Hero's Limitations Essay

Hero’s Limits in making Peace in the society In the American superhero movies, superhero saves the world. These superheros either have super power which makes them invulnerable or lot’s of money to build equipments which makes them invulnerable. In the Japanese animation, the high school students save the world. They often have grand ideal, the nice antagonists who “help” these protagonists to grow up, and many people who supports their grand ideal. Do they really bring the peace to the world? I think I can break this problem into two parts which is hero’s limit and the peace in the society. In the Hero’s limit part, I will mainly use the Watchmen (movie) and Gintama(Animation) to illustrate about what hero is able to do and what we are able to do for our justice. In the …show more content…
If I can see the story from the Joker’s perspective, I may not think Joker is as “evil” as before. Depends on the technique of the director, Joker’s “evil” action might seems to be justice. This means “evil” and “good” are subjective, therefore, Rorschach’s ideal justice is not practical and not humane for the criminals. That is why law exist. It might be rigid, but law might be the most humane justice as a whole. However, law has limit, law is not a system planted in our body and execute automatically. For example, in some video games, if I kill a npc, I will lost money or experience in the game. Law needs human to execute, so there is still some spaces for individual’s justice involved. Sometime, it might be a very bad thing, because for some “powerful” governors, they are able to be above the law as long as they have control on the one who execute the law. Rorschach’s ideal justice is not practical in the story of Watchmen. Rorschach is human, and human has limit. His ideal justice seems simple, but vague either, thus, his justice is nearly collapsed. He wants to tell the world that who makes the attack, which blows up the main cities and