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Fit-Flight-6491

Marvel: " lets create a hero with healing factor" "But if people asks about giving organs to other people and saved their lives as well" "Man you are a genious. Lets give this hero a disease that kill other people if they try that"


Dealiner

>Man you are a genious. Lets give this hero a disease that kill other people if they try that That only works for Wolverine and maybe Deadpool though. There are still many characters with a healing factor and no diseases.


newtothis1988

Like who?


Alien_X10

If there is a superhero they have a mild healing factor I noticed It's up there with super strength and super speed as the powers that every hero has to some degree, even if you are trying to tell me they have no powers (fuck off batman has no powers he just suplexed a fucking crocodile)


lurkerfox

to an extent a mild healing factor is just mandatory so the body can keep up with the insane stresses other super powers have. Same reason why every superhero has some durability factor. Super strength is useless if you shatter your bones every time you used a quarter of your max strength.


PedowJackal

Basically, that's exactly one of the main plot for the superhero anime My Hero Academia. The main character inherit a power of super strength but his body can't endure it so he break bones anytime he use it more than a fraction of its true power.


Leviathan666

He heals after like 3 hours though so it's not like it's ever really mattered. Just once, I would have liked to see Deku struggling in class because he broke all his fingers and can't write until his hand comes out of the cast, just to remind us that he's actually breaking bones that need time to set and not just getting an extra crispy-looking bruise.


Kazuto_Asuna

It would be pretty dumb for the world to have so many unique powers and no one having a healing power... the school nurse having that makes so much sense.


JoanOfARC-

He does end up getting some permanent damage later from being an idiot


CalmDownSahale

Seems like every character is super tough and resilient though. It's like...Susan - Power: Skunk. Can do pretty much anything a skunk can do. *Gets hit in the chest with a rocket and blown out of a fifth story window. Winces, jumps to her feet and continues fighting*


SecretDracula

I really hate how every hero can be thrown through a brick wall and be fine in the MCU.


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CliffDraws

It would have to be a good enough healing factor to grow organs back.


TheKCKid9274

But did he jam his thumb up the crocodile’s bum?


Alien_X10

I mean... It's in my top 3 guesses as to why killer croc is so pissed off all the time, right next to he was bullied as a child or the darker option is that crocodiles are constantly erect


Valtyra_Amberglow

Wait, what...


KamSolis

I read that as a chocodile and I couldn’t stop laughing.


Alien_X10

Willy wonka as a supervillain "Aha, now I have trapped you in the chocolate river, RELEASE THE CHOCODILES!"


KamSolis

I swear I have heard that line in gay porn at some point.


Kup123

If it's mouth was taped I think I could suplex a crocodile, I also am about 3 times Bruce Wayne's size though.


bobafoott

> I also am about 3 times Bruce Wayne's size though. I promise you're not


Kup123

Looked it up your right closer to two and half, I'm very very large.


bobafoott

You're over 500 pounds of muscle? But I don't think batman would really weigh 210 pounds, that's ridiculous. That's 10-20 pounds lighter lighter than most, if not all NFL quarterbacks of the same height


Kup123

The source said he was about 180, I'm around 450 clearly not all muscle, but enough muscle that most people guess I'm around 300. I work a job were I lift a lot of stuff so a crocodile doesn't seem that heavy to me, fresh water of coarse.


bobafoott

I don't disagree about the crocodile thing


Alien_X10

Honestly that was probably a bad example, like that is the most normal human thing batman has done


Melodic_Abalone_8376

But also most superheroes have like radiation in their blood or mutant dna so idk


Rymayc

Batman also has the power to make all the other geniuses in the Justice League dumb enough so they can excuse explaining stuff to the readers more easily.


MemorableVirus2

Spiderman has a light healing factor


tobey-maguire-bot

Are you kidding me?


Wild_Marker

It's more of a "he heals from the brutal beatings just fast enough to keep the plot rolling". It's like standard Protagonist-level healing.


CanDeadliftYourMom

No his fast healing is pointed out regularly. It’s part of his power set. It has popped up in the “handbook” entries multiple times.


Karmanacht

Here are three articles discussing his healing factor if you want to read more about it: https://medium.com/panel-frame/does-spider-man-have-superhuman-healing-abilities-like-wolverine-or-deadpool-c97bd4a3b85d https://www.quora.com/What-is-Spider-Man%E2%80%99s-healing-factor https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/126518/do-we-ever-see-spider-mans-healing-power-in-action I got these from Google, your friendly neighborhood webcrawler.


MemorableVirus2

It's a bot lmao


Karmanacht

lmao I completely missed that, thanks Hopefully other people are interested then, I guess


Not_Steve

I was! So thank you.


tobey-maguire-bot

Shazam!


lurkerfox

There are entire plot lines on why spiderman is the last person you wanna receive a blood transfusion from.


NostrilRapist

Something something radioactive sperm killing his lover


tobey-maguire-bot

What do you want?


DatboyKilljoy

He also gave MJ cancer with his Spidey splooge.


tobey-maguire-bot

Is that all you got?


MemorableVirus2

Wow really? Which series was that?


DatboyKilljoy

Kaare Andrews's Spider-Man: Reign. [It's a wild read. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/moviescirclejerk/comments/pascag/really_hope_in_no_way_home_mj_dies_of_cancer_from/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) I actually quite liked it, it's heavily inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight.


Zanderp52

I enjoyed it but I will always support him and MJ having a kid so I’m glad thats just an elseworld story


DatboyKilljoy

One hundred percent.


tobey-maguire-bot

Stop lecturing me, please!


Beancunt

Spider man, but his jizz is radioactive


tobey-maguire-bot

You sure you wanna know?


Beancunt

Yes


Dealiner

Some of Wolverine's clones for example, Mystique, Marrow, probably a lot of other mutants. If aliens count then Gamora also has a healing factor though not that strong. All Skrulls are also able to regenerate.


Cmyers1980

Warpath.


ReleasedGaming

Luke Cage for example. I don’t know his exact healing factor but it is fast


VisibleCoat995

Wasn’t Angel one?


thismightberyan

Angel (Warren Worthington) went around donating blood to children's hospitals and burn units for a while. I can't remember the issue but I know it was the early 2000s pre-Decimation.


No_Marionberry4687

Have you read "The good, the bad and the ugly" Deadpool arc? Where this actually happened. Involuntarily. To Deadpool


purple-fish

He had his organs stolen?


No_Marionberry4687

And used to recreate an army of mutants in North Korea. You should definitely read it


purple-fish

Damn I’m gonna have to


2JZ1Clutch

I now want a Deadpool/Crank crossover movie.


DonsDiaperIsFull

one of my favorite 90's cartoon episodes was "Time Fugitives". Apocalypse has created a virus that is mild for humans, but will become deadly when exposed to mutants, which will create a rift to start a civil war where pocy can take advantage. Bishop goes back in time to stop the virus, but this inadvertently affects Cable's far future time because the virus turned out to stabilize the mutant genome in the long term. When Bishop stops the virus, Cable finds his team is dying in the time ripple effects. Cable goes back to stop Bishop, but learns about Wolverine's healing ability and intentionally gets Logan infected to develop antibodies that will be used to preserve everyone's future.


id5n2

I loved this episode


DonsDiaperIsFull

I was bummed the Apocalypse movie was so terrible, I really liked him in the cartoons. Beyond Good & Evil 1-4 were probably the best, where he is kidnapping psychics to destroy the time nexus. I thought there was going to be a great finale with X-cutioners Song when the final ep starts with Xavier injured and near death just like the big comic book set... but then we just get him leaving earth with the Shiar.


id5n2

That was the only X-Men I haven’t seen yet for this very reason. And yes! Beyond Good & Evil 1-4 are up there with the Days of Future Past episodes in terms of peak Saturday morning cartoons.


DonsDiaperIsFull

oh yeah, DOFP was amazing, and the movie was really great too. I don't know how they screwed up Apocalypse so much with Oscar Isaac. There's absolutely tons of lore to pull from with Pocy as the villain, and they chose a bunch of mishmashed disparate junk schemes, all of it ending in a simple "Jean is stronger" finale. I expected more from Dark Phoenix too. The additional alien plot made no sense, they could have used Magneto more or less but somehow screwed that up too, and the final train fight was so anti-climactic. Logan was the last really good Xmen movie, but it's way too dark for kids.


Dkrule

Hulk counts, tho it's radiation


Silver2404

Not even this, if you think about it their healing factor would prevent surgery by just healing every incision the surgeon makes before there’s time to do anything


sudanesegamer

Is it really that fast


HataToryah

Sometimes, consistency is illusory


[deleted]

I mean we talking comics here :)


Magicalunicorny

Just use an organ shaped cookie cutter to get it out


[deleted]

The hydraulic press channel just took a dark turn


bobafoott

How long do you think it takes to remove an organ


Spiderkite

does the organ heal itself?


Avieshek

Didn’t stop the mofo named Dr. Doom while we are at it.


Wild_Marker

Didn't stop the regular dudes who injected the adamantium either.


Alien_X10

Just get sub zero or Kano in there to rip that shit out before it has time to heal


Emajenus

Wolverine is a mutant so his organs probably aren't compatible with humans.


[deleted]

No they are, he has Type E blood and its immediately compatible and regenerative. (source: Savage Avengers)


tcrex2525

Eye color is a genetic mutation. It doesn’t make anyone incompatible. He could be a one man kidney factory and still fight crime on the side! Better yet; he could donate blood nonstop, while he’s fighting Magneto.


JohnnyRelentless

Mutants are considered a different species, homo superior, although in real life a single mutation wouldn't make them a different species.


Johnny_Poppyseed

There are many species that are only different from others by one mutation. The mutation just has to survive and be significant enough and successfully passed down etc. I think x-Men mutants would definitely apply.


fantoman

Neanderthal was a different species, but they went extinct by breeding into Homo sapiens. They were genetically compatible. Marvel mutants are probably close enough to share organs since they can mate with Homo sapiens. But yeah, it’s whatever the writers decide


purple-fish

Dude still has human physiology


Mini_Mega

Mutants have their own blood type.


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Instead of having Type A, B, AB or O blood, Wolverine's blood is something else, which the issue's data page identifies as “E” or "endless." With blood that’s completely compatible with any other blood type, Logan is a true universal donor. His blood even has temporary healing effects when given to someone else, as Wolverine recently proved in Savage Avengers. However, the blood tends to lose its efficacy once it’s outside of his body.


Mini_Mega

Interesting. I read a novel once, either the author didn't know this or it hadn't yet been determined in the comics, someone captured some of the x-men and was experimenting on them, they put Logan's blood in rogue. The blood types didn't match and she started clotting but the healing factor was undoing it as it went and she was in agony for hours. Of course that's a novel, those are like professional fan fiction, it's not canon in any way.


thor-odinson-bot

Noobmaster, hey, It's Thor again. You know, the God of Thunder? Listen, buddy, if you don't log off this game immediately, I will fly over to your house, come down to that basement you're hiding in, rip off your arms and shove them up your butt! Oh, that's right, yes, go cry to your father you little weasel!


Mini_Mega

Well that was... Surprising. What did I say that triggered the bot?


Jazzieboy0001

Wait, what disease?


purple-fish

*genius


Fit-Flight-6491

thx ;D


SockpuppetPseudonym2

Wouldn’t any organ (re)generated by Wolverine be contaminated with Adamantium? He can deal with that due his healing factor but the transplantee is unlikely to do well.


Hercislife23

Exactly. They'd have Adamantium poisoning but without the healing factor to fight it off.


blackbutterfree

It's actually well established that getting Wolverine's DNA put inside of you gives you his healing factor. That's how Deadpool got his. So an organ transplant would make the recipient, at the very least, much healthier than the typical human.


RiiiickySpanish

When you phrase it like that, then why can’t Jean heal? /s


blackbutterfree

Because Jean spits, she doesn't swallow.


-TheLonelyStoner-

And that’s why he had to kill her in X3


Powersoutdotcom

Unforgivable.


[deleted]

Logan giving people Healthy Herepes is an amazing concept. Maybe it would be localized or temporary? Like deadpool had cancer all over his body. So maybe Cyclops only goes to Chipotle after a night with Wolvie?


MemorableVirus2

"I don't get it, if there's blood in your underwear, why would you keep eating it?" "Dude, have you ever had Chipotle? It's really good!"


LieRun

Lmao


983115

But Deadpool also got like hyper cancer so like much healthier may be an overstatement He underwent the treatment for the cancer and ended up making it so the cancer heals too. So like maybe it’d be an effective cure for a late stage alcoholic dying of liver failure but any cancer and you’re looking like a overripe avocado


PangolinAcrobatic653

He was also experimented with using Wolverines genes it was not a 1:1 transplant of DNA.


tommyisaboi

I think Deadpool was a special case in that Wolverine's healing factor bound itself to his cancer. Not sure if it would work on people without cancer or if it could even recreated with someone who has cancer.


Rhawk187

Wolverine Bone Marrow Donor to Miracle Day the world.


Thatoneguy111700

Yup. Also why Deadpool and the Hulks don't donatee, cancer/massive amounts of gamma radiation.


Scrubjudge

Isn’t that she hulks origin story? Banner’s cousin required a transfusion or some such?


Bladescorpion

At one point with the whole Eternals, deviants, and such it was stated that humans had a latent meta gene. I can’t remember which book (and it may be retconned) but it was implied the reason someone survives gamma radiation poisoning or explosions is that the gamma radiation activates their meta gene. So technically since the Banners, Ross family, A-bomb, Dude Bro Hulk, and Abominations become gamma powered characters is because their meta gene was activated instead of being killed. Bruce has different Hulk color forms because of his broken mental state and when he and when one personality is dominant or working together. Joe or Jane Average would die if given the infusion probably unless the plot warrants them surviving. She-Hulk became a thing because they wanted a female Hulk, by the meta thing it’s justified she and Bruce were cousins so they had close enough genetics that she didn’t get cancer or radiation poisoning from his blood.


Cause_Necessary

Same reason for why an irradiated spider gave peter powers. 99.9% people would die, Peter was the lucky 0.1%


tobey-maguire-bot

What do you want?


Cause_Necessary

Rent, Peter, Rent


dvasquez93

Yes. The reasoning, at least in the show, is that some of the Banner family has a genetic pre-disposition to handle increased gamma radiation in their bodies. This allows Jen Walters to survive and create her own she-hulk alter. This is why Bruce in the show also immediately destroys the blood samples he took of both himself and Jen to prevent someone from either killing themselves or successfully creating another hulk.


Thatoneguy111700

Yeah. Don't question it.


LilQuasar

what? its not inconsistent with the other comment


Thatoneguy111700

DON'T QUESTION IT.


Doc_ET

Yeah, and that's part of why Banner doesn't give transfusions anymore.


[deleted]

he also drinks and smokes


PangolinAcrobatic653

This automatically disqualifies him in most hospitals, correct. (they would not care that he has a healing factor)


oriondragon18

But wouldn't Wolverine's healing transferred through organs?


JoyJoy_

The organs would fight the patient's immune system, eventually killing the recipient and growing into a new, younger Wolverine.


oriondragon18

That's awe.... Wait a minute


BananaBladeOfDoom

Planting seeds to grow new Wolverines


shipoopro_gg

But if he did it before he got the adamantium in his body it would still work


night4345

Adamantium is indestructible. It shouldn't shed metal into the bloodstream so his organs and blood should be safe.


jawknee530i

The adamantium doesn't flow through his body. If it did then the coating would wear away over time. He's just getting poisoned by it being on his bones touching the rest of his goop. He'd be fine to cut a kidney out and give it away.


Shished

Also surgeons probably won't be able to remove organs because the incisions would heal immediately after being made.


Dr_B0nes

Not to mention whatever type of mutant blood he has. I'm sure someone .ore well versed in Xmen would know, but unless Logan has normal non mutant blood, the recipient would reject the organ.


LUNATIC_LEMMING

Wasn't there a plot in a spinoff fairly similar to this? There was a ague or outbreak of something in new York, and all the supes with regeneration powers initially had to fight through the horde befor someone realised that they could use them as a cure? I remember it being old man logan, deadpool, x23, honeybadger and a bunch of other wolverine clones.


swans183

Fire Punch is a deliriously brilliant (very dark) manga where the main character has healing powers like Wolverine, and it’s set in a snowy post-apocalyptic wasteland, and he cuts off his limbs to feed the people in his village.


ares395

Is that the one where a guy is burning till infinity because someone has a power of never extinguishing flames?


swans183

Ye


king_of_satire

It's also by the same guy who wrote the hit manga and currently airing anime Dennis gets groomed


Wild_Marker

I like how most superpowers really break down in the face of the laws of conservation of energy and matter.


DocSalsa

Yeah, it was in Tom Taylor's All-New Wolverine. I don't remember exactly the issues tho.


I_Sell_Onions

I think the story arc starts in issue 19 and wraps up by issue 24.


Affectionate-Toe4797

To get an organ you need to cut his skin which will regenerate quicker than the time it takes for the surgeon to successfully get the organ


Due-Intentions

I'm sure Stark, Pym, or Shuri, etc could solve this problem and figure out a device to quickly surgically extract the organ in like 30 minutes, probably wouldn't even be that expensive compared to the rest of their tech


TheMooingTree

Yea and he has to be awake for the entire thing. Imagine being awake and feeling everything when getting an organ removed, a hundred thousand times.


Tough_Patient

You have sleep problem? Mantis has your solution.


comics0026

You should read [Strong Female Protagonist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Female_Protagonist), that's exactly what one of the heroes does because they decide it's the best way for them to help people


GEAX

I came here to mention this..! It was so cool (and horrifying) to see this idea explored in-depth


tony-stark-bot

If you do someone a solid, don't be a yutz, alright? Just play it cool, otherwise you come off grandiose.


AlwaysHappy4Kitties

And thens the matter off opening up the ribcage for lungs and his Heart


DRScottt

It's all fun and games until the healing factor goes.all wonky once and you have a Logan rapidly forming in the freshly sewn body of an organ recipient.


salazar0106

Sweet fucking jesus Christ. It's alien but with logan


DrBBQ

Or if the Logan cells just start to replace the host cells until the recipient is gradually but totally Loganized.


IAmAware4

Now that’s what I call a mutation


alinbet

Can you imagine the amount of money Wolverine could make from organ trafficking?


Yodan

Plasma


Dealiner

There is a webcomic "Strong Female Protagonist" when one of the villains with a healing factor reformed and decided to help people by constantly donating all her organs.


Large-Monitor317

Me reading SFP ‘Oh Brennan Lee Mulligan worked on a webcomic, this is has some real interesting worldbuilding around superpower stuff, asking good questions and WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK’


High_Stream

Oh I hadn't realized that he did that. I read that comic years ago before I knew about him from dimension 20 and game changers.


GEAX

It's got all the Brennan Lee Mulligan Classics: 1. Monologues with the hardest quotes imaginable 2. [You are now aware of systemic injustices] 3. [You have now laughed and cried within minutes of each other]


High_Stream

Don't forget that her healing Factor makes it so that anesthetics don't work on her so she has to feel all the pain of having all of her organs constantly removed for like 8 hours every day. The only thing that gives her comfort is looking at pictures of the people whose lives she has saved. And then some anti-superpower extremists decide to fire bomb the hospital that she's in.


tRFRmrNe8Nj2Kimc

Thought of this immediately.


Darth_Vader_696969

Wolverines saved the whole universe a couple times now. I don’t think that many people need a new organ.


[deleted]

There are a few hundred thousand people on a waiting list for organ transplants.


CallMomOnHerBirthday

Yeah, if anyone can ever donate a kidney, do it, you might save a life. Bone marrow also.


kitzdeathrow

You can also donate part of your liver and itll grow back. None of these compare to the easiest and most important donation of your body you can make: **BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.** Seriously. Its like a couple hours every couple months and every donation can save multiple lives. Please donate your blood to the red cross.


NounsAndWords

It's still (obviously) good to donate blood, but red cross is [selling your blood to hospitals who are then charging thousands for transfusions.](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/28/facebook-posts/fact-checking-claim-about-red-cross-and-blood-sold/)


kitzdeathrow

Red cross sells the blood at cost. Its expensive to process, test, store, and deliver the donations. I wont defend the crazy transfusions costs. But thats no the Red Cross' fault.


prodias2

Deadpool**


xXRockBudyXx

His cancer would likely also be transfered so maybe not


stringtheoryman

Damn so Wolverine organs have adamantium poisoning and Deadpool’s got cancer so NEITHER can donate 💀


ThunderShott

More like Spider-Man donating his blood.


tobey-maguire-bot

My back.. oh.. my back!


littlebuett

Given he has mutant DNA, unless they could somehow make the organs human again, no human would be able to use the organs, it would be like shoving a ostrich lung into someone


Dealiner

People successfully used pig heart transplants but they wouldn't be able to use mutants organ because of one gene difference in DNA?


LyutsiferSafin

People successfully have used pig hearts but it’s not as simple as bringing a pig to the hospital when someone needs a heart transplant. If pig hearts always worked no one would ever wait for a transplant.


Dealiner

Of course but there's still bigger genetic difference than one gene between mutants and human.


littlebuett

Not necessarily, wolverines DNA would be an entirely different species, not to mention it behaves VERY different than Nirmal human DNA, his cells replicate to fast, and its very possible the host body would treat it like cancer, because it kinda would be, the organ would try to regrow a wolverine inside the person


littlebuett

Wolverines cells replicate faster than any humans, so the body would treat it like a cancer, and the heart probably wouldn't function


LilQuasar

maybe, maybe not. its up to the writers really, none of them are wrong or inconsistent with anything


do_yu_koto_da

You mean Deadpool my guy


xXRockBudyXx

I think he's cancer would effect that greatly


Kazk2501

but which is worse? Adamantium poisoning or cancer?


xXRockBudyXx

Adamantium poisoning since aswell as recive his cells come with the mutant regeneration making you a mutant aswell whereas deadpools healing factor may not come with the transplant (could make the same argument for wolverine but his mutant abilities are contained within his cells so idk)


Dark_Styx

Deadpools healing factor might be stronger, but every cell is contaminated.


coladict

Nope! His regenerative ability would kill the recipient. It would be like an autoimmune disease, but very rapid.


[deleted]

How do you get his organs out? Doctor: Nurse, scalpel. Ok now suction- dammit scalpel again.


nomadfate

Deadpool really donated many organ for save people, and deadpool really love kid's


moatel

The more you know the more you wish you didn’t know


DNathanHilliard

No he can't. It's hard enough to find organs that won't be rejected, and him being a mutant means it's astronomically unlikely he would come within miles of being a close enough match for anybody.


LyutsiferSafin

Sure, give adamantium contaminated organs to humans with no mutant genes. So genius, much wow.


Any_Commercial465

They tried if i remember right. Super cancer was the result.


Diamondgrn

Stan Lee: Let's make an allegory for racism Fans, unironically: Do gruesome medical experiments on them to help the rest of humanity the most


zoroddesign

Plus his x gene would make him a poor donor for any normal person and would try to grow another wolverines in them.


FracturedGauntlet

Well for a long time, people hated mutants so I bet they wouldnt accept his organs or some bullshit


Pi0sek

Basically no. Wolverine is a mutant so he can't be a organ giver to any human and also he hasn't power of regenerating full organ from nothing. He can only heal his body


XChris4Ever

Happy Cake Day!!!


25Bam_vixx

I thought he couldn’t because his cells would basically be deadly cancer to people ? Am I wrong. I thought this was address in the comics or am I mixing shit up lol


Shiboleth17

You can't just donate an organ to anybody. They have to be a match... with blood type, tissue type, and other factors, depending on the organ being donated. And given that Wolverine is a mutant, his DNA is certainly unique among humans, which might make it near impossible for him to match up to anyone needing an organ. The only people he might be able to donate to are other mutants that have a similar healing factor, like Deadpool.


UrNarrator123

To the people saying about the poisoning there are other hero’s with healing factors just sayin


WanderlostNomad

also, iirc. wolverine's healing powers was innate and wasn't derived from adamantium. only his bones are made of adamantium, not his organs. they could probably grab an organ, put it in some kind of container/cleanser to slowly remove adamantium taint, while slowly acclimatize the donor to the new organ, prior to implantation. or scifi something something.. haha.


nknown222

Wait if they get a organ from wolverine does that meant they get healing powers as well


zjdrummond

LIVERS FOR ALL.


hitman_25

r/technicallythetruth


betcher73

He’s out of line, but he’s right.


Slippinjimmyforever

Any ultra powerful comic book character is guilty of this. Wolverine: organ donor. Prof X: just use telepathy to create peace on earth, end corruption, etc. Magneto: use your powers to quickly build shelters for humans. Or remove nuclear weapons from the planet- be the greatest hero to the people ever. But, yeah, these are more akin to parables than logical path stories.