Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161112032800/@comment-10380701-20161114105420

The "I wanna be normal! wah wah!" reaction most heroes have is underlying aspect of the Hero's Journey, which if you're not fairly familiar with, has the pivotal road of the Refusal of the Call.

Not everyone is born and/or raised as a hero so for those that are not, they refused the call to heroism because they're not heroes. Not yet.

Quite a few shows subvert this but it's often been around since time immemorial, because it's just a key part of every story. And honestly, if done well, it's a pretty good way of showing that the hero is not a perfect selfless being. Because it's within our human nature to be afraid of an unknown possibility.

In my viewpoint, it's not necessarily something needed in this day and age, but it's still bound to exist somewhere. That's just how mankind is.