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Sylvan Luca was really just an ordinary mobster lucky enough to stumble into an extraordinary extortion opportunity – Jim Powell, unmasked.

How could the Powell patriarch have been so careless with his identity? It all started when he became the avenging angel for George’s new love-interest, Assistant D.A.  Amy Acker. The chemistry between Romany Malco and Chelsea Ricketts makes their characters’ romance believable, and provides some relief from George’s sidekick duties. Unfortunately, the two only get to share one kiss in her driveway before Luca steps from the shadows and shoots her in the shoulder.

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Spider-Man taught us that “with great power, comes great responsibility,” but it was Peter Parker who showed us the true cost of being a superhero. He beat the baddies, but he was vilified in the press, fell behind on his homework and had to nurse his ailing aunt while trying to protect the people of New York. The super-powered honeymoon period ended quickly for Peter, and the anguish that replaced it was clear in every line co-creator Steve Ditko drew in those early issues of the Marvel comic.

Last night, all four members of the Powell family suffered a similar hero hangover as Jim, Stephanie, Daphne and JJ all pined for the days when life wasn’t so complicated.

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Every comic book fan knows that the origin story is only the beginning. After superheroes get their powers, they spend the next few days learning how to use them, and the Powell family was no exception. As Jim’s friend George pointed out on this week’s episode of No Ordinary Family, “No one knows what Superman’s first day on the job was like.”

Jim (Michael Chiklis) discovered that he’s invulnerable, but he’s not powerful enough to stop a vehicle in its tracks just by standing in front of it. When he attempted to stop a group of bank robbers from making an escape, well, they just ran right over him.

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