Like snowflakes no two superheroes are alike, Key Man and Batman are no exception. At first glance they could be the same: Two superheros out to protect and save their city, deceased parents, a light that projects their amazing symbol to beckon them when needed, and on the list goes. However, the two are night and day. Key Man and Batman are alike and different in aspects such as: childhood, powers, integrity, life choices, and their overall goal as a superhero.
One’s childhood, how and who one was brought up greatly impacts who one becomes. Both Key Man and Batman grew up without their parents for the majority of their childhood. Key Man never knew his biological parents and sadly his adopted parents were terrible, constantly talking down to him and treating him absolutely horrendously. As for Batman, both of his parents died when he was around the age of eight, leaving him in the care of the family butler, Alfred. Although every great superhero tends to have a depressing backstory, no hero is complete without their special abilities.
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When the word superhero is brought up, powers, or special abilities, are almost always one of the first things that comes to mind.
Afterall, that is what differentiates a superhero from an ordinary person, right? Wrong. Key Man and Batman both have the ability to fly, however, Batman relies on his cape to fly whereas Key Man posses the natural ability to fly like his fellow avian friends. For Key Man, it was not until he was restrained by handcuffs that he realized he had powers, then he started to figure out and fine tune them. For Batman, he never had that epiphany moment where he realized he contained a supernatural ability. The reason is simple: Batman does not have any natural powers, yet he is still recognized as one of the most popular and skilled superheroes. The reason for this is because Batman realized something not many have: Anyone can be a superhero, one just has to possess boldness, determination, and
integrity. Integrity is the quality of being honest, and having strong moral principles. Integrity takes courage and a leader quality. Key Man has a heart for people, and wants to help whoever is in need of his assistance, it just took the knowledge that he possessed powers to nudge him to help others on a larger scale. For Batman, he saw the problems in his city, and became the help he knew it desperately desired. Both Key Man and Batman have high levels of integrity, however, it took a few bad choices to lead them to take their integrity and help their city’s out in a big way. Sometimes bad choices are a blessing in disguise, they teach lessons, help one grow and mature, and they even help one relate to others and realize that this guy is no better than the rest. Everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time. With that being said, Key Man and Batman for sure made their fair share of bad choices. Both superheroes had a period in their life where they made choices they regretted. For Key Man, it was getting involved in drugs and hanging with the wrong crowd. Key Man did not turn away from these bad choices until he was arrested and he realized he had the power to make his hands morph into any key. Key Man’s bad choice as an adolescent lead to his prosperity as an adult. As for Batman, bad choices were made as well. Although it was a bit more extreme than what it sounds. Batman had been involved with some pretty bad people and went as far as committing murder. Multiple murders to be completely truthful. As bad as these things are, the important thing to be noted is that both Key Man and Batman rose above their bad choices and chose to turn away from them, except when these choices were the only solution, and were for the greater good. Their bad choices did not define Key Man and Batman, they did quite the opposite. These bad choices strengthened them, and turned them into the spectacular men that they are today. Having made those bad choices, and seeing first hand how they affect themselves and the people around them surely affected their decisions to help the people in their city. Key Man and Batman’s sole purpose in life is to help protect and serve people. Key Man does not do anything extravagant, although he has saved quite a many people from having no way to get to work, or staying locked out of their houses all day. Key Man also saves people from having to pay a hefty fine to have a mechanic break into their car. On the other hand, Batman radically helps citizens in a big way, from saving your life to facing psychotic villains. The two superheroes are vastly different in the ways in which they help people without a doubt, but that is nothing to worry about. Many say Batman is the better of the two, simply because he does more extravagant things. However, the level of extravagance is not all that should be taken into consideration when determining what a good superhero is. A rich man can give you fifty dollars of his billion dollars, where a poor man may give ten dollars, all that he possesses. Which man would be valued the most? Key Man and Batman both have their hearts and motives in the right place, for the greater good of the people and their city and at the end of the day that is all that matters.
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Bruce Wayne was a poor kid from a poor city. His family was killed and he decides to fight crime, similar to Spider Man. Only Batman, some how got extremely rich to own his own cave, custom Bat Mobile, and have some sweet gadgets. I don’t know a lot about Batman, but I know enough that money doesn’t grow on trees. Besides, even if he did get the money reasonably, there would be other flaws. For example, there is no way he built his car him self. He had to have had a body shop customize it. And if this were the case, it wouldn’t be too hard for Joker or someone to find out...
For Batman, he is a famous person with high social class. His image is a successful businessman and on the other hand he is a hero to save the city. He is very strong and well body shape. When he catches the thief, he acts independently. He will not ask for help and refuse the others involve although he gets hurt. He is very clever and very calm. He will first plan before he takes action.