Reply #133: Almost all the super heroes I can think of are adults, not prepubescents.

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There are some who are very young but the general field favors pretty mature folk.

My personal favorites include (but are not limited to!) Dr. Don Blake, a physician in New York City who is lame and walks with a wooden crutch. He himself is lame but he is a skilled physician. A healer.

When Dr. Blake taps his wooden cane it become Mjolnir, the enchanted mallett, and Dr. Blake become Thor.

The issue is not whether that transformation is "real." The issue is that it packs a wallop and injects ancient transformative archetypal juice into our very veins. It's real good stuff and we're drawn to it across many centuries of bones and blood and books.

We're as lame as Dr. Blake. And as immortal.