Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime.
Wiktionary
- n. Any kind of fantasy/science fiction crime-fighting character, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature.
Etymologies
- super- + hero (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark and the title superhero himself.”
“Learned Hand's contribution to the definition of a superhero is as much a myth as Elvis Presley's imitation of Captain Marvel, Jr., or DC planning to cancel Batman in the early 1960s.”
“For instance, one almost traditional part of a superhero is the mask.”
“And isn't that what being a superhero is all about?”
“The entire story with the obsessed fan becoming a superhero is also very well done, and reveals what it means to be a hero in the first place.”
“He spoke of building relationships one by one with good comic book stores that want to serve a base wider than that of aging superhero fans, and said those stores -- what I call superhero convenience stores -- are actively disinterested in carrying non-superhero works.”
“Everett Collection Robert Downey Jr. as the title superhero in "Iron Man.”
“I think "superhero" is becoming a broad term right now, and while movies such as Batman (I was a teenager during the Keaton era, and loved it) and Spider-Man - and more recently, Iron Man - made a huge impact on me, I find that the stories that make me think are the ones where people make use of their powers without getting into the flashy costumes.”
“Feeling like he’s nothing more than one out of 101, Patch decides not to find his family, but instead head into the city for an audition for his favorite TV show Thunderbolt Adventure Hour, which stars the title superhero German Shepherd who Patch idolizes.”
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“Well, that brings me to another development in superhero comics since the early 1980s, when I last read them: "decompressed storytelling.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘superhero’.
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POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
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super-, sur-
above or beyond; to a great degree; extra large; of a higher kind
superfamily, supercontinent, superstructure, superabundant, supernumerary, superfluous, superfine, surprise, supercilious, supersonic, surrender, supercede and 33 more...
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vijaimanikandan's list
Vocabulary
mass murder, superhero, bubbly, narcotics, murder, supple, neolithic, howard hughes, deus ex machina, island, mystery, suspense and 29 more...
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A List of Mythical Proportions
All of these things exist, I swear!
unicorn, pegasus, cyclops, yeti, abominable snowman, bigfoot, phoenix, thunderbird, sea serpent, ogre, grue, troll and 138 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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More Than Human
Beings that look human but are not, and powers that people can have.
succubus, incubus, gynoid, seraphim, clairvoyance, lycanthropy, psychometry, telekinesis, dhampir, jedi, pyrokinesis, esper and 14 more...
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shelly66's Words
vintage, prig, wiry, superhero, splutter, sunshine, shabby, bliss, crush, blue, heart, quixotic
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a fan's dictionary
fanon, canon, trekkie, trekker, browncoat, shipping, het, slash, femslash, smut, gen, mary sue and 45 more...
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Science Fiction Double Feature
cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, sci-fi, steampunk, techsploitation, dystopia, transhumanism, posthuman, future, skiffy, comlink, transmogrifier and 38 more...
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name calling
bean counter, desk jockey, gourmand, bilge rat, landlubber, luddite, banshee, simpleton, pinko, red diaper baby, lollard, villain and 24 more...
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4 Color World
Comics!
comic, comic book, comic strip, graphic novel, comix, manga, manhua, manhwa, bande dessinée, panel, gutter, writer and 49 more...
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ReillyFlynn's Words
Tweets
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