Will Durant spent four decades studying the history of the world. He concluded that necessity was the most important determinant for greatness, not the people to which this label was assigned.
This contrasts with our individualistic society, which values the (characteristics of the) individual. In reality, superheroes are the consequence of a situation that demands them. Your (superhero) potential is shaped by what and who surrounds you.
Rather than complete free will or determinism, each person has a contextual agency. Each person can choose their actions, but the options from which they can choose is contextually constrained.
Your environment affects your psychological state, and your psychological state affects your behaviour. By changing your psychological state through your environment (a process called precognition), you change how you behave.
To radically change your environment, you need a ‘coming-of-age’ moment. You need to be completely honest with reality and take control of it. You need to accept that new environments are necessary, and that adapting to them will be difficult and uncomfortable.
