Heroes are born of struggle. The greatest heroes to me are the ones which have overcome the biggest obstacles. Imagine if Frodo wasn't charged with destroying a ring whose fate was tied into middle earth but instead was simply tasked with delivering mushrooms around the Shire. Or imagine if instead of Batman stopping the Joker from blowing up two boats full of Gotham's people he was sitting behind a desk trying to uncover mail fraud. The first way one becomes a hero is by overcoming some kind of obstacle and the larger the obstacle (saving Middle Earth or Gotham City) the greater the hero.
Before the hero actually puts on the suit there is a certain mental aspect they posses which separates them from the villain; they want to do good. Heroes are simply put, good people underneath it all. Look at Batman again in the first Batman movie (of the most recent series) Christian Bale is commanded by Liam Neeson to murder a civilian mountain farmer guy who supposedly committed a crime. Christian Bale had a moral conflict with doing so, so instead he burnt down the mountain dojo and all of its black ninjas.
At the bottom of Spiderman, Frodo, Luke Skywalker, and Rocky are virtuous characters who have great obstacles: death of an uncle, destruction of middle earth, balance in the galaxy, and Soviets to overcome.
-Corey Rearick
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