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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1595770" data-attributes="member: 5171">To answer your second question, I think that what makes them so great is the fact that the reader can empathize with them a lot more.  For me at least, part of reading comic books was the thrill of imagining that someday, somehow, I could do that.  I couldn't do that with Superman.  I couldn't do that with Green Lantern unless somebody gave me a ring.  But I could maybe do it with Batman if I trained for a long time and had some emotional angst and got in touch with my deep anger... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Okay, not really, but you know what I mean.I was actually thinking of running a M&M campaign called "Rooftops" with the requirement that people be at the Batman/Daredevil level -- no energy blasts, no flying, just high training and devices.</blockquote>