What do you think?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10957590

...are the "Superheroes" of this day & age 'really' as Professor Lamb suggests?

"Today's superhero is too much like an action hero who participates in non-stop violence; he's aggressive, sarcastic and rarely speaks to the virtue of doing good for humanity.

When not in superhero costume, these men exploit women, flaunt bling and convey their manhood with high-powered guns."

Or is this just "stereotyping" at its finest?

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No, that's pretty accurate. They also have crushing personality faults due to the intense trauma that created their alter-egos. Superheroes were never good role-models for boys...this guy is a just REALLY behind the times in disclosing such a belief.

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mechaphil

They'd be bad role models if little boys cared about any of that haha. To them it's basically just tie a towel around your neck and you're Superman dun dun a da!

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Not to mention the fact that at some point fairly early, boys are cognizant of the fictionality of superheros. How about ripping on the real people that are bad role models for the same (and worse) reasons.

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i so had a superhero cap when i was i kid. i wore it non-stop

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Superman is the most boring superhero when you really think about it. Viewed from a modern perspective, he seems more like a caricature of a superhero than a real superhero. He is absolutely, completely perfect, and the movies continue to hammer us in with that fact. He can fly, he has heat vision, he has ice breath, he has super-strength, he has X-ray vision, he has super-hearing... you get the point, he comes across like the creation of a child who gives his super-hero character every power he can think of, stripping him of any individuality. As a character, Superman also fails. So perpetually good, there's barely a twinge of complexity or depth to him, he's just the man who is absolutely as nice as possible to everyone around him and goes around saving the day because he's such a perfect day. And perhaps most importantly: he's invincible. I cannot think of any way to more effectively kill any tension in your movie when a central element is that your protagonist and hero is basically God walking the earth? Heck, the climax of the first movie didn't even have Superman threatened in any way, the only possible drama came from whether or not Superman would be able to save Lois. Even what the movies keep telling us is his one weakness, kryptonite, does absolutely nothing against this Godlike being, in the first movie he endures almost ten minutes of direct exposure to kryptonite and not only does this not kill him, but he's breaking the speed of light seconds later, and in Superman Returns the guy literally basically smothers himself in kryptonite... and he just doesn't die.

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Revenge is sweet... Revenge is best served cold... Revenge is ice cream.

Uhm...Superman has died. Did you read "The Death of Superman"? He was beaten so savagely by Doomsday that he died from his wounds. Not some kryptonite laser or whatever - he died purely from getting the ever-loving, motherfucking shit beat out of him.

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mechaphil

i don't know. captain america punched hitler in the face. if anything, that is what would make me proud of being an american.

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ya know, i never went with the whole superhero thing, even as a kid. i watched the ninja turtles for a little while, but i guess that was short lived. i probably got into sports at too young of an age.

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I was never into superheros, either. For some reason, I've always taken a liking into Comedy Central as a kid and my parents didn't even care.

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I'm not entirely sure where the author is coming from. Maybe if he/she provided some examples? I can only assume that Batman is being singled out, because Bruce Wayne lives the womanizing bachelor life? That's just part of his cover, he has to pretend to be the least likely person to be Batman. Off topic but you would have to be 100% moronic not to put together that Bruce Wayne is Batman, how could anybody else afford that car?

There's plenty of evil shit on the internet that we as a society need to focus on, I'm not sure comic book heroes are damaging anybody. And there's still plenty positive role models, like Spiderman, who is a model citizen when he's not fighting crime. Most of the X-Men are just flat out good people...errr um I mean mutants. It's not like Nightcrawler is doing drive-byes in his free time.

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The parents beating each other are bad role models.

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"Counting all the assholes in the room, I'm definitely not alone!" ~ Michael Poulsen, Volbeat, Still Standing.

I concur. Even if they are dressed up as super heroes! lol

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"I love that you know how to do that." Cheryl/Carol/Crystal

"And I love that I have an erection that doesn't involve homeless people." Kreiger