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Fictional superhuman healers

  • Yuta OkkotsuYuta Okkotsu is the teenage hero of Jujutsu Kaisen 0, a manga by Gege Akutami, and he is almost never alone. Beside him hovers the Cursed Spirit of Rika Orimoto, a childhood friend who died six years before the story opens. As children,…
  • She-RaFor the honor of Grayskull, I am She-Ra. Those words, spoken to a sword, turn a soldier named Adora into the superheroine of the Masters of the Universe franchise. She-Ra began as a toy line and a minicomic. She then became the star of two…
  • Kylo RenKylo Ren kills his own father, Han Solo, on Starkiller Base. He later turns back and becomes Ben Solo again.
  • Venom (character)Venom, the alien symbiote of Marvel Comics, began as a $220 purchase. In 1982, a Marvel reader from Norridge, Illinois, named Randy Schueller received a letter from Jim Shooter, the company's editor-in-chief. The letter said Marvel liked…
  • Apocalypse (character)En Sabah Nur is the birth name of Apocalypse, a supervillain from Marvel Comics, and Marvel says the name means "The First One." That translation is considered grammatically incorrect. Broken into parts, the name joins words for "the,"…
  • Rey (Star Wars)Rey began as a scavenger on Jakku and ended by naming herself Rey Skywalker. She says it near Luke's childhood home.
  • Iron Fist (character)Iron Fist is a Marvel Comics superhero whose hidden home city appears on Earth only once every 10 years. His full name is Daniel Thomas Rand-K'ai, though readers know him as Danny Rand. He is a martial artist who can gather his chi into a…
  • Satoru GojoSatoru Gojo, often called The Honored One, is a fictional sorcerer from Gege Akutami's manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. In August 2024, Shueisha held its fourth Jujutsu Kaisen character popularity poll, and Gojo came first with…
  • Symbiote (comics)The symbiotes of Marvel Comics, also called the Klyntar, are a fictional species of alien parasites, and more than 40 of them are known in the Marvel Universe. Each one joins with a living host until the two behave as a single being. Most…
  • ZatannaZatanna Zatara first stepped onto a comic book page in Hawkman #4, dated November 1964. Writer Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson created her for DC Comics. Today she is counted among the publisher's best-regarded supernatural heroes,…
  • GroguGrogu is a small green infant from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian. Once, a puppet of him made an actor plead with the show's filmmakers. Dave Filoni began to remove the puppet from a scene, planning an alternate take that could use…
  • Doctor FateDoctor Fate, the helmeted sorcerer of DC Comics, was nearly called Doctor Droon. Writer Gardner Fox came up with that name, and an editor changed it before the character reached print. Fox remembered the episode in a 1987 interview, and he…
  • Warren Worthington IIIWarren Kenneth Worthington III first learns what he is at Phillips Exeter Academy, when feathered wings begin to grow from his shoulder blades. He believes at first that he is a freak, a mistake of nature. Then a fire breaks out in his…
  • Silver SurferThe Silver Surfer is an alien with gleaming metal skin who crosses the cosmos on a board that looks borrowed from a beach. His first editor never saw him coming. Stan Lee, who wrote and edited the comic that introduced him, remembered the…

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