- Now remember, we're here to explore our feelings
not to make the feelings go away.
We can all relate to each other
because we're all dealing with the same issue.
- Yeah, we're all losers.
- I prefer the word unconventional.
- Oh, is that your superpower of vocabulary words?
- No, that's just Metropolis Public School education.
Anyway, let's go around and introduce ourselves.
I'll go first, I'm Mike, I'm the group leader.
And a fun fact about me
is that I like to make my own homemade cold brew.
- Oh.
- How about you go next?
- I'm Vince, I have the power of avocados.
- Okay.
- What is the power of avocados?
- I always know exactly when an avocado
will be ready to eat just by looking at it.
- Hey, I heard Chipotle is hiring.
- I am a manager at Chipotle.
- Well, good for you.
- My father can read minds,
my mother can control plant life.
For my entire life they have been disappointed
to have Avocado Boy as a son.
- Well, I really appreciate you opening up and sharing.
How about you next?
- Hey everybody.
I'm Jack and I can understand dog barks
- Well, hey!
- How did you know?
- Know what?
- How did you know that every time a dog barks
they're just saying, 'Hey'.
- Really?
- What about when they're whimpering?
- Hey.
- What about when they're howling at the moon?
- Hey.
- Yeah, what about when they're-
- Okay, there are literally no exceptions.
Every sound that comes out of a dog's mouth is 'Hey'.
That's it.
- Okay, let's simmer down now.
How about you?
- I am Dan.
I know every world capital.
- That's your superpower.
- No, that's a fun fact about me.
- Lithuania.
- Oh, gimme a second,
uh, huh,
ah, Vilnius.
- Is he right?
- I don't know.
- Of course I'm right.
Anyway, my superpower is invisibility.
- Then why are you here?
That's a good superpower.
- Because I can only turn my right hand invisible.
- Mm.
- The only thing it's good for
is flipping people the bird, and they have no idea.
Like, maybe I'm flipping you all off right now.
- Well, that would be a little inappropriate, but.
- You could also pick your nose in public.
- He's right.
I mean about Lithuania, I just looked it up.
- Of course I'm right.
It's child's play.
- Alright, how about you next?
- My name's Steve.
My power is that nobody can remember me.
- Oh.
- Oof.
- I have no friends, I don't even have acquaintances.
- Hmm.
- [Steve] My own mother thinks I'm a stranger.
- That's tragic.
- It would be fine if I were a villain
because I could just commit crimes in broad daylight.
But I don't want to be evil.
I want to be good.
But, when no one remembers you, it's like you never existed.
And I just want to exist.
- Mm.
All right, next.
How about you in the blue hair?
What's your name?
- Why do I even bother?
(chair slides across floor)
(footsteps)
(door slams)
- What was up with him?
- Up with who?
- Who?
- What are you talking about?
- I don't know, brain fart.
All right, how about you go next.
- My name is Andre
and my superpower
is overwhelming charisma.
Every woman who looks into my eyes cannot help but love me.
- Oh, boohoo.
- I wish I had that power.
- Yes, they cannot help but love me
like a brother.
- Oh, no.
- Now that is terrible.
- Nevermind. I'll stick to avocados.
- This is Valentina the love of my life.
Every day for the past 10 years
she calls me on the phone and we talk for hours
about how there are no good men anymore.
- Woof.
- Hmm.
- This is physically painful to listen to.
- Every night I lie alone in my white satin sheets
and wonder why I was cursed with such a terrible power.
It feels like I don't belong anywhere.
Like I'm a mistake, an aberration.
- Same.
- Yes.
- I'm raising my hand to agree.
- I think we all relate to this, Andre.
So thank you for opening up and sharing.
- Hold up, okay.
What's your stupid power?
Is it boring people to death?
- Very funny.
Actually, my superpower is Super Strength.
- Oh, come on.
- But that's a good power.
Better than avocados.
- Hey, it's true.
And things started off really well for me.
I was known as the Powerhouse.
- That's not a bad name.
- It's not a good name either.
- But eventually I met my match.
You all ever hear of a super villain named
Dr. Leftovers?
- Bad name.
- Terrible name.
- Dr. Leftovers he was coming up at the same time as me
but no one remembers him anymore because
all he ever did was rob restaurants
and and he never stole money.
He just stole food.
- He should have been called The Incredible Bulk.
- It's funny you say that, because
that was his name at first,
but then some legal stuff came up and he had to change it.
Anyway, he was clearing out restaurants left and right
and he was an equal opportunist.
Okay, it didn't matter what kind of restaurant it was.
Michelin Star, Fast Food, School Cafeteria,
the Snack Shack at the local pool.
- Chipotle?
- Everywhere.
- No!
- This went on for months and nobody could stop him.
- Including you?
- That's right.
- You got defeated by a guy named Mr. Leftovers?
- He was a doctor, not a mister.
- Oh, excuse me.
- What happened is, in the wee hours one morning
he broke into a local Applebee's
and apparently their food storage practices
were not up to code.
- Applebee's, what was he thinking?
- Well, exactly.
Whatever he ate did not agree with him.
So when the kitchen staff showed up the next morning
they found him on the toilet, doubled over,
with a trash can in front of him
and he was naked because he had one of those
stomach aches that was so bad that you just feel
like you need to take off all your clothes.
- I know the feeling.
- And the toilet was beyond repair.
In fact, they just ended up knocking down the building
because that was cheaper than trying to clean the bathroom.
- This is a great story and all,
but I thought this was about how he kicked your butt.
- Yeah.
- Oh, right.
Well, Dr. Leftovers, he was me.
- What?
- No.
- Hey.
- I couldn't maintain my super strength as the powerhouse
without consuming roughly 90,000 calories a day.
- That is a lot of burrito bowls with double meat.
- It is and all that food adds up fast.
And when you're a rookie superhero
you're not making any money
because those brand deals don't start rolling in
until you've saved the city at least three times.
- Mm.
- So I wanted to be a hero so badly
that out of necessity, I became a villain
who only knocked off restaurants.
- Why not grocery stores?
There's way more food.
- Well, I like to cook, so I needed a stove.
- Oh, that makes sense.
- So anyway, I spent a few years behind bars
- Oof.
- And those prison meals, they're pretty good
but they're not 90,000 calories a day.
So I did not have my super strength anymore.
I was no longer a hero.
I had failed and I had nothing to do
except think about that
and think about how my life had no meaning.
I was just the guy who blew up
an Applebee's bathroom beyond repair.
And then one day it, it hit me.
Most super humans, they get handed
their purpose in life on a silver platter.
Like, here Superman!
You are invincible.
You should probably just be Superman.
That's pretty much all you can do.
It's fairly obvious.
But for those of us in this room, we didn't get that.
And that lack of clear meaning is depressing
until you realize you get to create the meaning.
- So we should just cheer up, huh?
- No, that's, that's not what I mean.
Because it's still gonna be difficult
and it's gonna be stressful and anxiety inducing.
And you might develop chronic heart palpitations
and a little bubble of fluid in your retina
that causes a spot in your vision.
It's very common in young men
who are under periods of stress.
But anyway, that's what I want you to do tonight.
I want you to go outside and look at the sky
and you'll see stars.
Orion, Orion's belt.
You'll see planets unfathomably huge.
But guess what?
None of them can do anything.
They're fixed.
But you and me, these specks of dust, we can do things.
And in the grand scheme of the universe
the ability to make a choice to do something
is a superpower.