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For Day 17, the prompt is Batman and Spider-Man.

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Heroes:

In the Dark Knight series, Batman appears to us tortured, his eyes hallow, body aching with misery because he can’t fulfill his calling. He was a hero but then he needed to be Gotham’s enemy, to be the horrifying ‘newspaper scandal’ of a savior turned evil. He had to lock himself away from Gotham, and transform into the Dark Knight (Christian Bale).

Spider-Man (Toby McGuire) was younger upon discovering his abilities after a spider bite on a university field trip. He didn’t have Bruce Wayne’s money nor Batman’s notoriety. His Uncle was shot in front of him and his bestfriend’s dad (his second father) transformed into his worst enemy. Later, his best friend became another foe due to a misunderstanding.

Nonetheless, heroes as Batman and Spider-Man have boundaries and rules to abide by in society such as not killing all bad guys but delivering them to the police if possible. They also have super powers and helpful technology such as the bat mobile and Spider-Man’s web shooting ability. They’ve weaknesses via character flaws (hubris), their friends, and family members, and girlfriends in particular. The enemy can take advantage of them through these flaws and people.

Heroes bear a weight because society is dependant on them to save the common man, woman, or child from villains. The problem is saving everyone, even the innocent, is not always possible. Societies and the media’s opinions can be unmerciful towards heroes — think of Spider-Man’s boss at the newspaper. There are also consequences to heroes such as Batman and Spider-Man saving so-called ‘evil people,’ as these persons practice despicable malice towards others.

As well, Spider-Man knew that with great power came great responsibility. Batman realized to serve as a hero was to transform into the enemy; to arise a hero in better days. I don’t know who’s your heroic preference, but despite people’s love of comic book and movie heroes, there’s a problem in expecting humans — even with super powers, to save everyone in Gotham, New York, or your home city.

Although we desire heroes to fix all our issues, we’ve been provided many skills to save ourselves and others from obstacles. However, we can’t always perform these tasks, nor can we save the ‘mini empires’ of the lives we live.

Sometimes we crash and everything we’ve worked for ends in ruins and we must arise and keep living despite. Even if we blow a work project, a homework assignment, or get in a fight with loved ones or superiors, the everyday person must learn self-reliance too.

Such as heroes like Batman or Spider-Man, people must keep attacking despite failure in life and face incredible challenges. Think of Batman’s fight against Joker (Heath Ledger) or Spider-Man’s battle against The Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe). We have to keep trying in life despite incredible odds.

We can also look to ‘everyday heroes’ in public knowing neither of us alone can bear the burden of a broken society. There will always be heroes, monsters, and villains and we can only do our best to protect ourselves.

Sometimes we’re an onlooker to evil, other times we’re as a broken record scratched again and again, fighting our same old enemies (sometimes nemesis’ — deserved retribution). Conversely, we act as heroes to kids, to those we work with, or are friends — even to people we don’t know. Not all heroes or heroines fight on-screen or via comic books.

Despite people’s attempt to become similar to a dignified Batman or courageous Spider-Man, somedays we win and others we lose in life as they do. Super heroes are the everyday man or woman epitomized. Myself, I look to prayer, to God alone who is the glory and savior of all people, the end to misery — even for Batman, Spider-Man, and villains too.

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