heroes run for hope
(A paper written in one shot)
Why are superheroes considered heroes? Or better yet, why are they Idolized? Certainly not for their skewed sense of justice. Masked, law-free vigilantes (although vigilante implies “law-free” so this is sort of redundant) running amuck during the nights and beating criminals senseless (before throwing them in jail) is not my interpretation of moral justice. Moral justice is due process of law with minimum associated violence.
Do you notice in cartoons, movies and comic books that the small time crooks are always beaten unmercifully to a pulp? This is usually in occurrence with action words such as “Pow!” “Wack!” and “Bam!”. But if superheroes are so “super” (as they usually have divine strength, speed, and stamina), then wouldn’t they be able to detain criminals with minimum violence? How hard would it be for superman, for example, to restrain a criminal and transport him to the nearest jail cell? Rather, he chooses to inflict physical pain on his targets, an unnecessary act.
Superheroes also seem to be above the law, not solely in terms of their methods of justice, but also in other aspects. When batman chooses to smash his victims through windows, or when the incredible hulk uses the nearest Mercedes as a weapon to hurl at his foes, who pays for the damages? The “hero” certainly does not pay. It’s the common folk who suffer the burden when income taxes rise 5 percent! If I was the owner of the car that was thrown by the hulk as a weapon against a shoplifter, I would not pardon the destruction of my car just because the hulk was a “superhero”. I’d be furious and demand retributions.
So then the underlying question I’m alluding to is: if superheroes aren’t idolized for their sense of justice, then what are they idolized for? And the simple answer to that is power. How many times have you heard someone say, “I wish I could destroy every scum bag criminal in every street corner and dark alley with my bare fist?” Let’s hope not too many times, but how many times have you heard someone say, “I wish I could fly” or “I wish I had super strength” or “I wish I had superpowers?” Probably thousands of times (I know this is a sentence fragment but what ever).
It is clear that people only like heroes for their superhuman powers. Having a super power seems ideal because it makes you seem “higher” than your peers (there’s your relationship to Frankenstein/Paradise Lost). It is something that we innately lust. You think Mary Jane would have taken a second look at Peter Parker was it not for his instantaneous development of cat-like reflexes? I could have probably come up with a better example than this but you get the point.
*hope there are not too many grammatical mistakes because I’m not checking over this. I have too much homework as it is 
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