Questions tagged [super-hero]
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How old was Bruce when he developed Batman’s personality?
How old was Bruce Wayne when he developed his stoic, standoffish, and paranoid personality? He is usually depicted as a lively fun-loving kid before his parents were killed. Did their deaths start ...
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Short story or novella. Two orphans live in a country ruled by a supervillan. The younger, a boy, hero worships the leader. Has a book all about him
I read this about 5 years ago. It was in a collection of Science Fiction stories.
The two children live alone, in poverty,in a flat in a tower block, since their parents died. They have an old lady ...
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Pair of YA superhero books. The first book involves a gameshow of some kind, heavy Christian themes throughout
Around 2010 or so, I rented a pair of YA novels from my local library. They were the first two books in a superhero series (I don't recall if there were any more). The first book was a gameshow for ...
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Web comedy sketch about a naive superhero who keeps enacting extreme solutions to crime
I watched this somewhere in the last year, I think as a YouTube Short. It was one of those pieces where the same actor plays all of the characters in slightly different costumes. Said actor was a ...
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Short story about retired superhero woman called back to action
I read this on a magazine website (or author's website) in the mid '00s. Main character was a retired and forgotten female superhero, contentedly puttering about the garden. A new villain starts ...
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A comic about a superman copycat who turns evil and starts terrorizing the world
I'm looking for this comic book but can't remember the name. This is a slightly older and very long superhero comic that is completely independent from Marvel or DC.
It starts with an alien couple who ...
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An animated series or a full-length film about teenagers who possess superpowers
An animated series or a full-length film about teenagers who possess superpowers. They weren't typical Marvel or DC heroes.
I remember there was a boy who had yellowish green skin with growths, as if ...
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What laws do superheroes in the DC universe follow when going to other countries?
Are there any comics in the DC universe that describe any kind of laws superheroes have to follow when they are interacting with other nations that are not their own? Is there any international body ...
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Were the Challengers of the Unknown inspired by Doc Savage and his Fabulous Five?
The Challengers of the Unknown are often said to have been inspired by Doc Savage and his Fabulous Five, but I don’t know whether it's true or just fan speculation. Did Jack Kirby ever say whether the ...
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Man who can't transform back, because he's certain he was dying when he last transformed
In a recent online discussion, we were talking about superheroes who could transform into a body with a fixed age (it started with discussing Billy Batson and Captain Marvel Jr, cases where the ...
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Muslim girl hired to be a superhero on TV and beat up thugs on the street
A few years ago I saw a trailer for this new superhero movie (not DC or Marvel). It was about a reality TV showrunner who found a muslim girl who is good at fighting and wanted to make her a superhero ...
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How old is Bruce Wayne during Gotham?
How old Bruce Wayne in each season of Gotham? We know he was 12 when his parents died but what about the rest of the seasons?
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I'm looking for a YA superhero book series
This YA superhero book series (trilogy?) is kinda like Hero Academia (I think). It was recommended on a comment a video I saw about 'Superhero Tropes'. I didn't get chance to read it, but it was not ...
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Atomic superhero cartoon pilot from early 1990s
This has been driving me crazy all day, yet I am embarrassed to ask it.
I am trying to remember the name of a kids’ animated cartoon I watched obsessively, produced around 1992+-2 years, for the US ...
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Journalist has a close encounter with a superhero (villain?) and gains a superpower. Subsequently, he learns that heroes and villains stage fights
I read this story as a Kindle book, I think about ten years ago. It's probably in my library if I search enough, but I'm putting down details while I remember them.
The protagonist (a journalist by ...
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