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Powers of Hero Characters

The heroes in comic books have enthralled children and adults alike since at least 1938, the year when Superman came crashing onto the scene -- literally, as he lifted an entire vehicle over his head on the cover of Action Comics #1. At the turn of the 21st century, dozens of superhero movies make heroes more relevant than ever. Familiarize yourself with popular hero characters' powers and engage in imaginative play with your kids.
  1. Super Strength

    • Easily the most common superhero power is super strength. The quintessential superhero, DC Comics' Superman, has abnormal strength. However, super strength doesn't always include the ability to toss cars around. Marvel Comics' Spider-Man has enhanced strength due to a bite from a radioactive spider, but his strength compared to the typical person's is proportional to a spider's strength compared to other insects.

      Super strength may appear so often among hero characters because strength allows the hero the advantage necessary to take on the villains single-handedly and protect the common citizen.

    Enhanced Senses

    • Take any of the five senses -- sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste -- and think of which senses might prove most advantageous in the heat of battle. Enhance these senses to a superhuman level and you get another common superpower in hero characters. Superman possesses both super hearing and multiple forms of enhanced vision. Marvel Comics' Wolverine's senses of sight, hearing and smell are sharp like an animal's. Spider-Man has a super powered sixth sense, the "spider-sense," that allows him to predict danger and to react accordingly.

    Flight

    • Swiss psychiatrist and famed dream analyst Carl Jung suggested that when people dream of flying, they're tapping into their subconscious desires for freedom and transcendence, in addition to displaying their confidence. Since superheroes break the boundaries of normal human abilities, it's not surprising that flight is so often a superhero power. X-Men's Angel, Marvel Comics' Iron Man, DC Comics' Wonder Woman and many more heroes fly in one form or another. Superman is perhaps the most famous flying superhero, and images of his flowing red cape are iconic to the superhero genre.

    Telepathy

    • While telepathy isn't as flashy a superpower as super strength or flight, it's reflective of the importance of developing and strengthening the intellect and not just the physical body. Consider X-Men's Professor X, a wheelchair-bound character with the power to read the thoughts of others, mentally share thoughts with others and potentially control others with his mind. The fact that a man can be a superhero without leaving his wheelchair makes hero characters' powers all the more inclusive.


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