The Darkest Knight of the Human Mind

The Darkest Knight of the Human Mind

Batman has been a character that has been beloved by people everywhere. The Caped Crusader first appeared in DC’s Detective Comics without having much to do with the batman everyone knows and loves. The history of the knight is that it came to be, like most superheroes, a way of escape from the horrors of the world. Most comic books came out in the 1930’s, which was the era called the Great Depression. Creator Bob Kane based the character of Batman on other hero’s such as Zorro and The Shadow who fought crime with a masked alter ego. Like many comic book hero’s, before Batman, the question of duality is asked.
One of the most well analyzed questions of the story of Batman is “who is the real person, Bruce Wayne or Batman?” Many comic book and psychology experts have dived into the mind of everyday people who have some similar characteristics to the character and persona of Batman and Bruce Wayne. According to Senior Vice President and Executive Producer of DC Comics, Dan Di Dio, “The Reality is that Batman persona is the true persona and that Bruce Wayne is the mask” (Dio). “He can not stop being batman. It’s much easier to stop being Bruce Wayne. Once you understand that, then you can understand why he is motivated and why he continues to behave in the way he does.” In every human being there is darker part of their mind, sometimes called the “shadow side” and it holds some of the many dark secrets a person keeps locked up. The persona of Batman is that he is not only the incarnation of a bat, but of the “shadow side” of the human mind.
Batman is probably DC Comics most unique super hero. Though many people say there is nothing super about him, since he doesn’t have super powers and wasn’t born in outer space and doesn’t have mutant genes like most other super hero’s have. If Marvel Comics Iron Man’s super power is his iron suit, then Batman’s super power is his mind and his ability to control himself. Dr. Benjamin R. Karney, associate...

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