![]() It can be done (the novel Wearing the Cape is a good example, as is the online graphic novel Grrl Power), but it’s difficult because vigilantism is such an important part of the story. It’s very hard to set up a superhero story where the character in question is just part of the normal authority. This last part is more vital than it might seem at first. while not usurping that normal authority. It’s also the way most superhero stories manage to avoid the moral problems of a superhero breaking the law but we’ll get to that part too. Since all heroes must undertake selfless actions - though, as was beautifully put in the Deadpool movie, of all places, it doesn’t mean a constant moment-by-moment series of heroics - this is a necessary part of a true superhero story. assumes a selfless responsibility to help others. Of course, that’s also a very complex topic on its own, so let’s table that for now. This is usually a sense of “justice,” rather than “God’s law is greater than man’s law.” History has shown the problems that come with thinking God commands you to take the law into your own hands. and recognizing a higher calling that is ignored by those in normal authority. That is part of the thing that makes them “super.” They don’t need powers but they do need some sort of advantage that someone else doesn’t have. Well, let’s break down my description of a superhero story.Ī man or woman who, realizing they have an advantage that others do not possess or are unwilling to use. Years ago, when I started lecturing about this stuff, I knew I had to come up with a definition that would include firefighters we refer to them as heroes, so it couldn’t simply be about fighting a “bad guy.”īut what, then, is a “superhero”? What makes them more super than other heroes? Powers and advanced technology? No, obviously not, or else Batman and Black Widow and Hawkeye can’t be superheroes.
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