Superheroes

The basic & foremost reason for anything to do with some fictional 'thing' (I can’t term that clan as human/man/woman or anything else) with gaudy ridiculous costumes, usually a masquerade, some unbelievably out-of-the-world powers is that every man associates himself with a character. As kids, we’re introduced to Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, He-Man and the entire army of all these weirdos! These are not superheroes. These are options! You can pick who you want to be depending on your personal likes and dislikes. No restrictions. That’s the reason that there are so many of them.

But as the kid grows into a man he realizes that he cannot be Superman or Batman or whatever was his pseudo-identity. But somewhere in his mind, he still remains a Superhero. No matter how mundane, sedentary, low-life creature he may be in reality, he still is the hero in his world. In that world he doesn’t care a damn what other’s opinion is about him. He needs this kind of ego-boost for survival. That’s precisely the reason why every superhero movie/character/comic, no matter how ridiculous and unbelievable it may be, always has an unusually cult-like following. Those people are not his fans, they are those who believe they’re him or would like to be him!

Think about yourself for that matter; If not, look around!

Let’s just think about this whole superhero business in rational terms. Imagine a man or woman (being politically correct) wearing his underwear on top of his latex or carbon-fiber or whatever that material is. It’s just too tight firstly. Secondly, it’s in really embarrassing colors. I cannot imagine many people other than truly Govinda-typers wearing Cobalt Blue tights or similar ones.

It’s ok to see these theatrics in a 20-minute animation film or even a 2-hour movie. Trust me… It’ll really be a menace 24X7. We have enough trouble controlling ego-centric maniacal super-idiotic humans aka Movie Stars. Give me a break… We would really not welcome such weirdos into society. They’ll at the best do a good job as comedians!

But life would surely be incomplete without them. I speak for myself atleast! No matter how stupid/funny they might appear to a rational mind, no matter that they’re defying every principle of evolution. They’re meant for that world within our minds where anything goes, where we’re not meant to lead our routine life.

Some people admire/emulate/believe in great poets, painters, writers, musicians, thinkers, magicians. May be movie stars, dictators et all could interest others.

People like me, well... we admire superheroes! The great tasks, the inspire-faith-into-the-weak-and-fear-into-the-evil gig, the secret identity, the mystique, the thrills, the double-life, the superpowers, the entire works...

Sometimes I just love to give my rationality a well deserved break!

Cheers!