"

You are a superhero and you are sick of it. So you decide to fake your death in the next fight with your nemesis. Unfortunately they have the same plan.

Being a magical girl is an extremely dangerous and short lived calling. Due to your horrific injuries on the job, you're retired. You're trying to teach the next generation of magical girls, but feel they don't trust you due to your physical disability.

"We are grateful you stopped the villian from destroying the warehouse," HR coldly stated "But being that you also represent Boot Barn we need to let you go for being involved in a violent fight. Do you have any questions?"

You are a superhero who joined a team for pay and benefits. However, the pay is minimum wage since you have no education and they made it so you are blackballed in the civilian world so you can’t work there either. So imagine their surprise when you joined the villain’s team.

You and your twin brother were adopted by different families. He ended up to becoming a supervillain, so every other day, while going about your business, you get beaten up by superheroes. It is time to put an end to this…

You are a world renowned supervillain that has just kidnapped your hero’s child, but instead of being scared or threatening you, they are begging you to let them stay

You were disowned by your family after being accused of a crime you didn’t commit. You end up getting adopted by your superhero mentor who believe in your innocence. After being proven innocent, your former family want you back

You were made fun of as a male with a 'feminine' superpower growing up. Who's laughing now considering you are now the most powerful and richest superhero?

"What are you doing at my door, villain?" "Well, you have busted my robbery, hero. Now, I couldn't pay my rent and I got evicted." "So?" "Can I stay here for now?"

You were the only child of a super-powered couple born without powers. You made peace with this, and through hard work you became very rich. Unfortunately, since finding out about your wealth your family keep bugging you to fund their superhero activities and you've had enough.

As a superheroine, it always complicates things for her when another superhero realizes not only that they know her turn-ons, but just how effective her buttons are. This is even truer when a villain realizes the same...