Marvel’s Luke Cage has superhuman strength and bulletproof, unbreakable skin, and that’s way too overpowered to be a “street-level” hero. What makes characters like Spider-Man and Daredevil “fun” is the fact that they are vigilantes who can be hurt; they can be shot or stabbed, and their friends worry about them because they aren’t indestructible. But when you have a character that’s indestructible, then all that danger goes away. Also normal thugs aren’t a threat to you.

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    1 day ago

    Spider-Man is a street level hero only because he chooses to be- dude has faced down cosmic level threats and come out on top. He holds back on almost all his strength because he’s afraid of killing someone on accident.