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• Question #343 Real-Life Superhero

As Phil noted in the recent AVS Conversation: Batman Talk comments, Christopher Nolan used Teddy Roosevelt as inspiration for Bruce Wayne’s character when he wrote Batman Begins. The comparison fits: each man is the son of a wealthy philanthropist father (whom the son idolized); each experienced tragedies involving two close family members dying on the same day, a psychological trauma to which they reacted by retreating to the edge of civilization (where only the strongest of both body and mind can survive); both men returned to civilization to become famous (or notorious) for fighting crime with uncommon zealous fervor.

Today’s question:

Of the people you know, who is the most like a superhero?

If you can compare them to a specific superhero, feel free.

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