Seit Nietzsche vieldeutiges Schlagwort für einen neuen, höheren Typ des Menschen.
(Irregular plural: supermen).
A man of superhuman strength.
The first comic-strip superhero, created 1938 in the US by writer Jerome Siegel and artist Joseph Shuster, later featured in films, television, and other media. In the German philosopher Nietzsche’s work, his ideal future human being was the Übermensch, or Superman.