10 Holidays To Not Invite A Superhero To
5. Christmas: Superman And Daredevil
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If you celebrate it, Christmas revolves around surprisesthe alleged surprise of Mary and Joseph at hearing about what would happen to them, the surprise of opening presents, and the surprise of making it home and reuniting with your family and/or saving the store by the end of the movie. And even if youre really good (on Santas list or just manipulating other peoples senses), theres no surprising Superman or Daredevil. You might be able to fool them for a while, but really, they can figure out everything eventually if they wanted to. Both heroes senses are immensely tuned to the world around them, and they both have to consistently make great efforts to not know everything thats happening around them. Many times, they have to outright pretend that theyre surprised at something. At Christmas, it would therefore just deflate the joy of the celebrations to know that youre being patronized by two people who, although well-meaning, are also very aware that they are better than you in almost every way and are just playing along. Both Kal-El and Matt Murdock have to constantly talk down to everyone around them, even their closest friends and family. Hiding what they can do from the common folk is a central part of their sanity. Matt sometimes even flaunts it. One comic book universe is certainly too small for the two of them. And you dont get out of this with the other winter holidays either.