Heroes & Heroines

This is an example of social comparison. The article talks about how we see bodies of superheroes and want to be like them, but that is unrealistic. It examples what the stars of these movies go through to achieve their physiques and how that will never be a reality for normal people.

I like this article because it speaks to the unrealistic expectation of being like a superhero. It talks about how normal people cannot achieve the physical physique of these actors because they just don't have the resources. This article helps prove that we associate superheroes with muscular physiques, but that it is not achievable for the average person.

Also a new book covers this topic:  "X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor."  Interlibrary loan, anyone?   And if you love social media, "Superhero Synergies" might interest you.

"Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or "cute" they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades. Like I said - personal prejudice." This quote really stuck out to me. People like this are a major contributing factor in the lack of diversity not only in superhero films, but the film industry in general.

This article is about race and gender in superhero movies. I thought this quote from the article was really interesting "As somebody recently pointed out, there are currently more big budget superhero films headlined by blond men named Chris than by women and other ethnicities combined. Even when more diverse characters appear they do so in less prominent roles"

I thought this was a great article for my research topic. A quote i enjoyed was when the author was talking about women in refrigerators and said, "female characters are killed off just to provide a motive for their male counterparts. In the films they seldom even garner this much attention". This is very true in many super hero movies.

This was a good article for my topic. My paper deals with diversity in regards to both gender and race and supported some of the points in my research. I also liked the part about X-Men because that was the movie I coded and am using as examples for my paper.

This article was interesting to read. Many times we think of how the female characters in superhero movies provide an unrealistic image of what females should look like. This article discusses the pressures male leading characters face to look capable of the feats their characters are capable of and how the male populations are turning to plastic surgery for the same reasons.

Some of the greatest comic book artists of all time had to work under restrictions. This is an example of technological determinism. Where the media, comic book creators, had control over the characters colors.

This was definitely interesting to read. Many times when we think of superheroes and the colors they wear we do not think about the limitations of the artists creativity when drawing the character for the first time.

These infographics on colors are somewhat consistent with our findings on color.

This infographic is awesome! It was interesting looking at the infographic statistics compared to the cross tabulations. Some statistics correlated perfectly but others were complete opposites.

I found this infographic awesome as well. It was interesting to relate the statistics in these infographics to the cross-tabulations of the data we collected as a group. Some were consistent, while others were not. For example, this infographic showed black as being the most common color of villains, where our cross-tabulations showed that villains wore more light and bright colors. Interesting information and easy to read.

This article really tells us something about Marvel and their lack of interest in creating a superhero movie with a female lead. It seems that Feige is just beating around the bush and doesn't want to openly say that they just don't want to make that step towards female superhero movies. It would work very well for someone doing their paper about gender in superhero movies!

In this article, Kevin Feige, who is the president of marvel studios, says that this is not a good time to try to make a superhero movie starring a female hero, but that this is something that he really wants to happen. He said that it would be hard for them to tell the right story, and that there are a ton of other genre's that are showing movies that have very strong, independent, female leads such as the Hunger Games and Divergent.

This article discusses a recent interview with Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios President, regarding women as superheroes in movies. The article discuss how Feige sees potential to make more female superhero movies and how three female superhero movies are set to be released in 2017.

This article touches on how women have be depicted in comics through the ages, and how even as women gained more prominent roles they were depicted as sex symbols and degraded.

This article shows different classic comics with female led superheroes that could be made into movies.

"I hope we do it sooner rather than later." Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has responded to the frequent complaint that the studio's output doesn't give female superheroes their time in the spotlight. Feige states that his hands are tied when making a female led superhero movie because they most stay true to the Marvel franchise and comics which the super hero movies are based off of, and they do not have many female superheroes to make a movie from.

There has been a lot of talk about the inclusion of female roles in superhero movies. But instead of them being supporting roles, we are looking for them to star in their own films. We are looking for spin off movies for black widow, who played supporting roles in Iron Man and The Avengers. But they are also talking about bringing back Wonder Woman.

This article really shows how important the first female-led debute is right now and how if Marvel doesn't take advantage of it then someone else will. It's a big step but one that needs to be made and this article makes that clear. I really enjoyed reading it!

I thought this article was very interesting. It touched base on how there is a demand for a female lead in a superhero movie instead of just a supporting role. One of the quotes mentioned in the article that I found interesting was that directors and producers were hesitant to make a female super hero movie because Catwoman and Elektra which starred female super heroes as the main character received poor consumer response in the box offices.

This is an excellent article on diversity amongst superheroes. It is fairly detailed and scholarly, as well as credible.

But I think that that is the reason that we are drawn to these types of movies. If the superhero was not super attractive I don't think that we would enjoy the movies as much. That is really bad for me to say, because it plays along with stereotype and overall impressions of this genre. But anymore, I think that for every genre this is what is happening. You are always looking for the hot star at the time.

Great article! it helped me a lot! Its interesting to see how many people have such strong feelings about the dominant white male character in super hero movies

This was a good article that kind of laid out when minorities are present in superhero films, they are usually never the main character and if they are, they are the antagonist in the movie.

This article gave me a working definition of what a super hero is and what they are perceived to be and what actions of theirs are acceptable in society.

Minorities in Superhero moviesBy Lindsay Parsh Do you consider yourself raciest? Neither do I. But think about this. Think about all the superhero movies we've been watching lately and tell me, are any of the superhero's black? Are any of them Asian, Mexican, or any other minority here in America?

This article really helped me while writing my paper. It gave me an example about some super hero movies that use racial and even cultural minorities and how they are perceived to be negative.

This is a database with a good amount of superheroes and villains characters. It provides statistics relating to their intelligence, strength, endurance and so on. It can provide a specific schema for certain superheroes or villains.

This is very helpful. This helps with statistical relations too intelligence, strength, and endurance.

This is an awesome database, it is very helpful for my topic because I am looking at the underrepresentation of women as super heroes. I can easily go down this list and see that there are very few women.

This website shares some interesting facts about our favorite superhero movies that not many people know about. It definitely makes you look at the movies in a different light because most of them give you a fact that really changes your perspective.

Superheroes of today are now being portrayed as 'playboys' -- take Iron Man, for example. Many believe that these are now setting bad examples to children.

Very interesting article. It explains how superheroes today have a lot more violent, destructive and rule-breaking behavior. It's almost as if superheroes who aren't like this are seen as boring or uncool, like the comic book superheroes of yesterday.

I think that this is a good point. It is kind of how you look at the bigger picture as opposed to small things that make them bad though. So even though your example of Iron Man being a playboy is something that are bad examples to children, there are a lot of positive things that happen through out the movie that makes Iron Man look like a really good guy.