You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. Superhero games have grown in an open-world setting, and these 10 titles are a testament to how strong these heroes are in this genre.

The worlds of Riverdale and superheroes have crossed over plenty of times before—the Black Hood, the Crusaders, Captain Flag—and neither Archie Andrews and his friends nor Archie as a ...

The last few decades have seen the rise of the superhero in our popular culture. It all started back in the 1980s with the original Superman movies that starred the late Christopher Reeve.

If there is one lesson that the past decade has taught us about the state of cinema, it is that superhero movies are, in many ways, the dominant film-going attraction. The anticipation for ...

Captain Marvel proved to be one of the most popular superhero comics of the Golden Age, regularly outselling the adventures of Superman during the 1940s. The sales of comic books increased ...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is set to get its first transgender superhero. "And very soon. In a movie that we're shooting right now," Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige said during a Q&A at the New ...

Tasha Robinson is Polygon’s entertainment editor. She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. As a tabletop game master who ...

How’s that for a wild stat? Notice, too, that including Joker, half of the top-10 grossing R-rated movies are superhero films. This reflects the overall fact superhero cinema has been largely ...