Is not as rigid as you picture it. Comics and books inspire people to get traits and achieve things like the characters from the stories. As an example: Elon,

Is not as rigid as you picture it. Comics and books inspire people to get traits and achieve things like the characters from the stories. As an example: Elon, because of reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation and other sci-fi books, got inspired to do space stuff. Not to become a sci-fi writer (although that could have happened as well) Many scientists and engineers have been inspired this way when they were kids.