Candidate Spectrum

When the real-world superhero Spectrum grows frustrated with the limited ways he can help people using his superpowers he decides he can do more good as a politician and runs for office. Having devoted his life to helping others Spectrum wont settle for a typical political career. After winning the Missouri governorship he launches a 2020 presidential bid dedicated to fixing a country that Americans have consistently said is on the wrong track. But as he develops proposals for issues from a growing wealth gap to paralyzing partisanship he realizes that Americas real troubles are deeper: a loss of individual agency an increasing quantification of life that undermines morality and erodes our humanity. Meanwhile his campaign is beset by problems. He never imagined how difficult it would be to run for president as an atheist immigrant from a destroyed planet who is honest and serious about the issues. Further his campaign must overcome him ditching campaign events to rescue people in Bangladesh from a typhoon and the publics fear of an alien takeover after a scientist offers to restart his race by cloning him. Will Spectrum win a mandate to restore America to its place as a pioneer among nations or lose and watch it slide further into dissonance and mediocrity?