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Obviously, there's some love for Deadpool here, but Regina's superhero is:

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why don't we all just make one up from scratch..Play on your city's character, existing celebrities that could become one. Current event oriented.As well, your city's needs and weaknesses...Make it satirical.,The cool ones like Batman for Chicago are taken anyways..Even villains could be mentioned.
I agree, I think we're all approaching this the wrong way. A superhero is merely the character who embodies a city's virtues and who fights its worst fears. A character that is ideally created by the city in question. Clearly, superpowered men and women in tights fighting against the forces of crime, anarchy, and terror struck a chord in the depths of NYC's soul.

Some people argue that Batman fits with Chicago, and certainly there are aspects of the city that inspired the fictional Gotham. But it's not an organic creation from Chicago. Especially since Chicago is much more laissez faire with regard to New York's fears.

Whereas The Blues Brothers are a little more authentic Chicago superheroes. On a mission from God against police, Nazis, good ole boys and exes to defeat the onerous property tax bill.
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For Toronto it could only be Superman. Superman was co-created by hometown boy Joe Shuster. He modelled the Daily Planet on the Toronto Star (where he had worked as a boy) and Metropolis on Toronto (where he was from). Superman was 'Americanized' by DC Comics during WW2 to drum up patriotism in the United States. Canada Post put out some commemorative stamps while the Canadian Mint put out some coins. There's even a 'Joe Shuster Way' near Liberty Village.

In many ways, Superman's demeanour is about as Canadian as you can get: self-effacing, modest, humble. He embodies many things that Canadians hold in high regard.


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I thought Superman was created in Cleveland.
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The story of Superman’s creation is a web. The creators met each other in Cleveland. They had several early attempts at creating Superman, before the final product became successful. One of those early Superman concepts was almost published in Illinois. Ultimately, the final creation was made in New York. The character actually took years to create, through a process of trail and error. So several towns were involved in the creation of the character.
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Philadelphia exists in both the DC and Marvel universes.

In DC comics Shazam resides here. He got his due recently and is getting a sequel.




In Marvel comics, Flash Thompson becomes Venom after Eddie Brock and he moves his base to Philadelphia



We also have our home brewed super heroes with the Unbreakable man, Mr. Glass, and the beast from the unbreakable trilogy of movies.

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The story of Superman’s creation is a web. The creators met each other in Cleveland. They had several early attempts at creating Superman, before the final product became successful. One of those early Superman concepts was almost published in Illinois. Ultimately, the final creation was made in New York. The character actually took years to create, through a process of trail and error. So several towns were involved in the creation of the character.
Eh, where Superman was or was not published isn't where he was created. Joe Shuster moved from Toronto as a 9 year old and became friends with fellow son of jewish immigrants Jerry Seigel. The 2 were childhood friends in heavily the heavily jewish Glenville area and did, in fact, create Superman in Cleveland. Shuster did use the Toronto Daily Star as the Daily Planet and did use Toronto as Metropolis.

Not sure about several towns involved in creating Superman when the 2 creators lived in Cleveland. Cleveland claims Superman. Didn't know Toronto did as well.
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Eh, where Superman was or was not published isn't where he was created. Joe Shuster moved from Toronto as a 9 year old and became friends with fellow son of jewish immigrants Jerry Seigel. The 2 were childhood friends in heavily the heavily jewish Glenville area and did, in fact, create Superman in Cleveland. Shuster did use the Toronto Daily Star as the Daily Planet and did use Toronto as Metropolis.

Not sure about several towns involved in creating Superman when the 2 creators lived in Cleveland. Cleveland claims Superman. Didn't know Toronto did as well.


almost!

seigel invented superman and shuster drew him. shuster came up with the newpaper backstory as he had worked as a little kid for the toronto newpaper a bit and obviously 'the daily planet' is a mix of toronto newspaper monikers.

the old toronto star building was not the inspiration for daily planet hq building. for one thing, shuster moved to cleveland before it was even built, and for another the newspaper building was often depicted differently. in fact the old deco att ohio bldg tower in cleveland more likely played a part, but again the news building is often depicted differently and was not given much thought early on, so its really an amalgamation of buildings typical of the era.

as for toronto being metropolis? oh please. toronto was a bump in the road back then and peaking cleveland was the metropolis initially, if anywhere. hell toronto didn't even pass cleveland metro until the late 1960s. hard to believe nowadays, but just goes to show you toronto's explosive growth since then (and ne ohio's stagnation, unfortunately).

anyway, the duo literally came up with superman imagining him flying around the cleveland terminal tower, so if anything that is actually the key single structure in superman history by their own words and without question.

of course what is also for sure the case is that nyc quickly became the true metropolis when they went out there and made comic book history.

and that's about it for superman. now about howard the duck ... !


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almost!

seigel invented superman and shuster drew him. shuster came up with the newpaper backstory as he had worked as a little kid for the toronto newpaper a bit and obviously 'the daily planet' is a mix of toronto newspaper monikers.

the old toronto star building was not the inspiration for daily planet hq building. for one thing, shuster moved to cleveland before it was even built, and for another the newspaper building was often depicted differently. in fact the old deco att ohio bldg tower in cleveland more likely played a part, but again the news building is often depicted differently and was not given much thought early on, so its really an amalgamation of buildings typical of the era.

as for toronto being metropolis? oh please. toronto was a bump in the road back then and peaking cleveland was the metropolis initially, if anywhere. hell toronto didn't even pass cleveland metro until the late 1960s. hard to believe nowadays, but just goes to show you toronto's explosive growth since then (and ne ohio's stagnation, unfortunately).

anyway, the duo literally came up with superman imagining him flying around the cleveland terminal tower, so if anything that is actually the key single structure in superman history by their own words and without question.

of course what is also for sure the case is that nyc quickly became the true metropolis when they went out there and made comic book history.

and that's about it for superman. now about howard the duck ... !


Tell Wikipedia! lol and there's more out there about this Toronto connection. I always heard Superman was a Cleveland creation until i read in this thread that Toronto claims him. I give Superman to Cleveland though.
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almost!

seigel invented superman and shuster drew him. shuster came up with the newpaper backstory as he had worked as a little kid for the toronto newpaper a bit and obviously 'the daily planet' is a mix of toronto newspaper monikers.

the old toronto star building was not the inspiration for daily planet hq building. for one thing, shuster moved to cleveland before it was even built, and for another the newspaper building was often depicted differently. in fact the old deco att ohio bldg tower in cleveland more likely played a part, but again the news building is often depicted differently and was not given much thought early on, so its really an amalgamation of buildings typical of the era.

as for toronto being metropolis? oh please. toronto was a bump in the road back then and peaking cleveland was the metropolis initially, if anywhere. hell toronto didn't even pass cleveland metro until the late 1960s. hard to believe nowadays, but just goes to show you toronto's explosive growth since then (and ne ohio's stagnation, unfortunately).

anyway, the duo literally came up with superman imagining him flying around the cleveland terminal tower, so if anything that is actually the key single structure in superman history by their own words and without question.

of course what is also for sure the case is that nyc quickly became the true metropolis when they went out there and made comic book history.

and that's about it for superman. now about howard the duck ... !


Tell Wikipedia! lol and there's more out there about this Toronto connection. I always heard Superman was a Cleveland creation until i read in this thread that Toronto claims him. I give Superman to Cleveland though.
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Eh, where Superman was or was not published isn't where he was created. Joe Shuster moved from Toronto as a 9 year old and became friends with fellow son of jewish immigrants Jerry Seigel. The 2 were childhood friends in heavily the heavily jewish Glenville area and did, in fact, create Superman in Cleveland. Shuster did use the Toronto Daily Star as the Daily Planet and did use Toronto as Metropolis.

Not sure about several towns involved in creating Superman when the 2 creators lived in Cleveland. Cleveland claims Superman. Didn't know Toronto did as well.
That’s the thing, the original version of Superman wasn’t like what we see today. The original version was bald, different origin story, no costume, different powers, etc. They shopped around several various versions of Superman to several different publishers. That’s how several locations are involved in his creation. He ultimately gets the first publication of his final version in New York. It all depends on how you look at it.
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Tell Wikipedia! lol and there's more out there about this Toronto connection. I always heard Superman was a Cleveland creation until i read in this thread that Toronto claims him. I give Superman to Cleveland though.
wiki is wiki. come on. this is 2020, where you been, right?

there is no more toronto connection then what's stated. and no more cleveland either, for that matter. its been metropolis ever since shortly after the birth of the guy, and even that seems to veer from gotham/nyc sometimes to generic big cityville. that's the comics for ya.


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That’s the thing, the original version of Superman wasn’t like what we see today. The original version was bald, different origin story, no costume, different powers, etc. They shopped around several various versions of Superman to several different publishers. That’s how several locations are involved in his creation. He ultimately gets the first publication of his final version in New York. It all depends on how you look at it.
actually, thee very first version of superman, in their hs publication, superman was a villain! he got his powers and went wild with them lol.
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NY needed Haussman. A true urban super hero.

Somebody to make that city look prettier and no boring grid.. Imagine Manhattan looking like Paris... it would be very nice.
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