"Timeless" is a perfect word to describe superheroes. While the genre itself was born in 1938 before the Second World War, the superhero genre has sparked a culture in itself by evolving. Now decades after the war, we find ourselves in a world sparked by these tights-wearing men and women alongside global threats. People like Jerry Siegel (Superman creator) and Stan Lee (Marvel heroes creator), have already made a fortune out of their "super ideas", yet we question: How can something that's so outrageous and imaginary be so real at the same time?
In the comics or in movies, Superman is stronger than his creator Jerry Siegel or in fact, than any other human, while in the real world which we live in, he's nothing but an intellectual property, and Superman nor Clark Kent neither exist. Yet we don't even look at it that way, and that's the secret: Superheroes are larger than life; they are portrayed to live among us and we wished they do. We imagined unlocking our secret powers through a failed experiment or a spider bite. We want to be them or be with them and we relate with them, and that's why we admire them.
Ironically, some situations in superhero stories such as The Hulk, shows us that Bruce Banner doesn't want any part of that. Come to think of it, who wants to transform to a big green brawny raging juggernaut when he gets angry? On the other hand, the supervillains and the arch-enemies serve as the balance as they also have their own story that we can relate to, but that they come from the other side of the light. In many cases, they are admired like the protagonists and some are even remembered more than the hero himself. Too bad Luke, everybody loves Darth Vader.
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