In class we didn’t have a real topic to talk about so we just listed our favorite superheroes and why they’re our favorite. I don’t have a favorite superhero, but I think the reason why certain heroes are our favorite is because we can see ourselves in them. Not necessarily like a mirror image, but they also hold values that we believe in. That could be a reason why a lot of people like Superman. I must admit that in class my mind started wandering off and I started to think about movies that I have seen where there was a superhero that wasn’t explicitly shown.
There was one movie that came to mind it’s the movie Wanted. It stars Angelina Jolie (Fox) and James McAvoy (Wesley). Wesley is a typical guy, but it seems as if the world is against him. His boss it a pushy woman who loves to humiliate him at work whenever she can and his best friend is nailing his girlfriend. He suffers from “panic attacks” which is the main reason why he doesn’t stand up to either his boss or his best friend. It isn’t until he meets Fox that she tells him his father was part of a group of assassins called The Faternity. He is brought to the groups headquarters where the leader Sloan tells Wesley that his panic attacks aren’t panic attacks but a superhuman ability. At the headquarters Wesley is trained to withstand torture and is introduced to the Loom of Fate. Sloan tells Wesley that the loom shows the names of people that could cause troubles in the future and need to be eliminated. Long story short, Wesley finds out that the loom was crafted by Sloan when he figured out he could make money off of it, and that Sloan started doing it because he was a target of the real Loom of Fate. When he confronts Sloan, Sloan doesn’t deny it and he tells the rest of the main assassins that their name had also shown up on the loom. The other assassins would rather live but Fox curves a bullet to kill all of them to follow the rules of the loom. If you want a more in depth plot summary you can go to the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted_(2008_film)#Plot. Wesley didn’t know that Sloan’s Loom of Fate was fake, but he killed those people, so does that make him a bad guy? He thought that he was doing good, but it isn’t till the end of the movie is he truly a good guy. In my opinion I think he is a superhero, I mean he has more “superpowers” than Batman and if we can consider The Punisher as a superhero, than I think we can accept Wesley as a superhero and Sloan as the villain. The only problem is that at the end of the movie Sloan is eliminated, so I’m not too sure if Wesley still has a villain. I find it odd how I can accept Wesley as a superhero but I have a difficult time accepting Batman as one. The Joker makes Batman, but without the Joker there really would be no use for Batman. Even if Sloan was eliminated I still think that Wesley’s story will go on.
Thinking about Batman I went off on another tangent where I was thinking about how there has been sidekicks turned into superheroes. Cartoon Network had a cartoon where Robin was the main superhero and he had other superheroes to help him. I can’t remember what the name was, but I thought it was kind of interesting how it was showing that Robin could be a superhero on his own. The thing that bothered me though was that the few times I had watched it there was no reference to Batman, so I don’t think majority of the kids watching it would know that Robin was Batman’s sidekick, but if it was mentioned then I don’t think children could accept Robin as a superhero.
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