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Superheroes: They're just like us.

If you read979 Archiveswatch most coverage of Comic-Con, the world's largest nerdfest, you'll come away with the impression that its world-famous cosplay fanatics are forever posing in states of grunting, flexing, fist-pumping, poster-worthy superheroic brilliance.

And while it's true that all weekend long, these living legends will commit 100 percent to that pose at the merest hint of a whispered "May I?", there are the other moments. More telling, more human, more everyday 21st century moments.

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That's right — they may be able to bend steel or run faster than speeding bullets, but give most superheroes a glowing rectangle of social media and they're as powerless as Superman facing kryptonite.

Here for the first time we present an intimate look at this more candid side of Comic-Con: A gallery of what superheroes get up to the moment they think there are no cameras in sight.

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