My Kinda Superhero!

My Kinda Super Hero

We, 90’s kids grew up reading Disney comics. I still remember to collect the small transcripts of those comics, miniature models, T-shirts with a picture of superheroes in it and many other small things like trump cards and whatever available to us. When we grew up, we became big fan of different Disney, Marvel movies. One is never is too old to love Avengers or an X Men. There are many favorite characters and sometimes a few unusual ones which we hardly came across in our childhood. But would I choose a favorite Superhero from that list? Let’s find out.

I want my super hero to be human. He has to be driven; driven from physical pain, driven from mental trauma, driven by all circumstantial wrongs to make it right. There’s no need to foresee any unrealistic unearthly problem and prepare to fight that. He doesn’t need to solve world’s concerns. He can take small steps at a time to solve a problem of his parents, or of his neighbor, or may be in a little larger scale – of the society he belongs to. He doesn’t need to do everything by himself, but has to have the courage to seek out for help, to manage to gather the right people to drive the same objective. He can leverage anything and everything what it out there to strengthen his power- be it technology, be it positive force or be it people power to bring justice, correct the wrongs. Let the past haunt him, let the trauma not allow him to sleep and lose focus. . He doesn’t need to bring any novelty to the world or deep insight for a revolution, but he has to be out there, experiencing everything by himself, searching for the truth, searching for the reasons behind the bad and finding the path to change it. He has to be a part of the system to make any change to it.

He is a superhero who fought his deepest fear- fear of darkness, fear of bad dreams, loneliness, fear of losing the loved ones, fear of bad and strong powers overcoming good, fear of drowning into all wrongs, and eventually grew stronger and more powerful than ever. He visited every wrong and learnt to stand against them, he visited every right-even though they are small- and chose them by his side. He knew what wealth means, and made the best out of it. He masked himself in order to unmask the wrongs. He identified the strength of his enemies, escaped from it and then accumulated those powers himself and came back to defeat them.  He fell but in order to learn to pick himself up. He echoed the idea of a great future but not at the cost of his people. He loved, but he knew when to sacrifice. He sacrificed his fame, identity to protect his people. He knew when to stop, when to withdraw when there is no need. He is the hero everyone needs.

Each villain of our superhero is an idea, an idea to change the lives; they have a perfect dream to correct the world, a fortitude to avenge against the man behind their pain, a selfless desire to protect their loved ones. These ideas and endurance made the villains powerful and supreme where made the hero more humane, more prone to flaws, weaknesses- someone which we can relate to, we can admire and someone we can long for. It gives us a sense of security, a sense of justice, and above all a tangible, earthly faith, where we can submerge into while that someone is around.

Yes, he’s Nolan’s Batman, The Dark Knight- a hero whom we made a super hero.