Although the character firstly appeared as a radio show, then a comic book hero, then a Tv show, before movies were finally released, its disney's latest take on the character that I found the best, its shows the origin of the character, and unlike the racist media before, displays him as the lawyer and imbecile, who simply does not belong in the wild west, and it is his Native America partner Tonto who is the brave warrior, having followed his hero gun-slinger brother to find a criminal and witnessing his death as well as the deaths of all the rangers, he is brought back, but still the same idiot who died before, but as the troubled history of Tonto is revealed he begins to doubt his capability's to stop the villain, this is were we see John Reid become the hero Tonto has described, with less idiocy and more western attitude he takes on the mask and role of the lone ranger, and with Tonto's dignity restored we see both hero's face the enemy. The idea of a western hero with super-powers that are never fully told as factual or absent is really interesting to me, and I love some of the ideas that it gives me in terms of character traits.
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