Which is the “super” part of a Superhero: what s/he has, or what s/he does?

Onviously, the only thing about the Super that matters is the doing, not the having. I see what I think are immature debates over here about who is and is not a Superhero. Superman gets in the Super Club, no problem, Batman does not. Does Tony Stark? He’s a guy with a suit, without which he’s the kind of obnoxious asshole that 12 year-old boys want to be. Capt. America? Biologically enhanced. Hawkeye? On some kind of juice, absent which I guess he dies. I neither know nor care. Jesse Owens? You say, “Who?” Jesse Owens, the black American guy who competed in the Hitler Olympic Games and handed the Master Race its own ass. THAT guy. FOUR OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS, in the 100 meters, 200 meters, 4x100 meters relay and the long jump. He made Hitler so nonplussed that he said “monkey people” should not be allowed to compete and then he fled the Olympic stadium. THAT guy.

Or how about Keri Strug who got a Gold Medal for the entire US Women’s Gymnastics Team when she nailed her final vault ON A BROKEN FUCKING LEG. Nah. No superpowers there. She’s a tiny chick, doesn’t even have big boobs.

But she and her ilk are 1,000 times more superheroes than ANYTHING that Marvel ever has done or will do. Superheroes are real. They are simply too good for comic books.

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