No, wealth and status doesn’t matter.

Ok, so what do they mean by “bring something to the table”… By this logic, a pizza delivery guy can offer NOTHING to a girl who comes from a multi-millionaire family.

@loldog191 I’m still getting used to this site I didn’t know you messaged me.

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OP is a hypocrite

No I’m not

“they previously posted that someone losing their child isn’t a big deal and they should just get over it.”

I said the only loss worth grieving over is the loss of a significant other, but with that said, if you have a child, it’s understandable and reasonable not to want to sacrifice the child you chose to create for the fucking world.

Bruce having friends

It’s clear you don’t read or watch a lot of Batman. Bruce Wayne does have friends.

Tommy Elliot

Mallory Moxon

Harvey Dent

Silver St Cloud

In the Silver Age comics, Batman did have a supporting cast of characters that wasn’t just Robin and Alfred.

You do have to explain why not though

Ok, for context, his parents aren’t shitty, unlike Succession. The family is mostly chill. His sisters aren’t mean and bitchy; his dad might be emotionally distant, but he still loves his kids, but his mother loves him more than anything, and he loves his siblings. Even if in the story I put it where they are corrupt or maybe working with one of the villains, the parents still love their kids and want their kids out of danger. Even Darth Vader loved Luke.

I never said his parents were shitty; the guy I was responding to assumed that.

But to answer your question, people have choices. Just because your parents are shitty people doesn’t mean you are going to be a shitty person. Just because your parents are good and loving doesn’t mean you won’t grow up to become an asshole.

There are a bunch of liberals/Democrats whose parents were hardcore conservatives.

People have choices, and just because you have past trauma doesn’t give you a free pass to do horrible shit.

you see their wealth as an easy way to get around story telling hurdles

An excuse for me to draw nice mansions, exotic cars and locations. His family is actually alive, and so it’s about him juggling his double life between being a superhero and doing “high society” stuff. All of his love interests come from wealthy families, so sometimes he’s not there for their parties, events or galas due to superhero stuff.

There just seems to be a lack of believable trauma needed for a superhero origin.

You seem to not like superheroes, which makes me wonder why you even replied to my post. But to answer your question, my character is traumatized. His girlfriend was murdered, and that’s more traumatic than anything in the world. Also, just because his parents might be shitty doesn’t mean he is.

" and superheroes too for that matter."

Again, you don’t like or understand superheroes; you aren’t even a casual fan, so why respond to my post?

The story is about an adult relationship that turns tragic. The story only works if she’s an adult (i.e., 21+). It’s about an adult relationship with a boyfriend (or girlfriend) with their own personal baggage, and the relationship ends tragically.

If her boyfriend is the same age as her, then I could easily just make her 14-16 or something.

having the main character and their love interest be close in age?

Sure but if he’s her age then she wouldn’t want to become a superhero to avenge him. If her boyfriend is 22 years and hes murderd yeah thats sucks but its not a big deal from her perspective.

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what do you think of movie piracy?

It’s theft.

I don’t want my heroes to have to deal with quotidian grownup issues like paying the mortgage, having to work overtime,

They don’t have to; most of the time their jobs aren’t even really important to the overall story; they’re just there to explain what they do during the day or just to have another setting. And as for paying the mortgage, you don’t have to go into detail about that or show it; just give the character some “easy” or “explainable” day job and have them live a middle- or middle-upper-class lifestyle, and you’re good.

ironically an idiot.

This is a take…

Being in the mid 20s and not having banged someone can also be a sign of poor attitudes towards the opposite sex. Like incels and femcels.

What if someone was homeschooled for all of their childhood, and they didn’t have the opportunity to date or have sex? What if a kid grew up in a super religious household, and their parents shamed them relentlessly for even thinking about having sex?

I didn’t say kids didn’t do these things. I said Hollywood shouldn’t romanticise it or glorify it.

Do you think it’s okay for minors to do drugs, drink and have sex with adults? Do you think? Parents are “villains” for justifiably saying “your a minor this isn’t ok”?

“young adults or adults” seems to imply young adults are not adults, which they are

I know I’m saying younger adults or maybe slightly older adults, like the youngest being 21 and the oldest being 25 or something. If you want the characters to be in close proximity with each other and still have this school dynamic, then college is perfect; there are people in their late 20s or early 30s getting their PhDs in these teen dramas. The writers never actually show the awkwardness of high school; they only want to show them talking, acting and doing adult things but never really show the consequences or have teens realise maybe they are too young for this. If you want a show where the characters look, act, and do things 21-year-olds do with little to no consequences and no adults even asking the slightest of questions, then just make them 21 and in college.

Kids in my school were absolutely clubbing drinking, hooking up, doing drugs, getting pregnant etc. at 15 or 16.

I never said that they didn’t, but TV will glamorize it and make it look “cool” and “edgy” and romanticize it when it’s really not. There are teens who dated their high school teachers and got married, but just because this happens doesn’t mean we should romanticize this relationship on the screen.

My point is that only a romantic partner can truly be the sole motivator to become a hero or to seek revenge. I don’t necessarily disagree that fridging is misogynistic, but honestly, a platonic loved one dying is not a strong enough reason to want revenge or to become a hero.