Previous Post I'm really thinking that maybe it has. I'm thinking that maybe people really aren't that interested in aliens coming to earth and giving people super powers and such or some alien artifact giving someone superpowers. I think it's more interesting if they get their powers some other way. What do you think?

I am rather hard pushed to come up with a recent example of alien superpowers. It doesn't seem that prevelant in Manga and Anime, but I am very out of touch with the western market.

However, as L says, it is very much down to the surrounding story. If you don't have that right the point of origin of the powers is the least of the problems...