Double Power Principle Research Paper

The Double Power Principle is a principle that specifies that the more power someone has to do good, the more power they have to do bad. This principle not only applies to superheroes, but to villains as well; the power they have to do bad can also be used to do good. In today’s comics, most humans who have powers/capabilities choose to do good with them. However, people like Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot and Pamela Lillian Isley decide to do evil with their abilities and become their alter ego, Penguin and Poison Ivy. They blame society for their actions because it was society that caused them to be the person they are today. Such a course of action may seem reasonable, but people like Matt Murdock decide to do good despite what society had done to them.

Regardless of the fact that it was society that caused him to become blind, Daredevil believes that the innocent shouldn’t suffer, but the evil should. Morris argues, “Fearful people cling onto religious faith to keep their emotions under control” (49). He emphasizes that Matt’s religious faith helps block the terror he should have when faced with dangerous criminals. The fearfulness that Matt possesses is what gives him power and the courage to do what he does. As a man of faith, he is given this sense of power and importance that he uses to his advantage.
The Double Power Principle explains that when great power rises it is up to the one who possess such power to do good or bad with it. Daredevil is aware of his power and what he chooses to do with it is help the defenseless. Instead of taking the easy route and taking revenge on society for what it had done to him, Daredevil chooses to do good with his