One thing that Watchmen did was point out to the reader that the heroes were not flawless demigods but people in costumes fighting criminals. I just keep think about often we pour our ideals into heroes and when they fail to meet it, we get frustrated, disappointed and angry. I know it is ultimately futile to poor ideals into all to human heroes but we usually expect to them to be larger than life but when we get heroes like Shinji Ikari we get frustrated that they don't meet our standards. These heroes fail because they did some thing either truly foolish, get screwed over by the universe, hampered by their own hubris, try and failed to redeem themselves or they just plain suck at being heroes. I often myself in such heroes but what do you think? Should we really project our ideals onto heroes, both fictional or otherwise?
"We are just like Irregular Data. And that applies to you too, Ri CO. And as for you, Player... your job is to correct Irregular Data."
One thing that Watchmen did was point out to the reader that the heroes were not flawless demigods but people in costumes fighting criminals. I just keep think about often we pour our ideals into heroes and when they fail to meet it, we get frustrated, disappointed and angry. I know it is ultimately futile to poor ideals into all to human heroes but we usually expect to them to be larger than life but when we get heroes like Shinji Ikari we get frustrated that they don't meet our standards. These heroes fail because they did some thing either truly foolish, get screwed over by the universe, hampered by their own hubris, try and failed to redeem themselves or they just plain suck at being heroes. I often myself in such heroes but what do you think? Should we really project our ideals onto heroes, both fictional or otherwise?
"We are just like Irregular Data. And that applies to you too, Ri CO. And as for you, Player... your job is to correct Irregular Data."