As
promised, I’m back this week with an individual post. Upon further research of
the blog topic, I came across a few articles relevant to the discussion and I felt
the need to share.
Tyree,
J. M. "American Heroes." Film Quarterly, 62.3 (2009): 28-34.
The
first article I came across was a scholarly source in the form of a journal
article. This article answers the question that silently lingers in the back of
our heads as we indulge ourselves in an endless array of comic movies, “with so
many heroes around, how does the criminal element manage to thrive at all?” (Tyree
28). Author, J.M. Tyree, refers to a statement made by the joker in order to
answer the frequently asked question. "as Heath Ledger’s Joker suggests
near the end of The Dark Knight, is that the hero and the villain require each
other completely, so that one cannot exist without the other, and the cycle of
escalating acts of good and evil is a perpetual motion machine set to continue for all
eternity, or at
least a substantial
run of sequels
and spin-offs” (28). In making this connection, Tyree is saying that
what keeps the hero and villain relationship alive is the mutual dependence each
character has on the other. As stated in many, if not every blog before this,
the villain needs the hero just as much as the hero needs the villain. The hero
needs the villain to push him to his boundaries and question his morals,
causing him to grow and the villain needs the hero in order to influence his
behavior causing him to either change his morals or behave in a worse manner.
Another point made by Tyree was that “the hero must confront and vanquish an
identical—but evil—version of himself in order both to survive and to save the
world from severe property damage”(28). If you are a fan of the blog, I highly
suggest reading Tyree’s article since he provides readers with evidence that
support almost every argument I have made in my past blog posts. 
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