Originally posted by Newjak
If you want to know the truth it isn't the powers that make the perfect hero it's something else. I know what you meant which powers make a perfect one but no matter what if you use them for good that makes them the perfect power.
I would have to people who I consider the perfect heros:
The first is Batman. A man without superpowers yet he fights for the greater good simply because he doesn't want someone else to go through whay he had to. He is in danger of being killed everytime he goes out yet he still does.
Then I would also say the Thing. His power is to be a large piece of stone. Plus unlike other people Grim can not fit in the world he never will. He will always look different then him. Thor Iron Man Superman after their finished they could walk the streets and fit in. Even the Hulk turns back into Banner. Thing isn't even a mutant he belongs in no cicle he will always be anoutsider. That is normally the recipe for a villian yet he chooses to be a good guy.
Those are Perfect Heros they do it simply because it is the right thing even though they all the reasons not to.
You smacked it.
It seems most people are interpreting "perfect superhero" a bit literally, whereas I'm looking at it not just from a superhero POV but also from a character POV.
That being the case, I go with Spider-Man. He's got power: enough to do cool things but not so much that he's godlike and hard to relate to. He has a cool costume (the iron spider one has grown on me; I like the subtle ninja references). And he's interesting (and yes, flawed) as a person.
I would also go with Hulk. He's tremendously powerful but it's basically one-dimensional, simple, thus hardly all-powerful. He doesn't wear silly tights/spandex; what you see is what you get. He's a tragic figure (people like tragic figures). And he is enormously cathartic: who hasn't, at one time or another, gotten so angry and wished they could just wreck havoc on the injustices of the world?
For what it's worth: I don't see Surfer as a "perfect superhero" (as I'm using the term) because, basically, he is a very cerebral/philosophical character; as someone once wrote, SS is something of an acquired taste. He's "too noble," I think (too different?), to ever have the widespread appeal of a Batman, Spider-Man or Superman.
Originally posted by Mindship
It seems most people are interpreting "perfect superhero" a bit literally, whereas I'm looking at it not just from a superhero POV but also from a character POV.That being the case, I go with Spider-Man. He's got power: enough to do cool things but not so much that he's godlike and hard to relate to. He has a cool costume (the iron spider one has grown on me; I like the subtle ninja references). And he's interesting (and yes, flawed) as a person.
I would also go with Hulk. He's tremendously powerful but it's basically one-dimensional, simple, thus hardly all-powerful. He doesn't wear silly tights/spandex; what you see is what you get. He's a tragic figure (people like tragic figures). And he is enormously cathartic: who hasn't, at one time or another, gotten so angry and wished they could just wreck havoc on the injustices of the world?
For what it's worth: I don't see Surfer as a "perfect superhero" (as I'm using the term) because, basically, he is a very cerebral/philosophical character; as someone once wrote, SS is something of an acquired taste. He's "too noble," I think (too different?), to ever have the widespread appeal of a Batman, Spider-Man or Superman.
Good to see good insight.