No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie

No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie is a 2013 family-friendlydrama film directed by Troy Kotsur and produced by Douglas Matejka and Hilari Scarl, with music score by H. Scott Salinas. The film stars John Maucere as Tony/SuperDeafy and Zane Hencker as Jacob Lang. The film tells the story of a deaf actor who portrays a superhero on a children's television show and wants to help a young deaf boy who gets bullied at school. The film is open captioned in English.

Gallaudet University Professor Sharon Pajka says:

SuperDeafy is the star of a popular children's television show who dresses in blue with a bright yellow cape and green briefs. His hair is a giant pompadour wig with two distinct pieces sticking out on both sides jokingly "for balance". The emblem on the front of his chest is SuperDeafy's name sign, a crossed double hand "I Love You". He's goofy and animated; the show focuses on teaching ASL (American Sign Language) along with a good dose of charades that children, deaf and hearing, adore.

Deaf comedian, actor, and ASL advocate John Maucere has been performing the SuperDeafy character in the deaf community around the world since 2004, and perhaps as early as about 1998. Maucere has thus become well known in the deaf community internationally.

Troy Kotsur directed a number of webisodes of the SuperDeafy program prior to No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie.

There are some short SuperDeafy videos online here.

Eight-year-old Jacob Lang is having a hard time in school, where he is in a class of hearing kids (Jacob is deaf). Although he's trying to learn lip reading, he has difficulty understanding and being understood. He knows ASL but his classmates don't. He longs to fit in and be accepted as an average kid, but that's not happening. Jacob's teacher is recommending that he be put in a class of deaf kids to help his social development and communication skills. Jacob's mother agrees, but his father insists that Jacob will be more "normal" by remaining with hearing kids and becoming more proficient at lip-reading. Jacob is feeling helpless and depressed.