Person or Persona: What’s Inside the Spider-Verse?

With the explosion of serialized superhero films over the last decade, talk of a multiverse has never been more integrated into popular culture. The term ‘multiverse’ is a combination of […]

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Superhero Movies are Worship, Not Theme Parks

Superheroes dominate our current entertainment culture. I don’t think anyone would dispute that. Every year superhero films and TV shows are among the highest-grossing, highest rated, and most talked about […]

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Global Superheroes from the Disneyverse and Studio Ghibli

“Of course, there are universal rules to which all goodness must conform. But that’s only the grammar of virtue. It’s not there that the sap is. He doesn’t make two […]

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Just a Sidekick?

And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him – a threefold cord is not quickly broken. — Ecclesiastes 4:12, ESV When we think […]

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Answering Joker’s Dark-Knight-Defying Anarchy

Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight deservedly garnered rave reviews: in addition to the creative script and comfortable balance of action to inaction, the late Heath Ledger’s performance as Joker was […]

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Once a Prince or Princess: MacDonald’s Moral Superheroines and Heroes in the Princess Tales

Of all the stories I have read, including even all the novels of this same novelist, [The Princess and the Goblin] remains the most real, the most realistic . . […]

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Humility Contra Pride as Represented in Thor

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the real-life heroes of our day and age, those who serve and care for others, offering even the smallest charitable acts. […]

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He Will Rise

Myriad comic series, television shows, movies, action figures, and other various capitalistic ventures have grossed billions on the back of the Caped Crusader. It seems nearly impossible to step into […]

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Worth Reading: Superheroes

Worth Reading is An Unexpected Journal’s book recommendations column. Each issue we highlight a few titles, related to that issue’s theme, that are recommended by AUJ staff, contributors, or readers. […]

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Planets, Poetry, and the Power of Myth in Halo and Destiny

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point . . . A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to […]

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