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Well, Superman's the only survivor of his whole planet, right? X-Men have gene power, but it's dramatic because ordinary humans dislike them. Who else... I don't know many superheros, really.

In the Hulk movie, didn't they try to turn it into some dramatic father-son thing? And there was another movie... um... about a blind superhero whose powers were developed as a result of his blindess? Do vampires count as superhero-like? Dying is pretty dramatic.

I have little experience with Japanese superheros. The weirdos in 'Ranma' aren't exactly superheros, they just all fell into various cursed springs (Spring of Drowned Panda, anyone who falls in takes body of panda. Spring of Drowned Girl....) etc.

I thought of Superman, too. In the originals X-Men and Hulk don't have very dramatic origins; the movies kinda added that. The blind superhero was Daredevil--yeah, that involved his father dying, so that was also melodramatic.

I don't think vampires usually count as superheroes, except maybe Hannibal King and Morbius the Living Vampire in his later career.

Um, how come the curse turns the victim into the body of a panda? :)