I’m perhaps in a minority, but I’ve never really been a fan of superhero films.

The thing that bugs me about them is the way bystanders are turned into…well, bystanders. People who are dependent on the superhero saviour to save them. Nothing they can do. Just stand there watching in a gormless state of awe, while the world is saved. Or not. They have no part to play, other than as a backdrop to someone else’s achievements.

Of course it’s not a bad thing to have people to look up to. It’s fantastic to see anyone excelling at something.

But I think the best kind of excelling, the most excellent excellence, occurs without pedestals and medals and passive applause from the sidelines.

It happens when everyone who is willing is involved in building something.

It happens when we stand on the shoulders of ants.