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 and superpowers. (PROSE: Another Girl, Another Planet) Numerous fictional superheroes existed in comic books. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio)
Frobisher knew he wasn't a superhero, as they could do everything without the slightest doubt or fear, which he could not. (PROSE: Mission: Impractical)
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)
Galaxia was part of a trio of female superheroes that were created by Clyde Langer for one of his paintings. (TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge) Clyde later drew the superhero Rocket Man. (TV: The Mark of the Berserker) Then Clyde created the 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)
Behind the scenes[]
As he revealed at the 2016 New York Comic Con, at the age of six, Steven Moffat was the superhero "Red Rat", "for most of an afternoon". He made a costume, and patrolled Paisley for an hour in search of crime.