Is it really difficult to be a ‘Good’ hero?

Have you ever imagined that you become an invisible man? I'm sure that you've once dreamed of having a supernatural power such as flying, teleportation, psychokinesis or something else cool. People have craved and imagined them for a long time. There are a bunch of movies dealing with special abilities. There are two movies, which impressed to me so much. One is Jumper(2008), story of telepoters called Jumper. The other one is Hollow man(2000), story of the mad scientist who successfully becomes invisible by science experiments, just like Griffin, the main character in this book.

The story of The Invisible Man begins with the appearance of a stranger putting a bandage to his entire body. People simply think that he might be hurt bad, so he tries to hide his body. However, while the man stays at an inn, he is getting more and more hysterical everyday. There is a sound of clinking bottles and murmuring of voices from his room, and some mysterious events are happened in the town. By the time people feel suspicious about him, he unwraps the bandage and announces that he is invisible as a result of success of his experiment. The man disappears without paying his room charges.

The invisible man finds Marvel, a homeless man, on the street and threatens him to follow his order. He forces Marvel to steal money or food by providing help. The invisible man's unpredictable and uncontrollable crimes become known to people. One day, Marvel runs away from the ruthless man and tries to hide himself in a bar. The invisible man follows Marvel to catch up with him, but he gets hurt from the people at the bar and makes a near escape. The man trespasses on Dr. Kemp's house and asks for help. After Kemp treats his wounds, the man reveals himself Kemp's old classmate, Griffin. Griffin tells the story how to become an invisible man and his plan to make a terror. Kemp judges Griffin to be very dangerous, so informs on him to the police.

Policemen secretly come to arrest Griffin. As we all know, the main character is never caught by the police so easily. Anyway, Griffin manages to slip out of the house with injuries. Referring to Kemp's advice, both police and people try to isolate Griffin from any help. he can not sleep well or eat food, because people bring dogs to find Griffin and watch everywhere. Griffin loses his temper and back to Kemp's house to attack him, but he is finally caught by people, and he meets a tragic end.

I had two questions when I finished reading the last page of the story. The first is, why the man who has special ability always use it to commit the crime? He could gain both fame and wealth by using the ability, like Iron Man or members of Fantastic 4. The second one, which sounds rather weird, is why didn't Kemp-or whoever was close to Griffin pour flour to him? Then, they can easily find where he is even though he is invisible..

Like the invisible man in this book, or the mad scientist in the hollow man, Many people dream of having supernatural power. No one says that is wrong desire to have. However, when the power happens with violence and unethical act, we can say that is completely wrong. The 'power' could be money, high social status or something else, not only the supernatural power existing in our imagination. I guess the author wanted to tell us that the one’s desire to rule the people by the power would end in tragedy, after all.