April 28 marks National Superhero Day — and what’s a better way to observe the occasion than to celebrate the world’s most popular superhero?
If you go by at least one analysis of the past year’s Google search data, that hero is Spider-Man
the web slinger is the world’s most popular superhero with more than 5 million average searches per month.
He’s normal. He’s a young guy whose silliness and awkwardness make him one of the most relatable superheroes to exist. He isn’t anything special, he’s just normal.
The “life lessons of being kind to others and taking responsibility,” taught to him by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, are very present in the Peter Parker side of the character
Spider-Man often has trouble balancing his web-slinging heroics with his non-superhero Peter Parker identity.
“Even when he’s in the middle of a battle with the Rhino or the Lizard, he’s still cracking jokes — bad jokes a lot of the time, but they’re often the best kind.”
“When they are so well written and realized, they almost feel real. And they’ve been there for a lot of us for a long time, be it through comic books, movies, games,”