Comic books and most action flicks are made for teenagers or so called young adults. Sure, you want to give your audience fictional characters they can identify with – plus some super powers so they can impress they kids and satisfy their own hunger for power, because they feel usually pretty powerless.

In good old fairy tales the hero grows through various challenges and becomes a responsible adult. Sure not every hero is qualified to become a God (like in Greek Myths), but some form of Apotheosis is always involved.

To view it through Nietsche’s eyes: the hero has made the first step from a domesticated animal to become an Übermensch.

But Hollywood has no appetite for such transformations. Most male heroes start as little boys and continue to solve their adventures with the attitude and methods of a teenager. They continue to outfight and not outwit their opponents.

Our modern catalogue of (male) role-models seriously lacks grownup and smart heroes.

And it shows in real life as well.

Many grown men rather collect Star Wars figures instead of leading a "serious" life. Several generations of males have been feminized (by the single mothers revolution) and infantilized by mass media.

It’s not about the old macho attitude or "though" behaviour, it’s about having a backbone and knowing what real life looks like …