Unmasking Superhero Identities

Valdez, Jonathan Areola. Unmasking Identities: Superhero Representations of Asian Americans in Graphic Narratives. n.p.: San Diego State University, 2013.

Web resource:This web source is credible because there is an author. The author has a masters in Liberal Arts and Sciences from San Diego State University. Having graduated in 2013, Valdez knows more modern dilemmas and is more informed on different perspectives. The document was created to focus on the misrepresentations of Asian Americans in superhero comics. In his document Valdez also more generally sheds light on the issues of race, class, and gender. He claims that Marvel writers use a tactic called the Trojan Stereotype to depict their malicious ideas of the Asian American body. 


Lebel, Sabine. "'Tone Down the Boobs, Please!': Reading the Special Effect Body in Superhero Movies." CineAction, 77 (2009): 56-67.

Journal Article: Lebel's claim is that superheroes in today's society have overcome their small bodies in comic book beginnings and have become a preeminent part of North American pop culture. She backs up her claims by alluding to the continual re-embodiment of superheroes through generations of comic books and films. Lebel is a credible author because she provides evidence to support her claim that superhero body image plays a detrimental role in America's pop culture.


Dour, Halina J, and Sally A Theran. "The Interaction Between the Superhero Ideal and Maladaptive Perfectionism as Predictors of Unhealthy Eating Attitudes and Body Esteem." Body Image, 8.1 (2011): 93-96.

Scholarly Article: Halina Dour is a psychologist conducting research in her lab at UCLA. She claims that unhealthy eating habits and poor body self esteem is a result of the endorsement of the superhero body image and perfectionism. In her scholarly article she provides all of her sources in her paper. Conducting her research, Dour has discovered that the advocacy of superhero body image was significantly associated with unhealthy eating habits for our children. This article was sponsored by Elsevier Limited. 

3 New sources!

Hello readers, welcome to yet another discussion of Superhero body image I will be  discussing e new sources to justify my point how superheroes are viewed now a days and it's really effecting our society. 

Gender Stereotypes!

Media has  a great influence on our society, superhero movies have become a big hit now a days making a lot of money and portraying male roles and female roles to society and we seem to accept them.  The Avengers  earned about $1.5 billion on just ticket sales so we see how comma superheroes have become. We have to look at what they are giving us, stereotypes of genders and we just seem to accept it parents and children go alone with them. in reality, we don't have to let social media shape who we are, we don't put much attention to what they portrait nothing extremely sinful but males always being portrait as the leading role with weapon play and ideal body type and for females they look up to men with all these qualities giving women a false belief on what men should look like. Males are also portrayed as strong, assertive, fast, powerful leaders and women always as talkative , emotional and overexcited like her purpose is not at all important when it should be and that the image we are setting our kids to grow up in. Although the author does not use an opposing argument they give us a lot of facts and relevant and sufficient evidence supporting their argument which makes this article a reliable source. Their thesis, they say they will show us how much superhero programs have influenced gender type roles. 

Coyne, Sarah M., Jennifer R. Linder, Eric E. Rasmussen, David A. Nelson, and Kevin M. Collier. "Access to Restricted Resources." CSUN Library. N.p., 8 May 2014. Web. 11 Nov. 2015.

Would you become a superhero if you could? 
Many Children have the image of becoming a superhero, usually someone they look up to. Yet little do they know have hard it would be for them. Back when superman came out it was unrealistic for children to become superheroes, since superman came from another planet and was abilities that no human can posses while now Batman is just a normal person who decides to become a superhero except to become him will not at all be easy he is rich and build your body to perfection which is almost the impossible thing to do but to me thats not the point we should all be happy with the way we look yet media does not allow us to be. So, we all have the potential of becoming the ultimate superhero just with todays society not just anybody can achieve such thing you have to have a ripped perfect body for a male and of course females are now allowed to take a leading role but are hypersexualized.  This source I believe is reliable they give us a question that they answer with enough relevant evidence to the topic about whether you wanna be a superhero or not and if its achievable. 
Kenney, Caitlin. "I Wanna Be a Superhero." NPR. NPR, 17 July 2008. Web. 11 Nov. 2015.

What would you do to have the perfect body image?

Males feel the pressure for having the perfect body, every male now a days is portrait as perfect their is a lot for them to deal with and some can't achieve it just by intense work outs so they seek another form of help hazardous to their health, steroids. Superstars  that play the roles of the superheroes feel the need to achieve such perfection but very hard to achieve. They have lots more pressure they are the role models and that sometimes can get overwhelming. They have to deal with perfect figures and if they can't achieve such things they might even lose the part and they can't afford that that their form of income. we judge them without realizing all the stress they have to deal with is much more than the viewer but still very bad that we want to look like superhero portrait in cartoon when we are human and that sometimes or will always be unachievable.

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Think carefully!

Now that I have given you some insight on the way superheroes are portrait let's have a little fun can you guess who these superheroes are, in this Quiz that me and the co-founders on this blog have created for you have fun enjoy!

Quiz Me

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"Guess Who"

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How well do you know your superheroes?

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superheroes with realistic body types!

Hello readers! welcome, I have much to discuss yet again about the topic of superheroes and their unrealistic bodies portrait throughout comic books. I found an article, superheroes with realistic bodies, in this article they show pictures of superheroes if they were to have realistic body images and its quite interesting the change from each picture. they also discuss the issue of how it effects women in america "Today, 33.7% of men and 36.5% of women are considered obese" the statistics here really show how much we as people are put under pressure to achieve the perfect image and be like everyone but in reality nobody has the time to go to the gym or even the economic status to maintain a healthy lifestyle many americans aren't rich and have issues even surviving with what they have so they opt for the cheapest things, fast food. Comic books convey dramatic images of superheroes, men with massive biceps and shoulders, women always more slender and tiny giving us the image the more tiny you are the more appealing you will be in others eyes. women and men should not have to be put through this and its not just in  comic books where this is portrait with superheroes but many images out there always shows a perfect photoshopped image and make us believe that is achievable when in reality not even the model looks like the way they are shown. 

The way comic exhibit superheroes effects the readers with the way they look at themselves. This article is stating that the cause of many eating disorders is the way comic books portrait the perfect body to the reader and they want to became it. So what they did to show the people that read this article is compare the perfect superhero and did a few touches to make it more like a typical body image shape and size. It's awareness to does that believe you have to be like someone else in order to be acceptable everyone looks great no matter what you look like. I agree with this article and the idea its trying present, to finish my argument I will leave you with these words from the article and hopefully they always stay with you "perhaps more people could look up to their favorite superhero without feeling the need to emulate an impossible physique. Ultimately, whats truly heroic is respecting yourself, your body, and your health."