People aren't defined by two or three characteristics. If you want to judge how relate-able people are, look at their personality, not just the defining events of their life.
I'm neither a billionaire nor athletic and my parents are just fine, but I am on the other hand really, really lousy at relationships, I prefer silence over talking, skulking in the shadows and I know that in some ways, I'm not really a nice person. I calculate and manipulate far too much.
I also relate to the fact that Batman is fighting with everything that he has, striving to become better all the time. That is far more inspiring to me than Superman, who literally flies above all. He might be a better symbol and end goal, but as a very much down-to-earth human, I can't use that. It's the process that is important, because I know very well that I have no chance of ever getting close to being a truly good person. But seeing Batman struggle gives me some inspiration to get better myself. I'll never be able to do anything superhuman (to stay in genre), but if I keep 'training', I can overcome some of my shortcomings, or at least get better at them.
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