this stemmed out of my hate for liars, and the fact that most books I read that are hero-centric have a hero who is extremly biased (or heros) and they always seem to live. and the fact that not all villans actaully wanted to be villans. people have their reasons. I also sprinkled a bit of superman logic into the story, as he just used glasses to disguise himself. Raven is just w a i t i n g to be discovered but nope.