Meanings
- pluralplural onlyThe actions (heroics) of a superhero.
That is to say, it's not supervillainy that's the opposite of superheroics[,] but pacifism. Thus, The Nail confirms the greatness of superheroics by having the greatest superhero of all explicitly repudiate nonviolence.
2017, Noah Berlatsky, Wonder Woman: New Edition with Full Color Illustrations, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 771 more example
As the World Trade Center disaster changed global politics and the world's conception of America irrevocably, so The Authority had violently changed superheroics—and a lot of creative people with egos had their livelihood—or at least their relevancy—threatened as a result.
2007, Jeffery Klaehn, Inside the World of Comic Books, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 153
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