Although both lost their parents at a very young age, Superman’s/Clark Kent’s upbringing was quite different from the one of Batman/Bruce Wayne. While Superman was brought up, cared for and loved by his foster parents the Kent’s who knew of his alien origin from the beginning, Batman’s childhood was more isolated from society. His butler Alfred was his only real friend and confidant. The fact that he inherited a fortune allowed him to live without worrying about getting a job or facilitating his crime-fighting obsession.…
Superman is possibly one of the most known superheroes in the world. But in the past six years the superhero movie industry has exploded. At least one major blockbuster superhero movie is now released about every six months and countless people flood into the movie theater to see each and every one. Prior to the explosion of popularity I would dare say Superman was the single most known superhero in the world, but now he has to compete with other superheroes like Ironman, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, And Batman. What are the underlying themes and morals expressed within the story of Superman? What message is being given when Superman gives himself over to humanity so that they can decide their own fate, or when he saves humanity from the destruction to come, or even when he kills…
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Harvey Dent did just that. Harvy lied and claimed to be batman to protect batman’s true identity. The Joker overturned Harvey’s plan to stop corruption in the city of Gotham and to put the mob leaders in prison. A mob boss and a crooked cop help the Joker capture Harvey and Rachel; they were placed in separate buildings filled with explosives. The Joker reveals their locations to batman while under interrogation. The Joker tricks Batman into going to Dent’s location by telling him that Rachael is there. The explosives go off and Rachael dies, while Dent’s face is half burned off. Although he survives…
Batman didn’t really have any were superhuman detective skills, and he was just very smart at making decision. Batman also had a sidekick named Dick. We all know him as Robin. Bruce and Dick were as unstoppable forces. Batman main goal was to fight the bad guys and clean up the city of Gotham and destroy his parent killer. When Bruce met a police officer; that, seem to be pretty honest in Gotham city helped him to be confident in the law. The police department wanted to capture batman and James Gordon was the one he could trust. Batman had a lot of criminals to fight and a mad scientist who had monsters to do his work for him was one of his challengers. He also had to go against villain like the Joker, the penguin, and the crazy mister freeze. Bruce faced his fears of bats by becoming batman and fighting crime. Bruce met Robin during the time he became batman. Bruce taught Robin (Dick) how to grow up and be a man. Robin followed in batman’s footsteps. Bruce watched his parents get killed in front of him. He was able to destroy his killers, but in was able to clean up Gotham from crime. Batman goal…
Batman and Ironman are two different heroes but they’re gadgets re very similar. They both have armored suits, Iron man has all of his weapons in his suit where Batman must equip all of his weapons before he is able to fight crime. Most of Ironman’s means of transportation is him flying around in his suit. “although the majority of Ironman’s costs came from the many different renditions of his armor, with only his latest suit accounted for, Ironman drops down to needing a partly $648,717,000 to achieve his life of metallic luxury(Nealey).Batman however, has the bat mobile, his motorcycle, and the bat, a plane. Not really a gadget but they both have butlers that assist them in their crime fighting, Ironman has Jarvis, a Computer software that Ironman invented to help him in everyday life and crime fighting. Batman on the other hand has a real life person, his name is Alfred he assists batman with anything and everything.…
* Batman works in a very different way. The Dark Knight considers his targets to be any form of bad guy. His enemies range from the murderer or serial murderer to a simple robber. Of course as with any hero there are always one or more mortal enemies that keep the story exciting and deadly. In Batman’s case, there is The Joker, his most famous enemy, as well as a large set of other less famous enemies, who have become essential…
Bruce Wayne, after reaching a certain age, travels around the world and starts exploring and studying world philosophies and becomes a master of various martial arts, as seen in Batman Begins, in order to be able to stand a chance against people like Jack Napier.…
At the most basic level of comparison, both Achilles and Superman are very similar in their near perfect anatomical construction. Achilles is at the peak of human fitness, with the added mythological power of being invincible, except in his heel. Similarly, Superman is more perfect than any human being can be, due to his birth parents being form a different planet. Although he looks human, Superman is actually Kryptonian, allowing him to fly, have laser vision, and be invincible…
Bruce Wayne was the only child in his household, living with his parents Thomas and Martha Wayne along with their butler Alfred Pennyworth. Growing up, he had a strong bond with his family as well as a strong friendship with Rachel Dawes, the daughter of one of their domestic servants. Even as an adult, he and Alfred manage to have a close mutual relationship. As a young child, Bruce had also developed a fear of bats, which originated after he was playing with Rachel in their greenhouse and he accidentally fell into a cave where he stumbled onto a massive swarm of bats. This fear was amplified even further when he and his parents were in an Opera House and Bruce sees a Bat like creature on stage and wanted to leave the theatre. Bruce’s stressor…
In Action Comics #1 (April 1938), Superman is born on an alien world to a technologically advanced species that resembles humans. When his world is on the verge of destruction, his father, a scientist, places his infant son alone in a spaceship that takes him to Earth. The earliest newspaper strips name the planet "Krypton", the baby "Kal-L", and his biological parents "Jor-L" and "Lora";[104] their names become "Jor-el", and "Lara" in a 1942 spinoff novel by George Lowther.[105] The ship lands in the American countryside, where the baby is adopted by the Kents. In the original stories, they adopt him from an orphanage.[106] The Kents name the boy Clark and raise him in a farming community. A 1947 episode of the radio serial places the then-unnamed community in Iowa.[107] It is named Smallville in Superboy #2 (June 1949). New Adventures of Superboy #22 (Oct. 1981) places it in Maryland. The 1978 Superman movie and most stories since place it in…
Batman Begins and the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh both feature the story of a culture hero. In both of these works, the heroic quest of the culture hero is significant. Apart from having similar narratives, these two stories also have significant differences in themes. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh becomes a hero for fame and immortality, while in Batman Begins; Bruce Wayne becomes a hero to avenge the deaths of his parents and at the same time protect the city of Gotham. These two characters also show a difference in the conflicts that they face as they fight against overwhelming circumstances. Gilgamesh is at odds with mortality, while Bruce is at odds with the corruption of human nature. One can say that Bruce is also concerned with mortality, since the death of his parents was the main reason for his doings. But instead of directly facing mortality, he attempts to strike the system that creates it. Therefore, it can be seen that both Gilgamesh and Bruce Wayne are heroes of some kind, because they both have heroic characteristics and because they posses bravery against overwhelming circumstances. Nevertheless, they are very different in the way they plan to fight against the simple threat of physical human and social decay.…
Hero has a special weapon only he can wield: Batman has numerous weapons to his disposal, such as the batarang, bat grapple, bat mobile, bat plane and whatever else he may need. As a man based purely on justice and protection of others, he refuses to use guns. However his most powerful weapons are his mind and body, both of which have been trained and crafted to a level that makes him almost supernatural.…
Similarly in Christopher Nolan’s “Batman The Dark Knight Rises” Bruce Wayne AKA Batman has hidden himself away from the world due to previous events in his life that made him feel as if he doesn’t belong, his way of dealing with the event of losing the only person he ever really loved due to his decision but was tricked by the joker. Besides his parents and butler the loss of…
From this viewpoint, seeing his parents murdered young Bruce Wayne creates alters (or personalities) that can exist within his new world; Batman, The Joker, Two-Face, and all the other villains are parts of his broken psyche and everything that we know as the batman universe is…
Spiderman uses the colors blue and red as his uniform. He uses a mask because he does not want to be identified. Spiderman wore these colors because the spider that bit him was red and blue. Spiderman is very handsome. He has pretty blue eyes and a strong face he was also light skinned with brown hair. Spiderman has some super powers. He had spider web come out his hand and he would hang on it. The web he would use would come out from his hand it was really powerful web it was strong and stretchable. He would use it as a rope to jump really high and from one place to another.…