How Superheroes Have Changed over Time

Despite what many might think, superheroes are well known across hundreds of nations all over the world. Superheroes has been around for several centuries and has a very important meaning in the lives of many sort of like to uplift. It would be safe to assume that superheroes are going to be around for a long time and have an enormous impact on the lives of many people. Although being branded to only one race that widely be accepted to people.

The concept of a hero has been around for many generations, and the meaning of a hero is defined in ways people grasp its idea. A hero can be a person who has a superpower and is willing to make a personal sacrifice for the benefit of others or can be an ordinary everyday person who just wants to help people out of his or her own heart. Linda Seger’s article, “Creating the Myth,” tackles the idea of a “Hero 's Myth,” and shows the ten steps of how heroes are transformed from an ordinary person to the Savior. On the other hand, Robert B. Ray piece titled, “The Thematic Paradigm,” emphasizes that in modern films, it is either having an “Outlaw Hero or an Official Hero,” which he uses three stages to demonstrates how they are different each other in the way they perform in the society. Further, the article, “Out of Character: Wonder Woman’s Strength Is Her Compassion - What Happened?” by Stevie St. John, explains how Wonder Woman was viewed as a compassionate woman in the 1940s and 1950s, and in the 2000s she changes into a more violent person. In this essay, I argue that a hero is subjective, and is defined by the villain or event that they had to adapt to suddenly.

Superhero movies have been on the rise lately. These movies are often looked at as entertainment for people who play Dungeons and Dragons and are simply mindless pleasure; however, this is not the case. The reason behind the popularity of superhero movies is more than just the want of the common comic book reader. The superhero movie industry has made a sharp incline in popularity; in fact there are more superhero movies now than ever before. A website called Fights, Tights and Movie Nights listed all of the superhero movies made since the 1980’s by year and these were their findings. In the 1980’s an average of three to four super movies came out a year. In the 1990’s these movies were made on average five to six times per year. In the 2000’s the movies doubled to 12-13 produced on average each year. Today, 2010’s, the average number of superhero movies has again doubled in size with it now resting at twenty-two to twenty-three superhero movies made on average each year. The drastic increase of the number of superhero movies leaves the average movie attendee wondering why they are seeing this spike of superhero movies. The increase of superhero movies can be contributed to a few key factors: the advances of technology in the movie industry, the movie genre’s adaption to be socially relevant, and the characters now possessing more humanistic qualities (Fights…).

The superhero genre has endured an explosive uprise in media recognition throughout the last decade. This phenomenon has been governing the box office with an influx of seemingly implausible success. The idea of a human with stupendous abilities has intrigued civilians across the globe after the deliverance of comic books in the early 1930s. People are fascinated with these phenomenal individuals with high aptitudes and unimaginable capabilities, which draws to why they are popular in societal terms of the present. Superheroes are a favorable manner of the au courant culture of entertainment. Whether it is due to previous enticement to comic books or action films, the average person is charmed by at least one superhero. Through

Superheroes are full of stereotypes that most people don’t even notice. Most people would view stereotyping in our everyday lives as a bad thing. Yet again, every superhero is stereotyped to be most appealing to us, the viewers. Superheroes are presented and viewed by us as a person we look to be a role model, someone we wish to be like. When asked the question, 'what are the stereotypes of superheroes?' Several people would mention them being strong and having nice bodies, helping and saving people, and have cool armor and weapons and these aspects have a negative influence on our lives every day.

The superhero genre is so popular and influential that many studies have been done on its depictions of the groups and the impact it has on a large part of society how it has “become a staple on film, television, and in video games” (Darowski). The genre is so influential in fact, that it dates back all the way to the Ancient Greeks, and possibly even further (Haynes). Every group in history has had their mythologies and epic tales of crime fighters, they just did not call them superheroes. For example, Achilles only had one weakness (his heel) and was by the Greeks definition, considered a hero (greek-gods.org). The same goes for heroes like Perseus, Theseus, and even Heracles. Back then though instead of being changed into a super soldier in a lab by a German scientist or creating a flying metal suit in the desert, these heroes were part god which explained their extra-ordinary abilities. Super crime fighters have always existed, but when comic books began in the 19th century a new set of rules was created to guide their content to be more appropriate than the Greek tales (Coville).

Superheroes are the fictional embodiment of all of our greatest aspirations, they are also a symbol of hope and give everyday people a lightness in times of hardship or struggle. Sometimes people need something to take their attention off of everyday things. From the day we are able to walk, people want to run, but what happens after we run? We want to run faster, jump or even fly. As people, we naturally want to be able to do more. Since we can’t do these things that we all dream about doing, people write and tell stories about people that can do the things we can’t.

Spike Lee was a guest on The Nightly Show the other day and one of the things they discussed briefly was people of color as superheroes. Lee offered up Bruce Lee as an example of an Asian superhero. Which raises an interesting question, what exactly is it that makes a superhero narrative?

PhD Lamb, S. (2010) says that super hero today are different. The way it portrays in the movie is there are too much violence and typically they are aggressive, sarcastic and often speaks about the good for humanity. Removing the costume of the superheroes these men philanders women and convey their manhood with high-powered guns.

The main objective is to analyze the history of live-action superhero television series in american television. The topic is to be explored in order to gain a better understanding of the history of bringing a comic book superhero to life on a TV. To not only characterize a superhero as a cartoon, but as an actual person.The main ideas that will be covered is the history behind Superhero television series, new developments in the average live action superhero on TV.

Among all the movie lovers, there are people who hate super hero movies because they believe this sub genre has been adapting the same outline and templet to produce the films. And thus, Marvel is trying to use new techniques and more attractive elements to attract audience who has not yet get involved in these heroes. However, these super hero movies have always had embedded messages that audience did not recognize and this is why this genre worth the time to explore for one who has not yet get in love with them.

Over the past decades, the outtake of what a superhero is, what superheroes do, and how they look like has changed drastically. “Superheroes as Dream Doubles” written by James Whitlark focuses on just that, the changes from the Golden Age to the newer Bronze Age. Whitlark covers how people get the idea of what a superhero is made they “see in themselves at least two individuals - a present self greatly in need of improvement and a future one tantalizingly out of

Through my analyzation of these values, I have assessed the relevance of superheroes in cinema through the impact of American popular culture, the contrast of gender roles, and their impact on children. As a result, society should be gracious toward the immense popularity of superhero films, as they bolster American popular culture and positively impact children from a young age. Although the gender roles might be a bit skewed, many film companies are taking steps to include women in more empowering roles such as Wonder Woman in the DC cinematic universe. Therefore, superheroes in cinema tend to only create and preserve positive characteristics within society, which is glorious in the future of mankind. In closing, I end with the question, “Which superhero best depicts

When you think of a superhero one normally thinks of Spiderman, Batman, or Superman, but there were superheroes long before these characters were created. First one must understand that the basis of this name is hero. What is a hero? A hero is a person who does something special or out of the ordinary in order to help others. It could also be someone who is admired for a characteristic about them, be it physical or mental. They are individuals that normal everyday people can look up to. This being the case, a superhero is nothing more then someone who is a hero, but not just that once and for that one person, but someone who helps many people, or leads them. As time went by the number of people who were true heroes diminished and just

The film industry goes through phases of genres and superhero movies are simply the current phase.