Originally Posted by
Zaresh
Hmmm, I keep seeing that Spiderman comparison, and I don't see it that much. It's like saying that every teenage hero with teenage problems is a Peter Parker. I don't know. Maybe things changed a lot since the 90's and the teen hero was way less common then, but I don't think there are so many similitudes between Tim and Peter, as a Peter Parker fan.
And Tim was an average guy, not an underdog. Similar, but not the same. Peter worked with the underdog trope more than Tim, as far as I've seem (Peter still does, funny enough, which is kind of ridiculous at this point).