Preserving The Good Within Ourselves

All of us dream to one day be as fast as the Flash or to be as strong as Superman. Superheroes are a part of our lives. According to the infographic; “Box office Revenues: Superhero Movies 1978-2017” every year millions of dollars are spent on superhero movies, they are widely popular due to the fact that we can look up to them as someone that we would want to be. Even though they might be very different from us, there always is a human side to them which causes us to relate to them and laugh. Superheroes are so popular in our American culture due to how we are inspired to overcome obstacles in life and learn lessons from them. Ever since 9-11 many people looked for an escape from the tragedy which occured on 9-11. Superheroes were the escape,

Superheroes are a representation of our freedoms and their influential attitude towards the government seems to embody positive and negative freedom. Within this positive

Heroes aren’t necessarily the common stereotypes you see in the movies. They aren’t some inhuman being with supernatural powers. They are humans. Normal people. People with lives, families, and jobs.

Hands on your hips, chest puffed up, the wind blowing into your cape. BANG! BOOM! POW! Down goes a villain and up comes a new hero, a superhero. Superheroes represent light; they give hope to people and let them know that whenever there is bad, good comes to counteract it. Superheroes are people who may not fit in, or may come from hard backgrounds, but rise to the occasion to change and help others when it counts. It does not matter how one might look or what gender one may be, but the amount of effort and courage one puts into his/her work distinguishes them from the others. Superheroes teach the world how to bounce back after tragic events, how to believe in oneself, and how to get confidence. Superheroes have become very important in American

Growing up it is common to come across some kind of superhero that completely fascinates us, not only do we try to mimic their appearance but also the high moral standards they live by. This can range from only fighting evil, always being polite to the most important factor, consistently saving the day. Now this action does not have an age limit, superhero fanatics range from all ages, shapes and sizes this is shown to be true every Halloween and of course comic con. Among today’s society the fixation over an extraordinary human overcoming all adversities and obstacles for the simple purpose of defending human kind has begun to increase over the years. Films like Ghostbusters and Harry Potter to name a few reflect just that, this concept is known as the “hero myth.” Overshadowing an indirect correlation to society with the use of the  “hero myth” further projects the tangent the public creates when confronted with unexplainable evils of their own.

“There is a superhero inside all of us, we just need the courage to put the cape on.” A superhero is a animated character that saves lives and is brave. Most superheroes have speed and strength. Real life heroes like police officers or soldiers are real people, who don’t have superpowers but real and natural strengths. Military soldiers help keep our country safe.

The average American superhero will have many different traits or unnatural abilities which makes them who they are. Their superhuman traits make people want to be like them, dress up like them or buy some of their cool gadgets. What makes these superheroes, so great, is just that, they are heroes. No matter the age, people love superheroes. Each superhero is unique is their very own way but they do share some traits that make viewers or readers cling to them. Superpowers, unique costumes and dual identities are common characteristics that are major traits which American superheroes share.

A superhero is claimed to be “at times conceals his strength beneath ordinary clothing but after removing his cloak stands revealed in full panoply in a skintight acrobatic costume…. sufficient strength… the champion of the oppressed… battling evils and injustice.” This claim was made by Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand in a 1952 ruling to define what a superhero is. Another critic uses Nietzsche view to define superheroes as “the higher men” who serves to the “constant overcoming”, that a superhero overcomes the previous generation of to be able to grow and develop (Thomas 113-114). An important quality that can also be given to a superhero is that they

“You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun, Kal. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders” (Man of Steel, 00:50:00). Much can be said about the quality of the latest part of the Superman-franchise, but this quote, without a doubt, encompasses what we mean when we speak about superheroes. Superman, Captain America and the like represent a concept that has been ingrained in our minds for ages. Narratives about superheroes are not a modern phenomenon. They might not have been called superheroes then, but tales about Hercules, Percival or Siegfried represent similar things: the quest to be heroic, the desire for a saviour figure and also a

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.

When I was young, the first hero I recalled was Sun Wukong, who is a monkey king in the Chinese novel Pilgrimage to the West. He can change his shape in 72 different ways, have a “golden cudgel”, a weapon used by Wukong, and fly eighteen thousand miles in a second. All these abilities escort his master to the destination successfully throughout the long journey. Beating the evilness was the reason I considered Wukong as a hero. A few years later, I gradually started to see some superheroes from the U.S. comic books and movies, such as superman, Ironman, Batman, and so forth. What all these heroes do is to save the world from the darkness and try his or her best to bring peace all around the world. The specialty is still defeating the evil

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

Superheroes are very prevalent in today’s culture. Superheroes began as characters in comic books. Now, superheroes have expanded into different mediums, such as movies, television shows, apparel, games, toys and many others. The majority of people in today’s society are familiar with superheroes such as Batman, Superman, Spiderman and the X-men along with others. What most people do not know is that superhero comics and movies also concern philosophical issues. Some of the issues are ethics, justice, social and personal responsibility along with others. Tom Morris and Matt Morris edited the book, Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way, which showed how superhero comics and movies are related to the writings of many great philosophers.

I have always thought of superheroes as beings with an unattainable, unnatural level of perfection. They were, to me at least, those who were faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive. There is, however, more to superheroes (and by association, supervillains) than that. I’ve found there are several factors that make someone become a superhero or a supervillain. The world needs saving, and knowing what it takes to become a superhero or a supervillain, makes it easier to support the former and avoid the latter.

At the core, superheroes are about wish fulfilment – for creators as well as for readers. They are about imagining a better world and creating alternative versions of it and of oneself. Bigger, brighter, bolder – they are about erasing what makes you weak, what makes you marginalized. Steve Rogers is an asthmatic, weak and ill young son of Irish immigrant; Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, his creators, were poor, Jewish artists faced with increasing Anti-Semitism in the world – Captain America was a way of escapism for both parties. The normal,