Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through their life because some well-meaning but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule.
Boudjedra dismisses arguments such as Daoud's as " trafficked history" – the product of an inferiority complex in a people still struggling to emerge from the psychological bonds of colonisation.
Both assertions need qualifying because Gorbachev who ended the Cold War suffered no inferiority complex at the time few Russians regretted that withdrawal of Soviet from Eastern and Central Europe.
Whether Oz's inferiority complex may come from feeling overshadowed by his family legacy, or from the changing face of crime in Gotham in " The Batman, " we'll just have to wait and see.