Lately, I have been hearing and seeing a lot of talk about how we need characters to be more relatable, how we need to relate to them more. Apparently, if a character doesn't have a thing in common with the audience, we can't care about them. I understand that point of view. However, I am not sure it needs to be true. I am pretty sure that a lot of people in past eras didn't relate to characters like Batman, Superman or even the Fantastic Four. However, they were and are still popular until this day. I am not saying that relatability shouldn't matter because it does a great deal, but I am saying that good writing and characterization should still remain the most important factors for people reading these characters.