Just what do super heroes eat?

[PhotoJones]

Yes. If you expect those heroes to go by the designations given to them (Athlete, Trained Human, Peak Human, etc.) then yes there is at times a very specific diet.

If you want, for example, to be an Olympic gymnast, like DareDevil...specific diet.

If you want to be a soldier of fortune like Punisher or a vigilante like Batman...specific diet.

If you want to be adept at using tactile superpowers like optic blasts, a power ring, or some energized weapon or choice...specific diet again.

Diet is the single most important component to anyone looking to compete in a high level of athletics...very few can get away with sloppy eating habits.

So if I eat right, I can be just like Daredevil and Batman? Sweet!

 

[ShadowBoxing]

So if I eat right, I can be just like Daredevil and Batman? Sweet!

Well you have to exercise too. But, the old phrase is "training is 90% diet and 10% exercise".

 

[PhotoJones]

Well you have to exercise too. But, the old phrase is "training is 90% diet and 10% exercise".

Good to know that fictional bodies can be achieved by purely non-fictional ways.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Good to know that fictional bodies can be achieved by purely non-fictional ways.

Well, it's true. You can't make yourself look like Ed McGuiness art or Joe Mad (why would you want to)...but John Cassady, David Mazzuchelli, Bryan Hitch, Barry Kitdson...several others are pretty anatomically correct.

 

[Elijya]

Of all Marvel heroes, only Wolverine is regularly seen smoking a cigar

There's more, but of notable examples, Nick Fury and Ben Grimm also regularly smoke Cigars. IIRC, though, Quesada has a no smoking in Marvel Comics moratorium right now.

 

[PhotoJones]

Well, it's true. You can't make yourself look like Ed McGuiness art or Joe Mad (why would you want to)...but John Cassady, David Mazzuchelli, Bryan Hitch, Barry Kitdson...several others are pretty anatomically correct.

Wow, man. I was just kidding. But you're serious, aren't you?

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Wow, man. I was just kidding. But you're serious, aren't you?

Yes. You really think that people who perform in high levels of athletics and work for that type of body don't pay hard attention to what they eat . I mean their isn't a single bodybuilder, Olympian, professional or college team that doesn't spend scads of money on a nutritionist.

 

[Tropico]

Yes. If you expect those heroes to go by the designations given to them (Athlete, Trained Human, Peak Human, etc.) then yes there is at times a very specific diet.

If you want, for example, to be an Olympic gymnast, like DareDevil...specific diet.

If you want to be a soldier of fortune like Punisher or a vigilante like Batman...specific diet.

If you want to be adept at using tactile superpowers like optic blasts, a power ring, or some energized weapon or choice...specific diet again.

Diet is the single most important component to anyone looking to compete in a high level of athletics...very few can get away with sloppy eating habits.

You can try to pin all your RL science on superheroes eating habits but it doesn't mean a thing. It's just like many powers that cannot be explained scientifically no matter how much they try.

And how is an optic blast a tactile power? WTF?!

-I know it was recently shown that Spidey loves twinkies.
-Amadeus Cho is mostly a brainy teenager who doesn't do too much physical activity, he's thing and his food of choice? Chocolate bars.
-Superman likes to eat soft pretzels with mustard and his favorite dish is beef bourguignon.
-In the JLI era Marian Manhunter's favorite food was oreos.

 

[PhotoJones]

Yes. You really think that people who perform in high levels of athletics and work for that type of body don't pay hard attention to what they eat . I mean their isn't a single bodybuilder, Olympian, professional or college team that doesn't spend scads of money on a nutritionist.

And that's all well and good. But it doesn't matter you eat or how much time you spend in the gym, you'll reach a level where you can jump from rooftop to rooftop all night, beating people up.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

You can try to pin all your RL science on superheroes eating habits but it doesn't mean a thing. It's just like many powers that cannot be explained scientifically no matter how much they try.

And how is an optic blast a tactile power? WTF?!

I meant tactical.

-I know it was recently shown that Spidey loves twinkies.
-Amadeus Cho is mostly a brainy teenager who doesn't do too much physical activity, he's thing and his food of choice? Chocolate bars.

Well we really don't know that much about Amadeus Cho. But he looks like a normal kid, so I'd guess he eats like one.

-Superman likes to eat soft pretzels with mustard and his favorite dish is beef bourguignon.
-In the JLI era Marian Manhunter's favorite food was oreos.

Those, and Spider-Man are kind of exceptions because their physiology is not human whatsoever. And Superman and Spider-Man both have fast metabolisms.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

And that's all well and good. But it doesn't matter you eat or how much time you spend in the gym, you'll reach a level where you can jump from rooftop to rooftop all night, beating people up.

You could get to their level of athleticism, yes. You most likely wouldn't put it to that use however. We already have "free style walkers" who go from, literally, rooftop to rooftop. We already have martial artists who could take out ten other fighters at once...that much has and will continue to exist.

Cyclops, DareDevil, Nightwing, and others don't necessarily pull off too many things that are beyond reality (outside of any super powers they may have). Cyclops is a black belt in Judo, Akido and has extensive mechanical training in addition to being a pilot...nothing that can't be repeated in reality.

DareDevil, according to various sources I've read, can bench 300lbs+...nothing out of the ordinary. Their is a world record...in reality...of almost 1000 lbs (something like 915 at the moment)

Sure some feats get exaggerated, but that's in part the logic of the comic universe...not the characters themselves.

You could do things comic characters do...however, running around on rooftops beating up badguys isn't an effective or efficient way of detering crime in the real world. All you'd end up doing is sitting on a rooftop watching the moon rise and set.

 

[The Question]

And that's all well and good. But it doesn't matter you eat or how much time you spend in the gym, you'll reach a level where you can jump from rooftop to rooftop all night, beating people up.

Well, obviously artists exaggerate action to make it more interesting to look at when there's not much happening. Batman and Daredevil would be kind of boring to look at if they were just walking and/or jogging around the city at night while having interior monologues.

 

[PhotoJones]

You could get to their level of athleticism, yes. You most likely wouldn't put it to that use however. We already have "free style walkers" who go from, literally, rooftop to rooftop. We already have martial artists who could take out ten other fighters at once...that much has and will continue to exist.

Cyclops, DareDevil, Nightwing, and others don't necessarily pull off too many things that are beyond reality (outside of any super powers they may have). Cyclops is a black belt in Judo, Akido and has extensive mechanical training in addition to being a pilot...nothing that can't be repeated in reality.

DareDevil, according to various sources I've read, can bench 300lbs+...nothing out of the ordinary. Their is a world record...in reality...of almost 1000 lbs (something like 915 at the moment)

Sure some feats get exaggerated, but that's in part the logic of the comic universe...not the characters themselves.

You could do things comic characters do...however, running around on rooftops beating up badguys isn't an effective or efficient way of detering crime in the real world. All you'd end up doing is sitting on a rooftop watching the moon rise and set.

Actually, you make a good point with the freewalkers. Those guys are in incredible shape AND have the insane fearlessness to do what they do.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Well, obviously artisst exaggerate action to make it more interesting to look at when there's not much happening. Batman and Daredevil would be kind of broing to look at if they were just walking and/or jogging around the city at night while having interior monologues.

That and there will never be a comic where this happens

"Batman: (thoughts) you know I've been running around on rooftops for over a week now...and I haven't seen one crime. Not one. What do these things happen indoors or something, I don't get it? I mean I guess I could've just put all this training to good use, joined the cops or CIA, maybe even become a spy. But nah...I chose to dress like a Bat and just run around aimlessly searching for clues".

 

[The Question]

That and there will never be a comic where this happens

"Batman: (thoughts) you know I've been running around on rooftops for over a week now...and I haven't seen one crime. Not one. What do these things happen indoors or something, I don't get it? I mean I guess I could've just put all this training to good use, joined the cops or CIA, maybe even become a spy. But nah...I chose to dress like a Bat and just run around aimlessly searching for clues".

Someone should write a fill in issue of Batman where he's on patrol and absolutely nothing happens. Could be funny.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Someone should write a fill in issue of Batman where he's on patrol and absolutely nothing happens. Could be funny.

I'm sure there is at least one issue. But yeah, it's a neat concept...and no one ever does it. I'd just like to see his random thoughts "I wonder if I have enough whites for alfred to do a load of laundry tomorrow..."

 

[The Question]

I'm sure there is at least one issue. But yeah, it's a neat concept...and no one ever does it. I'd just like to see his random thoughts "I wonder if I have enough whites for alfred to do a load of laundry tomorrow..."

I think there was an issue of Spider-Man like that. I vaguely recall him just walking around town all night talking to somebody because nothing was happening.

 

[ang_hulk]

You can try to pin all your RL science on superheroes eating habits but it doesn't mean a thing. It's just like many powers that cannot be explained scientifically no matter how much they try.

And how is an optic blast a tactile power? WTF?!

-I know it was recently shown that Spidey loves twinkies.
-Amadeus Cho is mostly a brainy teenager who doesn't do too much physical activity, he's thing and his food of choice? Chocolate bars.
-Superman likes to eat soft pretzels with mustard and his favorite dish is beef bourguignon.
-In the JLI era Marian Manhunter's favorite food was oreos.

is that really supes favorite dish? when did he say that?

 

[Tropico]

is that really supes favorite dish? when did he say that?

It has been stated in comics a bunch of times. If I'm not mistaken they also use it as codeword between Supes' loved ones.

 

[LadyVader]

I can't believe nobody has made a joke about female genitalia yet.

 

[PhotoJones]

I can't believe you just did.

 

[The Leaguer]

Well the Flash has to eat large amounts of food as his speed power burns off energy faster and so his metabolism is greater he needs more food to fuel him.

I don't think that's been true for like 10 years.

 

[LadyVader]

It was not a joke, just merely an observation. Somebody could've, but they didn't. I could've but I didn't. I chose to observe.

The hype is getting mature on us.

PS: You ain't got nuthin on me when it comes to "mind in the gutter".

 

[MaskedManJRK]

I think most of them can get away with occasional splurges of junk food because they do more physical activity then, say, bodybuilders and the like.

I'm sure an Avenger's mission or a patrol in the Bat-Family burns a s**t-load of carbs and calories.

 

[bullets]

yeah thats true .