10 Most Famous Superhero Characters
Thursday, June 3, 2010The superheroes are fictional characters which possess immense power, skills and capabilities. These characters have ruled the world of comics, animated serials and movies for many years. Some of them have topped Box offices all around the world and are very famous among kids.
So here I have compiled some of the most famous Superhero characters. I hope you will like it.
X-Men
The X-Men are a fictional superhero team. Xavier recruited Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, and Beast and Jean Grey calling them “X-Men” because they possessed the “x-gene”, ability normal humans lacked.
Batman
The fictional character of Batman which is also known as ‘the Dark Knight’, ‘the Caped Crusader’ is a billionaire industrialist, and philanthropist. Having witnessed the murder of his parents as a child, he swore revenge on crime, an oath tempered with the greater ideal of justice as a Batman.
Iron Man
Anthony Edward “Tony” Stark is an industrialist playboy and genius inventor who suffers a severe heart injury during a kidnapping and is forced to build a destructive weapon. He instead creates a powered suit of armor to save his life and escape captivity. He later decides to use the suit to protect the world as Iron Man.
Superman
It is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Superman possesses extraordinary powers, with the character traditionally described as “faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound”.
Watchmen
Watchmen take place on an alternate Earth where superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s, helping the United States to win the Vietnam War. The story focuses on the personal development and struggles of the protagonists as an investigation into the murder of a government sponsored superhero pulls them out of retirement.
Spiderman
The superhero named Spiderman was the creation of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The former being an artist and editor while the latter a co-plotter. Along with strength and agility, Spiderman has the ability to cling to different surfaces.
He- man
The lead character of a media franchise, ‘Master of the Universe’, He-Man is the twin brother of She-Ra and alter-ego of Prince Adam. The duty of He-Man is to defend the secrets of ‘Castle Grayskull’ present on a fictional planet called ‘Eternia’.
Aquaman
Aquaman’s most widely recognized power is the telepathic ability to communicate with marine life, which he can summon from great distances. Aquaman has a number of superhuman powers.
Hawkman
Hawkman is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Comics universe. Several incarnations of Hawkman have appeared in DC Comics, all of them characterized by the use of archaic weaponry and by large, artificial wings, attached to a harness made from the special Nth metal that allow flight.
Ultra man
It is a fictional superhero featured in tokusatsu programs.