Stanisław Lem was a Polish science-fiction writer who thought that contact with alien lifeforms would be nothing like it appears on Star Trek: all easy and sanitized. As a quote from his most famous book Solaris has it: “Any attempt to understand the motivation of these occurrences is blocked by our own anthropomorphism. Where there are no men, there cannot be motives accessible to men.” Or: if something’s not human - it won’t think like us: and it’s pure vanity to assume otherwises. If you take that idea and apply it to the wonderful world of costumed heroes then: you get Supergod (no relation to Grant Morrison’s Supergods). Or if that’s a bit too vague for you - then I’d say this - what if every nation on the planet had a Dr Manhattan? And what would happen if those Dr Manhattans went to war?
