A simple question I asked myself when I started making videos for Youtube.

What is the greatest challenge for any hero to face?

Would it be the Mad Titan Thanos wanting to eradicate all life to share his love for Death?

Darkseid being a single grasp away from having all life under his ruthless control? Stopping Doomsday by an act of sacrifice or saving the Marvel Universe from the Mad robot known as Ultron?

Or would it be the challenge that the hero makes for himself?

When describing heroes like Spiderman, Superman, or Batman, we easily define them with a hero complex that they built for themselves. Fully dedicated in a lifestyle to defend the innocent from crime and much greater threats that no law enforcement can handle, we can’t help but see perfection from these mystery men who would stand with a sense of heroic pride. But, exactly how perfect are these heroes and what would happen when they remind comic readers exactly how vulnerable they are when making a mistake that would shock any dedicated comic reader?

Of course there are plenty of examples of heroes making the bad judgment call that would even have others doubt their reputation. But the one concept, a rare concept that has defined a few heroes and villains has truly captured my interest, which is the struggling battle against drugs.

I may not know what it would be like to face against something like Thanos or Doomsday (nor would it be lovely even if I did have powers like Superman), but I do know what it’s like to fight against an addiction, and indeed it is a horror to challenge an addiction seeing how it could be a painfully long fight that could be a single thought away from losing.

And when I see something like Iron Man struggling for a single glass of Whiskey to solve or drown his problems, it’s utterly remarkable how a comic book has managed to defined a character with both science fiction and perfected realism that has shown or reminded readers how human Iron Man truly is.

As a fan of old comics, I can say that I have read remarkable stories of Green Arrow facing a unique problem with his sidekick Roy Harper, or even Batman himself be reminded twice of how human he truly is because of a super-steroid.

As of today, I can’t say that comics have strongly focused on heroes or villains facing problems such as Iron Man’s alcoholism or any other known addiction, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is no independent storylines that would define a character without being related or attached to an event.

Pertaining to the title of this blog, In this video I cover and review how drugs and addiction has define comics into what it is today and the story of four heroes who face this rare challenge and how it has defined some into the heroes that we know of today when facing the ultimate challenge within their careers.