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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4941987" data-attributes="member: 8158">Exactly. Pulp characters were not intended to have a dead Uncle Ben to feel angst over. They were resolute he-men lthat readers of the time idealized for their lack of flaws, regrets, and compromises.Why did Conan leave his people and set off to travel the world in search of fortune? Not because of a melodrama involving family honor and dead loved ones, just plain old wanderlust. Why did Doc Savage and the Shadow fight crime? They just made a rational decision to improve the human condition.  Their stories might be fun to read, but they're two-dimensional characters, and that just doesn't play to the masses anymore. In modern cinema, characters are expected to have a bit of an internal struggle. When you adapt a character for a different time and a different medium, the character has to actually, you know...adapt.I suspect what we'll see is the story of how Kane transforms into the grim spectre of justice that we know him to be. And a transformational experience makes for much better entertainment than "oh, I was just always like this".</blockquote>