We saw it last weekend when Iron Man, the one where arms merchant Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) builds himself a heart, opened to $102 million at the domestic box office last weekend. This notion of self-made heroism is the theme of the first two blockbuster movies of the summer season. He'd make a hero of himself, and that would be more than super. We acknowledge your mutant majesty we bow before the superiority of the afflicted.īut just once or twice, wouldn't it be nice if superheroism sprang not from an external accident but from inner strength? If a person achieved greatness rather than having it thrust upon him? If he found a mission, focused his energy, marshalled his talents and just did it? Then his triumph would be sweet indeed: the fulfilling of a resolve or a work ethic, that comic-book readers or movie audiences might recognize in themselves. Our hearts go out to you, and all the preternatural X-men and -women, cursed by chance with awesome powers. And you four fantastic ones, exposed to cosmic rays on an outer-space voyage that could happen to anyone. Bruce Banner, the gamma bomb you were working on exploded, turning you gigantic and green and incredibly hulkish when you get angry. Young Peter Parker, you got bitten by a radioactive spider, which somehow enables you to bound gooily from one tall building to the next. Follow poor dear superheroes, we sympathize with your plight.
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