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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psychotic Dreamer" data-source="post: 1238920" data-attributes="member: 977">On the subject of characters aging in a more realisitc fashion.  Personally I wouldn't want to see this.  First off it would render many popular characters/titles dead after 10-20 years.  If Spider-Man aged in a realisitic fashion his comic would have been dead 10-15 years ago.  Spider-Man is about a young man trying to find his place in the world.  Trying to balance being a super-hero and paying the bills and when married about trying to balance all that with a family.  Unless you'd want to see other people picking up the Spider-Man mantle, be it imposters or his child or what not.  The Fantastic Four is another title that would be severly hurt by this type of thing.  Let's face it the Fantastic Four is truely about Reed Richards, Sue Storm-Richards, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm.  Basically the FF is about family.  Titles like the Avengers, X-Men and others would be able to survive more in a realisitic aging style since they have had majorly changing rosters over the years.Secondly this would also require comic book writers to create many more original charatcers and somedays it seems they have trouble creating original characters as interesting and compelling as ones from the past.  Quite often we end up with ones who are just altered versions of someone else or just plain silly.  I've picked up a few issues of X-Men recently and it would appear all the new mutants to appear recently are begining to look less and less human and more and more silly.</blockquote>

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