Superhero Writing Prompts

After a superhero destroyed your home and killed your family during a fight you swore you would have your vengeance and destroy the heroes once and for all. You may only be a rat but that is not going to stop you.

You are an above-average villain. You have it all, power, fame, enough comfort and even a nemesis. Of course, he is almost like your best friend. And if that wasn't enough, you also have a beautiful family, kids and all. One day, your find out that your nemesis has been abusing his sidekick.

Knowing the hero would call upon the power of friendship to win against them, the villain simply killed all the hero's friends. What he didn't expect is what the power of grief looked like.

"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.

You're a superhero's sidekick. But he doesn't pay you, so you're also moonlighting as the minion of a supervillain your hero never faces. Until one day, he does.

She's a battle-scarred, jaded super-soldier loaded with biomechanical upgrades and chemical augments. All she wants to do is wear cute clothes and paint.

Most villains betray their henchmen and right hands when things get tough. But not you. You stick by them and they go through hell and back for you. Always.

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.

Nearly all your life you lived on the streets. People ignored you at best and reviled you at worst. Then you got superpowers and those same people begin to lecture you about “altruism,” “duty,” and “responsibility.”

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.

Your hands shake as you approach the final battle. Everyone is confident you'll win since they believe you're the Chosen One. What they don't know is the "Chosen One" was your older brother, and you've been using his name and identity ever since he died when you were 14

Your superpower is that you can conjure anything in your palm provided it only costs a dollar or less. You have been relentlessly mocked for having such a useless power until you realize just how usefull it can be

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.

Years ago your work place accepted a prank delivery to an evil villains lair, ever since that day the villian hasn't left you alone, convinced you were secretly a hero, no matter how many times you explain you were just a pizza delivery driver and it was a prank call.

“Your superpower is: you can converse with exactly three people who have passed away.” “I choose Albert Einstein, George Washington, and my late father” “that’s only two, you can choose one more”.

A convention where every cosplayer unexpectedly physically transforms into their character.

You were the only child that didn't have powers in a family of metahumans. Today you got kidnapped by a supervillain... and none of your family came to the rescue.

You are a superhero, who also happens to be a therapist. Your supervillain nemesis has just captured you and is giving the usual “love and friendship is for the weak” speech. You can’t help but ask, “Dude, who hurt you?”

When your power had finally manifested, they were quick to dismiss it as some cruel joke, laugh it off, forget you ever existed... and then to never bother keeping tabs on you. After all, if you can't "mind control" anyone without their explicit consent, you might as well be powerless.

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 Superhero who doesn't wear a mask is the scariest. If you can see their face or know their identity, it probably means someone has already got to their loved ones and taken them from the hero. What do they have left to lose at that point?

You are a superhero known for wearing a signature ring. While everyone believes it to be the source of your powers in reality it actually dampens them, allowing you to safely use your powers. Today you woke up and could not find your ring.

Super powers have started to appear in the general population. However, unlike comics, there are no secondary powers to make one immune to the actual physics of one’s power. This has led to some interesting case studies.

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

You're the first test subject for an experimental super soldier serum. You are told the truth only after you transform into something not quite human anymore.

One day, magically, everyone across the world was given a superpower of their choice. Now, 5 years later, it seems your unconventional choice is paying off far more in life than your flying, super strong and mind reading friends.

You are a Superhero, one of many in your city. There's a local Supervillain, who always plays up the comedic side of his vast incompetence, to the point that you and your fellow heroes enjoy seeing him. Today, a new, cocky Superhero killed his minion. The Supervillain's reaction shocked you.

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.

You’re a supervillain that was working on a grand scheme until the hero came by, massacred hundreds of your minions, and foiled your plans. Now at their mercy, you closed your eyes and accepted your death when suddenly they let you go, claiming that if they kill you, they’ll be just like you.