User blog comment:DarthPlan/Our Version of The Last Great Time War?/@comment-5265497-20141204102539/@comment-5265497-20141208230132

Ok, I've actually experienced great pain before especially since I tend to draw bad luck even as an athlete and I can understand that the character undergoes that period of pain to gain sympathy from the audience and to develop his character. If the character didn't go through pain to achieve their goals, it makes achieving it virtually worthless and it feels cheap. Imagine going to a movie and seeing the main character go through his life without any trouble, experimentation, and strife... that would be incredibly boring as you already know.

"You being okay with them feeling it only reflects your inability / unwillingness to put yourself in their shoes"

Any writer can tell you that is completely incorrect. Most author's completely understand their character's pains BECAUSE those characters are based on their lives. The pain isn't foreign to them because he projects it through the character. Probably why many real life spies and soldiers have the best pieces of fiction and people, not excluding you, have a respect toward mercenaries, ninjas... Batman... those people who experienced the greatest pain and overcame it to become the badasses they currently are cemented as legends.

And again, right now you seem like someone who couldn't gravitate towards Marvel, DC, any anime/manga or superpowers in general because you can't conceive a fictional characters feeling pain.