Bitten by a radioactive spider, high school student Peter Parker gained the speed, strength and powers of a spider. Adopting the name Spider-Man, Peter hoped to start a career using his new abilities. Taught that with great power comes great responsibility, Spidey has vowed to use his powers to help people.
Real Name
Peter Benjamin Parker
Height
5'10"
Weight
167 lbs.
Powers
Peter can cling to most surfaces, has superhuman strength (able to lift 10 tons optimally) and is roughly 15 times more agile than a regular human. The combination of his acrobatic leaps and web-slinging enables him to travel rapidly from place to place. His spider-sense provides an early warning detection system linked with his superhuman kinesthetics, enabling him the ability to evade most any injury, provided he doesn't cognitively override the autonomic reflexes. Note: his power enhancements through his transformation by the Queen and after battling Morlun - including his organic web glands and stingers - have been undone after Spider-Man's deal with Mephisto.
Abilities
Peter is an accomplished scientist, inventor and photographer.
Group Affiliations
Avengers, formerly the Secret Defenders, "New Fantastic Four", the Outlaws
First Appearance
Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962)
Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962)
Origin
Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962)
Iron Man
Wounded, captured and forced to build a weapon by his enemies, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark instead created an advanced suit of armor to save his life and escape captivity. Now with a new outlook on life, Tony uses his money and intelligence to make the world a safer, better place as Iron Man.
Real Name
Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark
Height
6'1"; (in armor) 6'6"
Weight
225 lbs.; (in armor) 425 lbs.
Powers
None; Tony's body had been enhanced by the modified techno-organic virus, Extremis, but it is currently inaccessible and inoperable.
Abilities
Tony has a genius level intellect that allows him to invent a wide range of sophisticated devices, specializing in advanced weapons and armor. He possesses a keen business mind.
Group Affiliations
The Avengers, Initiative, Hellfire Club (outer circle), S.H.I.E.L.D., Illuminati, Thunderbolts, Force Works, Queen's Vengeance, Alcoholics Anonymous
First Appearance
Tales of Suspense #39 (1963)
Tales of Suspense #39 (1963)
Origin
Tales of Suspense #39 (1963)
Caught in a gamma bomb explosion while trying to save the life of a teenager, Dr. Bruce Banner was transformed into the incredibly powerful creature called the Hulk. An all too often misunderstood hero, the angrier the Hulk gets, the stronger the Hulk gets.
Real Name
Robert Bruce Banner
Height
5' 9½" (Banner); 6'6" (gray Hulk); 7' – 8' (green/savage Hulk); 7'6" (green/Professor Hulk)
Weight
128 lbs. (Banner); 900 lbs. (gray Hulk); 1,040 – 1,400 lbs.(green/savage Hulk); 1,150 lbs. (green/Professor Hulk)
Powers
The Hulk possesses an incredible level of superhuman physical ability. His capacity for physical strength is potentially limitless due to the fact that the Hulk's strength increases proportionally with his level of great emotional stress, anger in particular. The Hulk uses his super humanly strong leg muscles to leap great distances. The Hulk has been known to cover hundreds of miles in a single bound and once leaped almost into orbit around the Earth. The Hulk can also use his super humanly leg muscles to run at super speeds, although his legs have limitless strength he does not have limitless speed and once he reaches a certain speed his legs become too strong and destroy the ground giving him no friction to run on, therefore he jumps to travel. The Hulk can slam his hands together creating a shock wave, this shock wave can deafen people, send objects flying and extinguish fires. His thunderclap has been compared to hurricanes and sonic booms. The Hulk has shown a high resistance to physical damage nearly regardless of the cause, and has also shown resistance to extreme temperatures, mind control, nuclear explosions, poisons, and all diseases. In addition to the regeneration of limbs, vital organs, and damaged or destroyed areas of tissue at an amazing rate. The Hulk also has superhuman endurance.The Hulk's body also has a gland that makes an "oxygenated per fluorocarbon emulsion", which creates pressure in the Hulk's lungs and effectively lets him breathe underwater and move quickly between varying depths without concerns about decompression or nitrogen narcosis.
Abilities
Group Affiliations
Formerly Avengers, Defenders, Fantastic Four, Pantheon, Horsemen of Apocalypse, Warbound
First Appearance
Incredible Hulk #1 (1962)
Origin
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Incredible Hulk #1 (1962)
* All of these facts are based off of the comics and were found at this website
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would still be the most heroic because no matter how much he wants to give up and no matter how much being Iron Man hurts Tony Stark's personal life, he still decides that being Iron Man is the best for him.
To me the definition of a hero is someone who goes above and beyond to make the world a better place. Whether it be saving the world from evil forces or just by saving someone's life. All three of these characters have pretty heroic values and all three of them are heroic in their own ways with different values. All three of these characters have decided to use the things and powers that have happened to them to do good in the world and all three of them try to do their best when using the powers. And because all three of them have such similar values it is hard to pick which one has the strongest values. I don't think that it is fair to say that one has stronger values than the others because all of them try their best at doing whatever they can to save the world from whatever evil they have to fight at the time.
Since all three of these characters are a part of The Avengers, it is easy to say that all three of them deal with a lot of the same villains as well as some of their own villains. While they do deal with some of their own villains it is easiest to say that one of the biggest villains that they all deal with and that comes up the most would be Hydra. Hydra is constantly popping up throughout all of their lives and always seems to be behind everything that happens in the Marvel Universe. This group of people always seem to be there when they don't want them to be or when they least expect them to be part of it.
Although it is hard to pick which one I find the most heroic, I would have to say that it comes down to Spider-Man and Iron Man. This is because both of them had something happen to them and decided to use it to do good for the world and while one of them was created naturally by being bit by a spider, the other was created through the use of mechanics, artificial intelligence and an intelligent man. Both of these superheroes go through their day to day lives and try to help out whenever they can whereas Hulk just tries to stop himself from trying to turn into the Hulk everyday and only turns into the Hulk when it necessary.
Out of the three superheroes above I would have to say that Spider-Man is my favourite. This is because in the comics he is around the same age as I am now and he is already doing so many amazing things. He is a genius teenager and even though he was bitten by a spider and turned into this superhuman, he still finds the best of it and decided the best way to use his abilities was for good. Also he probably has the coolest super suit out of all the superheroes and he probably has the coolest abilities. I mean like how much fun would it be to be able to climb walls and shoot webs.
Although all three of these characters have pretty heroic upbringings and have all decided to use the things that have happened to them to do good, I would have to say that Iron Man's origin is the most heroic. Not only does he get wounded and captured by people and forced to create a weapon for the bad guys, he decides to create a suit that will help him escape and then decides to use his money to create a new suit and use it to save the world from evil. He founded The Avengers to bring all of the world's super humans together and help protect the world from anything that can become of threat. And even though all of the characters I picked were a part of The Avengers at one point, Iron man
Although it is hard to pick which one I find the most heroic, I would have to say that it comes down to Spider-Man and Iron Man. This is because both of them had something happen to them and decided to use it to do good for the world and while one of them was created naturally by being bit by a spider, the other was created through the use of mechanics, artificial intelligence and an intelligent man. Both of these superheroes go through their day to day lives and try to help out whenever they can whereas Hulk just tries to stop himself from trying to turn into the Hulk everyday and only turns into the Hulk when it necessary.
Out of the three superheroes above I would have to say that Spider-Man is my favourite. This is because in the comics he is around the same age as I am now and he is already doing so many amazing things. He is a genius teenager and even though he was bitten by a spider and turned into this superhuman, he still finds the best of it and decided the best way to use his abilities was for good. Also he probably has the coolest super suit out of all the superheroes and he probably has the coolest abilities. I mean like how much fun would it be to be able to climb walls and shoot webs.
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