If you follow the history of comic books, you’ll know that the reason that the Marvel franchise has been able to dominate over DC—even though DC had a huge head start on them—is because of Stan Lee.7 He knew that characters need to have flaws for people to relate to them. While initially all of DC’s characters were similar to Superman, Stan Lee’s characters almost all started as normal humans with flaws who received superpowers later (think Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Hulk).
