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what is ahead of you, kid.
    And here’s one other thing I want to impress on you. It won’t be your actual power that stamps what sort of Hero you are. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’re all impressed by whatever your superpower is. You can summon the wind, or fly, or beam a heat ray from your belly button, or whatever your party trick is. Well, whoopee doo.
    â€˜Hero’ comes from within. Yes, it’s about learning to control and use your powers, but mostly it’s about your attitude, your ethics and your willingness to give. For your fellow man. Or creature.
    We don’t all save the world every day. Sometimes, the most Heroic thing you might attempt all week is to help some old person cross the road. Or to untangle a dog’s lead. Is that the stuff of comic book legend? No, but to that person, or that dog, you’re Heroic right then, when they needed you. What I’m saying is that it’s the little things that define a true Hero, not just the flashy rescues or the timely fist to an alien monster’s jaw. If it has a jaw.
    Got all that? Probably not, but try to give it some thought between weights sessions at the gym, huh?
    Most of all, you will only be a true Hero when you believe. In you. And remember, a Hero is a Hero. No matter what.
    Mr Fabulous
    HERO RECOGNITION: A DISCUSSION BY A. HERO
    There are people wandering around in every city and every country of the world who have superpowers, but most don’t realise it or don’t want to know. Powers come in many forms and strengths. One person might have superior vision to everybody around him but never think about it, other than to wonder why everyone is peering at something in the distance when he can see it, crystal clear. Someone else might be able to hear a conversation across a crowded room and never consider that nobody else in the room can do the same thing. A long time ago in Gotham City, it was decreed that nobody would be recognised as a Hero unless they first voluntarily came to the realisation that they were a Hero, and were therefore prepared to accept all that being a Hero means.

SUBJECT: New Hero website introduction
    Dear Mr Retina,
    Congratulations on your confirmed status as a Hero, Entry Level, Grade Two.
    You are invited to visit our website, www.herohints.com , for news, advice, tips and other Hero-related matters.
    We trust it will be of service to you.
    Your username and password for the site are as follows:
    username: hazy_retina
password: carrot_taco
    Yours in Heroism,
B. Canary,
International Hall of Heroes,
Gotham

CHAPTER 7
THE WORST WEDGIE IN
HUMAN HISTORY
    T hat was last night and now I’m back at school, finally dragged from my room after an unexpected room invasion by my mother, some air freshener and a stern talking-to about the value of a good education.
    I can hardly walk I’m so tired, but I’m grinning from ear to ear. Scumm and his buddies hurl insults at me and I just breeze on by. I have no doubt that during the three days of my absence, the words ‘freak’, ‘retard’ and ‘loser’ have been dramatically downgraded in their usage among the crueller sections of the school population, and now that I’m back, normal taunting can be resumed. But today is a day I am untouchable and, for once, it’s not because my body is more mist than skin and bone.
    I might be Entry Level, Grade Two, the lowest level there is, but I’m a Hero.
    Of course it was too good to last. Of course I shouldn’t have come to school. Second class I find myself heading to maths and that means Ali will be there. Instantly I can feel myself becoming a cloud again and I try to think about IncredoMan’s epic battle against the Fangstaaaaaaar Nine on the Planet Elginon, a comic I was reading last night. Distracted, my body takes shape again, as much as it will in a school environment, and I’m even more relieved, once I’m sitting, to realise that Ali has worked hard