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"Author Mark Vaz relates this feeling of helplessness to our desire for protection from these elements and a figure who will take care of these problems for us so we do not have to act." "Superman was generally more popular during times when people were not able to face the dark side of their world and were looking for an escape through an alien being with superpowers which would banish all darkness. A common visual still found in Superman comics today is a crowd of waiting, helpless people who are looking up to see Superman overhead, and it looks almost as if he is radiating divine light upon their faces."