[quote=@ImportantNobody]
It's hard coming up with superhero origin stories due to how cheesy they tend to come out. I was thinking of a realistically portrayed superheroine (who also uses guns and wear adequate crime fighting clothing) with powers kind of inspired by honey badgers (greatly enhanced durability being the primary power but also enhanced strength, speed, reactions, senses, etc.). She doesn't call herself badger related stuff but is sometimes made fun of and called that by others, acting like she's a copy of Wolverine or something.

So...the origins...can anyone offer any suggestions that I can steal from you? A badger biting her with teeth coated in a radioactive material or an alien badger giving her the powers was too silly for my taste. I was thinking she was almost crushed to death by a vending machine so the badger had no choice but to enhance her powers. haha
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Problem with cliche back-stories is that they're almost a necessity, there's literally no understanding the actions of a super-hero without sufficient motive, and most motives have already been stolen by comic book writers by now. Considering the nature of your character, I would just have random DNA mutation at birth be the cause of her body producing a number of proteins commonly found in Honey Badgers rather than humans, hence the superhuman stats, just an idea though.