The document provides backstories and details about several popular superheroes, including Superman, Batman, Iron Man, Green Lantern, Spiderman, and Captain America. It describes their origins, powers and abilities, supporting characters, enemies faced, and how each has become an iconic symbol through their adventures and commitment to fighting evil and injustice.
3. STORY
Born Kal-El on the planet Krypton, Superman was rocketed to
Earth as an infant by his scientist father Jor-El, moments before
Krypton's destruction.
Discovered and adopted by a Kansas farmer and his wife, the
child is raised as Clark Kent and imbued with a strong moral
compass.
Very early he started to display superhuman abilities, which
upon reaching maturity he resolved to use for the benefit of
humanity.
4. POWERS & ABILITIES
Flight
Super strength
Super speed
Vision powers
Super hearing
Super breath
Vulnerable to Kryptonite
5. SUPPORTING CAST
Adoptive Parents, John and Martha Kent
Colleague, Lois Lane
Coworkers, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White
Best Friend, Pete Ross
7. CONCLUSION
Superman has come to be seen as both an American cultural
icon and the first comic book superhero. His adventures and
popularity have established the character as an inspiring force
within the public eye, with the character serving as inspiration
for musicians, comedians and writers alike, so much so that the
phrase "I'm not Superman" or alternatively "you're not
Superman" is an idiom used to suggest a lack of invincibility.
18. STORY
A wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build
an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he
ultimately decides to use its technology to fight
against evil.
21. ENEMIES
Iron Monger
Titanium Man
Dynamo
Hammer
Ghost
Whiplash
Mandarin
22. CONCLUSION
A “cool exec with a heart of steel”, Tony Stark is the
invincible Iron Man, fighting for justice as a modern day
knight in high-tech armor.
26. POWERS AND ABILITIES
Constructs of green 'solid-energy‘
Force Field Generation
Flight
Teleportation
Time Travel
Telepathy
Hypnosis
Accelerated healing of wounds
27. THE OATH
“In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power... Green Lantern's light!”
28. CONCLUSION
Green Lantern is symbolic of but
one thing - willpower. Will is
character in action.
Strength does not come from
physical capacity. It comes from an
indomitable will.
31. STORY
When bitten by a genetically modified
spider, a nerdy, shy, and awkward high
school student gains spider-like
abilities that he eventually must use
to fight evil as a superhero.
32. POWERS
Ability to cling to walls
Superhuman strength
A sixth sense ("spider-sense")
Superhuman speed and agility
33. SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Aunt, May Parker
Uncle and Father Figure, Been Parker
Parker’s Boss, J. Jonah Jameson
College Friend, Gwen Stacy
Best Friend & later his Wife, Mary Jane Watson
35. CONCLUSION
Peter Parker, a teenage high school student and person
behind Spider-Man's secret identity to whose "self-
obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness"
one can relate had to learn for himself that "with great
power there must also come great responsibility"
38. STORY
Captain America is the alter ego of Steve Rogers, a frail young
man who was enhanced to the peak of human perfection by
an experimental serum in order to aid the United States war
effort.
39. TRAITS
A "perfect" specimen of human development and
conditioning, Captain America's
strength, endurance, agility, speed, reflexes, durability, and
healing are at the zenith of natural human potential.
He is also highly resistant to hypnosis or gases that could limit his
focus.
40. EQUIPMENT
Captain America uses a nigh-indestructible disc-shaped
shield made from an experimental alloy of steel and the
fictional vibranium as an offensive throwing weapon.
His uniform is made of a fire-retardant material, and he
wears a lightweight, bulletproof "duralumin" scale
armor beneath his uniform for added protection.
Besides, there’s a custom specialized motorcycle, modified
by the S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons laboratory.
41. ENEMIES
Nazism (Red Skull, Baron Zemo)
Neo-Nazism (Crossbones, Doctor Faustus)
Technocratic fascism (AIM, Arnim Zola)
Communism (Aleksander Lukin)
Anarchism (Flag Smasher and Viper)
International and domestic terrorism (HYDRA)
42. CONCLUSION
Captain America is a shining epitome of a true hero
since the times of World War II and continues to bloom
as a symbol of justice and patriotism. Although he lacks
superhuman strength, Captain America is one of the
few mortal beings who has been deemed worthy
enough to wield Thor's hammer.
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44. Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes
