Which debt would that be given that the Scottish government doesn ' t have the powers of borrowing ? Or are you suggesting the UK government would say to the Scottish government well you owe us this . What ' s to stop them saying No we don ' t , thats a share of the debt you incurred ? <| sep |> I think a lot of it is due to people being used to the ' triumph over adversity ' theme . In fact in games , movies and comics it ' s a prevailing trope , especially in bigbad fights . Good guy kicks ass Bad Guys wipes floor with Good GuyGood Guy in peril Good Guy manages to pull ahead because of ' X ' Good Guy wins . I have to admit I ' m not terribly into Superman , but that ' s because I ' ve not seen much good about him . I ' ll admit to a good portion of that being due to me not going looking for it . But the good things that I have seen have been from this sub and all of them about touchingly human moments . Superman is a god in ' human ' form . He ' s a guardian angel he ' s set up in a way that he ' s really not supposed to be threatened by anything and in arcs that he is threatened it ' s terribly contrived and clearly to force him to fit a trope that he just doesn ' t fit to . Instead he ' s driven by morals and a sense of duty to protect those he cares about and everyone . From what I ' ve seen and what I know the interesting part of him is coming from his morals and ethics and humanspirit being tested , not his powers . It isn ' t about him overcoming evil , that ' s only a guiding tool for the story , the core of it is him enduring and working through ethical , moral and emotional challenges that we all go through , but on a larger and grander and more epic scale . But that ' s just this guy ' s rather uninformed view on things .