: Re: How can I handle a powerful mentor character without killing them off? I'm writing a book series that involves people with various superpowers. One of these characters and is more or less the

@Annie587

They say never meet your hero...
As you say the character can be flawed and perhaps these flaws take over. You say he is the leader of a group then there is probably an enemy group with budding ideologies...but maybe the Mentor isn't so different from the opposition as your main character thought.
For example, if the main character were part of a freedom fighters group and after the big bad government is defeated...it turns out that the Mentor doesn't want to return democracy, only change the regime with his own.Turning the mentor in to a surprise antagonist.
He's a prison for a greater enemy.
In a world of super powers, one power could be possession. Your mentor character due to his general OPness would be an great target to posses. So perhaps he distances himself or has to limit his own strength (perhaps placing himself in a (temporary) coma at one point) to keep the enemy inside him contained. Because if he fails he will become the greater threat.
You get an apocalypse! and you get an apocalypse! There might be a conflict on multiple fronts and the mentor takes one front while he lets the others take on the other fronts. Seeing he can't move fast like you said it would be logical for him to (nearly) always stand guard on one front.

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