Sometimes you just desire to escape into a heroic universe of compliments fulfilment , with just the right form of angst . And allow ’s face it , some heroes do a ripe job of hitting your escapism sweet spots than others . We ’ve put together a chart comparing the great action heroes , and seeing which ones hit most of the sweet spots of escape .
The category in the chart should be pretty ego - explanatory . But here ’s some explanation anyway : We have a go at it our poor boy to be super deep , and to have an apology for self - pity . If your fabulously wealthy parents got bolt down in front of you when you ’re a kid , so much the better . ( in earnest , a tragic past tense seems to be a crucial element for many escapist heroes , because it lets you project all your own real - life pain in the ass onto your hero , even as you ’re imagining rising about that pain and becoming a mega - explorer . ) And it make us well-chosen when our heroes have two or more devoted acolytes / sidekicks , who keep up almost without head , and awesome gismo . Superhuman might means what it order . “ Gets laid ” does n’t just mean your hero hooked up one time . “ strike off for greatness ” requires slightly more account . If your hero is the subject of a prophecy ( like Starbuck ) , or is “ the One ” like Neo , then he / she is marked for greatness . Captain Kirk was n’t strike off for greatness on the original Star Trek TV show , but we have a strong suspicion that the young Trek movie , by revisit his origin , will show that he was marked for great things from the commencement . “ Not tied down ” does n’t just mean being single : it means that you get to roam around having adventures . And at the end of an adventure , you jump in your spaceship and whizz off to the next adventure somewhere else . Captain Kirk was n’t tied down , but Captain Sisko was . “ Becomes a god or king ” means your character ends up with a lot of mass looking up to him / her . The Hulk , for example , is doom either to become a ruler , the Maestro , or the last survivor of Earth . Captain Kirk becomes an admiral , but more importantly he becomes a legend in his own sentence . The Doctor becomes the last of the Time Lords , and gets called a god a lot . Neo turns into the blind buddha Jesus monster , or something .
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