Happy international superhero day!! Benedict Cumberbatch approved of my design and we ended up on TV on bbc, itv, ch5?! Mad. Listen I used to design and make my outfits a lot. Aight this essay is gonna be so cringe, are you ready? So superheroes are what got me to love film when I was younger. It started here. POWERS BRO?!!!? I wanted to teleport so bad. Anything to take me out of the world I found so boring. The Xmen cartoons were my first intro to them back in the day- I was SO young, probably too young- and watched with my brother. Tbh I should prob thank him for where I am now lmao he doesn’t even knoww. Then I saw Ironman1 when it came out and my life was changed because he broke ALL the conventions of what makes a superhero. I was like ‘there is ABSOLUTELY no wAY he just said ‘I am Ironman’. Jaw = on the floor. Kick Ass was another one we studied in gcses and I continued secondary school watching each hero film the day of release in cinemas - iron man 3 midnight screening in ...