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Most superheroes were normal humans
once that acidentaly superpowers. Some examples are DC's Firestorm, Plastic Man, and Atom (the JLA one). Marvel
Comics Incredible Hulk, Spiderman, and the Fantastic Four.
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Some
heroes though are born with powers. Example's include all Marvel mutants including the X-men, X-factor, X-force, and New
Mutants, and most of those teams villians as well.
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Some heroes use magic as well. Now some of these
heroes can only use certian types of magic while others have a range of spells at their disposal. Some heroic mages are Marvels
Dr. Strange, Clea, The Scarlet Witch, and Dr. Druid, and DC comics Dr Fate, Zantana, and Witchfire.
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Some villians know how to use magic as well. Examples
are DC Comic's Felix Fraust and Marvel's Baron Mordo.
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Some heroes are supernatural in origin Demons,
Vampires, Angels, Gods, and other such beings have become heroes in comics. Examples include Harris Comic's Vamperella, Marvel
Comic's Hercules, and Thor. Chaos Comic's Lady Death, and Jade. DC comics Etrigan (A.K.A the Demon/Jason Blood),
and Disneys Gargoyles.
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Some Super Villians are also supernatural beings.
Examples include Marvel Comics Fin Fang Foom (dragon, Ironman serries), Loki, and Mephisto.
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Some while not supernatural beings, have been granted
supernatural powers. Examples include Marvel's Ghostrider, and Vengence, Image Comic's Spawn, and Darkness, DCs
Blue Devil.
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Some comic heroes and villians are given mythological
names because they seem to have a bit of that beings essence in them (metphoricaly speeking). Exanples incude Dc Comic's Azrael
whose name is that of the angel of death, and the one time Wonder Woman replacement from there island of amazons Artemis
(who in greek myth was a feirce hunter, and protector).
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Some heros are given powers or weapons either by Aliens, Gods, or Magic (yet aren't Magic Users). Examples
include DC's Metamorpho, Green Lantern Corps,The
Dark Stars,The Marvel Family (Shazam). Marvel's
Thunderstrike, Nova(New Warriors), and Silver Surfer.
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Other heroes are incased in armor example's include
Valiant's X-O man of war. DC comic's Steel, and Booster Gold. Marvel Comics Warmachine, and Ironman.
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Most of the rest of the superpower lot is filled
by aliens that either have their powers because they are aliens or because earth is diffrent from their world. Examples include
Most of the Image comics Wildc.a.ts, DC comics Superman, and Martian Manhunter.
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Speaking of Aliens some whole races of aliens
have gone against earth in comics or atleast have tried to stand up against earths heroes. Some of these include Image Comics
Deamonites. Marvel Comics Skrulls, and Brood. DC comics Dominators.
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Other alien races are heroes in Earth's eye. Most
of earths heroes have recieved help from these aliens. These include Marvel's Shi'ar.
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Some heroes surprisingly have families and have
pased the torch down to them some times after they retire or after they die. Some heroes that do have heroic families include
Marvel's Captian Mar-Vell who passed his torch on to his son.
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There are very few people that have families that
produce a line of heroes infact the only family that has produced a wave of heroes to date even with all the diffrent
time lines going around In DC is the Flash family starting with The second and third Flashes Barry Allen and
Wally West who's actually Barry's
Nephew. This line goes down to even the Legions XS who is related them though it may not look like it.
(Editors note for more on the flash family see the Chain Lightning
serries in Flash # 145-150).
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Some character's pass the torch down to people
who were total strangers to them at first. Two such examples are Spider Woman this is the name of 3 seprate individuals
none of which were related. Batman was also a name passed down in Batman Beyond as Bruce passed the torch to a newly aquired
assistant (atleast in the Cartoon Network Reality).
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Some chacacters though change their
uniform to confuse people into thinking there may be more than one person behind the mask. Most of the time it
usualy the same person. Sometimes they change as they mature as well (even going so far as to adopt new names to go with the
costume changes). The costume may also be alterd to suit a purpose or to convey that the owner has got
new powers. Examples include DC's Superman, Speedy/Arsenal (Teen Titians) ,
Aqualad/Tempest (Teen Titians). Marvel's Boom Boom/Meltdown, Spiderman, and Ironman among others.
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Some Characters haven't changed forms or uniforms
that much yet have changed teams. Examples include Marvel comics Scarlet Witch, Cable, and Beast. DC comics
Jade, Fire, and Powergirl.
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Some heroes have gone through so many changes through
out the years it's hard to keep up with. Examples include Marvels Warbird (formerly Binary/Ms.Marvel 1/Lady Marvel) who's
been a Starjamer and an Avenger. Bruce Banner whose personalites have resulted in varrious "Hulk"incarnations. DCs
Hal Jordan who went from being the Green Lantern Corps star member to destroying it as Phallanx to becoming the new Specter,
To being a Green Lantern of earth.
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With the addition or subtraction of heroes
through the years teams have changed some times for the better sometimes it wasn't so good.Some examples of teams that have
changed alot over the years include The Avengers, The Justice League of Americ (JLA), X-men, Legion Of Superheroes, the Justice
Society, etc.
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Now some characters have even switched sides
from good to bad. More often than not this is a temperary change and is assosicated with a hero gaining more power than s/he
normaly weilds thus leading towards the corruption of said power.Some examples of said characters are DC's Obsidian ,
and the Dark Phoenix.
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Some villains have changed their ways. They may not be true
heroes in the sense that they started out that way, and most have a long way to go before they can reach retribution
they have tried to do the right thing. Some examples of such villians that have at least tried to go straight include
Marvel's Venom, and most of the Thunderbolts. DCs Heatwave, and Catwoman, among others.
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Now most people may not think it happens
in comics, but death is a part of comic character's life as well. Some of the more normal people that have died include Qwen
Stacy and Uncle Ben Parker of Marvel comics Spiderman line.
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Some super powered heroes have died as
well. These include Marvel's Captian Marvel 1, and Scarlet Spider. DC's first Hourman, Skyman 1/Star-Spangled Kid, and
Atom (of JSA).
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Villians die as well both superpowered ones and
non-superpowered ones. Some that have died include Marvel Comics Tarantula 1. DC Comics Clayface 2.
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Unlike in real life some heroes and heroins have been brought back
to life the their were at least a few of these that were almost human. Marvel's Electra Nachinio's a female ninja
(Daredevil) who was resurected after being assinated by a mercenary known as Bullseye.Marvel also had Patsy Walker/Helstrom/Baxter
also known as Hellcat (Defenders) who returned from the dead or atleast the land of the dead complete with new powers.
DC's Katana was slain in battle by her own sword (the soultaker) yet battled a shadow within it to return to life (Outsiders Team
2 #14) though it only took a few minutes.
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Very few heroes have gained powers by coming back from the dead. Image/Todd
McFarland's Spawn is one such example.
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Some heroes haven't died but rather vanished
into obscurity. These heroes were one shots that didn't really cut it and are left behind in the void. Some of these Include
Marvel's Slingers, Plasmer, and Spellbinder. DCs Supermen of America, Firebrand, and Xero just to name a few.
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Some villians were one shot wonders as well.
Marvel's Scorpia, and Spiderwasp both from Spiderman Series. From DC Steel's Hotspot, Split, and Shellshock. DC's The Hybrid (New Teen Titian's
#24). Also from DC Aztec the Ultimate Man's Deathdoll.
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Some times even comic companies themselves didn't
last very long. Examples include Ultraverse (Prime, Strangers, Hardcase,etc). There was also Impact (Jaguar, Sheild, The Fly,etc).
There was also Continuity Comics (Armor, Ms Mystic, Hybrids,etc). These are but a few among tons of other companies
that are no longer coming out with new issues.
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