Golden Heroes is a superhero role-playing game that was originally written and published on an amateur basis in 1982.

The Hero System ( or HERO System ) is a generic role-playing game system that developed from the superhero RPG Champions.

* Underground ( role-playing game ), a satirical superhero game

Champions is a role-playing game published by Hero Games that is designed to simulate and function in a four-color superhero comic book world.

* Heroes and Zeroes, a superhero role-playing game like Champions.

Heroes Unlimited is a superhero role-playing game written by Kevin Siembieda and first published by Palladium Books in 1984.

The game's introduction states that the game was designed to be a " thinking man's " superhero role-playing game where the characters were vulnerable and could not amass an incredible number of skills or abilities.

The development of the Hero System from the superhero role-playing game Champions was a profound influence in popularizing the concept.

* Galactic Champions, a far-future setting for the Champions superhero role-playing game from Hero Games using the Hero System, is set in the early 31st century.

When still a teenager in the late 1970s, Dee and Jack Herman co-created Villains and Vigilantes, the first complete superhero role-playing game.

Later that year they would also publish Brave New World, a dystopian superhero role-playing game that used a simplified version of the Deadlands rules.

City of Heroes ( CoH ) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft.

The game combines the adventure and role-playing video game styles of play and the superhero, comedy and post-apocalypse genres.

Mutants & Masterminds ( abbreviated " M & M " or " MnM ") is a top-selling multiple ENnie award and Pen & Paper Fan Award winning superhero role-playing game written by Steve Kenson and published by Green Ronin Publishing based on a variant of the d20 System by Wizards of the Coast.

* Champions ( role-playing game ), a game to simulate a superhero comic book world

Silver Age Sentinels is a superhero role-playing game ( RPG ) published in 2002 by Guardians of Order, creators of Big Eyes, Small Mouth, an anime-themed RPG.

Omlevex is a superhero role-playing game supplement published by Z-Man Games and Spectrum Games.

* Brave New World ( role-playing game ), a superhero role-playing game

* City of Heroes, a massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game based on superhero comics, released in 2004

On May 12, 2010, Green Ronin Publishing announced a third edition of the superhero role-playing game Mutants & Masterminds would debut in the fall.

Shopping it around to various publishers, none were interested ( superhero games had lost their popularity ) until he talked to Chris Pramas ( President of Green Ronin Publishing ) about the setting.

Originally, the program's plot was to feature a superhero from a comic book coming to life but it was changed due to children playing videos games more as a pastime than reading comics.

Early in its lifespan the magazine also included comic book pages about the adventures of a superhero named GamePro who was a video game player from the real world brought into a dimension where video games were real to save it from creatures called the Evil Darklings.

Guardians of Order expanded beyond anime based games when the Tri-Stat dX system was adopted for the superhero game Silver Age Sentinels.

Calhoun is never seen again, until superhero team the JSA learn that Hybrid died in the gladiatorial games staged by villainess Roulette.

This special section provided support for science fantasy and superhero roleplaying games such as Gamma World, Marvel Super Heroes and Star Frontiers.

* Infamous ( series ), a series of video games revolving around superhero Cole MacGrath

Teams in recent games have been required to walk around the roof of the Space Needle, find a puzzle hidden in a live rat, and circulate a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide from local ecosystems while dressed in superhero outfits.

Hill said that Nichols ' mental illness manifesting itself in an addiction to video games in which he came to believe he was a real superhero.

For " mundane " settings, 2d4 is used ; for " heroic-action " settings 2d6 is used ; for " post-human " settings 2d8 is used ; for " superhero " games 2d10 or 2d12 can be used ; and for " Godlike " settings, 2d20 is used.

The games all have similar and different features, and follow the synopsis of the television show's plot, being a tie-in to the show's in-universe video game, involving superhero Ace Lightning venturing into the nightmarish amusement park called the Carnival of Doom to defeat his nemesis Lord Fear and obtain the shattered pieces of the Amulet of Zoar.

All versions of the video game are side-scrolling platform games, whereby the player controls superhero Spider-Man to battle various supervillains ( Doctor Octopus, Sandman, The Lizard, Hobgoblin, Vulture, Mysterio, Electro and Venom ) to obtain the keys needed to disarm a nuclear bomb that the Kingpin has not only framed Spider-Man for stealing but plans to detonate within twenty-four hours.

Examples include the superhero Captain America, and the Halo series of video games.

Category: superhero video games

Whereas most superhero games require straightforward fighting, Batman Begins features the utilization of the environment to frighten opponents.

A student dresses up like the Marvel Comics superhero and performs, usually at football games.

By the 1980s, several independent publishers, such as Pacific, Eclipse, First, Comico, and Fantagraphics had started releasing a wide range of styles and formats — from color superhero, detective, and science fiction comic books to black-and-white magazine-format stories of Latin American magical realism.

DC Comics produces material featuring a large number of well-known characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Robin, Aquaman, Hawkman, Green Arrow, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern and the Flash, along with superhero teams Justice Society, the Justice League, the Teen Titans, and the Doom Patrol as well as antagonists such as Lex Luthor, the Joker, the Riddler, Mr. Freeze, Catwoman, Sinestro, the Penguin, Poison Ivy, Two-Face, General Zod, Brainiac and Darkseid .< ref > Benton, Mike.

On top of this, he still performed other gestures, such as arranging police protection with his personal assurances for local artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, when they were threatened by Nazi supporters for their new patriotic comic book superhero, Captain America.

Many stereotypically " nerdy " interests, such as superhero and Sci-Fi movies, are now popular culture hits.

Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered descendants of " hero pulps "; pulp magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters, such as The Shadow, Doc Savage and The Phantom Detective.

Other primary aspects of Japanese science fiction TV are the superhero tokusatsu ( a term literally meaning special effects ) series, pioneered by programs such as Moonlight Mask and Planet Prince.

The insecurity and anxieties in Marvel's early 1960s comic books such as The Fantastic Four, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and X-Men ushered in a new type of superhero, very different from the certain and all-powerful superheroes before them, and changed the public's perception of them.

By most definitions, characters do not strictly require actual superhuman powers to be deemed superheroes, although terms such as costumed crime fighters are sometimes used to refer to those such as Batman and Green Arrow without such powers who share other common superhero traits.

The vigilante character is frequently a superhero, such as Batman, or a rogue cop such as Dirty Harry.

Archie has also been a superhero in some comics, such as Pureheart.

The title of the series was inspired by earlier crossover stories involving the multiple parallel Earths of the Multiverse, such as " Crisis on Earth-Two " and " Crisis on Earth-Three ", but instead of lasting two to five issues and involving members from many superhero teams from many parallel worlds, it involved virtually every significant character from every parallel universe in DC's history.

Since 1985, superhero publishers such as DC and Marvel have had frequent " summer crossover " series designed to tie many of their comic book titles together under a single storyline.

The story is a precursor to the " disguised superhero " tales such as Zorro and Batman.

He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War ( 1987 ), Wild Wild West ( 1999 ), The Road to El Dorado ( 2000 ), Conspiracy ( TV ) ( 2001 ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 ), Warm Springs ( TV ) ( 2005 ), Valkyrie ( 2008 ), Wallander ( TV series ) ( 2008 – present ), and My Week with Marilyn ( 2011 ) as Laurence Olivier ( Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor ); and directed such notable films as Dead Again ( 1991 ) ( also starring ), Swan Song ( 1992 ) ( Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film ), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1994 ) ( also starring ), The Magic Flute ( 2006 ), Sleuth ( 2007 ), and the blockbuster superhero film Thor ( 2011 ).

Although he sometimes feels that Ultraman's intervention makes his role useless, his inventions have occasionally been critical in saving the day such as helping the superhero defeat particularly formidable monsters.

During the first decade of the 2000s, superhero films abounded, as did earthbound science fiction such as the Matrix trilogy.

Some films blur the line between the genres, such as films where the protagonist gains the extraordinary powers of the superhero.

Some attempts to use the character in other superhero or family-friendly comics were altered due to editorial mandate, such as " Gregori Eilovotich Rasputin " in Firestorm and Captain Atom ( who refers to Constantine as " an impertinent bumbler in England ") and " Ambroise Bierce " in Stanley and His Monster.

Hernandez has said that, at a young age, he was particularly enamored with superhero comics — particularly 1960s Marvel Comics artists such as Jack Kirby's work on Fantastic Four and Steve Ditko, and the cartoony art of DC Comics artists such as Carmine Infantino and Dick Sprang.

It launched several new titles, including The Authority, a dark and violent superhero comic, whose heroes had total disregard about things such as honorable battle or not killing their opponents ; its goal was only in making the world a better place.