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This is an example of social comparison. The article talks about how we see bodies of superheroes and want to be like them, but that is unrealistic. It examples what the stars of these movies go through to achieve their physiques and how that will never be a reality for normal people.

I like this article because it speaks to the unrealistic expectation of being like a superhero. It talks about how normal people cannot achieve the physical physique of these actors because they just don't have the resources. This article helps prove that we associate superheroes with muscular physiques, but that it is not achievable for the average person.

Some of the greatest comic book artists of all time had to work under restrictions. This is an example of technological determinism. Where the media, comic book creators, had control over the characters colors.

This was definitely interesting to read. Many times when we think of superheroes and the colors they wear we do not think about the limitations of the artists creativity when drawing the character for the first time.

This is an excellent article on diversity amongst superheroes. It is fairly detailed and scholarly, as well as credible.

But I think that that is the reason that we are drawn to these types of movies. If the superhero was not super attractive I don't think that we would enjoy the movies as much. That is really bad for me to say, because it plays along with stereotype and overall impressions of this genre. But anymore, I think that for every genre this is what is happening. You are always looking for the hot star at the time.

Great article! it helped me a lot! Its interesting to see how many people have such strong feelings about the dominant white male character in super hero movies

This scholarly article introduces color theory as applied to movies.  Yes, you may use theories that we haven't discussed.

Do you think a movie would still be successful if there wasn't hardship for the hero? What if there was no challenge? What if they were not tested? Would we love them as much? I think you have to watch them struggle before you can be happy for their success.

I liked this article because it reminds us the importance of the sequences we see in the movies. Watching a character overcome a hardship is much more captivating when you respect the character. To catch the watchers attention, tragedy is included from the beginning. It helps you better connect and understand the character, so I agree in that tragedy is necessary to create a good superhero movie.

I believe that no matter what genre a movie is the audience always roots for the underdog. Therefore I think it is important to show a hardship for the hero and how the hero overcomes it. I think overcoming the obstacle in their life makes them a hero in a sense.

This article was interesting to me because it touched base on escapism. It shows how easy it is to lose yourself in a movie or a heroes story.

There has been a lot of talk about the inclusion of female roles in superhero movies. But instead of them being supporting roles, we are looking for them to star in their own films. We are looking for spin off movies for black widow, who played supporting roles in Iron Man and The Avengers. But they are also talking about bringing back Wonder Woman.

This article really shows how important the first female-led debute is right now and how if Marvel doesn't take advantage of it then someone else will. It's a big step but one that needs to be made and this article makes that clear. I really enjoyed reading it!

I thought this article was very interesting. It touched base on how there is a demand for a female lead in a superhero movie instead of just a supporting role. One of the quotes mentioned in the article that I found interesting was that directors and producers were hesitant to make a female super hero movie because Catwoman and Elektra which starred female super heroes as the main character received poor consumer response in the box offices.

Some interesting points about what we see on our screens and what would actually happen in real life. The most interesting points lies in why we root for the superhero in the first place and how our superheroes are no longer the underdogs.

This article is about superheroes promoting the wrong message to young children, especially boys. It goes on to say that in order to promote less stereotypical male behaviour in our society we must address the issue of role models and find lies in the images we are sold.

And for those of you not keeping count, Wonder Woman still remains at 1 feature-length film, which was an animated direct-to-video movie in 2009. Now, I'm no math major, but something seems off here. Where are all the female superheroes?

This is a very interesting article about how female superheroes are very underestimated. I think this would be a good article for anyone looking at gender. It is interesting because our data supports thus theory. Only one of the superhero movies in the data we have had a female as the superhero.

I really enjoyed this article and it would be great for my research paper because I would like to talk about female vs. male superheros. Very good article.

This article is going to be extremely helpful in answering one of my subquestions: Do superheroes have good morals? The way this article breaks down moral values by different categories and even different superheroes will be a great resource for more information that goes beyond the statistics we gathered.

Very cool article. I love how it goes in to and explains the moral values of different superheroes. It shows that not all super heroes have the same set of moral values.

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 has exposure effect in it. The more superhero hero movies that come out the more we like them. Since 2000 the box office has made much more money on superhero movies than they have in the past.

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.

"I hope we do it sooner rather than later." Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has responded to the frequent complaint that the studio's output doesn't give female superheroes their time in the spotlight. Feige states that his hands are tied when making a female led superhero movie because they most stay true to the Marvel franchise and comics which the super hero movies are based off of, and they do not have many female superheroes to make a movie from.

This article exemplifies the idea that superheroes, even the female superheroes have a very masculine make-up. When children watch these movies, they believe that they are supposed to follow suit in terms of build and how they are supposed to act. Is this the right image we should be giving to our children?