Are superheroes and supervillains the product of their childhood experiences? Not if they belong to the Marvel Cinematic Extended Universe or DC Universe, according to a new paper published in the ...

Drawing inspiration from his childhood heroes he created back ... it a little further with people who were side characters in the original books are now getting their time in the spotlight ...

the amount of potentially traumatic events a character experienced in childhood—as measured by a real-life questionnaire—had no bearing on whether they were a hero or villain. Julia Wigmore of ...