Oh super villains, where would we be without them? We wouldn’t have any superheroes that’s for sure. We wouldn’t have a need for Sueprman or Spiderman (notice how I leave out Batman?) the smaller crimes that are committed by regular people are small enough for the police to handle themselves. I left out Batman because I don’t think he has any real powers that makes him super, in my opinion I think it’s The Joker that makes him a superhero. Superman wouldn’t be known as Superman, he’d be known as... I don’t know what his name is, but he wouldn’t be known as Superman. I think in order to have a memorable Superhero you need to have a memorable supervillain. I honestly don’t think that Batman would have been as successful without The Joker.
With Rama I don’t think it’s the 10-headed beast that makes Rama, it’s the hunchback lady that makes him. If Rama hadn’t been exiled than he could’ve encountered the 10-headed beast in his castle or maybe he wouldn’t have even met up with him. Rama is like the Hindu version of Superman, both are the ultimate boy scout willing to do anything to protect the women they both love and care about. In order to see their greatness we had to see the evilness of another person, they both need complements.
I think that that’s how everything in life works. In order to enjoy one thing, we need something that complements it. Like when we eat sweet and salty snacks, the saltiness complements the sugary sweetness of whatever we’re eating; that’s why all the dessert recipes require salt. I personally like when there are characters in stories that complement each other, they bring out the best or sometimes worse of one another and it brings a lot to a story. I think that’s why I like asian dramas more than the soap operas that we have here. In the dramas there are characters that bring out the best of other characters and in my opinion I feel like the characters are more complex than majority of the ones we have here. For example with the one I’m watching now, the secretary helps her boss become more “manly,” she teaches him how to stick up for himself and he teaches her how to open herself to others and that there are people in the world who want to help her succeed if she’d allow them into her world. Than there are more characters that bring out the best/worse of the rest of the characters in the drama and so on.
I kind of strayed from the superheroes and their villains and how they complement each other, but it’s similar to the two ideas up there and it doesn’t always have to be the relationship with the villains, it could also be their relationship between the super hero and their sidekick. I think sidekicks are often there to complement the superheroes to show a different side of them that a supervillain wouldn’t be able to show. Without Robin I wouldn’t be able to tell if Batman was capable of “loving” another person because he secludes himself from being able to love another person.
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Hahaha, I like how you brought up asian dramas. As a watcher of asian dramas myself, I agree that there's always the two lead characters who are so different that they intentionally/unintentionally bring each others' best/worst aspects.
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ReplyDeleteOne of the things about superheroes is that they seem to have a lot in common with other genres of literature. Sometimes these similarities are more obvious when depicted by the tights wearing crowd and I think that's one of the values of the genre.
The salt in desserts point is an excellent one to bring out and one that I discovered when I found salted caramel hot chocolate. The little kick from the salt really makes that drink awesome.