There’s a deeper meaning to these superpowers.
Warning: contains spoilers for the Supacell finale.
Supacells finale is action-packed, including the kind of big superpower smackdown we were promised from episode one.
And supacell is a mutation of sickle cell.
Its very rare, and even if you have it, it can lay dormant in your body forever.
But it can also awaken, given the right conditions.
Close proximity with another activated supacell is most common.
Even in stuff likeHeroesthey never explained where the powers came from.
But I wanted mine to mean more.
If you go down the route of the character first, you could be there forever.
So instead I picked these five powers that are my favourite powers.
Then I distributed them to who would make the best storytelling with this character and that power.
Michael meanwhile, with his ability to manipulate space and time, essentially has the power of super editing.
So it made sense.
They can block small blood vessels, damaging the supply of healthy blood and causing the patient pain.
The big thing with sickle cell is that it affects Black people predominantly, right?
What is the difference between dark skin or white skin?
My skins a few shades darker than yours, but I get this disease because of that?
It just never made sense.
So I said, You know what?
Were gonna spin this on its head.
How about weraise awarenessand make that the source of the power?
Ironically, sickle cell has been found to have advantages of its own.
It was at the same as George Floyd just got murdered.
That hit the Black community hard and we were like Enough is enough, Rapman recalls.
Supacellis streaming now on Netflix.
