National Superhero Day!
Apr. 28th, 2024 06:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedAccording to the calendar at work, today is National Superhero Day.
For superheroes proper, I've already mentioned The Tribulations of Omega Girl almost a year ago, and seeing the Japanese OP of The Impossibles (known there as Super Three) eight months earlier.
Other than that, most superheroes I'm actually into are specifically magical girls, except for such shows as Release the Spyce (not involving magic at all, so much as superhuman levels of power to activate). My userpic for today, a poster of Ultimate Girls, is about a specific type in turn, based on Ultraman, although only one girl can fight at a time canonically. However, Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart does feature a superhero-themed magical girl in its cast, known as Masked Wonder, and Weddin mentions in the next arc, Limited, that such magical girl teams as Cutie Healer and Star Queen (obvious stand-ins for Pretty Cure and Sailor Moon respectively) had their concept derived specifically from sentai superheroes (Power Rangers being the most notable of those here in the west).
I also recall Chelle referring once or twice to the psychic girls in Starbound as superheroes. That would also make half the protagonists of the Earthbound trilogy such, which in turn would line up with one cop's opening line when you fight the police in Earthbound.
For superheroes proper, I've already mentioned The Tribulations of Omega Girl almost a year ago, and seeing the Japanese OP of The Impossibles (known there as Super Three) eight months earlier.
Other than that, most superheroes I'm actually into are specifically magical girls, except for such shows as Release the Spyce (not involving magic at all, so much as superhuman levels of power to activate). My userpic for today, a poster of Ultimate Girls, is about a specific type in turn, based on Ultraman, although only one girl can fight at a time canonically. However, Magical Girl Raising Project: Restart does feature a superhero-themed magical girl in its cast, known as Masked Wonder, and Weddin mentions in the next arc, Limited, that such magical girl teams as Cutie Healer and Star Queen (obvious stand-ins for Pretty Cure and Sailor Moon respectively) had their concept derived specifically from sentai superheroes (Power Rangers being the most notable of those here in the west).
I also recall Chelle referring once or twice to the psychic girls in Starbound as superheroes. That would also make half the protagonists of the Earthbound trilogy such, which in turn would line up with one cop's opening line when you fight the police in Earthbound.