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While superheros have nourished the generation of those who are parents and therapists today, can we be so certain that the imaginary worlds of their children and adolescents are equally reliant on them? In our clinical practice, the reference to manga heroes is much more frequent. Is it possible, however, to produce a typology of manga heroes when they are so numerous and different? We have preferred to look into the evolution of the superhero via the manga hero through a modification of the conceptualization of the subject in our post-structuralist societies. This conceptualization is contaminated by psychiatric nosoographies, hence our suggestion that the current hero be called a dys-hero.