Samaritan Syndrome: Difference between revisions

** On the other hand, Bruce ''has'' trained a lot of skilled heroes who are, for the most part, more mentally well-adjusted than him- and, to some extent, his career as the Batman has made this trope necessary, as Bruce's presumed-death-actually-timeshifted absence culminated in Gotham pretty much going to hell because Gotham ''needs'' a Batman to strike fear into the cowardly and superstitious criminals.

** This has actually been somewhat addressed in the new Batman Inc. series, where Batman has been recruiting like-minded and able heroes all over the world to serve as the Batman of that area. This means that essentially, that most regions of the world are being taken care of it's own Batman.

** To make matters worse, almost all of her great accomplishments revolve around [[What You Are in the Dark]] -- it's not like she's going to get any credit for her self-sacrificing nature, as about 99% of the world just thinks of her as that superheroine who gets kidnapped a lot/ that superheroine who might be a supervillain in disguise

* Played for laughs in issue #0 of ''Dr. Blink, Superhero Shrink'' by [[Dork Tower|John Kovalic]] and Christopher Jones. A therapy session with [[Superman]] [[Expy]] Captain Omnipotent ends with the realization that the Captain is a perfectionist overachiever because of his [[Survivor Guilt]], striving for the approval of his dead parents. A jubilant Captain Omnipotent frees himself from his heroic obsession... causing him to ignore a half-dozen crimes and disasters occurring around him.