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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9743525" data-attributes="member: 78087">I think we generally want heroes to be relatable. Superman is potentially highly unrelatable - he has all the power in the world, nothing to fear, nothing that can reasonably oppose him, and all the responsibility that brings to save everyone he can - but he can be made so, by showing that Clark is human, that he also puts his boots on one at a time, that he deals with his power and responsibility with respect and trepidation, that he screws up all the time but doesn’t let that stop him from trying to do better. The recent film did an outstanding version of this. Arguably, a less relatable and more angelic version of Superman (such as some versions in the comics or maybe even the 1978 version) is less inspiring because he’s infallible.Batman isn’t honestly that relatable - he’s a billionaire polymath who refuses to get therapy about his trauma and beats people up instead - unless you lean on the more human parts of him. If you play Bruce more as someone trying to do good with his untreated trauma, or someone whose trauma gives him a deep well of compassion and human understanding (the JLU version), or someone running as hard as he can to keep up with literal gods, then he can be relatable.</blockquote>