Broken Mirror Cult

Have you ever looked at a superhero and thought, "This is someone I should worship"? If so, you should give yourself a hearty slap in the face because you need to stop. If that--and other more extreme methods--fails, then I suppose you should check out the Broken Mirror organization. It helps the rest of us to have all the crazies put together in one box.
Their "worship", if it can be called that, is rather unfortunate for whatever superhero they latch onto. There have been a few sects of the Broken Mirror who believe that if they ingest the blood of their chosen idol then they'll gain this person's powers. That is not at all how it works, and luckily most people get rescued or manage to break themselves out before they die.
They spread by hanging around places where there's been a disaster, telling everyone they can find about how superheroes are the best. Which is something that most people do tend to believe after they were just saved by one. The problem is that once you get suckered into going to one of their meetings, they then ply you with tales of how you can become like one of them, and how to support them is to do all the unpleasant things for them and just generally become the weirdest kind of sidekick horde ever.
Academics Club is unfortunately rather vulnerable to this. Or at least, the members are. As younger, less experienced heroes, they're more likely to fall for the veneer of adulation and think that these guys are useful or at least harmless. And then they get kidnapped and you have to go and rescue them because now a bunch of weirdos are going to hold them hostage until they agree to stick around and be their deity.