Superman

Spiderman once quoted "With great power comes great responsibility". The powers of all superheroes are wished by many ordinary humans. Of course no human can have the ability to possess any super power. If humans did have the ability to have super powers. It would awesome to possess the powers of a psychic and the ability to fly . Not just claiming fake psychic powers, but actually having real psychic powers, and using them to glance into the future. To illustrate, Professor X, a fictional…

In Sherman Alexxie’s “The joys of Reading and Writing : Superman and Me” the three traits that inspired Alexxies to read and write is his curiosity , enthusiasm and his love. Alexis’s shows eagerness throughout the story with such sentence like “I refuse to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant.”. Another characteristic Alexxies take on is his concern with “I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs ”. Further into the story, he says “ I read books late into the night ,until I couldn’t…

released Iron Man into their elaborate “marvel cinematic universe”, Marvel has dominated the box office. After the producers at Warner Brothers saw the success that came with Marvel’s movie universe, they tried to begin their own movie universe with Superman man of steel in 2014. However, the DC universe didn’t have near the amount of success as the Marvel universe. In fact, if those two movie were to be compared, Iron Man made 28 million more dollars than Man of Steel despite…

that one question which probably everyone coming out of their family's highly established occupation would have been asked- "why haven't you taken up law?" As Sherman Alexie in his essay "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" narrates that he learned to read with a superman comic book, I realized that I was interested in space when I was amused by flying objects. As a child, I was fortunate to find my interests at a tender age of about seven years and haven't given up since then to…

story of that superhero. Generally, they show how the hero gets his/her powers, and how they rise to fame as the superhero of that particular film. In Superman I the director, Richard Donner shows one how Superman first obtained his powers and how Clark Kent has to lead a double life in order to protect the city from danger. During the 1970s Superman I was a huge success because it introduced…

“Look! it's a bird!” “No! it's a plane!” “No! It's Superman!” A great representation of what we call a “hero”. Spiderman, Superman, Batman, and Captain America are all modern day “heros” but what makes someone, or even something a hero? In the story The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, about two groups of social classes who had a dispute which send two boys, Johnny and Ponyboy, on the run. There are many characters who can’t fly, can’t spin webs, or even float! yet they are still heros. So, what gives?…

reality superman’s wife and unborn daughter, the Superman has become a oppressive ruler of the Planet Earth, murdering all criminals, and even heroes who resist his control. Meanwhile, the alternate batman summons the help of the real world's Justice League to end the alternate Superman's reign of terror. The box art clearly identifies…

rescued by the male protagonist; a prize that needed to be won by either the male villain or hero.” The author of the article goes on to give an example of how in the first issue of Superman, Lois Lane, who would become a future love interest, is only in the comic to get kidnapped by some criminals and then for Superman to save (fantasy-magazine.com). In the book Wonder Woman Unbound, author Tim Hanley goes on to say that, “Often captured by nefarious types, she afforded the hero opportunity to…

Super You During our childhood, we were amazed by the stories of super heroes. Those Powerful characters who have great power to help the world. Grandizer, Superman and Spiderman. I believe that most of us as children had a wish to have that power and help people in need, but as we grow up we got shocked by the fact that all those powers are just fictitious! Fellow toastmasters, wonderful guests, What if I tell now, after you became aware adult, that you have a magical power within you? A power…

As my generation has grown up, it has been a trend for movie makers to make the old superhero comics and films into new and improved superhero films. In all the films that I have seen advertised, on DVD, or in theaters, a man has been portrayed as the big and strong main character/superhero and the woman has been portrayed as the “damsel in distress.” Even on the posters for the movies the guy is made to look larger than the woman even if she has the privilege to be on the poster. Sexism is a…