Peter ka Panga

Peter ka Panga

Spiderman 3 - Toby Maguire - Peter Parker
Heroes Season 3 - Milo Ventimiglia - Peter Petrelli

Notice any similarities? Both males, lost in their time, trying hard to find themselves in the midst of big cities with hectic lives and puny jobs. With sober, effeminate looks, meager bodies and an excuse for a life, Peter is torn between trying to find his identity and making a mark for himself in this cruel world.

The constant need for selfless heroism doesn't hold the reins on this young superhero as flirts with danger and flies through the air from building top to building top. A battle to find love that lasts only makes the battle of life a wee bit more edgy.

And finally, the icing on the cake when the power of power goes to his head. Doesn't evil overtake us all sometime. Don't we all brood? With flaky, greased black hair, combed painstakingly in a sheepish side parting, one wonders where the real Peter has disappeared (in the future maybe, or on some stony building top?)


Trying hard as he might, to build some family ties, relationships just don't seem to last more than a fever as losses of loved ones to foes only helps mould Peter into a more resilient man.

But through the trials and tribulations of life and the journey that Peter is taken through from the genesis of his character as a superhero to being shadowed by darkness, only to resurrect from beneath the pages of time, one still scratches his chin and wonders, which Peter am I talking about? Peter Parker? Or Peter Petrelli?

Uncanny, isn't it??