User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-28759654-20160618210056/@comment-4867780-20160621062640

Complex characters are definitely my favorite ^ ^

Parangons of virtue like Superman and Batman are great moral inspirations, and irredeemable monsters like Darkseid and the Joker are perfect targets for pent-up resentment. But they lack this mix of good and bad that makes characters feel like real people, and the uncertain decisions and compromises that would make their adventures really interesting.

Lawrence for example doesn't do anyting that would qualify as villainous and his loved ones are pampered heavenly, but his sheer lack of concern for unrelated misfortune could reasonably be considered a major crime in its own right (basically a "faillure to assist" on a gigantic scale).

He does help a lot during his extraplanar adventures, but out of personal interest rather than moral obligation (helping folks you encounter is half of adventuring), so it remains limited to his immediate field of perception and the immersive cover he selected (no world-changing God-Mode).

Well, unless specific people he came to care about are at risk (usually citizen materials), in which case he's willing to momentarily bend his rules to get them out of trouble. So here again, realistic complexity in the form of contextual good deeds and personal motivations, both so very human.