Becky Lynch may not bull’s-eye alien invaders or command the creatures of the deep, but the WWE superstar can still hold her own with any cinematic superhero.

The pro-wrestling champ will prove it when she joins a galaxy of comic book movie stars for the second Celebrity Fan Fest. The pop culture convention runs Friday through Sunday at Freeman Coliseum and Freeman Expo Halls, with Lynch and fellow WWE grapplers Finn Balor and Daniel Bryan appearing Friday.

Celebrity Fan Fest promises famous faces from across the Marvel and DC Comics movie-verses, including “Avengers: Endgame” stars Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and Anthony Mackie (Falcon) and the Fan Fest return of “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa and Fan Fest debut of his co-stars Amber Heard (Mera), Dolph Lundgren (Nereus) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Black Manta).

Then there’s the fiery Irish dynamo who calls herself “The Man.”

Forget Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet. Lynch wielded the power of not one but two title belts from the first WrestleMania women’s main event in WWE history. She defeated both Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey and SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 35 in April.

And if you thought Lynch drew strength from her victories in the ring, she’s even more emboldened by the countless fans who cheer her on.

Celebrity Fan Fest What: A pop culture festival featuring film and television stars as well as fantasy artists and collectibles, with celebrity panels, cosplay and vendors. When: 2-9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday Where: 3201 East Houston St., Freeman Coliseum and Expo Halls Price: $20-$129 general admission, $199-$629 VIP package, for purchase online only at celebrityfanfest.com. Highlights In addition to WWE superstar Becky Lynch and stars from “Aquaman” and “Avengers: Endgame,” celebrity guests include Lee Pace (Ronan on “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Captain Marvel”), Alexandra Shipp (Storm on “Dark Phoenix”), Ernie Hudson (“Ghostbusters”) and Fred Savage (“The Wonder Years,” “Once Upon a Deadpool”). Celebrity Fan Fest guest artists include DC Comics artists Rags Morales and Mike DeCarlo, Hugo Award-winning fantasy illustrator John Picacio from San Antonio and various artists from San Antonio-based comic publisher Antarctic Press. Other highlights include a “Cars as Stars” exhibit, which features more than 25 famous Hollywood vehicles such as the Ecto-1 from “Ghostbusters” and Optimus Prime and Bumblebee from the “Transformers” movie franchise, and the PlayStation Road to Greatness mobile gaming exhibit.

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“For me, I always love meeting the fans,” Lynch said in her trademark brogue. “They put me where I am today. … And it really just sets me off with gratitude and a new purpose and a new focus.”

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Lynch’s rise to fame might as well be a superhero origin story.

Born Rebecca Quin in Limerick, Ireland, in 1987, she broke into wrestling in 2002 as Rebecca Knox. Then in 2006, a severe head injury during a match in Germany nearly ended her wrestling career.

Lynch returned to the ring in 2013 when she signed with WWE, but she long grappled with feelings of guilt and shame for taking a wrestling hiatus that she said felt like turning her back on what had given her so much.

“Honestly, it felt like the prodigal freaking son,” Lynch said of her return. “It really was like a personal struggle and a personal journey to get to that place of confidence, but it also made me appreciate everything so much more.”

That passion likewise fueled a major women’s movement in pro wrestling.

In 2015, Lynch made her WWE Raw debut to help ring in the so-called “Divas Revolution,” a move to elevate the female talent after WWE faced criticism for airing a women’s match that lasted only about 30 seconds.

WWE soon dropped the Divas designation from its female talent to instead refer to them as “superstars” like the men, then later debuted its first all-women tournament called the “Mae Young Classic” and its first-ever women’s Royal Rumble match.

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Along the way, Lynch has clawed her way up the WWE’s women’s division to become the self-proclaimed “Man,” an empowering term she’s reportedly described as about being the “top dog, gender be damned.”

“We just needed to prove that we could do it and we had the ability to carry these main event matches and that we had the ability to go out there and connect with the audience as well as the guys,” Lynch said. “So now it’s come to the point where gender doesn’t really matter.”

And when it comes to today’s wrestling’s fans, age doesn’t seem to matter either. Wrestling’s colorful history has made it “a family thing,” Lynch said, a multigenerational draw that reminds fans of their childhood.

For wrestling fans in San Antonio and most of Texas, Lynch said such history likely would have included the Von Erich brothers out of World Class Championship Wrestling in the 1980s, while her favorite wrestlers growing up would have been Hulk Hogan, Mick Foley and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Only in Lynch’s case, her wrestling idols are now her friends and mentors.

“It’s absolutely insane how you go from idolizing people to being in the same league,” she said.

As for whether Lynch would ever make the leap from professional wrestling to the big screen, like The Rock and many others, she said absolutely. In fact, she has studied acting and appeared in several plays.

“For me, what I love so much is communicating and emoting and telling stories,” Lynch said. “And that’s what I get to do in WWE.”

In the meantime, “The Man” just looks forward to meeting more of the fans that make her career downright super-heroic.

“I appreciate the hell out of every single one of them,” Lynch said. “Every poster that they make, every cheer that they let out. I don’t take a single second of it for granted.”

René Guzman is a features reporter in the San Antonio and Bexar County area. Read him on our free site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com. | rguzman@express-news.net | Twitter: @reneguz