STREET DOGS

Adapted from The

Reformed Broker: Quick origin story — High school student Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider on a field trip and develops superstrength and the amazing ability to crawl up walls. At first, he uses these powers to make a little cash on the amateur wrestling circuit.

A robbery occurs and he stands aside. “Not my problem,” he tells himself. But within hours the thugs he could’ve stopped end up killing his beloved Uncle Ben.

Before his death, Ben manages to impart one gravely important message to his nephew: “With great power comes great responsibility.” For Peter Parker-Spider-Man, this becomes a mantra.

A recurring theme as the boy becomes a man and the man becomes a superhero.

Here’s another origin story — College student Mark Zuckerberg builds a dating website out of his dorm room that develops into an amazing platform for communication for billions of people around the world.

At first, he uses his power to make a little cash in the advertising game. An election hijacking takes place in one of the greatest democracies in the world and he stands aside. “We’re just a platform,” he tells his users and employees. But within weeks of the election, the lurid details about how foreign interests commandeered the brains of US voters begin to come out, killing people’s trust in their political process. And now the blowback is beginning to make headlines.

Governments and citizens around the world are remarking on it. Zuckerberg is now forced to co-operate with special counsel appointed to investigate the effect that outside forces had on the US election. They want to stop this activity in the future.

Peter Parker, now grown, is dealing with supervillains bent on the destruction of a way of life. So is Mark Zuckerberg.