Superhero

As with almost every superhero fan I know, I fell in love with Tom Holland’s Spider-Man in last year’s “Captain America: Civil War.” As such, despite some recent lackluster attempts at Spider-Man movies, I was extremely excited for Holland’s solo outing, even though Spider-Man is not one of my more beloved superheroes. For the most part, this movie proved a satisfying picture. Set a couple months after “Civil War,” Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Holland) is eager to become a full-fledged Avenger. He…

April 2016 Both the film Star Wars: A New Hope Directed by George Lucas and comic, The Watchmen by Alan Moore had one thing in common. In the comic novel and film, the “superhero" protagonists are white heterosexual men. Neither Princess Leia nor Laurie Juspeczyk have plot lines of their own instead they revolve around men. In The Watchmen and Star Wars: A New Hope both author and director are male and give their characters a male protagonist role. In The Watchmen, Alan Moore introduces his…

video games is Wonder Woman. A unique fact about this character is that unlike many comic heroines – Super girl, Batgirl, Cat Woman, Black Cat, Cat Woman, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, sStorm, etc. she was not introduced as the counterpart of any male superhero. She is a warrior princess based on the Amazons of Greek mythology She is one of the strongest characters in the Video game universe. The character’s comic debut was in 1941 and her first appearance in video games was in 1992. She is…

Wonder woman was the first woman super hero who had the spotlight all on her, she was not part of a male superhero group and her comic books was the first continually written female comic book. With all the positive things that wonder woman brought to the table, some men felt as if wonder woman was giving the women too much of a change because along with the…

Parallels Collide: ‘Captain Marvel’ Takes Half A ‘Wonder Woman’ Approach When it comes to superhero flicks, there are bound to be some similarities. With Marvel announcing in 2016 they would be following DC’s lead in bringing one of its biggest female characters to the big screen, it’s hard not to look at the pre-production factors without finding some similarities. The Marvel heroine we’re talking about today is Carol Danvers a.k.a Captain Marvel. No, not DC’s Billy Baston also known as Shazam…

on the Marvel universe. Marvel has been in the eye of the storm for some time now as several controversial female characters entered it. Due to the rise in female readership, Marvel claims to have introduced several characters. So on one level, superhero comics seem to be responding to the trends in female readership, by offering more female-centered comics and on another level they continue to sexualize women more than before. Content: Women superheroes in the Marvel universe…

Along with patriotic heroes in the 1940 's, the very first superhero team was established known as the Justice League of America. It consisted of The Flash, The Green Lantern, The Spectre, The Hawkman, Dr. Fate, The Hour-man, The Sandman, Atom, and Johnny Thunder. The following characters were successful in their own titles, but readers became giddy with excitement when DC introduced them all together. Because of the success of JLA, the authors of these stories would use the JLA to introduce new…

contribute to the industry. These films sell and make up a huge portion of the outsider character. Every day heroes are noticed in society, but there is nothing quite like the figure of Batman, who goes to extraordinary measures to live up to the superhero character. The character of The Joker in this case, is the real outsider and he is the figure who portrays the real, raw concepts and ideals of society in a way that challenges both the other characters and the audience. As seen in Christopher…

film’s trailer. Nevertheless, the death of Superman doesn’t seem to faze director Zack Snyder, who is already interested in working on Man of Steel 2! Snyder recently spoke to IGN, where he confirmed that he would want to do another film about the DC superhero. “I think if we could get a good script, it'd be great to have a standalone Superman movie,” Snyder stated, adding that it seems like a good idea. “I think that would be fun to do.” Cavill agrees with the director but added that it would…

century, the most sensational featured realistic depictions of crimes and horrors. They were also extremely cheap, easy to read, and thus accessible mass audiences (inflppl 113). As television sets became a focal point of American homes, Batman stories were reimagined for the screen. The 1990s live-action and animated films and shows meant that people could learn about Batman without ever having to pick up a comic book (source). Now, Batman stories are told interactively through video games,…