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Alternately, it's a holdover from a culture of honor, where violence not sanctioned by institutions was encouraged because institutions were weak and the way you kept yourself, your family and your stuff safe was to have a reputation for violence. (The article I linked to isn't great, but there's some kind of unrelated Christian use of the term "culture of honor" that crowds the Google results and I couldn't find any survey papers.) That's regressive too in a modern context, but it's not the same as fascism. A fascist superhero would be backed by institutions, fascism being all about gaining power by surrendering to the collective, hence taking its name from the fasces.