Heroes and VillainsHercules, Jesus, James Bond, Luke Skywalker, Gandalf, Frodo, Harry Potter, Buffy Summers, Spiderman, Batman, Captain Kirk, Dr. Who, Darth Vader, Sauron, Voldemort, Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, the Daleks, the Borg. Almost anybody living in the developed West would be able to group these individuals into two camps: the heroes and the villains. However, what criteria they may use to do this is less clear. Mike Alsford introduces us to a range of heroic and villainous archetypes on a journey through film, television, comic books, and literature. On the way, he addresses questions such as: What is a true hero? What is a true villain? Have we misunderstood these terms? What kind of societal values do our mythical heroes and villains represent? In trying to understand the extremes of hero and villain we are made more aware of our own ethical standards and given a space in which to explore contemporary concerns over notions of right and wrong, good and bad. |
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... Doctor Doom on the other hand is an entirely different matter . In Fantastic Four Issue 5 published in 1962 Doom is introduced as a mysterious armoured genius bent on world domination . Two years later , in Fantastic Four Annual 2 , Doom's ...
... Doom , who was an arrogant and bitter man at best , responds to his accident by turning in on himself and shunning ... Doctor Doom ! 30 As we mentioned earlier on in this chapter , the fact of our individual alienation from the rest of ...
... Doctor Doom 43-5 , 47 , 49 , 51 Doctor Manhattan 148 Doctor Octopus 2 Doctor Who 89 , 96 , 107 , 127 , 132 , 135 , 145 , 147 , 148 , 153 Dracula 55 , 117 , 147 , 152 Faith ( Buffy ) 44 Fantastic Four , The 44 , 123 , 135 , 136 , 143 ...
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Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
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