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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1575779" data-attributes="member: 12706"><p>I think maybe it has to do with the idea that heroic characters come from having overcome adversity - and in a lot of cases, its hard to imagine that them overcoming it with the help of a strong close-knit family as being as traumatic or impressive. So the family goes right out of the character background. Look at DC - its hard to think of a mainline character who didn't have some horrible thing happen to family early on - look at Batman or Captain Marvel (DC) - or have some weird estrangement from their family - like Wonder Woman or Jade and Obsidian or (for crying out loud, WHO is her family?!) The Huntress. The best hero I can think of that had a fairly "normal" childhood was Superman - and HIS WHOLE PLANET was destroyed before he was born, he just didn't find that out until he was mostly grown. Hal Jordan - Green Lantern - had a fairly normal childhood, and eventually snapped and became a major villain. Was that BECAUSE he had not been braced with dealing with adversity through his upbringing? (Or maybe just because they needed a gimmick to sell comics - who can say?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)</p></blockquote><p></p>