Real People, Real Problems
The Marvel Universe was built out of a desire to integrate realistically written characters into comic book stories. But “realistic†is really a less than accurate descriptor, despite the number of people who use it frequently. These are stories about people who can fly and shoot webs. “Realistic” is pretty damn far from an accurate descriptor.
A better way of phrasing it is this: Marvel Comics built their characters to be flawed. DC didn’t. DC would later go back and subtly characterize their stable of heroes, but Marvel’s characters were built from the ground up to be antagonistic, short-tempered, and snarky. They built characters you could relate to.
People say that the DC pantheon are more akin to modern-day Greek gods than Marvel’s heroes are, but that isn’t true. The Greek gods were effed up. They did horrible things and made dramatic mistakes.
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They’re in line with the Marvel method, through and through.
