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I was thinking about Gotham City early this morning and of course Batman came to my head. Then out of no where I began to wonder if Batman really is a super hero...Every cartoon, movie and comic book all have super heroes pictured as this great savior who stops robberies and stops villians. In Quincy, where I live, we might have a bank robbery once or twice a year and its the thing that everyone talks about for weeks.

And we never have villans trying to destroy the whole town. I figured Quincy is just boring. But you never really hear of any villans trying to destroy the towns in more interesting cities.

So it makes me wonder, out of all the cities to conquer, why go for the one with the super hero in it? Why not travel down the road and destroy that city and rob that bank? But thats not what this is about.

I really want to know is this: like i said you never really see villans in cities with out super heroes. This could either mean A) that villians are stupid and they should go to a different town like the paragraph above or B) Heroes have a deal with villians to make them look good. The super heroes find some random bum off the street and tells them to try and destroy the city so that certain hero can be the "man" in that city. He can showboat his way into the hearts of the people who live there who have no idea whats really going on. Heroes bring all that crime onto themselves! With out them, theres no villans to try and destroy the city (and sometimes if the hero is really cocky the world) I mean if a hero lived in Quincy, no one would know who he/she was. Theres nothing to really save here. I've never been to New York city but I'm pretty sure the movie SpiderMan, upped the crime to make SpiderMan look good. It makes me wonder whether or not we can call Superman, Spiderman and Batman heroes at all. Are they heroes, or are they just selfish showboats?

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