Until we can determine what is behind this and if it will ever stop, we should prepare to deal with ever-increasing numbers of metahumans. In the long term, we may have to consider a world without superheroes.” “What? Why?” someone shouts. “Think about it: if everyone has superpowers, then what use would police and fire departments have for us?” That’s about the last anyone is able to make out over the sheer noise of a room full of superheroes losing their goddamn minds.
Not necessarily. 'Powers' doesn't automatically equate with 'superhero.' There are people with powers who use them for mundane stuff (like the couriers mentioned in Dreadnought) and people with powers who use them for bad things (like blackcapes and even simple criminals) and people who presumably have a power that's just not useful. If anything, the really powerful capes - the ones like Dreadnought - should come to even greater emand as the regular criminals become harder for run of the mills cops to face. Either that, or they would get folded into something similar to existing emergency response.
