metahuman adj.

An extension of this would be to ask the children to write ‘hero stories,’ both made-up and real. Chances are that the imagined stories would be ‘super-hero’ stuff, with incredible metahuman feats of strength and courage. But then ask them to tell about some time in their lives when they or someone they knew or saw did something heroic.

Gentlepersons of the Society, I thank you. I shall come directly to the point. Research by our team at Harvard indicates that metahuman abilities, the colloquially called ‘superpowers’ engendered by the Takisian wild card virus, are exclusively of psychic origin, and in all but rare cases are exercised through the instrumentality of psi.

The literary vampire is no longer a straightforward and slightly ludicrous figure of menace but a fascinating case-study in existential and erotic confusion: a problematic character whose distinctive metahuman angst has somehow come to seem far more meaningful than the common-or-garden varieties which formed the focal point of Colin Wilson’s groundbreaking scholarly fantasy The Outsider.

The slender man turned sideways in his chair and folded his legs yogi style. ‘What is the biggest problem with the Third Eye?’ ‘Memory. In order to retain information accurately there has to be a storage device on a par with the human and metahuman senses provided by the Eye.’

The bustling metropolis of Manhattan has seen much of metahuman mayhem—but all pale in comparison to the malevolent menace of M.O.D.O.K.!

‘Right! Right, he was big in the tech scene, wasn’t he? I didn’t know he was metahuman.’ It’s not entirely surprising, though. More people have powers than like to admit it, even if they wimp out and call them ‘special abilities’ instead of full-on powers. And like I said, most people with superpowers don’t become superheroes.

We get a brief shot of Barry’s interdimensional racing through the Speed Force, the energy that grants him his metahuman superspeed.