Your post has the best layout of any I've seen on LJ. It's fun and easy to read. I've never seen Mystery Men all the way through so I enjoyed the clip.
I think that the secret identity problem is one that we learn to roll with in the comic book universe. It doesn't necessarily translate well into TV and film, but it's so established and integral to the characters that it has to be used.
One of the innovations Marvel comics made in the 1960's was creating the Fantastic Four, who had battle-code names, but no secret identities. Their other superheros were masked iirc.
Also -- cute husband. And cooperative too. Give him a *yay* from me.
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I've never seen Mystery Men all the way through so I enjoyed the clip.
I think that the secret identity problem is one that we learn to roll with in the comic book universe. It doesn't necessarily translate well into TV and film, but it's so established and integral to the characters that it has to be used.
One of the innovations Marvel comics made in the 1960's was creating the Fantastic Four, who had battle-code names, but no secret identities. Their other superheros were masked iirc.
Also -- cute husband. And cooperative too. Give him a *yay* from me.