Superhero

A superhero was someone who protected other people from monsters and made them feel secure and safe. (PROSE: Forever Autumn) Some superheroes had secret identities. (PROSE: Another Girl, Another Planet)

Several times people compared the Doctor to a superhero. Caroline Darnell thought that the Eighth Doctor was a superhero and was disappointed when he told her that he wasn't. (PROSE: The Sleep of Reason)

Rick Pirelli had a similar feeling of security when he thought about the Tenth Doctor and superheros. To him the Doctor wasn't a superhero but he was someone that he could turn to if the monsters showed up. (PROSE: Forever Autumn)

To Lucie Miller, the Eighth Doctor was like a superhero. (AUDIO: Death in Blackpool)

Clyde Langer created his own superhero comic book, The Silver Bullet. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer) In the comic book The Silver Bullet was a superhero that protected the city from crime. (COMIC: The Silver Bullet)

Iron Man was a fictional superhero. (PROSE: The Forgotten Army) Another fictional superhero was Karkus. He was the protagonist of a comic strip which appeared in the Hourly Telepress in the year 2000. (TV: The Mind Robber) The fictional superhero Superman crash-landed on Earth as a baby and was the last of his kind. (AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men) Batman was a fictional superhero that Clyde Langer admired. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer) The fictional superhero Spider-Man was able to scale buildings by crawling along their sides, not unlike a spider. (PROSE: To the Slaughter)

Amy Pond named her and Rory's daughter Melody Pond; to her, this was the name for a superhero. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)