ABSTRACT

Heroes might be in conflict with themselves. This is the case in new superhero movies, as a matter of course in all superhero comics of the Marvel generation, the generation after World War II. The first antihero of Greek tragedy was Prometheus, a Titan who antagonized Zeus and sided with the humans by stealing the power of fire from the immortals and bringing it to the mortals. Kenneth Anger has devoted a whole albeit in terms of research rather superficial book to the history of virtual film heroes and called it aptly Hollywood Babylon. Sure a good hero needs an adequate villain. But the villain should be constructed along the same lines. A villain considers himself not the bad one. To him the reasons he has for acting this way are absolutely justified and good. There is a habit, in Europe, to tell animation stories destined for preschool kids without antagonism, which is being considered harmful to the children's mind.