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Articles like this always tend to tick me off a little... clueless reviewers trying to figure out why people enjoy reading or watching stories about worlds more exciting and enjoyable than our own. As if we should all be satisfied with stories equally as banal, boring, painful, and unhappy as real life. Bah.

As for archetypes... anyone who wants to explore archetypes in fiction needs to begin reading comic books. From the early obvious ones of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Captain America to the later, more subtle ones of Spiderman and Iron Man, there are more archetypes running around in comic books than you can shake a stick at.