Question about superheroes and sciencific possibility?

Almost every super hero has a mythology regarding their creation. Take some of the new hit movie's for example, Spider-Man was bitten by a genetically cloned spider at a school sponsored field trip.(not exactly true to the comic) The mutants in the X-men were the product of a sudden leap in evolution, as explained by Patrick Stewart. Batman obtains many of his gadgets from Wayne-Tech Enterprises, and that has produced 3 movies from one film maker, and now a new box office hit, Batman Begins (far superior to the first series) as well as a TV series, a few different cartoon series, and then, 30 years of comic books. I know all this mythology of super-hero's, and I couldn't tell you what happened in any of these. The most important detail of the hero is exactly the question of how they obtained their power, and almost every first look at a hero is the plot line of why they are super-powered. Without selling this storyline, (and to be absolutly clear, scientific origins account for most of them) the hero will probably fail to capture the public eye.

Science is more bizzare and interesting than the most interesting fictions. Nature is more creative than the best authors. So, yes, writing a scientifically plausible story would be a hit.

I read an interesting story about a man and a whale. Moby Dick. And you know, there was some whaling lore in it. But what made it a good read was how the personalities interacted and how it moved along in interesting ways. Characters and their adventures make a story live. Don't sweat the plot details too much if you have good characters doing interesting things.

In the '70s there was the Bionic man. A lot of people liked that.