Everyone has a favorite character.  Some people's favorite characters aren't well known while others are mainstream to the point where a vast majority at least know who the character is.  As a fan of your favorite character you take the time to learn about your character and to understand him/her.  Each character is created differently and they live their comic lives differently to another character and that difference is what attracts you to those characters.  Now depending on who your favorite character is and their importance to the comic world that they are a part of that character will have more appearances over a variety of varying media productions.  They may appear in cross comic events, comic universe events, cartoons, TV shows, and then movies.
 
  On to the question I want to present.  With the variety of chances for your character to make an appearance it's undeniable that different writers will portray your favorite character differently and because of the different portrayals your favorite character will come off a different way just because a different writer sees that character in a certain light, if you will.  So my question is, as a fan of a character are you happier when your favorite character simply appears in a story or are you happier when your character is portrayed correctly.  As an offset to that question, would you rather have your character appear in a story but not be written true to character or would you rather them not appear at all.
 
  Now last week I was reading the 12 part series "Justice", which, might I say, was amazing but that is moot in what I want to say.  As I was reading that story I was constantly asking, Where is Captain Marvel?  Where is Captain Marvel?  In a story like that with so many characters getting some focus in the story I was really disappointed to not see Billy appear in the story... until issue 12 where Billy does in fact make an appearance.  As a big fan of Captain Marvel, I was extremely happy.  Through the story I was happy to see Billy's character remain true to who the Captain is.  That in itself was enough reason to cheer.  
 
  During the Rise and Fall story arc this year and the Cry for Justice one as well, I was happy to see Green Arrow play an important role in the story, but as I read it I wasn't happy with how he was being portrayed.  In fact, I despised how the writers were making him out to be and to say the list my anger was near limitless.  Not only that, but about two years ago Oliver and Dinah finally married and that was a great moment, a moment that was about two decades late.  (Really?  It took that long?  Should have been happened.)  As a result of their marriage we got the Green Arrow and Black Canary series.  One problem though, the story was supposed to focus in on both Black Canary and Green Arrow but somehow Green Arrow was the focal point of the story, which goes against the point of having the two headline the series.
 
  When I read a story with any of my favorite characters I enjoy seeing them being written true to their actual natures and to what I know as a fan of the character.  But when those characters are written completely against everything I know about them I can't help but feel angry and disappointed.  Not at the characters but at the writers.  As fans of certain characters we can't help but be excited when we get to see our favorite characters in a story but what I want to know is, would you sacrifice seeing your favorite character in a story if he was written horribly to not seeing him at all? 

  Society itself is built on opporunities.  Many people grow up to the words their parents speak to them, "You can be anything you wish."  You can be anything you wish.  Children are designed in their nature to just believe.  Adults have an unquestionable sense of realism and that in itself can sometimes impair a person's sense of belief.  It's hard to just start believing when you're older, but when you're a kid it comes naturally.  Children can believe anything as long as they can imagine it.  That's just a simple psychological analysis.   
 
  Now this leads up into my next point.  Why do people like reading superhero comics?  In all sense of the word superheroes themselves aren't real, just a simple figment of our imagination.  So why do we read about these fictional character?  The answer is simple:  People want to see a hero.  Everyone loves a hero, and everyone wants to see one.  Don't believe me?  Then look at yourself.  When you grow up what is it that sets you forward on your goals.  Take the 1990's for example, every kid then, including me, were idolizing Micheal Jordan.   
 
  Micheal Jordan is my hero!  When I grow up I want to be just like him!  He's the greatest! 
 
  People inherrently want to see amazing things.  People want to see someone to idolize, someone to look up to, and then someday, hopefully, emmulate them.  Heroes come in all shapes and forms.  A hero could be some stranger you only see from afar through a TV screen or your next door neighbor who goes to the office each morning so he can reach his goal.  Heroes built our society and they continue to shape it.  A hero can influence an entire generation of people and then those peope in turn influence the next generation.  A hero passes through the ages and is remembered forever, a hero is never truly forgotten. 
 
  So what is a superhero?  Well he's a hero, to the truest extent of the word.  A superhero is everything that makes a hero in our lives.  In comics, a great hero is a great character.  But the opposite isn't true.  A good character isn't neccessarily a good hero.  The difference is found in what makes the two.  A good character is someone we connect to while a good hero is someone you look up to, someone you see and just want to emmulate them.  A hero can affect your life while a good character may simply be a part of your life. 
 
  The reason most people read comics about superheroes is just that.  We like seeing someone do the impossible for a greater good.  We like seeing the impossible and we just can't help reading about them.  A great superhero just doesn't fight to save the day, no they do more than that.  They save the world, true.  But they change lives.  Humans are connected to supeheroes not just for the over the top antics, but because we can see something in they do as a possibility.  Heroes don't just change the world they help those who don't have the things we have.  A comic can show us what to aim for to live our lives.   
 
  Superhero comics not only take us to heights we can only dream of, they take us to depths and make us think, about our lives and the lives of the people around us.  That is why I think people read superhero comics.

  Now before anyone gets all heated up and start screaming things like “It’s a comic book!   What do you expect!?”   I’ll say this, I agree completely on the fact that I shouldn’t expect any sort of realism in any comic book ever but that doesn’t excuse the writers on their lack of desire to learn a little more on the subject that their character falls under.

Before we continue let me explain a little on the inconsistencies in many stories now-a-days on the subject of identical twins.   A lot of the time when I read a story, people most of the time include identical twin characters because you wouldn’t see them often in your life.   Just by that one thought alone the writer of said story tends to neglect the idea of background knowledge of the characters he’s about to write and guess what happens?   The identical twins end up being different genders.

Now it’s not completely impossible for this to happen but the chance of such an even happening is so low that half the time it shouldn’t even be considered a possibility.   In fact, let me take even a step further:

Identical Twins are monozygotic.   Monozygotic twins are formed from a single fertilized egg that splits to two.   When it splits, it is either male or female.   Subsequently after the splitting, there are either two males or two females.

Fraternal twins on the other hand are dizygotic, which equals two eggs.   In this result you can get two male twins, two female, or one female and one male.  

Now in the world every 1 in 90 births are twins and an estimated 10 million twins and triplets are in the world, while at the same time the world’s population is 6,862,872,177 people.    That means that twins make up less that 1% of the world’s population.  

Now 99.9% of all opposite gender twin births are fraternal and in the case of that .1% that isn’t fraternal the female twin counterpart is afflicted by Turner syndrome, which occurs in 1 out of every 2,000 births.

Now all of this are proven scientific facts, and just going by this, many of the female male identical twin characters that exist in comic books today.   Characters like: 

 Mary Batson

 Billy Batson

  Go against everything that has been proven by science and decades of restless research itself.  Now don't get me wrong because Billy Batson and Mary Batson are two of my favorite super powered heroes ever.   But that doesn't excuse the inherent lack of research done on the part of the writers to make the characters as realistic as possible.
 
  But since it's 3 in the Morning this entire might just be the culmination of my ranting come to life, but I just had the need to get this off my chest.  Truthfully, I really just wanted to clear up a few misconceptions with identical twin characters, and because apparently my life is extremely dull at the moment I went and did all the research.
 
  I guess what I'm trying to say is that in even some of our favorite characters weren't really thought out well by their creators.  Now the thing is though, I've always found it weird how easily so many characters in the comic book universe are just twins and that I haven't ever real seen same gendered twins but every twin set of characters seem to always be male/female.  Now, when you're like me, once you get that nagging thought in your head it won't go away until you fill whatever it is that needs to be filled.  Now I agree that writing twins can be an easy way to write relationship issues but to me, a lot of the time, male/female twins are just thrown out there without much thought put into them.  I can't say that for every writer because some writers do their research and some don't it just seems redundant.  Twins themselves in real life are, in a way, exotic.  But when so many writers like to throw the idea of twins out there it's hard to get that exotic feel that twins give off.  I mean, I've only met one set of twins in my life and that was when I was very little.
 
   Now I really wanted to post this blog to get rid of some misconceptions about twins, not so much say that twins in comic books are wrong because then my two favorite super-powered heroes would be on the top of the list, Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel.  I just thought it would be good for some people (specifically whoever actually felt like reading my essential scientific research) to know the truth about real life twins in the world and then their inherent differences with their comic book counterparts.  It's common for people who think of twins to see two people who have similar likes, can complete each other's sentences and things of that nature.  But a good amount of the time twins have very little in common.  Some monozygotic twin sets are separated by their weight.  One could be 150, and the other would be 165, and sometimes their not even the same height.  
 
  What I think I'm trying to say, as a writer myself and as someone who always tries to know about what he's writing about, I just feel it’s weird to read about all these comic book twins and have this inkling that there may or may not have been much thought put into them other than:  "Twins are different, lets make some!"