Marvel’s Luke Cage has superhuman strength and bulletproof, unbreakable skin, and that’s way too overpowered to be a “street-level” hero. What makes characters like Spider-Man and Daredevil “fun” is the fact that they are vigilantes who can be hurt; they can be shot or stabbed, and their friends worry about them because they aren’t indestructible. But when you have a character that’s indestructible, then all that danger goes away. Also normal thugs aren’t a threat to you.
Spider-Man once single-handedly humiliated the X-Men all by himself without breaking a sweat.
Power has nothing to do with being a street hero. Spider-Man is your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man because he wants to, and because someone has to be.
Same with Luke Cage and Daredevil. All three have been members of the Avengers. They mostly stick to the streets because they’re needed there, and it’s where they feel comfortable.
Spider-Man is a street level hero only because he chooses to be- dude has faced down cosmic level threats and come out on top. He holds back on almost all his strength because he’s afraid of killing someone on accident.
The reason he is a street level hero is because I believe he was created for that. It was important back then (and still today) to have a bulletproof black man in comics. Luke Cage was the first African American Marvel super hero to get his own comic (Black Panther being the first over black Marvel hero)
I mean yeah I can agree with the gist of it… not really sure they tier them out quite like we have. (Why I think many found it kind of silly to have say, hawkeye and black widow in the original avengers). superheros generally are just set to be a match for… their respective villains.
Obviously the super hero universe thing people have to close their eyes on is the concept of the over the top OP heros nearby are generally equipped well enough that they could usually overcome all the “street level” villains over a lunch break.
To my knowledge that’s kind of it with Luke Cage though is more… he doesn’t have any major mobility or solving advantages. So effectively the way villains need to work around him is… don’t get close.
In the grand scheme of things Luke Cage is to broke to get a car and had low agility. I think I would rather run into Luje Cage who I had a decent cgance to flee from rather than the wall crawler.