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Date: 2016-04-07 03:47 pm (UTC)Some people really dislike Superman for his unflagging idealism. Without bright ideals, though, life is an ever-darkening spiral into oblivion.
Captain America embodies not just 'Truth, Justice, and (the ideal of) The American Way,' also the characteristics ascribed to WWII soldiers, the lessons learned in the Great Depression. A simpler time, though the people were hardly simple themselves.
When these characters, or even this aspect of these characters is lost, there is a lesson: the price of doing the Right Thing is less than the horrible cost of doing the Expedient Thing.
I recall a scene from a comic some time ago, where Batman was asked what he would do if he were forced to make a choice between saving himself or The Joker. Or was it save an innocent or The Joker? Either way, the first line from his response was, "I would never be put in that situation." The rest was that he would find a way to keep others from dying. Even his worst enemy.
Some might see a superhero's code of ethics and ideals as a straightjacket. The rest of us see them as a cape.