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This is a database with a good amount of superheroes and villains characters. It provides statistics relating to their intelligence, strength, endurance and so on. It can provide a specific schema for certain superheroes or villains.

This is very helpful. This helps with statistical relations too intelligence, strength, and endurance.

This is an awesome database, it is very helpful for my topic because I am looking at the underrepresentation of women as super heroes. I can easily go down this list and see that there are very few women.

This article looks into how the society of today want a superhero that is not seen as boring but rather has a 'gritty' background. In order to modernize and feel relate-able the character must be darker and the story-line must fit into today's world, for example the dark knight fighting police corruption and urban terrorism.

Agreed. People don't like a superhero as much if they obey all the rules all the time and are a law abiding citizen because it's boring. It's more appealing to people to watch them take the law into their own hands. Captain America is a perfect example and the opening line: "Captain America is only interesting if he's a prick."

I definitely like the idea that superhero's are just as dark and as tortured as villains are. Everyone has a different background story, and they are not perfect, but it is what you do about your situation, and how you learn to grow from it. It makes it much more realistic for us to look at them and say "okay, they have their problems too"

These infographics on colors are somewhat consistent with our findings on color.

This infographic is awesome! It was interesting looking at the infographic statistics compared to the cross tabulations. Some statistics correlated perfectly but others were complete opposites.

I found this infographic awesome as well. It was interesting to relate the statistics in these infographics to the cross-tabulations of the data we collected as a group. Some were consistent, while others were not. For example, this infographic showed black as being the most common color of villains, where our cross-tabulations showed that villains wore more light and bright colors. Interesting information and easy to read.

This article is about how superheroes have surrounded us in pop culture. One lunchboxes, clothing, posters, etc., they are all around.

This is a great article to establish a basis for the effect superheroes have on society. Some of the ideas here-- like, "Probably every person that has ever seen or read about a superhero has imagined himself or herself in that role," are a great way to introduce some of the data we found, or even a research question related back to the idea.

Ever since ancient times, humanity has sought to use stories to explain the world in which it lives. Just as ancient man used stories of gods and monsters to explain the world, modern man uses stories of godlike heroes and monstrous villains to do the same.

A young boy sits in a psychologist's office, playing with action figures in a sand tray. There's an epic battle on the horizon, one that crosses traditional DC/Marvel lines. On one side there's Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman. On the other, there's an unpredictable fire-breathing dragon, with big eyes and sharp teeth.

This article touches on the fact that the superhero characters are related to people within a child's life. Wonder Woman represents his mother, the fire-breathing dragon represents the troubles the child is facing, ect.

This article is an example of Authority Theory. It is talking about how kids can use comic books and superhero movies as therapy. Since the article has a lot of quotes and examples from doctors about how it helps kids overcome their fear of monsters. They turned to superheroes to overcome those fears.

I think that this is easily an example of cultivation theory because it fits with the idea that the more that society spends living in the television world, the more that they try to relate to it. I think that the more that you watch superhero movies, you get this idea in your idea that they have to play out a certain way, and if they were to go against these "golden rules" would the movie still be successful?

The American Psychological Association says that superhero movies today are only giving boys two options for what they can be: a superhero or a slacker. This didn't use to be the case, however. Looking back at old comic books superheros were portrayed with vulnerabilities therefore making them more relateable and better role models for young men.