Who's considered the first Super Hero anyway?
Who's considered the first Super Hero anyway?
William Adams
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Adam Mitchell
Achilles or something
Anthony Reed
Mesopotamian gods?
Cooper Ward
God
Jace Robinson
Isn't the bible against hero worship?
Jaxon Rogers
Either Spring Heeled Jack or Gilgamesh.
It depends on whether you're willing/able to draw distinctions between myths/legends and speculative fiction, and if you define superheros through the lens of modern motifs.
Daniel Hill
Depends on what you define a "Superhero".
Super strong hero's existed in mythology. There where folklore hero's like Robin Hood and Paul Bunyan before the 20th Century.
Detective hero's like Sherlock Holmes became really popular in the 1890's to present.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903) and Zorro (1919) are probably the closest things you could point too as recognizably having most superhero tropes (secret identity, lair, skills, tools, fighting for justice) before and Batman.
Ethan Foster
The bible is against worshipping physical idols and false gods. Sunday school is all hero worship all the time.
Jace Hughes
superman
Anthony Ross
If you defined "superhero" as "hero with powers beyond what is normal for their species", then probably Hercules.