Super Hero Stupidity
By none other than the women of The Huffington Post
Although it might be wrong to completely blame The Huffington Post for this particular form of stupidity.
“Recovery.org, an organization that offers resources for people with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, is making those “perfect” bodies a little more realistic by “reverse photoshopping” illustrations of some of the most iconic superheroes.” —
First let me tell you why these types of bodies are obviously not realistic in the slightest. These are super heroes. Everyday they are fighting, training. Naturally their bodies would reflect what they do and how they take care of themselves. Basically, Super heroes would naturally be in great shape.
Now beyond that obvious reason, many Super heroes have backgrounds that fully explain why they look how they do and why they are able to do the things that they do (IE flips, lifts, kicks, and other such things.)
Let’s start with my girl, Harley.
I am a huge Harley and joker fan girl. I know a lot about each of their stories so you can understand why this image upsets me so much. Harleen Quinzel was dedicated gymnast. So dedicated that it was able to win her a scholarship to Gotham University where she started to pursue her career as a psychiatrist.
Arthur started to manifest incredible strength and speed at a young age, as well as the abilities to breathe underwater and talk to fish. On her deathbed, his mother revealed that she was an exiled Queen of Atlantisand he would someday inherit rule of the seven seas. His father gave him an education and taught him to control his powers, eventually allowing him to grow up and become the super-hero Aquaman.
Arthur’s father started training him after his powers started manifesting. He learned to control his strength and speed so that he could come off as human.
Weapons Master: The Panther has mastered all known weapons.
Master Acrobat: T’Challa is a rigorously trained gymnast and acrobat.
Expert Marksman: He is a master marksman adept with hunting knives, firearms, and other projectile weaponry
T’challa was trained to fight and excelled at the art and others before he even took the mantle as Black Panther or King of Wakanda. He actually had to defeat the previous Black panther to gain the title, according to the lore of earth -616.
Natasha was a trained and very skilled sleeper agent for Soviet forces.
by the late 1930s she had attracted the attention of Soviet intelligence, which began her training.
So I am sorry, but I would have a hard time believing these heroes could be as successful with the bodies depicted above. And these are just a few that were mentioned. Let’s not forget Superman,who is an alien, Spider-man who , Again, works out, and Cyborg who is…. Just that. HE is a cyborg.
Dick Grayson (Robin and nightwing) was an acrobat.
Thor is a God.
Any of the X-men are trained to fight.
The fact is you have to consider some of the backgrounds of many of the super heroes we know and love ( Some that aren’t mentioned here are DareDevil, Luke cage, Wonder Woman, Batman), and these bodies types are just not a realistic outcome of what they do on a daily basis not to mention a reflection of how they lived their pre-hero days
Super Heroes need to be fit. Sorry.
