Intro and Thesis for final paper

Most of the time, the hero has special powers and this causes him or her to have a compelling conviction and or need to save people. A good example of this can be seen in the film The Incredibles when the heroes are forced into hiding, but Mr. Incredible (Craig Nelson) secretly continues to fight crime by listening to a police scanner at night with his friend Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson). On the other hand the villain’s motivation and creation is not often looked at, and it is usually assumed that the villain is created by greed, hatred, or simply a need for power. This in fact may be true, in part, those are things that motivate a villain. Motivation aside, it is not what leads to the creation of the villain. When looking at the creation of a villain it is important to look at how the villain was influenced by society in his or her childhood, teenage years and/or adult age. In The Incredibles, society depicts that only those with special powers can be super heroes, and only those that work alone can truly be great superheroes, as Mr. Incredible is. In the film, a boy named Buddy (Jason Lee) idolizes Mr. Incredible, but later turns against him because of the way that he is influenced by society in his childhood. The way that he is treated leads to who he becomes as an adult, thus proving that villains are, in fact, socially formed