User blog comment:Little-Red/Symbolisms In The Wiki/@comment-4467553-20120226020537

redemption is rife in media - especially redemption that sadly doesn't occur often in reality.. take Ultimate Lad for example: his "redemption" starts midway through Homecoming but won't come to pass until Renegades (if at all). The anthro thing is common and allows us to tackle topics that would be very awkward if we did it with human characters (things such as race, conflict and the "human condition"). The rising scale of power is universe-specific: some writers always make super-powerful characters and they grow in power continually (like Dragonball) - others like to keep their setting more limited. Superheroes are my preferred media and they are in many ways a means for me to write about topics I wouldn't get away with writing about if they weren't a bunch of guys and gals in fancy-dress: it's important to have symbolism and themes in stories and all stories will have meanings.. even if the writer doesn't know it at the time.