Created by Stan Lee
Bruce Nash Country of origin United Kingdom Executive producer(s) Alex Cross Final episode date 18 April 2009 Cast Stan Lee, Sam Nixon Program creators Stan Lee, Bruce Nash | Developed by CBBC / NBC Universal No. of episodes 15 First episode date 3 January 2009 Number of episodes 15 Networks CBBC, BBC Two | |
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Starring Sam Nixon
Mark Rhodes
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Show introduction who wants to be a superhero season 2
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.
Contents
- Show introduction who wants to be a superhero season 2
- Who wants to be a superhero uk creature
- Superheroes
- Boys
- Girls
- Powerdown
- Villains
- Episode list and missions
- Controversy
- References
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.
Who wants to be a superhero uk creature
Superheroes
There were 13 superheroes in total; seven boys and six girls.
Boys
Girls
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:
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.