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<blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 4993190" data-attributes="member: 20239">Who are Batman's friends? Seriously, name one person the Batman/Wayne character counts as a friend who doesn't either know him as Bruce Wayne only or know that Bruce Wayne is Batman.You seem to have missed my point. I wasn't claiming that supers' secret identities are all well-adjusted nice guys with glasses like Clark Kent. My point was that supers don't have friends. Only their secret identities have friends. Even if those secret identities are messed up, they still have access to friends that the super identity will never have.Doesn't it? I'm sure it's quite easy for Michael Phelps to find people who want to be around him and would like to call themselves his &quot;friends&quot;, but how many of them would actually be what most of us would consider good friends? And how easy will it be for him to tell the difference between the sycophants and leeches and the people who really would be good friends?Now imagine that instead of an elite athlete, he's a superhero with superhuman powers who defeats supervillains and saves people's lives every day. I'd say it would be pretty difficult in those circumstances to have normal human relationships that the rest of us &quot;mundane&quot; people take for granted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ourph, post: 4993190, member: 20239"] Who are Batman's friends? Seriously, name one person the Batman/Wayne character counts as a friend who doesn't either know him as Bruce Wayne only or know that Bruce Wayne is Batman. You seem to have missed my point. I wasn't claiming that supers' secret identities are all well-adjusted nice guys with glasses like Clark Kent. My point was that supers don't have friends. Only their secret identities have friends. Even if those secret identities are messed up, they still have access to friends that the super identity will never have. Doesn't it? I'm sure it's quite easy for Michael Phelps to find people who want to be around him and would like to call themselves his "friends", but how many of them would actually be what most of us would consider good friends? And how easy will it be for him to tell the difference between the sycophants and leeches and the people who really would be good friends? Now imagine that instead of an elite athlete, he's a superhero with superhuman powers who defeats supervillains and saves people's lives every day. I'd say it would be pretty difficult in those circumstances to have normal human relationships that the rest of us "mundane" people take for granted. [/QUOTE]

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