This is no longer the Golden Age of Superheroes.  We are long passed the silver and bronze ages as well.  In the world of comic books, and superheroes in particular, we currently find ourselves the Modern Age.  A literary and creative time period where superheroes cannot be taken at face value anymore, where the implications of people with extraordinary powers must be considered and no longer ignored.  We have seen this trend in both comic books and film, where a certain practicality has been applied to thinking about superheroes and their effects on the world.  Readers and consumers of superhero fiction are not content with just watching Superman demolish buildings in order to stop the latest villain’s world-ending plot.  We need creators to consider the people in those buildings.  There are generations of people today—like millennials and gen Z—who have been raised on tragedy and destruction.  Terrorist attacks, never ending school shootings, and plagues were out childhood.  Like these disasters, literature cannot ignore the destruction and death caused just off-page when superheroes and supervillains clash.  Because, when you truly think about it, the idea of a superman in real life is horrifying.