Iron Man Marvel Superhero Store and Stories

For many years, The Batman has tackled some truly dangerous criminals in his native city. It is interesting to note that villains that fight The Batman are of a starkly different flavor from the villains that other superheroes face. Unlike the villains of other heroes, such as Superman and Spider-man, The Batman’s collection of villains are less known for their superhuman abilities and more for being reflections of a variety of mental health disorders. In this vein, they echo The Batman himself. By his own admission, The Batman has “issues, lots of issues.” Indeed, aside from a few notable exceptions, they’re all fairly regular human beings. Once one gets past the fractured state of mental health, at least. Some of these characters, albeit being fictional, make for excellent studies into both the criminal psyche and how people with mental health disorders might act in some circumstances.

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Great, iconic heroes we’re not short on. They are commonplace and well known. Spider-Man, Captain America, Superman and the like are tried and true, and true blue, and all that good stuff. And that’s fine and well, we need that. But somewhere along the way someone decided we also needed a darker type of hero. An ‘anti-hero’ if you will.

Who the first superhero was is a an issue that will forever be debated, but I think it’s fair to say that the first somewhat anti-hero had to be DC Comics’ Batman. While he’s not quite as much of an anti-hero as, say, marvel comics the punisher, he’s certainly no bright and happy-go-lucky ball of sunshine either. He does have morals and limits, unlike many anti-heroes, but he still leans more to the darker side of the spectrum than his contemporaries of the truth and justice ilk.

The previously mentioned marvel comics the Punisher is probably a more appropriate example of an anti-hero. He does what he does for justice, but he also does it for revenge. Read the rest of this entry »

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