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Hail, Don't know if there is 'an answer' to this question, but ...
AFAIK the Celestials have something to do with the fact that mutations/etc in the MU produce good effects rather than bad ones. But is there any reason given* why superheroes in the MU are a recent phenomenon?
Part of it would be the X-gene thing Morrison and others have talked about, but I'm not sure that covers all 'causes' of superheroes.
Another part of it would be technological - Iron Man 2003 is a fearsome fighting machine, Iron Manne 1003 would be less 'super'. But there are other mechanisms by which someone could become a superhero - a meteor (somehow) giving off cosmic rays makes almost as much sense as the FF spaceship thing, strange chemicals and alien artifacts, unknown herbs (like the BP's heart shaped herb), plus a galaxy full of battling, scheming and frequently desperate forgetful or crazy cosmic beings, and time-travel/parallel worlds/etc... Remember, in the MU remarkable technology existed in 1003 (insert long list of extra-terrestrial and possibly terrestrial civilisations here), and there have been remarkable minds and remarkable heroism throughtout history.
So, is there a reason why there were so few if any mediaeval superheroes, industrial age superheroes, etc. in the MU, or are they, as I hope, stories we haven't been told yet? The only current MU heroes ones I can think of from 1003 would be Gilgamesh (possibly) and Thor, but there were a lot of others who may well have existed** and could presumably be 'explained' as superheroes if the author wanted to go that way - Achilles, Inanna and Enkidu, Cuchullain, that thief from the Arabian Nights called the Moth (?), half the saints of Europe, some mechanical creature of Leonardo Da Vinci, Spring Heeled Jack...
Anyway, I hope the 1602 Iron Man looks good. If he were a product of that technology, he could look like some of that gloriously ornate Italian renaissance stuff.
BDC
*besides sales, etc. I mean 'in' the MU.
**I'm not so much thinking of a LOEG kind of thing. One of the strengths of the MU for me has been the as-close-as-you-can-get-to-the-real-world setting.
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