Several major issues are dealt with by having a secret identity
- You can't be normal
  - Readers often cannot comprehend this, because they want to be exceptional
  - Others have noted you can't (don't want to) be on call 24 hours a day
    - Doctors, lawyers, and other "exceptional" professions often note this as one of the worst expectations of the job.
    - Expectation is "if you could be available, you will be available"
  - Extremely difficult to have friends or other meaningful relationships
    - Your available pool of friends becomes {people who can associate with Superman}
    - Humans don't respond to celebrities the same way
    - Consider lottery winners, they hide for a reason, "friends" suddenly appear
  - You can't go to normal activities
    - Consider when a celebrity shows up to a baseball or basketball game.  The cameraman focuses on them every shot to show the crowd their reaction.
    - Remember Biden going for a bike ride? ["Haha, the President fell down..."](https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+biden+bike)
  - Money
    - People often assume you don't need money (even though everything in America is expensive)
    - People often assume you work for free (out of "goodness")
    - Caveat - You might get a sponsorship (although this has its own issues)
- You have all the celebrity detriments (taken from a subset of a [Forbes Article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/russalanprince/2016/06/27/the-downside-of-celebrity/?sh=728e490543ff) on celebrity issues)
  - Loss of privacy.
    - Helen Hunt has [An interesting Guardian article](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/01/helen-hunt-interview-eureka-day) on loss of privacy and dealing with paparazzi.
    - Creepy beach photos that appear in every celebrity magazine.
    - What's Superman look like in his underwear?
  - Subjected to hyper-criticism
    - "Why didn't you save that kitten on the other side of the Earth?"
    - "My black grandma fell to her death, while you helped that white male"
  - Lies in the media
    - Spiderman suffers this a lot
    - People find a way to write you as a villain (often: you didn't do what we selfishly demand)
  - Taken advantage of by "friends"
    - "Can we join your entourage?"
    - "Can we borrow some money, you must be rich."
  - Taken advantage of by professionals and businesses
    - "Superman eats ______ every morning, based on our camera images through his window."
    - "Superman shops at our business."
  - Targeted by criminals
    - Everything you own is valuable, you're Superman
    - Automatic relics and mementos
  - Stalkers
    - Even your trash is valuable
- Enemies always want to challenge you a fight
  - How many supervillains cause issues just to get heroes to fight them?
  - Heroes and villains in comics always want to prove they're the most invincible.
    - Batman and Superman are "friends", yet Batman spends [a lot of time thinking up contingencies for fighting Superman.](https://dc-comics-cinematic-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Batman%27s_Contingency_Plans#Superman)
  - [Miyamoto Musashi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi#Duel_with_Sasaki_Kojir%C5%8D)'s issues with duels are a reasonable historical example
- All associates are targets
  - If someone can't win in a direct fight, they'll pursue other methods to hurt you.
  - Sometimes they'll hurt people near you just to make a point (consider Joker, Commissioner Gordon, and Batgirl in [The Killing Joke](https://time.com/4420487/why-people-are-upset-about-the-batman-the-killing-joke-movie/))
  - Blackmail and other forms of leverage that make it difficult to respond
- You're dangerous
  - People don't want to live near you
    - Might get a car thrown through the wall
    - "Superman can look through my clothes?"
    - Literal s*** magnet.  People like Doomsday gravitate toward you.
    - Your fights [destroy entire cities](https://www.businessinsider.com/superhero-movies-that-destroyed-cities-2016-8#the-dark-knight-13).
  - Try getting an insurance policy (need catastrophic supervillain coverage)
  - Even if you're nice, you're still a security threat
    - Likely have a spy satellite (or two) aimed at your house constantly
    - Even if one govt. likes you, the others probably won't
    - Govt's will write laws directly related to you [Ex: International Oversight of the Avengers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_Civil_War)
    - Govt's will demand you work for them
  - Legal issues of shooting deadly laser beams and knocking buildings over by breathing.