Pallbearers dress as superheroes for funeral of young cancer victim (5)

Five-year old Brayden Denton from Indiana really loved superheroes. They had been a source of comfort to him throughout his year-long battle with a rare form of brain tumour.

When he passed away earlier this month, his mother, Staci, knew they had to be part of his funeral so she asked family members to dress up as his favourite comic book characters.

"The whole time I saw them carrying Brayden he was probably up there going, 'This is so cool,'" Denton told the New York Daily News .

"That was his world. That's what he would have wanted."

His six pallbearers dressed up as Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Batman, the Incredible Hulk and, his absolute favourite, Spiderman.

Brayden's uncle, Cory dressed as Thor for the procession.

"It was hard, but I did it for him," Cory told WLFI.

"We went to the Superman movie with him and he was dressed up as Superman. I watched all the Iron Mans with him."

His mother donated his tumour to medical research.