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One thing the two have in common is the color of their costumes being the patriotic red and blue, but the similarity ends there. While Superman is the ideal of humanity, noone can even come close, which is why he isn't human, he is Kryptonian. He never does anything wrong except when it isn't his fault like when exposed to Red Kryptonite etc. Also he is just too powerful and thus rarely has to make rare decisions. If someone tried to make him choose between saving the woman he loved and saving bunch of children, he's fast enough to do both before anyone else can blink. Spider man on the other hand is a lot more real personality wise and has more limitations, physically and emotionally. He gets angry at the bad guys, he gets angry at himself, his best friend stole his girlfriend and blamed him for the death of the father that tried to kill Spiderman after terrorizing New York, but Peter Parker still looks out for Harry's emotional well fair, and he's the only one who does it seems. Here we have a guy who is a regular teenager until he gets bit by a radioactive spider and yet somehow the superhuman powers don't stop him from being basically a regular guy. Nothing extraordinary about his character except that he uses his powers to help protect the innocent, even at the expense of his own chances at the normal life he desires. He can't keep a job, mainly because helping people is more important than doing what his boss says, something I can really relate to. I got fired from Walmart for that reason. He is completely self less when actively protecting people but gets a little resentful about the ingratitude afterwards. Even to the point of choosing to give up being a Superhero for a time. Superman did that too, but he gave up his powers as well. Interviews with Stan Lee can be seen on the DVD special features explaining that Spider-man was created with flaws for the very reasons I am describing. To make sure that unlike Superman he is only human. Being a Superhero doesn't make the other problems in your life go away. Now on Smallville they try to make Clark Kent a little more human but it doesn't really do it as well as Spider-man has been done from the beginning. Spider-man is the hero I and many other people can relate to more than anyone. I hope to change that for a lot of kids that are like I was if I ever get onto the show "Who Wants to Be A Superhero" and get a chance to show Stan Lee a hero I have created who has Asperger's Syndrome, a condition I was diagnosed with recently which is also known as High functioning Autism. This character has a lot in common with Spider-man personality wise made more difficult by the above mentioned condition. I won't talk much about that in this article. Hopefully I can show him to the world in season three or four of Who Wants to Be A Superhero". By the way if Spider-man ever had to face Superman in combat I think all he would ever have to do was treat his extra strength web fluid that he used on his most powerful opponents with Kryptonite ahead of time and make sure he had plenty of it.

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