A mystery, yes? They barely know us, but perhaps that is the entirety of it.

[ He puffed away on his pipe, looking into the sky. ]

People with superpowers, they don't start out all chaos and destruction. That comes later. At first, it's elation, and wonder, at the fact that a man can run like the wind, or fly, or lift a car.

The distrust comes when the power is shown to be so great, and fear then settles in.