American Superheroes Research Paper

When thinking about superheroes, how often does foreign superheroes come to mind? When thinking about superheroes, the most popular superheroes that come to mind are Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, and Captain America. Throughout the semester, questions have been brought up in the classroom about what is a superheroes, what makes them a superheroes, and what superheroes are offer today. When in class the, day the Professor Knorr introduced the research paper that we had to do, she told us to start thinking about research topics that we would be interested in. I honestly had no idea what I would write about and asking me to find a topic I like and do research—which was not something I am good at. I am going into this research completely blind.

As I looked further into this question, it did as that comics superheroes first appeared in American and slowly other countries adopted the comic industry as well. How interesting is it that there are not just the typical American superheroes that are well known. When searching up superheroes around the world, there was a whole list of superheroes that came up. In the article “What Superheroes Look Like in 14 Countries Around the World” shows how the different countries perceive as a superheroes. It interesting to see that the superheroes in the fourteen different countries had their own defintion of who is a superhero. Seeing the different superheroes, some have adopted that typical cape and spandex (Omanga). While other have different characteristic that define their superheroes. Although superheroes first appeared in America, I can see why other countries have adopted the superheroes and made it into their own. That made me think that may be one reason that superheroes in other countries are not well

Americans are divided about the value of spreading Americans culture around the world. In August 2002, an Christian Science Monitor poll found that only 47% felt that "American movies and popular culture" had a positive impact on "the rest of the world." The other 44% thought the American impact had a negative (World Public Opinion). From what I have gathered through research, it seems that American media has a great impact around the world. The impact are on both side of having a positive influence and also a negative