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Could there be such a thing as the modern day version of a super hero?

I can't help but notice over the last few years how more and more movies about super hero's have been released. It started with somewhat of a "rebirth" of the genre with Spiderman, and we had X-men, Daredevil, Batman and Superman reboots. While most of these movies stayed fairly accurate in they're portrayal of the story that most of us as geeks know, the moods of all the movies all had one thing in common. At one point or another, the hero becomes hated by the people they're trying to serve and protect. Granted, it made sense in the story for the villain to turn the public against his arch nemesis, but in the real world would it be possible to change a huge amount of people's minds about one persons intentions? I know this sounds like a lot of rambling, but there is a point. I was watching the original Superman movie this morning, and the stark difference between the way we looked at our super hero's back then in being all powerful and a heart thats undeniably pure, who puts there own feelings aside for the better of all man kind. From that, to the super hero's we have now, who are so conflicted between wanting to be a normal human being that they would give up the one thing that sets them apart from everyone else.

In the original superman movie, Clark Kent is the super nice guy that no one gets, because the world even then is so caught up in its own cynicism that no one can see just how pure he is. Even Lois Lane is thrown off by him in the first 10 minutes of meeting him. Fast forward to Superman Returns, in which Superman returns to find a world riddled by war and poverty, and crime at an all time high. The world has turned there back on him because he left, because he had to go find himself and find out who he was when he thought there still might be some of his home planet left. One selfish? act turned the whole world against him, all asking why did you leave when we needed you? Lois even wrote an award winning article titles "why the world doesn't need superman". The difference being in that Superman 1, the world was so astonished by the fact that superman could fly, and lift cars, that they thought he was literally a god that was here to save the human race. In the latter however, they considered him a traitor. One could say that they were in two different time lines in the story, and they would be correct. We could also say, hey they're just movies. Correct again. But think about it for a second...What IF there really was a superman?

Think about it. One person that could do things that no other person on this planet could do. He outlived everyone. He has enough power to do anything in the world he wanted. Someone who is completely invincible. Are we cynical enough to not realize just how pure this man would be, if he chose to help us instead of taking control of us? Whats to stop him if wanted to? Nothing. He is above law, religion, war, peace. Would we EVER understand him? Would we even consider him a hero?

The term hero has a very different meaning today than it did when Superman was first invented. Pure of heart, to serve and protect, to stand for truth, justice, and the american way. Would you consider a member of our US troops fighting over in Afghanistan a hero? He's doing the same thing, he's there to serve and protect our freedoms, to stand for truth justice and all that jazz. Yet half of us don't consider him a hero. Half of us consider it a useless war. Half of us don't agree with him even being there.

So to end my rambling, if there really was a Superman on our planet, and he did serve and protect us, would we let him? Or would we all dig down past our own demons to push them onto him? Would we, the current state of this world, in our no longer black and white society, treat him as a hero? Or would we ignore him because of how he makes us all feel about our selfish lives, and treat him as a threat?

Nothing it seems is black and white anymore, there is no more right or wrong, just opinions of grey. Could even someone who's transcended space and time to save all of us, bring us all together?


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Comment by YOGESH PAWAR on May 11, 2010 at 9:33pm
You are right.

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