Let the real Bruce Wayne please stand up!

Will the modern world ever have a real Life Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne? For all comic book fans, having a real life Oliver Queen or Tony Stark would be beyond cool. Just imagine being mugged on the street and pronto, a billionaire in an armoured suit appears to save the day. You’ll probably ask him for a selfie before darting off to gush with your friends about the experience. And chances are high that you would put the picture all over your various social media accounts, eliciting several likes, tweets, perhaps breaking the internet like one certain Kim Kardashian. The comic world is fortunately sprinkled with billionaires, who got bored with making green back that they took up extra curricula activities as vigilante or super heroes. These set of billionaires are usually spurred by a higher goal beyond profit making. Take Bruce Wayne for instance who inherited his billions and industrial business from his late parents Martha and Thomas Wayne. He was well heeled enough to live a luxurious life without bordering himself with the decadent state of his city Gotham. But instead, Wayne, spurred by the murder of his parents decided to rid his city of crime and evil in the form of Batman. Of course this was no small feat, as Bruce incurred several injuries to his mortal body in the cause of his crusade, sometimes even losing billions of dollars. His crusade against crime was more than a fleeting passion. There’s also Oliver Queen, a billionaire playboy known as the vigilante called Green Arrow. Like Wayne, Queen used his skills and bags of trickyarrows to fight crime in his city. Then there’s also the genius-billionaire-playboy, Tony Stark, who had a bevy of armoured suit that could fly, shoot lasers and missiles and could lift heavy objects. One denominator common with these comic book billionaire super hero is that they rely on technology to fight crime. From Stark flying horizontally in his armoured suit to Queen disarming villains with the tip of his arrow, these high techs that make them special are not available in our modern world. At least not yet. Stark’s Mark suit, for instance which is capable of horizontal flight, has repulsor beam, jet boots is still decades far from reality. While the world right now might sadly not have such billionaires with super powered gadgets saving people from perilous situations, it has billionaires who are also saving lives and making the world better with their inventions or charity work. Perhaps what the modern world has that is closest to Tony Stark is Elon Musk. The South African born entrepreneur is also a genius, billionaire, innovator with big dreams. Apart from founding the company that became PayPal, a worldwide internet payment system, and Telsa Motor, which produces electric cars, Musk has revolutionized the space travel industry by creating inexpensive rocket launch vehicles that are reusable. Due to this, Musk has reduced the cost of travelling to the International Space Station by 90 per cent, from $ 1 billion per mission to a measly $ 60 million, while still working on his main mission of sending humans to the moon for sports. Tell me if that isn’t Tony Stark enough? Still, the modern world also has Bill Gates, who could compare with Bruce Wayne. While Wayne fights crime and evil in his world with his brain and brawn, Gates has been using his money and Foundation to fight killer diseases such as malaria, HIV and tuberculosis. In essence both Wayne and Gates have deployed their resources to fight killers and are both entitled to be called super heroes. So for now, comic book fans can make do with billionaires such as Musk and Gate, till the time when the modern world is ready to debut a real Stark.