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Superhero vs Superpowerless - What's the difference?

superhero | superpowerless |

As a noun superhero

is any kind of fantasy/science fiction crime-fighting character, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature.

As an adjective superpowerless is

in fiction, lacking a superpower; lacking the special attributes of a superhero or supervillain.

superhero

Noun

(es)
  • Any kind of fantasy/science fiction crime-fighting character, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature.
  • Antonyms

    * supervillain

    superpowerless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In fiction, lacking a superpower; lacking the special attributes of a superhero or supervillain.
  • *2008 , Shane Berryhill, Chance Fortune and the Outlaws :
  • The idea of a practically unarmed, unshielded, and superpowerless human boy defeating what was probably the mightiest warrior of the day without any external aid is absolutely absurd.
  • *2001 , William Bernhardt, Silent Justice , p. 43:
  • The 1969 dispenser was of the short-lived superpowerless karate-chopping Wonder Woman written by the legendary Dennis O'Neil.
  • Extremely powerless.
  • *2003 , Henry Bayman, The Secret of Islam: Love and Law in the Religion of Ethics , p. lvi:
  • Though nihilism may not be invincible, superpowers are superpowerless against it.
  • *2002 , Glenn Kenny, A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on Twenty-Five Years of Star Wars , p. 40:
  • If Boba Fett serves as a lightning rod for anything more significant than admiration of his arresting costume and four gritty lines of dialogue, perhaps it is as the embodiment of our third-wave, superpowerless anxiety, which long predates the events of September 11, 2001.
  • *1984 , George Thomas Kurian, The New Book of World Rankings , p. xviii:
  • Yet the balance of power (or terror) is so evenly matched that the superpowers are superpowerless to use their awesome might in any situation short of an actual enemy attack.