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ˈsu pərˌhɪər oʊsu·per·her·o
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superheronoun
Any kind of fantasy/science fiction crime-fighting character, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature.
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Superhero
A superhero is a type of stock character possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers" and dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes—ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas—have dominated American comic books and crossed over into other media. The word itself dates to at least 1917. A female superhero is sometimes called a superheroine. "SUPER HEROES" is a trademark co-owned by DC Comics and Marvel Comics. By most definitions, characters do not strictly require actual superhuman powers to be deemed superheroes, although terms such as costumed crime fighters or masked vigilantes are sometimes used to refer to those such as Batman and Green Arrow without such powers who share other common superhero traits. Such characters were generally referred to as "mystery men" in the so-called Golden Age of Comic Books to distinguish them from characters with super-powers. Normally, superheroes use their powers to counter day-to-day crime while also combating threats against humanity by supervillains, their criminal counterparts. Often, one of these supervillains will be the superhero's archenemy. As well, some longrunning superheroes, such as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Iron Man each has a rogues gallery of enemies. As well, superheroes sometimes will combat such irregular threats as aliens, magical/fantasy entities, American war enemies such as nazism or communism, and godlike or demonic creatures.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of superhero in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of superhero in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of superhero in a Sentence
I'm happy with my body and who I am and other kids who are built like me and thinner than me should be able to feel the same way, not only that, but they should be able to feel like THEY could be a superhero on tv or film or whatever it may be someday.
If my publisher hadn't said' let's do superhero stories,' I'd probably still be doing' A Kid Called Outlaw,'' The Two-Gun Kid' or' Millie the Model' or whatever I was doing at the time.
I was not a Shang-Chi fan when I was Gene Luen Yang, i encountered those Shang-Chi comics at a time when I didn't feel comfortable being a Chinese-American. So it just felt like, you know, the Chinese-American kid picking up the comic with the Chinese superhero -- it felt like I was highlighting what made me different.
Anyone could be somebody who saves a life, you don't have to be a superhero.
Hey Marvel I have an idea for a superhero, it’s me, and guess what, I have an infinity stone on the tip of my weiner.
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- خارقةArabic
- super hrdinaCzech
- SuperheldGerman
- superheroGreek
- superhéroeSpanish
- supersankariFinnish
- super-hérosFrench
- सुपर हीरोHindi
- szuperhősHungarian
- Super heroIndonesian
- supereroeItalian
- גיבור עלHebrew
- スーパーヒーローJapanese
- ಸೂಪರ್ ಹೀರೋKannada
- 슈퍼 히어로Korean
- superheroLatin
- superheltNorwegian
- superbohateremPolish
- Super heroiPortuguese
- supererouRomanian
- супергеройRussian
- superhjälteSwedish
- சூப்பர் ஹீரோTamil
- సూపర్ హీరోTelugu
- süper kahramanTurkish
- супергеройUkrainian
- سپر ہیروUrdu
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