Before I begin my next nonsensical post, I will of course update you about the latest happenings in my life. While most would say they don't really care, I'll still take this paragraph to rant on about my life anyway. The one really post-worthy thing in my life recently would be the spate of bad luck I've been through recently. Leg cramps in the toilet, jammed locks, cut on my gum, being down with fever(not dengue) and flu, and of course having several deadlines looming. This would all seem like just bad luck at its worse(or best), but there's actually a reason behind these things. The oil lamp I played with just at the end of the two-week break. It's used to guide dead people home, and I took it and played with it like nobody's business. You can see why my luck's so bad now. Anyway, that's all for the update. On to the nonsensical post.
I went down to Bgoh's church for a rally together with some of the other guys. It just so happened that the topic for the service was superheroes. While struggling to come up with a topic for my own nonsensical post due to the oil lamp effect, I decided to ride on yesterday's happenings and do my post on superheroes. Why? Well, there usually isn't any reasoning behind something nonsensical, so why don't you just sit back, hold your questions in and just enjoy.
Okay, many of us struggle with what a superhero really is. We often find ourselves asking, "Is Batman a superhero? Is James Bond a superhero? They do save the world now and again, but they don't really have superpowers right?" Well, you can answer all that questions quite easily is you just follow this "Superhero Checklist." This way, you will never find yourself pondering over the superhero status of Winnie The Pooh.
Superhero Checklist.
- He/she will always TRY to save the world. They don't actually have to succeed. Superheroes who try but fail are otherwise known as martyrs.
- Spandex is optional, they just need to look DIFFERENT from other people.
- They need to have alter-egos. If they only have one side to themselves, they are dubbed heroes, and not particularly super at all.
While the checklist may only have three checks, I can assure you that it will tell you exactly who is and who is not a superhero. For it is not the length that matters, it's how you use it. That was not a euphemism. Going back to the questions above, we can now safely say that Batman is a superhero, but not right from the start. He was mainly saving JUST Gotham City, and only moved to World-saving when he was contracted to the *Justice League. James Bond is not a superhero as he only has one side, and Winnie The Pooh is obviously not a superhero as well.
So my post on superheroes is done. Now you will not have to continue in your confusion about why superheroes are dubbed superheroes. It's not about having superpowers, otherwise the hottest tv show right now will be called "Superheroes" and not "Heroes". It's about adhering to my checklist.
*The Justice League is a competition between superheroes set up by Superman. It allows the superheroes to add more meaning to their lives. I shall not go into details about the rules, but Spider-Man is currently leading with 504 points. Each season lasts a lifetime, so many purport that Superman will win in the end by default.
Posted on 7/08/2007 05:07:00 PM
