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Years ago, in the heyday of the comic book super hero, the heroes were considered symbols of perfection. Comic book characters such as Superman, Captain Marvel, Batman and Robin, the Green Lantern, and others come to mind. In each case, secret powers, unimaginable strength, and always bringing his or her villainous adversary to a satisfactory end (or at least a termination to some scheme in which the villain hoped to successfully subjugate mankind in the immediate future) identified the super hero. The writers of these comics did allow their hero to have some minor flaw that could be exploited to cause harm to the good guy. As a case in point was Superman?s weakness when exposed to kryptonite (material from his home planet of Krypton).