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Wearing the Cape: A Superhero Story

Marion G. Harmon

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Premise labels used: superhero origin, new powers, secret identity, career choice, mentor training, hero team, supervillain threat, public celebrity, worldbuilding

Setting labels used: Chicago, university setting, contemporary world, alternate Earth, post-Event world, superhero society

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Invincible Iron Man: Ironheart, Vol. 1: Riri Williams

Brian Michael Bendis · 2017 · Invincible Iron Man (2016) (Collected Editions)

A teenage engineering prodigy builds a suit, takes on a legacy, and learns heroism with help from Tony Stark’s AI.

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Premise labels: legacy hero · origin story · teen genius · armored hero · mantle succession · hero training · mentor AI · street-level stakes

Setting labels: Chicago · Marvel Universe · contemporary setting · superhero reality · corporate superhero world · street-level urban setting

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Distance: 0.1754

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Sovereign

April Daniels · 2017 · Nemesis

A trans teen superhero must defend her city, survive escalating attacks, and face the cost of power and identity.

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Premise labels: trans superhero · city protector · supervillain attack · identity crisis · family conflict · team shortage · hidden plot · public heroism

Setting labels: modern city · urban fantasy · superhero world · contemporary Earth-like setting · space travel · superhero convention

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Distance: 0.1850

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Marvel Rising

G. Willow Wilson · 2018 · Marvel Rising (2018)

Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl team up to stop a video-game-powered villain while hiding their secret identities.

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Premise labels: team-up · secret identity · superhero school · computer programming · video game powers · new villain · next-generation heroes · mentor-student

Setting labels: Marvel Universe · contemporary setting · school setting · computer programming class · video game virtual reality · small-scale urban superhero world · teens and college-age characters

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Distance: 0.1871

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Super Powereds: Year 1

Drew Hayes · 2013 · Super Powereds

Five new college students hide a dangerous secret while training to become certified superheroes.

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Premise labels: superhero school · secret identity · experimental procedure · power control · hidden powers · hero certification · outcasts to heroes · training program · found family · social hierarchy

Setting labels: college campus · superhero academy · university setting · contemporary setting · real-world adjacent · secret training program · hero certification program

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Distance: 0.1872

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Sensation

Kevin Hardman · 2013 · Kid Sensation

A powerful teen hero must reclaim his future after a failed tryout leaves him outcast, hunted, and targeted by bigger forces.

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Premise labels: overpowered hero · second chance · superhero tryout · outcast hero · fugitive hero · world domination threat · secret identity · superhero team · bounty hunter

Setting labels: alternate Earth · superpowered society · superhero academy · high school · urban setting · contemporary setting · world of metas · world with magic

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Distance: 0.1876

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The Boys, Volume 6: The Self-Preservation Society

Garth Ennis · 2010 · The Boys (Trade Paperbacks)

A superteam called The Boys is attacked by a rival squad, then forced to confront the hidden origins of its own members.

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Premise labels: superhero showdown · retaliation · origin stories · team under siege · corporate superpowers · secret backstory

Setting labels: contemporary urban setting · corporate-controlled superheroes · alternate reality · war-referential setting · post-9/11 echoes · global locations

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Distance: 0.1879

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All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault

James Alan Gardner · 2017 · Dark/Spark

Four college roommates gain superpowers in a weird alternate Canada and must stop a mad scheme while becoming heroes.

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Premise labels: superhero origin story · monsters vs heroes · lab accident · secret identities · team formation · mad genius scheme · light vs dark · college students · accidental powers

Setting labels: alternate Earth · Canada · Ontario · Waterloo · university campus · college town · urban fantasy world · parallel world · near-contemporary · science-and-magic world

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Distance: 0.1885

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Flash Fire

T.J. Klune · 2021 · The Extraordinaries

A queer teen superhero sequel pits Nick and his friends against new threats, secrets, and a fraught reckoning with power.

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Premise labels: superhero team · high school life · secret identities · found family · boyfriends · new heroes · villain identification · adolescent coming-of-age

Setting labels: Nova City · fictional town · high school · contemporary setting · superhero world

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Distance: 0.1935

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Invincible, Compendium Two

Robert Kirkman · 2013 · Invincible

A young superhero’s life grows darker, bigger, and more morally complex as old ties, new threats, and shifting loyalties collide.

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Premise labels: superhero coming of age · heroic identity · power burden · humanity vs heritage · superhero universe · world-threatening stakes · moral dilemmas · teamups · interplanetary conflict

Setting labels: superhero universe · Earth · space · alternate dimensions · alien invasions · parallel universes · apocalyptic settings · college setting · young adulthood · fictional future

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Distance: 0.1968

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Super Powereds: Year 2

Drew Hayes · 2013 · Super Powereds

Sophomore superhero trainees return to school, hide changed identities, and face new team trials, secrets, and threats.

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Premise labels: superhero school · team training · secret identity exposure · coming of age · hero certification

Setting labels: college campus · hero academy · training program · modern world · superhuman society · classroom setting

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Distance: 0.1988

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Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre

Darwyn Cooke · 2013 · Before Watchmen

Two Watchmen prequels trace a masked team’s rise and fall and a young heroine’s break from family control.

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Premise labels: superhero prequel · origin story · backstory · team origins · coming of age · tell-all memoir frame · masked vigilantes · legacy hero · heroic collapse · hero vs corruption

Setting labels: 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · San Francisco · alternate history · superhero universe · mid-century America · urban setting · counterculture

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Distance: 0.1998

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Astro City, Vol. 2: Confession

Kurt Busiek · 1996 · Astro City

A young newcomer becomes a vigilante’s sidekick and uncovers a secret as the city turns against its heroes.

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Premise labels: superhero sidekick · young newcomer · mysterious mentor · heroic secret · public backlash · citywide crisis · murder mystery · vampire hero · registration crackdown · alien invasion

Setting labels: imaginary city · superhero city · urban setting · nighttime vigilante world · shared-universe reality

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Distance: 0.2008

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