Comic book characters are not real. No teenager can crawl up a wall and sense danger before it’s coming. There’s not a “blind” lawyer who, at night, dresses up in all red and beats the pulp out of criminals. A foursome did not go up in a rocket and come back to earth transformed – one with the ability to stretch his appendages, one with the ability to light himself on fire and fly, one who turned into a colossus built of rock, and one who can turn invisible.
This is probably a good thing, since if they did exist, then supervillains would exist, too, and our infrastructure just can’t handle the sort of constant damage that would inevitably take place.
But, if superheroes did exist – more particularly, if someone really could stretch their arms and legs and make themselves like elastic – they would probably look like Giannis Antetokounmpo. Here, Giannis goes up for a dunk, and though he’s fouled on the way, he still keeps going and going and going until he releases the ball at the rim. If he had been fouled at the three-point line, heck, if he had been fouled at halfcourt, I’m pretty sure he still could have laid it in.
