Let's face it they have fought crime for years, yet the crime rate is increasing. The criminals know about the super heros yet they continue to commit crimes. Are the super heros really doing their job properly? The crime rate should be decreasing to the point where the super heros do battle with each other for the fun of it!!
2006-08-18 07:09:15 · 6 answers · asked by ZORRO 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Good, smart question, and we're getting some very smart answers from it.
First off, it is poor logic to assume that the hero creates the villian, or vice versa. It SEEMS like that because 99% of stories focus on the heroes origin before anything else. Let's face it, most people buy comic books not for the story itself as much as for a glorified main character.
A good example in something less comic-book like is Indiana Jones. You don't see the movie in order to relate to an interesting story - that's more for movies like Jaws, Private Ryan, or Shawshank Redemption. You watch it just because you know whatever Indy will be doing, it's going to be cool. Because he is cool. Now in comic books, what makes the character cool is his powers first and foremost.
So to make those powers have a purpose in a story, other than lifting a car just for the sake of clearing street traffic, they have to have a threat. And if the fictitious city/place has many threats, then the superhero can do many things. And that is what we want to read about, an active superhero.
So, my point is that since comics are a form of entertainment that is indefinite, the writers know the threats also have to be indefinte, so that the heroes have something to do. It's like asking if a movie about pirates is pointless, if they always have to do more pirating.
Another way of looking at it is the military. There will always be wars. There will always be a need to defend ourselves. Just because one war doesn't solve anything, or just because we (at a point in time) aren't hated enough to be attacked... that doesn't mean we don't need the military. We can look at superbeings as just another extention of that.
2006-08-18 10:31:27 · answer #1 · answered by Yooka 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The reason why criminals keep doing what they do is because of the risk and the thrill of it. The love to take the chance that one day they will finally beat that superhero and get away with the crime of the century. Just think about it, how much bragging rights would the Joker have if he beat Batman, or if Doc. Ock beat Spiderman. With that kind of credibility you can become a criminal overlord overnight.
Also some just do it for the mere thrill of obtaining that big score that would make them a top notch villian. They know that the superhero is gonna be after them. Yet and still they get a rush and some even get turned on by the thrill of some superhero chasing them. Catwoman and Batman, Diamondback and Captain America, Black Cat and Spiderman, I am sure there are many more just cant think of them right now off the top of my head.
2006-08-18 15:37:54 · answer #2 · answered by Rodney W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but if all the criminals learned their lesson and didn't pose a threat there wouldn't be much of a story left.
It's one of the reasons I could never get into Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series.
There is always some ultra powerful demon who comes out that is suppossedly unstoppable. The kids spend the entire show with silly banter, and at the end Buffy just gets into what's basically a bar brawl and beats the crap out of said unstoppable demon.
Why does the demon even fight? He should just give up the moment Buffy approaches.
2006-08-18 14:32:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are over 16, try reading Batman: the Dark night returns
One of the overriding subplots is the need and use of superheros and if the just create supervillians.
2006-08-18 16:49:03 · answer #4 · answered by Chris C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well ya, if their were no superheros then where would children get good media role models, what would nerds do on tuesdays, what games would toddlers play, and what wall paper would i put in my room, i ask you now, what would the world do without superheros.
2006-08-18 15:05:24 · answer #5 · answered by Matt B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. crime is an intangible, unbeatable enemy. you might as well ask the same question about the cops.
2006-08-18 21:17:24 · answer #6 · answered by samurai core 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋