:Almost all sources refer to the characters in Watchmen as superheroes or that Watchmen itself is a commentary on superheroes. See for example, .  I'm firmly in the camp that the text itself doesn't use the phrase, but given the sheer weight of reliable secondary sources that do use superhero, I think it would breach WP:NPOV not to refer to them in that way.  I'd be interested in discussing whether the article should state that the term superhero is not utilised in the text though.  That seems an important point, and is made by Scott Bukatman in Matters of Gravity, who in mentioning that the characters are referred to as masks tise the mask motif to other instances of maskery, and discusses the idea that superheroes fight crime in order to wear the costume.  He goes further, and ties this to a need to anonymously partake in chaos, albeit in an altruistic manner.  I'd think there's possibly a stance where you could tie that back into Watchmen, which Bukatman doesn't appear to have done, but that's a whole 'nother post for a whole 'nother forum.