There’s only three shows I tend to watch with any kind of consistency on the Discovery Channel. The awesomely manly Man vs. Wild(come on, it has a guy named Bear Grilles!), How it’s Made(shut up, it’s addicting), and Mythbusters.

Brand new episodes of Mythbusters started yesterday, but the real fun begins on August 20, with their return to ninja myths, because lets face it, ninjas=ratings. Then on August 27 they’ll have everyone with a tin foil hat watching as they take on the question of whether the original moon landing could have been faked or not.

So to commemorate Jaime‘s bushy mustache, I decided to take a look at a few superhero myths that Jaime and Adam could and should take on in a future episodes. Cause if anything would bring ratings more than ninjas, it’s superheroes.

Like so many great ideas, I quickly realized that mine was in no way original. In fact, back in 2007 Mythbusters already had a superhero special, dealing with myths about The Phantom, Batman, and Spiderman, but I was actually kinda suprised to see some myths that weren’t done. This are the three myths I think mythbusters should attempt if they have another superhero special. Obviously I’m not a scientist, so I can’t exactly figure out the logistics of how they would go about testing them, but I do think that all three are fairly doable.

1. Using capes to glide- You see this quite a bit in comics, with Batman probably being the worst offender. The superhero standing atop a building looking down at the city that he protects, his cape billowing in the air. And then suddenly he jumps down, spreading out his arms and letting the wind catch his cape. From there he gracefully begins his descent down to the streets. The image has become so iconic that it is used to great effect in the trailer of The Dark Knight.

You could have the Mythbuster gang start off by trying to figure out if there is any kind of fabric that could actually replicate that sort of thing, where it could stay flexible enough to move around with, but at the same time rigid enough to actually glide down. They could the move on to test out the material with one of their test dummies. Hilarity would no doubt ensue.

2. Spiderman webshoooters- For those familiar only with the movie version of Spiderman, one of the key things they changed was Spidey’s web. In the comic and most other mediums Peter Parker does not have organic webs. Instead he not only creates the substance that becomes the webs, but also the shooters themselves.

I think this would be a pretty fun myth to explore. We seen before that Jaime and Adam love to compete, so there’s several ways you could tackle this. You could have both of them try to figure if there’s any way to actually create any kind of substance that could hold a certain amount of weight. You could also have them competing against each other to see who can come out with the best workable web shooters.

3. Gwen Stacy’s death- This is the big one, and I’m honestly surprised that they didn’t do it in the first superhero edition. As any comic book fan worth his weight knows, the death of Gwen Stacy has been one of the defining moment’s in Spiderman’s life. Thrown off a bridge by Spidey’s nemesis the Green Goblin, Spiderman tried to saved her by shooting out his web, catching her by the leg. Sadly, when he pulled her back up, she was already dead. So the question that fans have asked since almost the beginning is whether the shock of the fall killed her, of could have Spidey inadvertently killed her by stopping her momentum and breaking her neck?

The mythbusting would revolve around whether falling from a large height, only to be suddenly stopped could break someone’s neck, thereby killing the person. They have done similar things in the pass with true to life test dummies, so I imagine that Jaime and Adam’s mind could come out with the right equation and way of doing this.

So there you have it. Those are three of my ideas for a future episode of Mythbusters. I think they would all be entertaining, and with the superhero trend being as big as it currently is, I’m sure we’ll see another superhero edition sooner rather than later.