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Superheroes can come from a multitude of backgrounds and many different characters in literature can be considered superheroes. Beowulf and Thor come from two completely different backgrounds, families, and even different planets. Although their different upbringings lead to multiple opportunities for differences, some similarities can be found. Both heroes surpass the constraints of time by possessing the qualities of a natural superhero, by having a strength within themselves that can…

Violence is everywhere nowadays. It is on our television screens, with all the games we play and the shows we watch. It is on the music we listen to, from death metal to the gangsta rap. It is in our movie theaters, such as the gory horror flicks and the epic fantasies. We as human beings love violence. As Famous movie director Quentin Tarantino famously said “Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.” I myself am guilty of this. I loved violence when I was a kid, I adore violence right…

opposite the same morally grey line. After these alliances start to crumble, the fallout resonates with us in a way that a Batman-Superman slap fight never could. And, in some ways, this is exactly the kind of grounded, intimate conflict that the comic book movie genre so desperately…

According to Bryan Bishop’s article on The Verge, “More than any other show in recent memory, American Horror Story is built on its ability to one-up itself on a weekly basis” (Bishop 1). American Horror Story is a television series that has been on air for five years and was just recently renewed for a sixth season. In the five years of American Horror Story it has only continued to impress their audience. With every new season the ratings just continue to rise. Each season has jumped around…

1. Content Analysis This band-aid ad was found online, it's from may 2010, and was advertised by the company Johnson & Johnson. It displays the Hulk's left hand as the focus with a band-aid around his pointer finger and a green to black background. The different shades of green are used to draw focus to the hand found in the center because the green color get lighter the closer it gets to the hand. At the bottom right corner of the ad is a band-aid box; against the green background, the blue…

such as the Dark Knight and Iron Man, comic book companies, such as DC and Marvel, were able to breathe life back into the abandoned genre and give rise to the modern age of the superhero in the cinema. With expectation-breaking gross at the box-office, superhero movies are being taken very seriously by film production companies as a source of profit in the years to come. As “geek culture” became very prevalent in the last decade, so did the popularity of comic books among the general…

Superhero films are quite popular and can be told over and over again from different points of views. By having these films being remade so many times one is able to observe the evolution of the film. Here one takes note of the evolution of Spider-man and The Amazing Spider-man. The time difference between Spider-man and The Amazing Spider-man is not as great a gap as one would think, however the time difference is large enough for technology to advance enough to make a great impact. The…

Who is Wonder Woman? An instant Icon when she was introduced in the DC All Star Comics Issue #8. A female superhero became very popular amongst the male readers and attracted female readers to read comic books as well. She immediately became the face for feminism and she would become the original super heroine paving the path to several other super-heroines. She is fierce, strong, and beautiful, a skilled fighter perhaps the best in the DC universe, she fights along side Superman and Batman,…

Throughout the comic, Captain America and his team believe that the government shouldn’t have a say in the way they are run because it limits their ability to do good. On the other hand, Iron Man and his team believe that they should be regulated by the government and elected officials. The Civil War demonstrates what happens when a society is stripped of their civil liberties. In the today’s society we are facing the same problem that the Avengers are facing in the comic, some people want…

Movie Analysis Nov. 6, 2015 The Avengers Age of Ultron Though many Americans will argue that equality has been gained between men and women in the United States, films even in the 21st century still reflect the exploitation of women. In The Avengers: Age of Ultron, two female super heroes, Black Widow and Scarlet Witch are not celebrated for a physical or supernatural strength, but for their skills in manipulation. This film reflects that women are regarded as sexual…