Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Superhero or Super-Neutral?

I've read and looked over the Watchmen series more than dozens of times. From this series, I learned that taking the concept of light and dark and making it all grey can be strangely interesting. Placing grey lines in morality, and making all would-be superheroes potentially in the wrong with their decisions or questionable choices makes the readers think of what we accept as an everyday superhero. I truly loved the depiction of characters such as Rorschach, and his need to bring violent, horrifying justice on those who do wrong in the city, having being based on the notion of an older super hero casting from the Cold War, and how he went from what you'd expect to be a dashing fellow with super strength and wits to a trench coat-wearing armed vigilante is just stellar. The strive and push of placing dark elements on the light side has always been a love of mine, and challenging the norms of not just society but fiction as well. The world is as real as the one you live in with the Watchmen universe, however the fiction plays in with the characters, and their development truly does them justice of why they took their motives and strengths to use on who they view as deserving of a beat down, regardless of reason or choice.

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