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...Silver Age Hawk-police, and so fort and so on. So people of the United Planets, when they see the Legion, they see superheroes. But the idea of superheroes has different connotations in a culture where some of the superpowers are seen in a context where they're kinda like being really, really...

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...good at hockey. They're inspirational heroes, but many of them are also heroes who can do what "we" do really well, for various values of "we." That gives them a sense of "superhero" that's not the same as ours, and that makes it a distinctive thing that I think should matter to the book.

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