So, I need to pick a superhero that resembles me in some way. I will be identified as this superhero in torts class and to the 80 other HLSers in my Section (called Justice League). I’ll explain why I “need” to do this either in the comments or in a future post if there’s sufficient interest (i.e., if enough people read this, since I can’t imagine somebody would read this post and not want to know why on Earth I’m doing this). In the meantime, however, I’ll just add a few notes on my preferences and interesting facts about superheroes. The only actual requirement is that I need to be able to find a picture of the superhero.
- My two current favorites (among those with which I’m somewhat familiar) are Captain Canuck, and Leguman. I discovered both through Wikipedia, as well as this Danish band.
- One preference, ceteris paribus, is for something obscure (see above two, for example). Here are some thoughts to get your creative juices flowing (I expect half of these suggestions don’t even have superheroes, but you never know):
- By religion: atheist, Coptic Orthodox, Sunni, believer in the Greek pantheon, pastafarian, Christian Scientist, pagan, etc.
- By nationality: Wikipedia has some good suggestions on this one (same article as above).
- By language: again, the more obscure, the better. For example, Basque, Esperanto, Yiddish, Interlingua, Québécois, Flemish, Cherokee, Luxembourgish, Kalmyk and Magyar are all interesting thoughts.
- On a more serious note, I’d ideally resemble the superhero (or vice versa) in some way. This is at least somewhat the case for Captain Canuck in the sense that I’m Canadian-American, but not so much (though maybe I’m wrong) for Leguman.
- Not a preference, but you may be interested to know that the French Wikipedia article on superheroes goes out of its way to note that Superman was not the first superhero, while the Spanish version is adorned with a picture of Superman and a caption indicating that he is indeed the first superhero, having been created in 1938.
- One Wikipedia source I haven’t yet explored is this list of superheroes.
Also, I note that Yale beat Lafayette!
PS. Pour ceux qui peuvent lire en français, j’imagine que ce poste sur Leguman vous intéressera. J’ajoute que le quatrième commentaire m’a donné un très grand sourire.