Iron Man, the 2008 Marvel movie that changed comic book movies as we know them, memorably ends with billionaire ( genius/playboy/philanthropist) Tony Stark outing himself as the titular hero at a very public press conference. Let’s take a look at the top five most well-known superheroes-slash-secret-identity-havers, and discuss how good a job they actually do at keeping that identity on lock… 5. Some heroes don’t bother keeping their identity secret, of course, but those who do often grapple with increasingly elaborate ways of doing so for others, the answer lies in keeping it simple. One of the great, classic comic tropes is the secret identity, the lengths our heroes go to to keep their normal lives separate from their super ones. You get it.īut what about superheroes’ other names? The ones they go by when they’re not off saving the world, the ones they were given, or the ones they adopted because their real real name is literally too alien. “We have this woman, and she’s like, really wonderful…” “OK so it’s a human guy, but he can light up like a torch, y’know?” “He’s in the army, respected like a captain, and he protects America…” etc. What’s in a name? When it comes to superheroes, typically pretty much everything is in the name.
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