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Drop the “super” and you have something more correct / hero-based books are popular with boys and men.

Are you calling any protagonist a hero now?

well you sure turned out antagonistically for someone who read so many adventure books with protagonists presumably embodying the hero archetype

You presume too much. Or use 'hero' in the inflationary literally-everyone-sense. Or both.

Adventures don't need heroes at all.