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  • noun Plural form of superhuman.

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Examples

  • It looks like both are part of the trend of re-inventing the idea of superhumans, also seen in Heroes, the bullet-benders of Wanted and M.Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable - the emphasis is taken away from jumpsuits, alter-egos and day-to-day crime-fighting, in place of casual clothes and a more inventive look at superpowers.

    Review: Jumper Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • It looks like both are part of the trend of re-inventing the idea of superhumans, also seen in Heroes, the bullet-benders of Wanted and M.Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable - the emphasis is taken away from jumpsuits, alter-egos and day-to-day crime-fighting, in place of casual clothes and a more inventive look at superpowers.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • Everyone I met in Star City and up here can be called superhumans ...

    Anousheh Ansari: Close Quarters and Space Travel Details 2008

  • Politicians like the public to think they are all some kind of superhumans that are so well researched and smart, that they really do know how to run peoples lives better then themselves.

    Who do so Few Candidates Have Blogs? 2007

  • vv: True, but the better analogy is across the entire kingdom of life vv: When dealing with "superhumans" it is not the same thing as comparing -- say -- our tech civ with a pretech human civ.

    Boing Boing: June 30, 2002 - July 6, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Â The two superhumans clash both physically and in philosophy, which is still the case in the present.

    Review: The Great Ten #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • At least three Marvel superhumans have operated under the name Spider-Woman, and there have been two Spider-Girls one of them a Hispanic teenager.

    An Underdog Superhero to Love Austin Grossman 2011

  • If so, let me point out that the main character is a hero-scientist who invents a miracle engine to harness atmospheric electricity, but engages in a secret conspiracy of his fellow superhumans to overthrow an evil Orwellian-type government, and has his 'fortress of solitude' not in the arctic (like his progenitor Doc Savage) but in California, hidden under a force-field of invisibility-rays.

    MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

  • Gathered together by the mysterious Emmett Proudhawk, five paranormal teenagers struggled against government operatives, renegade superhumans and, most importantly, each other!

    Marvel Comics Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Previously, on Buffy The Vampire Slayer – Season Eight: Buffy and her army of Slayers have set up shop in Scotland, and created a paramilitary unit of superhumans.

    Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Eight #11 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

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