There is something called Andexanet, which can reverse apixaban (Eliquis), but it's not something you can just buy; would have to go to a hospital or something to get it. As for transportation, funny you mention that. It's something that I think is a mistake that a lot of superhero shows and movies make in glossing over it. I've always wondered how superheroes get to places well before cops and firefighters do, especially in high-traffic areas, and it's something I definitely plan on addressing in my script. Have a few ideas for just that.
An idea hit me after writing my last post. This is how I'd probably approach it, but of course it's your story, so I'm just offering a possibility. Their powers and techniques of fighting could be a physicalization of their actual personality styles. meaning for instance, the one on blood thinners could be emotionally armored (this is of course, if you also go with my idea of him wearing body armor etc). He feels too emotionally vulnerable for real relationships or even deep friendships, so he 'keeps people at a distance', just like he does in his fiughting technique, by throwing things. He also carries a first aid kit tailored to his own personal vulnerability, things to stop bleeding. This parallels the way he always protects himself emotionally when people start to get too close etc.
Not a bad idea, though I'd probably go in the opposite direction, where he's super aggressive, goes all out, and brute forces through everything in life. Him having to start taking things easy goes against everything in his bones, but he must adapt, and become a better, more evolved hero if he wants to be the hero his city needs him to be. I basically want him to have a certain worldview, have it shattered by him having to start taking things easy because of the blood thinners, and then slowly embrace the opposite of his previous worldview. Just have to figure out what that worldview is, and how I could shatter it with him having to get on blood thinners.
Yeah, that works even better. Mine felt too 'on the nose', and I forgot you said it goes against his nature. It makes him a more complex character with some depth to him, that his exterior (after he goes on blood thinners) is the opposite of what he really is in inside.
Yes there are character flaws. But there are also story flaws, those aspects of a story that don't work and destroy the readers willing suspension of disbelief. We want to pull the readers into the world we have created, and let them enjoy it. There has to be an internal logic to the world. Super powers give a reason a world is the way it is, but they have their own internal logic. The power comes with a problem or weakness, superman and kryptonite. The flash and his metabolism. Or the other class of hero in the genre who don't have an actual power. Batman who has his gadgets. Then you have serious work vs parody. Which radically changes the internal logic of the story. A fun character concept, doesn't always work in a story. Each genre has its own rules and tropes. Readers expect certain tropes in a given genre, the hero at the mercy of the villain in an action story for example. All things that the author needs to consider when planning a story.
Oh, you're fine. Appreciate all suggestions! Just want to make sure I torture my hero enough, lol. With books, it doesn't matter nearly as much, but movies really need to have their theme figured out.
That is why topics like this are so helpful. The more eyes that look at it the more and better feedback we get.
I'm actually thinking that instead of individual stories, or serious stories, these guys could fit into one superhero team in a mockumentary-style show. Right now, the working title is The Squares, which references their generic, square-shaped superhero lair, and also tells us that these are not A-lister heroes. I actually have the cold open written down already, but probably won't post it for feedback, since I don't think that section is very active here.
