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.
Liam Morales
Nope. Daniel, Joshua, Samson. David....
Bentley Brooks
This is why some many Catholics have llttle statues of Mary and the Saints to pray to.
Benjamin Collins
Gilgamesh predates Hercules, I think
Jace James
"Joshua burned down that city and massacred everyone! He's my hero!"
Eli Davis
>Ōgon Bat is considered to be the world's first comic book superhero
Is wikipedia right? He predates superman & batman.
en.wikipedia.org
Hudson Reed
This is getting to the problem. Does a superhero need a costume? Superhuman powers? A double identity? We need to set a definition first.
Brayden Davis
Maciste.
Samuel Nguyen
"Superhero" as a term is exclusive to fiction, noting a distinction from the human concept of a "hero".
Benjamin Bell
>costume and mask
>secret identity
>beat villains and criminals for free
>1919
Caleb Hill
Wikipedia is full of shit again I guess.
Justin Roberts
Yeah, Zorro has a good claim and he's still an active property
Cooper Sanchez
What superpowers did Gilgamesh have?
Blake Brooks
Super strength, near invulnerabili5y, virility. He had a wildman friend Enkidu who was raised by animals.
Jaxson Sanders
The ancient Greek hero wasnt necessarily moral, he was just noted for his prowess. Someone like Achilles plundered towns and masssacred innocent people for loot.
Owen Barnes
He is public domain
Isaiah Gray
Hugo Hercules maybe
Luis Taylor
Is "Zotto" a trademark though? The original stories may be out of copyright but the character is protected?
Robert Morales
The Jewish/Christian one? Nah. He's pretty modern, compared to Horus and others.
Ryan Perez
Gilgamesh
Jackson Morris
His stories are. The character isn't.
Sebastian Ward
There were a lot of dime novel heroes who kind of fit the definition, it depends if you require a distinctive costume.