| What Makes a Real Superhero? |
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| Monday, 17 January 2011 14:13 |
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Read more: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/SuperHeroStuff/news/?a=28182&t=What_Makes_a_Real_Superhero Aside from having actual Superpowers, or a vast amount of wealth and resources at your disposal in place of superpowers, the superhero is motivated to fight injustice and evil to help those who are unable to help themselves. And, just as Hamlet said, the hero, in the process of taking "arms against a sea of troubles," knows that he will inevitably die while fighting for that which is right, "and by opposing end them, dying in the process." Though Martin Luther King, Jr. had no powers, he was destined to take arms against the wrongs that were pervasive throughout the United States, though his weapon was nonviolent resistance he led the fight to one of the greatest evils this country has ever seen arise from within. But, we cannot appreciate the magnitude King's life, strife and death without first knowing what kind of society he lived in at the time. From |
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