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human
[General] When the government wants a superpowered kid to use as a weapon, what exactly are they going to do once they catch the kid?

You probably know this plot:

A kid in Small Town, USA has telekinesis or telepathy or something.

The government learns about their abilities and tries to capture them, hoping to use these abilities as a weapon.

Let's assume that the government actually succeeds in capturing them (and the kid isn't quickly rescued).

What now? In most worlds (unless it's the Marvel universe or something), superpowers are considered "fictional". How would the government go about studying this kid's abilities?

How do they plan on using this kid as a weapon without risking the kid escaping/turning on them/getting killed and losing their "golden goose"?
gpt
>How would the government go about studying this kid's abilities?

The same way you go about studying anything you don't understand.  You run the full gamut of tests, and try not to damage the subject.

That's basically the crux of the whole idea.  You have an anomaly that can find a loophole in physics your scientists can't explain.  It's an anomaly.  There is no strict protocol, but you bet your ass there's some intricate way of exploiting a loophole in physics.