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Lizzie Velasquez has torn the door off of Olympus, shamed the lazy, narcissistic, false gods in there resting on their laurels and reclaimed her rightful place in the halls of divinity, goddess that she is and always was. Such courage and strength is sacred and awe-inspiring and takes my breath away. That is why I do what I do. That is why I worship heroes.

A hero can be anyone. Even a city doing something as simple and reassuring as creating an imaginary story around a young boy to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.

For many years, a man has been living a comic book style double life in St. Petersburg, Florida. At night, armed with a gun filled with rubber bullets, a mask adorned with a chess piece symbol, and a stock of supplies, Knight-Hood patrols the streets of St. Petersberg.

Were Diana’s victims actually sex abusers or were they just bus drivers targeted at random? Is vigilantism okay in a city that can’t or won’t protect its own people? And the biggest question: Is Diana a psycho killer or a superhero?

Last fall, I saw a few articles online about how some window washers who serviced a local children’s hospital came up with the idea of donning costumes of superheroes like Spider-Man and Captain America and going to work that way. Their management approved of the idea and they did it …

Every year, as we approach its end, many of the bigger news media outlets typically have retrospective reviews of news highlights from the year with titles like “2012: A Year to Remember” (or something of that sort). Usually, as reported by the bigger news entities, a significant portion of these …

At PopMythology.com, in addition to using pop culture as a way to promote heroic qualities and virtues, we also periodically feature real-life people who, in some way or another, are using superhero symbolism to promote goodness and positivity in the world and in their communities. Today’s real-life superhero is Roger …

New York is a city of superheroes. Of course, here follows my usual disclaimer that superheroes are metaphorical archetypes, and so by “superhero,” I don’t mean people with supernatural powers in tights and capes.  I mean regular people demonstrating heroic attributes:  bravery, generosity, compassion, selflessness or often some combination of …

Most of what I treasure about the superhero genre are the symbolic meanings and mythological wisdom embedded within it.  And while I love comic books and comic-related material, there’s definitely no mistaking them for anything resembling realism.  This goes even for something as dark and somber as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight film …