Who Wants to Be a Superhero? is a UK children's reality show hosted by Sam Nixon, Mark Rhodes and Stan Lee, based on the NBC Universal/Sci Fi Channel (United States) series of the same name. The show is a co-production between CBBC and NBC.
Children aged 9 - 13 create and become their very own, unique, never before seen superhero characters for the series, taking part in missions and challenges and living away from home in 'The Superhero Lair' in London. Contestants responded to trials on the CBBC Channel and application forms on the CBBC website.
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Superheroes
There were 13 superheroes in total; seven boys and six girls.
Boys
- Deflector - James 10 [Eliminated 7th]
- H20 Man - Karl 13 [Winner]
- Mega-Might Man - Sam 10 [Eliminated 2nd]
- 9 Lives - Jake 10 [Eliminated 5th]
- Santh - Elliot 10 [Eliminated 6th] (youngest boy)
- Steel Soldier - Tobe 13 [Quarter Finalist] [Eliminated 9th]
- S.G.W. (Stop Global Warming) - Michael 11 but turned 12 in the semi finals [2nd place] [wasn't eliminated]
Girls
- Dolphin Girl - Beth 9 [Eliminated 3rd]
- Flying Feather - Branwen 10 [Eliminated 4th]
- Gold-Starlet - Ellah 9 [3rd place] [wasn't eliminated] (youngest girl and youngest of all the superheroes)
- Mizz Dungarees - Emma 10 [Eliminated 1st]
- Princess Paw - Charlie 12 [Eliminated 8th] (oldest girl)
- Pink Puffle Girl - 11 April [Semi Finalist] [Eliminated]
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Powerdown
This table gives the order of superheroes being "powered down" (eliminated) from the series. Some weeks, superheroes were immune from being powered down as a reward for a challenge or were unable to take part due to illness.
Stats in Written Form
Stats in Grid Form
Footnotes:
- There was not a power down in Show 1 as this documented the audition process for the series.
- There was no elimination/powered down superhero in Show 2 as Sam & Mark decided to offer second chances to the superheroes in the bottom three.
- There was no elimination/powered down superhero in Show 6 as Sam & Mark were unable to make a decision between the bottom three superheroes.
- There was not a power down in Show 15 as this documented H20 Man's winning story and meeting Stan Lee in Los Angeles.
Leaderboard by number of Powerdowns
Villains
In most episodes, the superheroes take part in challenges and missions (as instructed by Stan Lee) to save the world from evil villain, Dr. Dark. Throughout the series, Dr. Dark tricks them, steals from them, and even goes as far as to imprison Sam and Mark. The villain is assisted by his evil, mutated, scary (and often angry) half human-half pig henchmen, whom the superheroes encounter multiple times during their missions. Dr. Dark is eventually defeated in episode 14 by the three finalists, on the roof of the secret lair. In the final episode, Stan Lee creates Fire Fiend, a fire based enemy for H2O Man's comic book.
Episode list and missions
Each episode (with the exception of episode 1 - auditions) the superheroes face one or two challenges working as a team, pairs, trios or individually. They are judged by Sam and Mark on their behaviour as a superhero.
Controversy
In early March 2009 UK mid-market newspaper the Daily Mail attempted to link the programme with the issue of child exploitation in reality television. After approaches to the BBC failed to produce sufficient evidence to support their position, the newspaper approached a number of the contestants' families, resulting in complaints that the newspaper was invading the families' privacies, and injunctions to prevent publication of the children's real identities. Furthermore, it is alleged that some of the story's professional sources had been quoted selectively in such a way as to direct what were general observations as if they were specific criticisms of the programme.
There was also some controversy among viewers about the power down of Steel Soldier, who many viewers felt was powered down to even out the number of girls, seeing as his track record had been much better than the two other superheroes up for powerdown, H2O Man and Gold Starlet.
References
External links
- Who Wants to Be a Superhero? at BBC Programmes
Source of article : Wikipedia
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