Spawn's satanic origins may have parents in an uproar, but Spawn himself denounces his master and his powers. Instead of using his powers for evil, for which they were intended, he uses them to fight crime and protect his wife. It turns out that Spawn was a soldier mysteriously killed. He loved his wife so much, that he made a deal with the devil to come back. The bad side is he comes back five years later, and his wife has remarried.
Readers get a sense of what love can do to a man.
The comic also portrays the devil as an arch-villain of Spawn. A fairly new hero in the Marvel universe is Darkhawk. Darkhawk resembles young Spiderman in many ways. Darkhawk's secret identity, Chris Powell is a teenager, just like Spiderman was, with all the problems that a teenager has. Darkhawk's cause for fighting crime stems from seeing his father, who is a police officer, take a payoff from Bazin, a drug dealer and mobster.