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Josh Goldberg
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"Superheroes is the best term for describing 'superheroes.'
Period!"
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How about "Superpowered-American"?
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Mike Norris
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How about "Superpowered-American"?
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Er... Black Panther, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Namor
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Matt Reed
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Yeah, no real need to put a nationality in the term, is there? Whereas superhero is a nice term that encompasses exactly what these individuals are, "capes" and "superpowered-American" are too narrow, with the former being far too derogatory and "kewl for school" for my taste.
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Josh Goldberg
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Black Panther: African-American Superpowered-American
Wonder Woman: Paradise Islandian-American Superpowered American
Hawkman: Thanagarian-American Superpowered-American
Aquaman: Atlantian-American Superpowered-American
Martian Manhunter: Martian-American Superpowered American
Namor: Atlantian-American Superpowered-American
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Mike Norris
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I'm just gonna assume you're having a bit of fun. Though, I think only Namor and Aquaman can claim hyphenate American status. Hawkman and Martian Manhunter are illegal aliens. Wonder Woman and Black Panther are foreign nationals with diplomatic status. Though in the Golden Age I believe Wonder Woman was also an illegal having taken the identity of an American citizen through rather dubious means.
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Josh Goldberg
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Illegal aliens?? Identity theft?? And children read these things? No wonder the whole country is going to H-E-double-toothpicks in a handbasket!
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Paul Anthony Llossas
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Didn't this trend start in the 80s with the heroes in the DC Universe being termed "metas" for "metahumans" as a result of the "Invasion" crossover?
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Troy Nunis
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Metas/Metahumans was more a run at a catchphrase to parallel Marvel's money-in-the-bank phrase "Mutants" -- and applied to both heroes and villains who had a genetic predisposition towards having powers. neither disparaging nor too-kewl, really.
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Jason Schulman
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Not that I read much current Marvel, but from what I recall "cape-killers" are, in fact, people killing superheroes. And the "Fanboys" who inhabit the current Marvel Universe and lust after superheroines are called "cape-chasers." (I kinda like that one, to be honest -- it's a variant on "skirt-chaser" -- but, again, most Marvel heroes and heroines don't wear capes -- wouldn't it make more sense to call them "mask-chasers"?)
Edited by Jason Schulman on 02 October 2007 at 10:10pm
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Pete Carrubba
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Bill Collins wrote:
| I saw Siegel and Schuster on an ancient documentary (1981) saying they
gave Superman a cape so it would add movement to the scenes of him
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Could Superman fly in his first incarnation? I seem to recall that he could "hurdle skyscrapers," but didn't the actual flying start with the Max Fleischer cartoons?
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Michael Connell
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He could leap one eighth of a mile according to Action Comics #1.
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John Byrne
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Superman's flight came from the early cartoons, when the animators decided
it didn't work to have him leaping around "like an anthropomorphic
kangaroo." One of several instance when, in the formative years, external
sources had an impact on the comics themselves.
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