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For the generations before, not only did Superman look and sound different, the role came with a -- dun-dun-duuun! -- curse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101573\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 727px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-101573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048.jpg 727w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048-160x199.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048-240x299.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048-375x467.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048-520x647.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Superman jinx started with \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Siegel\">Jerry Siegel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Shuster\">Joe Shuster\u003c/a>, who created the character for \u003cem>Action Comics #1,\u003c/em> which came out in June 1938. Not only were the duo not fairly compensated in royalties for the invention of Clark Kent, but Shuster's career flatlined shortly afterwards. By the 1950s, the artist's deteriorating eyesight had forced him out of comic books entirely, and he eventually became almost completely blind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max and Dave Fleischer were the next duo to suffer, producing a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1940s_cartoons)\">series of Superman cartoons\u003c/a> for Paramount between 1941 and 1943. Not only did the brothers fall out in such a big way during the process that their partnership was permanently severed, but Max -- despite also inventing Betty Boop and producing \u003cem>Popeye\u003c/em> cartoons -- ultimately died in abject poverty. After what had been a prolific career in animation, Max only produced five more projects after working on Superman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101574\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-101574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Kirk_Alyn_as_Superman_in_a_publicity_still_from_1948.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Kirk_Alyn_as_Superman_in_a_publicity_still_from_1948.jpg 220w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Kirk_Alyn_as_Superman_in_a_publicity_still_from_1948-160x203.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirk Alyn\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001906/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Kirk Alyn\u003c/a>, TV's first Superman, found brief success playing the character, but was irreversibly typecast afterwards. He failed to find substantial work ever again, despite having been successful on Broadway before taking the role. In 1988, in an\u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=2103736&page=1\"> interview with the Associated Press\u003c/a>, he said simply: \"I couldn't get another job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misfortune also befell TV's second Superman, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Reeves\">George Reeves\u003c/a>. The actor took on the role in 1951 and continued to play the superhero on screen and stage until his suspicious death in 1959. Reeves was found dead from a gunshot wound, days before he was due to get married. His death was ruled a suicide, despite the fact that his fingerprints were never found on the weapon that killed him. His tragic story was immortalized in 2006's \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427969/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Hollywoodland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He was just 45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curse of Superman really took hold when the character was revived for movie audiences in 1978. The cast of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078346/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Superman\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (1978), \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081573/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Superman II\u003c/em> \u003c/a>(1980), \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086393/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Superman III\u003c/em> \u003c/a>(1983), and \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094074/?ref_=nv_sr_7\">\u003cem>Superman IV: The Quest for Peace\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (1987) dealt with an insane amount of bad luck in the years that followed. Most famously, the series' biggest star, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001659/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Christopher Reeve\u003c/a>, was paralyzed from the neck down in a 1995 horse-riding accident. He died in 2004, followed two years later by his wife Dana. The 44-year-old actress, singer and activist died of lung cancer, despite having never even been a smoker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101575\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 274px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-101575\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-7.14.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-7.14.34-PM.png 274w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-7.14.34-PM-160x182.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-7.14.34-PM-240x273.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margot Kidder\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reeve's co-stars didn't fare much better. \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703510/\">Lee Quigley\u003c/a>, the actor that played the infant Clark Kent, died at only 14-years-old, from solvent abuse. Three years after last playing Lois Lane, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452288/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm\">Margot Kidder\u003c/a> got into a horrific car crash and was rendered unable to work for several years. After finally physically healing from the accident, she suffered a nervous breakdown in 1996, and was found in a stranger's backyard, beaten, hair hacked off, teeth damaged, and in a deeply distressed state. Convinced that her first husband was trying to kill her, Kidder had attempted to fake her own death to get away and had been living on the streets. She has since made a recovery and claims to have not had another manic episode since 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000008/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Marlon Brando\u003c/a>, who played Jor-El in the 1978 film, died within three months of Christopher Reeve, after a run of horrendous familial tragedy. Brando's son \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Brando\">Christian\u003c/a> spent five years of his life in prison for murdering his half-sister \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Brando\">Cheyenne'\u003c/a>s boyfriend. A month after her boyfriend's death, Cheyenne gave birth to their child, only to lose custody of the infant, after increasingly erratic behavior and a schizophrenia diagnosis. Cheyenne committed suicide in 1995, at the age of 25, and Brando subsequently became a recluse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that comedian \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001640/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm\">Richard Pryor\u003c/a> battled drug addiction and was involved in a self-immolation incident well before his role in \u003cem>Superman III\u003c/em>, believers still think certain aspects of his life -- including his multiple sclerosis diagnosis -- are related to the curse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In more recent years, the curse seems to have all but evaporated, though it's worth noting that 64-year-old \u003cem>Man of Steel\u003c/em> producer Lloyd Phillips passed away of a heart attack in January 2013, five months before the movie even came out. In addition, Kate Bosworth, who starred as Lois Lane in the flop \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348150/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Superman Returns\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (2006), \u003ca href=\"https://www.ranker.com/list/story-behind-the-superman-curse/laura-allan\">attributed her break up\u003c/a> with Orlando Bloom to the curse. Three people who worked on the DVD of the film were also horribly injured during that time -- one was mugged and beaten, another fell through a glass window, the third fell down some stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, if there ever was a real Superman curse, the worst of it seems to be over. This hasn't stopped DC and Warner Bros' new \u003cem>Superman\u003c/em>-related show from leaving Clark Kent out of the equation entirely though. Coincidence? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/i/moments/958409824013713413\">Fans are in disbelief\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/2018/01/30/dc-superman-metropolis/#vzB9QjXo7Pq4\">\u003cem>Metropolis\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a 13-episode series, will center only on Lois Lane and Lex Luther's lives before Superman's arrival in the city. But with this kind of cursed history, who can blame them?\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The story of how 'Superman' stars have been haunted by tragedy for decades.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1531185929,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":932},"headData":{"title":"The Superman Curse: A Look at All the Death, Destruction and Destitution | KQED","description":"The story of how 'Superman' stars have been haunted by tragedy for decades.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"101544 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=101544","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/07/09/the-superman-curse-a-look-at-all-the-death-destruction-and-destitution/","disqusTitle":"The Superman Curse: A Look at All the Death, Destruction and Destitution","path":"/pop/101544/the-superman-curse-a-look-at-all-the-death-destruction-and-destitution","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you're a Millennial, when you think of Superman, you most likely think of Dean Cain, who played Clark Kent in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106057/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman\u003c/em>\u003c/a> between 1993 and 1997, Tom Welling in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279600/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt\">\u003cem>Smallville\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (2001—2011), or Henry Cavill, who first donned the famous red cape in 2013's \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770828/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Man of Steel\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. For the generations before, not only did Superman look and sound different, the role came with a -- dun-dun-duuun! -- curse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101573\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 727px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-101573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048.jpg 727w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048-160x199.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048-240x299.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048-375x467.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/130624_r23666_g2048-520x647.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Superman jinx started with \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Siegel\">Jerry Siegel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Shuster\">Joe Shuster\u003c/a>, who created the character for \u003cem>Action Comics #1,\u003c/em> which came out in June 1938. Not only were the duo not fairly compensated in royalties for the invention of Clark Kent, but Shuster's career flatlined shortly afterwards. By the 1950s, the artist's deteriorating eyesight had forced him out of comic books entirely, and he eventually became almost completely blind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max and Dave Fleischer were the next duo to suffer, producing a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1940s_cartoons)\">series of Superman cartoons\u003c/a> for Paramount between 1941 and 1943. Not only did the brothers fall out in such a big way during the process that their partnership was permanently severed, but Max -- despite also inventing Betty Boop and producing \u003cem>Popeye\u003c/em> cartoons -- ultimately died in abject poverty. After what had been a prolific career in animation, Max only produced five more projects after working on Superman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101574\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-101574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Kirk_Alyn_as_Superman_in_a_publicity_still_from_1948.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Kirk_Alyn_as_Superman_in_a_publicity_still_from_1948.jpg 220w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Kirk_Alyn_as_Superman_in_a_publicity_still_from_1948-160x203.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirk Alyn\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001906/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Kirk Alyn\u003c/a>, TV's first Superman, found brief success playing the character, but was irreversibly typecast afterwards. He failed to find substantial work ever again, despite having been successful on Broadway before taking the role. In 1988, in an\u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=2103736&page=1\"> interview with the Associated Press\u003c/a>, he said simply: \"I couldn't get another job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misfortune also befell TV's second Superman, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Reeves\">George Reeves\u003c/a>. The actor took on the role in 1951 and continued to play the superhero on screen and stage until his suspicious death in 1959. Reeves was found dead from a gunshot wound, days before he was due to get married. His death was ruled a suicide, despite the fact that his fingerprints were never found on the weapon that killed him. His tragic story was immortalized in 2006's \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427969/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Hollywoodland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He was just 45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curse of Superman really took hold when the character was revived for movie audiences in 1978. The cast of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078346/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Superman\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (1978), \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081573/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Superman II\u003c/em> \u003c/a>(1980), \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086393/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Superman III\u003c/em> \u003c/a>(1983), and \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094074/?ref_=nv_sr_7\">\u003cem>Superman IV: The Quest for Peace\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (1987) dealt with an insane amount of bad luck in the years that followed. Most famously, the series' biggest star, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001659/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Christopher Reeve\u003c/a>, was paralyzed from the neck down in a 1995 horse-riding accident. He died in 2004, followed two years later by his wife Dana. The 44-year-old actress, singer and activist died of lung cancer, despite having never even been a smoker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101575\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 274px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-101575\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-7.14.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-7.14.34-PM.png 274w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-7.14.34-PM-160x182.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-7.14.34-PM-240x273.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margot Kidder\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reeve's co-stars didn't fare much better. \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703510/\">Lee Quigley\u003c/a>, the actor that played the infant Clark Kent, died at only 14-years-old, from solvent abuse. Three years after last playing Lois Lane, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452288/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm\">Margot Kidder\u003c/a> got into a horrific car crash and was rendered unable to work for several years. After finally physically healing from the accident, she suffered a nervous breakdown in 1996, and was found in a stranger's backyard, beaten, hair hacked off, teeth damaged, and in a deeply distressed state. Convinced that her first husband was trying to kill her, Kidder had attempted to fake her own death to get away and had been living on the streets. She has since made a recovery and claims to have not had another manic episode since 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000008/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Marlon Brando\u003c/a>, who played Jor-El in the 1978 film, died within three months of Christopher Reeve, after a run of horrendous familial tragedy. Brando's son \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Brando\">Christian\u003c/a> spent five years of his life in prison for murdering his half-sister \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Brando\">Cheyenne'\u003c/a>s boyfriend. A month after her boyfriend's death, Cheyenne gave birth to their child, only to lose custody of the infant, after increasingly erratic behavior and a schizophrenia diagnosis. Cheyenne committed suicide in 1995, at the age of 25, and Brando subsequently became a recluse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that comedian \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001640/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm\">Richard Pryor\u003c/a> battled drug addiction and was involved in a self-immolation incident well before his role in \u003cem>Superman III\u003c/em>, believers still think certain aspects of his life -- including his multiple sclerosis diagnosis -- are related to the curse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In more recent years, the curse seems to have all but evaporated, though it's worth noting that 64-year-old \u003cem>Man of Steel\u003c/em> producer Lloyd Phillips passed away of a heart attack in January 2013, five months before the movie even came out. In addition, Kate Bosworth, who starred as Lois Lane in the flop \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348150/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Superman Returns\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (2006), \u003ca href=\"https://www.ranker.com/list/story-behind-the-superman-curse/laura-allan\">attributed her break up\u003c/a> with Orlando Bloom to the curse. Three people who worked on the DVD of the film were also horribly injured during that time -- one was mugged and beaten, another fell through a glass window, the third fell down some stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, if there ever was a real Superman curse, the worst of it seems to be over. This hasn't stopped DC and Warner Bros' new \u003cem>Superman\u003c/em>-related show from leaving Clark Kent out of the equation entirely though. Coincidence? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/i/moments/958409824013713413\">Fans are in disbelief\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/2018/01/30/dc-superman-metropolis/#vzB9QjXo7Pq4\">\u003cem>Metropolis\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a 13-episode series, will center only on Lois Lane and Lex Luther's lives before Superman's arrival in the city. But with this kind of cursed history, who can blame them?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/101544/the-superman-curse-a-look-at-all-the-death-destruction-and-destitution","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_51","pop_3"],"tags":["pop_3145","pop_756","pop_714","pop_754"],"featImg":"pop_101570","label":"pop"},"pop_101858":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_101858","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"101858","score":null,"sort":[1518802373000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"black-panther-is-unlike-any-superhero-story-youve-seen-before","title":"'Black Panther' is Unlike Any Superhero Story You've Seen Before","publishDate":1518802373,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>In 1938, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecomicbooks.com/old/super.html\">Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster\u003c/a> — two Jewish kids from Cleveland who were reading the alarming news coming out of Europe — created precisely the hero necessary to put things right: an impossibly strong and nigh-invulnerable paragon of virtue and butt-kicking they called \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman\">Superman\u003c/a>. He could have ended Hitler's advance with a snap of his fingers — and he definitely would have, if only he weren't a creature of pure fantasy. Three years later, as the Nazi threat escalated, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Best-Simon-Kirby-Joe/dp/1845769317\">Joe Simon and Jack Kirby\u003c/a> went a step further, summoning into being a hero who was essentially an American flag come to dynamic, Hitler-punching life. They called him \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America\">Captain America\u003c/a>, because subtlety is not what superhero comics are about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a poignancy in the fact that these two heroes were products of grim necessity — a global menace threatened our way of life, and a nation gripped by fear and anxiety found in Superman and Captain America twin release valves. By indulging in the belief that someone big and strong and primary-colored could rescue them and beat the bad guy, Americans managed to steal a few moments of vicarious satisfaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a hole in the world, so they created heroes to fix it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDjIWPwcPU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same poignancy permeates \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825683/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which is Marvel Studio's 18th superhero movie, though it certainly doesn't feel like it. Ryan Coogler's third film is, happily, no by-the-numbers, big-budget hero narrative of the sort to which we've grown inured — it's by turns as intimate and immediate as 2013's \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334649/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Fruitvale Station\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and as stirring as 2015's \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3076658/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Creed\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1569276/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Chadwick Boseman\u003c/a> is T'Challa, king of Wakanda, an unimaginably advanced, ruthlessly isolationist African nation that hides its riches and its tech from the world at large. Wakanda, as vividly and gorgeously realized here, is a soaring Afro-futurist utopia powered by the world's rarest, hardest and blue-glowiest metal, vibranium. (Fair warning: If one were to sneak a flask into a screening of \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> and drink every time any character says the word \"vibranium,\" one would spend the film's final hour in the lobby having one's stomach pumped by a team of professionals.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a credit to the production team that, even after 18 times at-bat, we're still finding innovative way to visualize superhero tech (this time out, it's a kind of \u003cem>Matrix\u003c/em>-meets-Magic-Sand sort of deal), and still turning out fight choreography and stunts capable of quickening even the most jaded pulse (a nighttime car chase through the streets of Seoul, South Korea, includes a moment engineered to elicit cheers, because Coogler knows what these films are about).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus there are war rhinos, so. I mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the story, it is a truth universally acknowledged that wherever there is a palace, there must be palace intrigue: T'Challa's claim to the throne is challenged by \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0430107/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Michael B. Jordan'\u003c/a>s fabulously monikered Killmonger, who manages to mong quite a few kills before facing off against his rival. Like all of the best villains, Killmonger's motivations are grounded in his zeal to correct a great injustice — one may quibble with his master plan's methodology (i.e, the wholesale slaughter of billions), but you gotta admit: Dude has a point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101861\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-101861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-800x400.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-160x80.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-768x384.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-960x480.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-240x120.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-375x188.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-520x260.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Black Panther'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>'s \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1775091/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Danai Gurira\u003c/a>, as Okoye, leads Wakanda's elite corps of female warriors, the sight of which in combat provides many of the film's most thrilling moments. Shuri (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4004793/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Letitia Wright\u003c/a>), T'Challa's wry and brilliant younger sister, supplies the kingdom with its tech, and the film with its laugh lines. \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2143282/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Lupita Nyong'o\u003c/a> plays a love interest who's actually interesting — a young woman who chafes against Wakanda's age-old policy of hoarding its wealth and tech from the world. \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000291/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Angela Bassett\u003c/a> is on hand, along with her cheekbones, to look regal and fierce in costume designer Ruth E. Carter's royal couture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a couple of middle-aged white dudes (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293509/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Martin Freeman\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0785227/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Andy Serkis\u003c/a>) doing stuff somewhere in the background, but never mind, the film isn't about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which, of course, is \u003cem>truly \u003c/em>what's new here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The genre of superhero cinema is wider and deeper than many give it credit for, because the stories we've seen thus far have followed similar arcs, starring similar actors, in similar settings. In \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em>, Coogler, too, rounds the familiar bases: Yes, those T'Challa versus Killmonger scenes \u003cem>do \u003c/em>duly check the \"Hero Fights Evil Version of Himself\" box; yes, you've seen elements of that car chase before; and yes, the sudden but inevitable death of a supporting character \u003cem>does \u003c/em>inspire T'Challa to scream \"NOOOOOOO!\" because that's the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a much more crucial way, \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> is a story we haven't seen told before in popular cinema — a story about black people completely untouched by colonialism, who exist entirely outside the global systems of institutionalized racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a fantasy, in other words — but then, that's exactly what superhero stories are for. It's difficult to explain the simple, inspiring and empowering joy of seeing a version of oneself onscreen, to those who've spent their lives unthinkingly soaking in it. A key reason for \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Wonder Woman's\u003c/em>\u003c/a> runaway success last summer was that moment she climbed out of that trench, revealed herself to the world, withstood an onslaught of machine-gun fire and proceeded to get Amazonian on some enemy soldiers. Male heroes have been doing something similar for decades, in and out of spandex, but now, women in the audience got the chance to \u003cem>feel \u003c/em>the raw and blissfully uncomplicated power of representation and understand what the nerds in their life saw in this silly stuff. \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> is filled with similar moments: a pan-African cast getting hero moment after hero moment in a gorgeous Afro-futurist setting where the light is always golden, and the tech is always glowy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a hole in the world, a big one. And although one movie, one fictional hero, can't fix it, it \u003cem>can \u003c/em>tell a story — a \u003cem>new \u003c/em>story — that millions have hungered for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Black+Panther%27+Is+A+Superhero+Story+You+Haven%27t+Seen+Before+%E2%80%94+And+It%27s+Thrilling&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This is a film where black people exist outside the realms of colonialism and institutionalized racism.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1518565112,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":1074},"headData":{"title":"'Black Panther' is Unlike Any Superhero Story You've Seen Before | KQED","description":"This is a film where black people exist outside the realms of colonialism and institutionalized racism.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"101858 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=101858","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/02/16/black-panther-is-unlike-any-superhero-story-youve-seen-before/","disqusTitle":"'Black Panther' is Unlike Any Superhero Story You've Seen Before","nprByline":"Glen Weldon","nprStoryId":"585006605","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=585006605&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2018/02/12/585006605/black-panther-tells-a-thrilling-superhero-story-that-hasn-t-been-told?ft=nprml&f=585006605","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:07:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:43:37 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:07:49 -0500","path":"/pop/101858/black-panther-is-unlike-any-superhero-story-youve-seen-before","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1938, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecomicbooks.com/old/super.html\">Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster\u003c/a> — two Jewish kids from Cleveland who were reading the alarming news coming out of Europe — created precisely the hero necessary to put things right: an impossibly strong and nigh-invulnerable paragon of virtue and butt-kicking they called \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman\">Superman\u003c/a>. He could have ended Hitler's advance with a snap of his fingers — and he definitely would have, if only he weren't a creature of pure fantasy. Three years later, as the Nazi threat escalated, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Best-Simon-Kirby-Joe/dp/1845769317\">Joe Simon and Jack Kirby\u003c/a> went a step further, summoning into being a hero who was essentially an American flag come to dynamic, Hitler-punching life. They called him \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America\">Captain America\u003c/a>, because subtlety is not what superhero comics are about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a poignancy in the fact that these two heroes were products of grim necessity — a global menace threatened our way of life, and a nation gripped by fear and anxiety found in Superman and Captain America twin release valves. By indulging in the belief that someone big and strong and primary-colored could rescue them and beat the bad guy, Americans managed to steal a few moments of vicarious satisfaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a hole in the world, so they created heroes to fix it.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/xjDjIWPwcPU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xjDjIWPwcPU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>That same poignancy permeates \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825683/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which is Marvel Studio's 18th superhero movie, though it certainly doesn't feel like it. Ryan Coogler's third film is, happily, no by-the-numbers, big-budget hero narrative of the sort to which we've grown inured — it's by turns as intimate and immediate as 2013's \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334649/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Fruitvale Station\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and as stirring as 2015's \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3076658/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Creed\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1569276/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Chadwick Boseman\u003c/a> is T'Challa, king of Wakanda, an unimaginably advanced, ruthlessly isolationist African nation that hides its riches and its tech from the world at large. Wakanda, as vividly and gorgeously realized here, is a soaring Afro-futurist utopia powered by the world's rarest, hardest and blue-glowiest metal, vibranium. (Fair warning: If one were to sneak a flask into a screening of \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> and drink every time any character says the word \"vibranium,\" one would spend the film's final hour in the lobby having one's stomach pumped by a team of professionals.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a credit to the production team that, even after 18 times at-bat, we're still finding innovative way to visualize superhero tech (this time out, it's a kind of \u003cem>Matrix\u003c/em>-meets-Magic-Sand sort of deal), and still turning out fight choreography and stunts capable of quickening even the most jaded pulse (a nighttime car chase through the streets of Seoul, South Korea, includes a moment engineered to elicit cheers, because Coogler knows what these films are about).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus there are war rhinos, so. I mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the story, it is a truth universally acknowledged that wherever there is a palace, there must be palace intrigue: T'Challa's claim to the throne is challenged by \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0430107/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Michael B. Jordan'\u003c/a>s fabulously monikered Killmonger, who manages to mong quite a few kills before facing off against his rival. Like all of the best villains, Killmonger's motivations are grounded in his zeal to correct a great injustice — one may quibble with his master plan's methodology (i.e, the wholesale slaughter of billions), but you gotta admit: Dude has a point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101861\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-101861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-800x400.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-160x80.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-768x384.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-960x480.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-240x120.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-375x188.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther-520x260.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/landscape-1508161031-black-panther.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Black Panther'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>'s \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1775091/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Danai Gurira\u003c/a>, as Okoye, leads Wakanda's elite corps of female warriors, the sight of which in combat provides many of the film's most thrilling moments. Shuri (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4004793/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Letitia Wright\u003c/a>), T'Challa's wry and brilliant younger sister, supplies the kingdom with its tech, and the film with its laugh lines. \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2143282/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Lupita Nyong'o\u003c/a> plays a love interest who's actually interesting — a young woman who chafes against Wakanda's age-old policy of hoarding its wealth and tech from the world. \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000291/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Angela Bassett\u003c/a> is on hand, along with her cheekbones, to look regal and fierce in costume designer Ruth E. Carter's royal couture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a couple of middle-aged white dudes (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293509/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Martin Freeman\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0785227/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Andy Serkis\u003c/a>) doing stuff somewhere in the background, but never mind, the film isn't about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which, of course, is \u003cem>truly \u003c/em>what's new here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The genre of superhero cinema is wider and deeper than many give it credit for, because the stories we've seen thus far have followed similar arcs, starring similar actors, in similar settings. In \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em>, Coogler, too, rounds the familiar bases: Yes, those T'Challa versus Killmonger scenes \u003cem>do \u003c/em>duly check the \"Hero Fights Evil Version of Himself\" box; yes, you've seen elements of that car chase before; and yes, the sudden but inevitable death of a supporting character \u003cem>does \u003c/em>inspire T'Challa to scream \"NOOOOOOO!\" because that's the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a much more crucial way, \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> is a story we haven't seen told before in popular cinema — a story about black people completely untouched by colonialism, who exist entirely outside the global systems of institutionalized racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a fantasy, in other words — but then, that's exactly what superhero stories are for. It's difficult to explain the simple, inspiring and empowering joy of seeing a version of oneself onscreen, to those who've spent their lives unthinkingly soaking in it. A key reason for \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Wonder Woman's\u003c/em>\u003c/a> runaway success last summer was that moment she climbed out of that trench, revealed herself to the world, withstood an onslaught of machine-gun fire and proceeded to get Amazonian on some enemy soldiers. Male heroes have been doing something similar for decades, in and out of spandex, but now, women in the audience got the chance to \u003cem>feel \u003c/em>the raw and blissfully uncomplicated power of representation and understand what the nerds in their life saw in this silly stuff. \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> is filled with similar moments: a pan-African cast getting hero moment after hero moment in a gorgeous Afro-futurist setting where the light is always golden, and the tech is always glowy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a hole in the world, a big one. And although one movie, one fictional hero, can't fix it, it \u003cem>can \u003c/em>tell a story — a \u003cem>new \u003c/em>story — that millions have hungered for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Black+Panther%27+Is+A+Superhero+Story+You+Haven%27t+Seen+Before+%E2%80%94+And+It%27s+Thrilling&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/101858/black-panther-is-unlike-any-superhero-story-youve-seen-before","authors":["byline_pop_101858"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_3152","pop_756","pop_714"],"featImg":"pop_101859","label":"pop"},"pop_40356":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_40356","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"40356","score":null,"sort":[1475695834000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"27-better-titles-for-ben-afflecks-solo-batman-film-than-the-batman","title":"27 Better Titles For Ben Affleck's Solo Batman Film Than 'The Batman'","publishDate":1475695834,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Recently, actor Ben Affleck spoke with The Associated Press and revealed the title of the solo Batman film he's slated to direct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ready?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Batman\u003c/em>, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps sensing that this announcement would be greeted with the collective cricket-chirping shrug it has been, he immediately built himself a verbal escape clause: \"At least, that's what we're going with now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's plenty of time to change it; there's still not a finished script. And Warner Bros. suits will likely quibble with Affleck's choice of title, worried that simply slapping a definite article before the hero's name might not be enough to distinguish it from Tim Burton's 1989 \u003cem>Batman\u003c/em>. (Or, for that matter, 1966's \u003cem>Batman: The Movie\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, studios like to insert active verbs (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103776/\">Returns\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/?ref_=nv_sr_2\">Begins\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2\">Rises\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975590/\">Pouts\u003c/a>) or adjectives (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Incredible\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Amazing\u003c/a>) to their superhero franchises to keep things clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, there's the simple fact that it's \u003cem>hella boring\u003c/em>, and that it doesn't truly reflect the feel of the the DC/Warner Bros. cinematic universe established to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why we're only too happy to help. Here are 27 carefully considered, thoughtfully curated title suggestions that advance the existing Bat-franchise while maintaining brand identity:\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>1. \u003cem>Batman: 2 Furious 2 Furious He Should Really Do Something About How Furious He Is\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003cem>Batman: Electric Boo-Hoo-Hoo\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003cem>Batman: Je Suis Désolé\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. \u003cem>Batman: Yep Parents Still Dead FYI\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. \u003cem>Batman: Sulky City\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6: \u003cem>Batman: Puttin' the Goth in Gotham\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. \u003cem>Batman: This City Needs Him. Because Crime. And Justice. Also Hope.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8: \u003cem>Batman: This Time He Kills Guys! Badass!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9. \u003cem>Batman: Shut Up, And Leave Me Alone\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. \u003cem>Batman: Hatful of Hollow\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. \u003cem>Batman: Kill Uncle\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12. \u003cem>Batman: Gotham Just Don't Understand\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>13. \u003cem>Batman: Back to the Man Cave\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>14. \u003cem>Batman: The Dark Knight Grouses\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>15. \u003cem>Batman: Biff! Bam! Pow! Serotonin Reuptake!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>16. \u003cem>Batman: The Squeakquel\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>17. \u003cem>Batman: Live Free Or Cry Hard\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>18. \u003cem>Batman: Prig in the City\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>19. \u003cem>Batman: Back 2 tha Hood, Where The Hood In Question Is Crime Alley, Where His Parents Were Killed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>20. \u003cem>Batman: First Blood, Followed By Painful Bruising\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>21. \u003cem>Batman: The Killing, But Not Remotely Funny Because This Is Serious Here Guys Quit Laughing You Guys Quit It, Joke\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>22. \u003cem>Batman: Again, Please Take This Seriously\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>23. \u003cem>Batman: Brood Awakening\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>24. \u003cem>Batman: I Just Checked Again and Yeah Parents Still Dead\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>25. \u003cem>Batman: Gotham Guardian: The Owls of Ga'Hoole\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>26. \u003cem>Batman: His Finest Glower\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>27. \u003cem>Batman: The Caped Crusader But Only You Know Not Gay Or Nothin\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=27+Better+Titles+For+Ben+Affleck%27s+Solo+Batman+Film+Than+%27The+Batman%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oh, sure, it's bluntly descriptive. But the title Affleck has announced for his upcoming Batmovie has got no oomph, no zazz, no moxie. We offer some humble, better suggestions.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1475718328,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":448},"headData":{"title":"27 Better Titles For Ben Affleck's Solo Batman Film Than 'The Batman' | KQED","description":"Oh, sure, it's bluntly descriptive. But the title Affleck has announced for his upcoming Batmovie has got no oomph, no zazz, no moxie. 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And Warner Bros. suits will likely quibble with Affleck's choice of title, worried that simply slapping a definite article before the hero's name might not be enough to distinguish it from Tim Burton's 1989 \u003cem>Batman\u003c/em>. (Or, for that matter, 1966's \u003cem>Batman: The Movie\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, studios like to insert active verbs (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103776/\">Returns\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/?ref_=nv_sr_2\">Begins\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2\">Rises\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975590/\">Pouts\u003c/a>) or adjectives (\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Incredible\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Amazing\u003c/a>) to their superhero franchises to keep things clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, there's the simple fact that it's \u003cem>hella boring\u003c/em>, and that it doesn't truly reflect the feel of the the DC/Warner Bros. cinematic universe established to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why we're only too happy to help. Here are 27 carefully considered, thoughtfully curated title suggestions that advance the existing Bat-franchise while maintaining brand identity:\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>1. \u003cem>Batman: 2 Furious 2 Furious He Should Really Do Something About How Furious He Is\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003cem>Batman: Electric Boo-Hoo-Hoo\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003cem>Batman: Je Suis Désolé\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. \u003cem>Batman: Yep Parents Still Dead FYI\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. \u003cem>Batman: Sulky City\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6: \u003cem>Batman: Puttin' the Goth in Gotham\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. \u003cem>Batman: This City Needs Him. Because Crime. And Justice. Also Hope.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8: \u003cem>Batman: This Time He Kills Guys! Badass!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9. \u003cem>Batman: Shut Up, And Leave Me Alone\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. \u003cem>Batman: Hatful of Hollow\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>11. \u003cem>Batman: Kill Uncle\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>12. \u003cem>Batman: Gotham Just Don't Understand\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>13. \u003cem>Batman: Back to the Man Cave\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>14. \u003cem>Batman: The Dark Knight Grouses\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>15. \u003cem>Batman: Biff! Bam! Pow! Serotonin Reuptake!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>16. \u003cem>Batman: The Squeakquel\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>17. \u003cem>Batman: Live Free Or Cry Hard\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>18. \u003cem>Batman: Prig in the City\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>19. \u003cem>Batman: Back 2 tha Hood, Where The Hood In Question Is Crime Alley, Where His Parents Were Killed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>20. \u003cem>Batman: First Blood, Followed By Painful Bruising\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>21. \u003cem>Batman: The Killing, But Not Remotely Funny Because This Is Serious Here Guys Quit Laughing You Guys Quit It, Joke\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>22. \u003cem>Batman: Again, Please Take This Seriously\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>23. \u003cem>Batman: Brood Awakening\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>24. \u003cem>Batman: I Just Checked Again and Yeah Parents Still Dead\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>25. \u003cem>Batman: Gotham Guardian: The Owls of Ga'Hoole\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>26. \u003cem>Batman: His Finest Glower\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>27. \u003cem>Batman: The Caped Crusader But Only You Know Not Gay Or Nothin\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=27+Better+Titles+For+Ben+Affleck%27s+Solo+Batman+Film+Than+%27The+Batman%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/40356/27-better-titles-for-ben-afflecks-solo-batman-film-than-the-batman","authors":["byline_pop_40356"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_1348","pop_714"],"featImg":"pop_40357","label":"pop"},"pop_16137":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_16137","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"16137","score":null,"sort":[1430250885000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-avengers-which-marvel-movies-you-need-to-see-before-age-of-ultron","title":"The Avengers: Which Marvel Movies You Need To See Before Age Of Ultron","publishDate":1430250885,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Superhero movies have grown up. Gone is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/tumblr_milv49sLVQ1rrkahjo1_400.gif\">the campy strangness of the '90s\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/batswing.gif\">the adolescent angst of the 2000s\u003c/a>. The recent Marvel superhero movies have managed to find a smart combination of action, complexity, adventure, self-awareness and wit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their latest offering—\u003cem>The Avengers: Age of Ultron—\u003c/em>comes to theaters this Thursday\u003cem> \u003c/em>and\u003cem> \u003c/em>is set to be the blockbuster of the year. So if you haven’t been on board before, now’s your chance! Wondering where to start now that there are 10 interconnected movies in the Marvel universe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what’s worth watching:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Marvel’s The Avengers\u003c/em> (2012)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you only watch one movie to prep, it should be the first \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> film. (But you should obviously consider watching the other movies on this list as well.) It's the first movie to bring all of the Avengers together and is directed by master storyteller Joss Whedon, which means that the story has a perfect combo of complexity, heart and wit, and it will surprise you at least once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're still on the fence, this clip should convince you (unless you hate everything good):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU3WVwjtgyI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb> \u003cem>Captain America: The Winter Soldier\u003c/em> (2014)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another essential. Over the course of the preceding movies, Marvel carefully builds a world, and then, in this movie, COMPLETELY TEARS IT DOWN. A surprise turn of events will leave you gasping in shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Winter Soldier\u003c/em> dives unexpectedly into the darker implications of everything set up in the first \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em>. I don’t want to spoil anything, but this is the superhero movie that our modern era deserves, a movie which tangles itself in questions of government surveillance and freedom vs. privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, there's \u003cem>intense\u003c/em> homoerotic subtext. Try to finish this movie thinking that Captain America is straight. I dare you. There is amazing chemistry between Captain America and Falcon, as witnessed in their lingering, flirtatious glances in this clip:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru7Jk6liv_s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other reasons to check this one out: Samuel Jackson is in it, there's a car chase that is simultaneously the funniest and most heart-stopping scene of its kind, and this elevator fight scene:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqIBGEcKhGs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>The Solo Films\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the other Marvel offerings are solo films, usually origin stories or character studies. They add nuance and depth to the ensemble Avenger films, but aren't completely necessary to understanding the movies. Here’s a quick guide:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>The Thor Series\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thor movies are solid, fun action flicks, and they are actually my favorite of the solo movies. They aren’t afraid to make fun of Thor, and that keeps them fresh and surprisingly funny. Also, all of the movies explore the relationship Thor has with his sometimes villainous brother Loki, a relationship that is infuriating, complex, violent and tender.\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Thor\u003c/em> (2011)\u003c/b>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first Thor movie is a great prequel to \u003cem>The Avengers\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to get deep with it, its kind of like a retelling of the events leading up to the second Iraq war. A cocky young ruler decides to end the stalemate his father brokered with a rival country by preemptively attacking it. Only in this retelling, George W. has the universe’s most amazing abs, and he is banished by his father to Earth, where he has to deal with the consequences of his arrogant jingoism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sample of the humor that makes these movies great:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUqcPR-SjQg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Thor 2: Dark World\u003c/em> (2013)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the title suggests, this one is darker in tone, although it still manages to put in some humor. This is the third movie with Thor and his brother Loki. They’ve seen many battles, some against each other, some on the same side. Their ability to simultaneously hate and care for each other makes them one of the most interesting sibling relationships ever portrayed onscreen. They are also the subjects of quite a lot of slash fiction which imagines them as lovers (just sayin').\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s also important to mention (and I say this as a card-carrying lesbian) that Chris Hemsworth’s abs deserve their own film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/tumblr_n3v7rxzdi11tsvbbno2_500.gif\" alt=\"chris hemsworth thor abs\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16154\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/giphy-1.gif\" alt=\"loki thor\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em> (2014)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these guys will be in \u003cem>Avengers 2\u003c/em>, but they will show up in later movies. The movie has an amazing '70s soundtrack, some great characters, and features the best dance scenes in Marvel movie history. See for yourself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ohTJp3PAA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, I have major beef with \u003cem>Guardians\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plot resolution was weak and the romance lacked chemistry and didn’t really make sense. It went something like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Him:\u003c/em> I use women and don't care about anyone but myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Her:\u003c/em> I have no time for love and I dislike you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Him:\u003c/em> Now that we’ve spent like 20 minutes together, I love you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Her:\u003c/em> I love you too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Me:\u003c/em> \u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/Jesse-Eisenbergs-Popcorn-Toss-Reaction-Gif.gif\" alt=\"Jesse-Eisenbergs-Popcorn-Toss-Reaction-Gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was bummed out by the sexism in the movie. Early on, women are props to establish that the main character is cool. (He beds women and then forgets about them. Neat!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, despite the fact that he is an averagely-powered bandit, when he encounters an intergalactically-known elite assassin, he outmatches her. \u003ca href=\"http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gs4cqw0h1rqfhi2o1_400.gif\">She obviously becomes his love interest\u003c/a> by virtue of being someone who doesn’t like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, there’s the cliche inspirational speech by Chris Pratt, a.k.a. the guy who is now the leader of the group by virtue of being a white human male. Sigh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Guardians isn't a complete loss. It doesn’t matter that the two human(ish) leads are meh because the breakout stars of this film are Groot, a kind-hearted, barely-verbal warrior tree, and Rocket, a crass, hyperactive, genetically-modified raccoon. Their chemistry is out of this world (zing!), but this isn’t some Disney stuff. They are funny, rude, well developed, and kick ass. Even with the problems listed above, they make this movie worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16157\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/1123.gif\" alt=\"tree raccoon guardians of the galaxy\" width=\"651\" height=\"347\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cb>Black Widow\u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HA! Did you think you lived in a world where females can carry an action movie? Oh wait, you do live in that world. Just look at \u003cem>Hunger Games\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Divergent\u003c/em>. Somehow, the producers at Marvel Studios have their heads too far up their you-know-whats to realize that female superheroes sell. So no Black Widow movies for you. But Iron Man gets three movies...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16160\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/I-Am-Uncontrollably-Angry-Reaction-Gif.gif\" alt=\"I-Am-Uncontrollably-Angry-Reaction-Gif\" width=\"231\" height=\"165\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16159\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/66051-GLEE-angry-gif-2OGo.gif\" alt=\"glee angry gif\" width=\"375\" height=\"212\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16158\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/tumblr_lqk5tk2fXt1qk9741o1_500.gif\" alt=\"nicki minaj angry gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"362\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Widow is in the \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> movies and she plays a big role in \u003cem>Captain America: Winter Soldier\u003c/em>, so if you want more of her, that’s your best bet. She also plays a supporting role in \u003cem>Iron Man 2,\u003c/em> if you are absolutely desperate for a fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe someday we’ll get a whole movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Iron Man\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iron Man is like if that mansplaining Libertarian from class was actually as witty as he imagined he was (but was still a jerk) and he also got to punch stuff in a robot suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m going to be real with you and say that I’m not that into these movies, which I understand is a borderline treasonous statement, since these are the most successful of the solo films. But there it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Iron Man\u003c/em> (2008)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standard origin story. Terrible facial hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>I\u003c/em>\u003cb>\u003cem>ron Man 2\u003c/em> (2010)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classic insufferable Tony Stark. Our first introduction to Black Widow. Some cool fight scenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Iron Man 3\u003c/em> (2013)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most relevant to the new \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> movie. It's also the most interesting of the three because of the cracks in Tony’s glossy persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Captain America\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve already established that \u003cem>Winter Soldier\u003c/em> is a must-see. But Captain America also has an origins movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Captain America: The First Avenger\u003c/em> (2011)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a quiet, thoughtful origin story, nostalgic for WWII, while also being somewhat aware of the complex forces of a war machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch it if you love the 1940s or if you want to see more evidence that Captain America is a closeted gay. Never has a superhero been more reluctant to kiss women. How I wish Marvel would commit to it and let him come out already! It would be so powerful and subversive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=captain+america+bucky&espv=2&biw=1456&bih=1191&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=0-A_VYeRDJfooATb9YC4DQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#q=captain+america+bucky+slash+fiction&tbm=isch&tbas=0&imgrc=hyfTREeGKLk6XM%253A%3BAXzXMtNKYR1lGM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fcdn0.dailydot.com%252Fcache%252F79%252F12%252F791247dd74e8c4123acc6b0dd2151aa8.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.dailydot.com%252Fgeek%252Fbucky-barnes-captain-america-avengers-instagram%252F%3B1024%3B513\">Until then...\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16166\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/tumblr_inline_nkvx98Vl1u1rw69mq.gif\" alt=\"captain america bucky slash fiction gay homoerotic\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>The Hulk\u003c/em> (2008)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The origin movie is out of date and occurs before Mark Ruffalo took on the role. So, full disclosure: I didn’t watch it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>_____\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now you have the tools to dive into the Marvel universe! \u003cem>Avengers: Age of Ultron\u003c/em> comes out April 30th. See you at the theater!\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Wondering where to start now that there are 10 interconnected movies in the Marvel universe?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1481666726,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":51,"wordCount":1504},"headData":{"title":"The Avengers: Which Marvel Movies You Need To See Before Age Of Ultron | KQED","description":"Wondering where to start now that there are 10 interconnected movies in the Marvel universe?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"16137 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=16137","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/04/28/the-avengers-which-marvel-movies-you-need-to-see-before-age-of-ultron/","disqusTitle":"The Avengers: Which Marvel Movies You Need To See Before Age Of Ultron","customPermalink":"the-avengers-beginners-guide-which-marvel-movies-you-need-to-see-before-age-of-ultron","nprByline":"Rachel Noelle Wood","path":"/pop/16137/the-avengers-which-marvel-movies-you-need-to-see-before-age-of-ultron","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Superhero movies have grown up. Gone is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/tumblr_milv49sLVQ1rrkahjo1_400.gif\">the campy strangness of the '90s\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/batswing.gif\">the adolescent angst of the 2000s\u003c/a>. The recent Marvel superhero movies have managed to find a smart combination of action, complexity, adventure, self-awareness and wit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their latest offering—\u003cem>The Avengers: Age of Ultron—\u003c/em>comes to theaters this Thursday\u003cem> \u003c/em>and\u003cem> \u003c/em>is set to be the blockbuster of the year. So if you haven’t been on board before, now’s your chance! Wondering where to start now that there are 10 interconnected movies in the Marvel universe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what’s worth watching:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Marvel’s The Avengers\u003c/em> (2012)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/eOrNdBpGMv8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/eOrNdBpGMv8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you only watch one movie to prep, it should be the first \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> film. (But you should obviously consider watching the other movies on this list as well.) It's the first movie to bring all of the Avengers together and is directed by master storyteller Joss Whedon, which means that the story has a perfect combo of complexity, heart and wit, and it will surprise you at least once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're still on the fence, this clip should convince you (unless you hate everything good):\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/iU3WVwjtgyI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/iU3WVwjtgyI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb> \u003cem>Captain America: The Winter Soldier\u003c/em> (2014)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another essential. Over the course of the preceding movies, Marvel carefully builds a world, and then, in this movie, COMPLETELY TEARS IT DOWN. A surprise turn of events will leave you gasping in shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Winter Soldier\u003c/em> dives unexpectedly into the darker implications of everything set up in the first \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em>. I don’t want to spoil anything, but this is the superhero movie that our modern era deserves, a movie which tangles itself in questions of government surveillance and freedom vs. privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, there's \u003cem>intense\u003c/em> homoerotic subtext. Try to finish this movie thinking that Captain America is straight. I dare you. There is amazing chemistry between Captain America and Falcon, as witnessed in their lingering, flirtatious glances in this clip:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ru7Jk6liv_s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ru7Jk6liv_s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Other reasons to check this one out: Samuel Jackson is in it, there's a car chase that is simultaneously the funniest and most heart-stopping scene of its kind, and this elevator fight scene:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/jqIBGEcKhGs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/jqIBGEcKhGs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>The Solo Films\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the other Marvel offerings are solo films, usually origin stories or character studies. They add nuance and depth to the ensemble Avenger films, but aren't completely necessary to understanding the movies. Here’s a quick guide:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>The Thor Series\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thor movies are solid, fun action flicks, and they are actually my favorite of the solo movies. They aren’t afraid to make fun of Thor, and that keeps them fresh and surprisingly funny. Also, all of the movies explore the relationship Thor has with his sometimes villainous brother Loki, a relationship that is infuriating, complex, violent and tender.\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Thor\u003c/em> (2011)\u003c/b>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first Thor movie is a great prequel to \u003cem>The Avengers\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to get deep with it, its kind of like a retelling of the events leading up to the second Iraq war. A cocky young ruler decides to end the stalemate his father brokered with a rival country by preemptively attacking it. Only in this retelling, George W. has the universe’s most amazing abs, and he is banished by his father to Earth, where he has to deal with the consequences of his arrogant jingoism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sample of the humor that makes these movies great:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qUqcPR-SjQg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qUqcPR-SjQg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Thor 2: Dark World\u003c/em> (2013)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the title suggests, this one is darker in tone, although it still manages to put in some humor. This is the third movie with Thor and his brother Loki. They’ve seen many battles, some against each other, some on the same side. Their ability to simultaneously hate and care for each other makes them one of the most interesting sibling relationships ever portrayed onscreen. They are also the subjects of quite a lot of slash fiction which imagines them as lovers (just sayin').\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s also important to mention (and I say this as a card-carrying lesbian) that Chris Hemsworth’s abs deserve their own film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/tumblr_n3v7rxzdi11tsvbbno2_500.gif\" alt=\"chris hemsworth thor abs\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16154\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/giphy-1.gif\" alt=\"loki thor\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em> (2014)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these guys will be in \u003cem>Avengers 2\u003c/em>, but they will show up in later movies. The movie has an amazing '70s soundtrack, some great characters, and features the best dance scenes in Marvel movie history. See for yourself:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/u8ohTJp3PAA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/u8ohTJp3PAA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>That said, I have major beef with \u003cem>Guardians\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plot resolution was weak and the romance lacked chemistry and didn’t really make sense. It went something like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Him:\u003c/em> I use women and don't care about anyone but myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Her:\u003c/em> I have no time for love and I dislike you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Him:\u003c/em> Now that we’ve spent like 20 minutes together, I love you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Her:\u003c/em> I love you too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Me:\u003c/em> \u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/Jesse-Eisenbergs-Popcorn-Toss-Reaction-Gif.gif\" alt=\"Jesse-Eisenbergs-Popcorn-Toss-Reaction-Gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was bummed out by the sexism in the movie. Early on, women are props to establish that the main character is cool. (He beds women and then forgets about them. Neat!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, despite the fact that he is an averagely-powered bandit, when he encounters an intergalactically-known elite assassin, he outmatches her. \u003ca href=\"http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gs4cqw0h1rqfhi2o1_400.gif\">She obviously becomes his love interest\u003c/a> by virtue of being someone who doesn’t like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, there’s the cliche inspirational speech by Chris Pratt, a.k.a. the guy who is now the leader of the group by virtue of being a white human male. Sigh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Guardians isn't a complete loss. It doesn’t matter that the two human(ish) leads are meh because the breakout stars of this film are Groot, a kind-hearted, barely-verbal warrior tree, and Rocket, a crass, hyperactive, genetically-modified raccoon. Their chemistry is out of this world (zing!), but this isn’t some Disney stuff. They are funny, rude, well developed, and kick ass. Even with the problems listed above, they make this movie worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16157\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/1123.gif\" alt=\"tree raccoon guardians of the galaxy\" width=\"651\" height=\"347\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cb>Black Widow\u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HA! Did you think you lived in a world where females can carry an action movie? Oh wait, you do live in that world. Just look at \u003cem>Hunger Games\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Divergent\u003c/em>. Somehow, the producers at Marvel Studios have their heads too far up their you-know-whats to realize that female superheroes sell. So no Black Widow movies for you. But Iron Man gets three movies...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16160\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/I-Am-Uncontrollably-Angry-Reaction-Gif.gif\" alt=\"I-Am-Uncontrollably-Angry-Reaction-Gif\" width=\"231\" height=\"165\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16159\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/66051-GLEE-angry-gif-2OGo.gif\" alt=\"glee angry gif\" width=\"375\" height=\"212\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16158\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/tumblr_lqk5tk2fXt1qk9741o1_500.gif\" alt=\"nicki minaj angry gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"362\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Widow is in the \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> movies and she plays a big role in \u003cem>Captain America: Winter Soldier\u003c/em>, so if you want more of her, that’s your best bet. She also plays a supporting role in \u003cem>Iron Man 2,\u003c/em> if you are absolutely desperate for a fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe someday we’ll get a whole movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Iron Man\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iron Man is like if that mansplaining Libertarian from class was actually as witty as he imagined he was (but was still a jerk) and he also got to punch stuff in a robot suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m going to be real with you and say that I’m not that into these movies, which I understand is a borderline treasonous statement, since these are the most successful of the solo films. But there it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Iron Man\u003c/em> (2008)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standard origin story. Terrible facial hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>I\u003c/em>\u003cb>\u003cem>ron Man 2\u003c/em> (2010)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classic insufferable Tony Stark. Our first introduction to Black Widow. Some cool fight scenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Iron Man 3\u003c/em> (2013)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most relevant to the new \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> movie. It's also the most interesting of the three because of the cracks in Tony’s glossy persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Captain America\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve already established that \u003cem>Winter Soldier\u003c/em> is a must-see. But Captain America also has an origins movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>Captain America: The First Avenger\u003c/em> (2011)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a quiet, thoughtful origin story, nostalgic for WWII, while also being somewhat aware of the complex forces of a war machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch it if you love the 1940s or if you want to see more evidence that Captain America is a closeted gay. Never has a superhero been more reluctant to kiss women. How I wish Marvel would commit to it and let him come out already! It would be so powerful and subversive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=captain+america+bucky&espv=2&biw=1456&bih=1191&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=0-A_VYeRDJfooATb9YC4DQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#q=captain+america+bucky+slash+fiction&tbm=isch&tbas=0&imgrc=hyfTREeGKLk6XM%253A%3BAXzXMtNKYR1lGM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fcdn0.dailydot.com%252Fcache%252F79%252F12%252F791247dd74e8c4123acc6b0dd2151aa8.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.dailydot.com%252Fgeek%252Fbucky-barnes-captain-america-avengers-instagram%252F%3B1024%3B513\">Until then...\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16166\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/04/tumblr_inline_nkvx98Vl1u1rw69mq.gif\" alt=\"captain america bucky slash fiction gay homoerotic\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>\u003cem>The Hulk\u003c/em> (2008)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The origin movie is out of date and occurs before Mark Ruffalo took on the role. So, full disclosure: I didn’t watch it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>_____\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now you have the tools to dive into the Marvel universe! \u003cem>Avengers: Age of Ultron\u003c/em> comes out April 30th. See you at the theater!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/16137/the-avengers-which-marvel-movies-you-need-to-see-before-age-of-ultron","authors":["byline_pop_16137"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_714"],"featImg":"pop_16163","label":"pop"},"pop_12290":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_12290","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"12290","score":null,"sort":[1401980543000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men","title":"Wanted: Movie Superheroes Who Aren't Straight White Men","publishDate":1401980543,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/storm-phantom-marvel/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12348\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12348\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/storm-phantom-marvel.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Marvel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/storm-phantom-marvel.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/storm-phantom-marvel-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marvel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Superman. Batman. Iron Man. Captain America. Wolverine. All beloved comic book superheroes with big screen adaptations that live up to their legends. And all heterosexual white guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that there's anything wrong with heterosexual white guys (some of my best friends are heterosexual white guys), but when the world is made up of a significant amount of different kinds of people, why aren't there more big screen heroes to reflect that? It's a question that I pondered especially hard when I found out that Ant-Man is getting his own movie. Yes, Ant-Man; another heterosexual white guy and a third-string hero at best (apologies, diehard Ant-Man fans). Why are we resorting to an Ant-Man film when comic books have some great heroes to choose from that reflect the rest of the population with compelling stories of their own?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the best superheroes beyond the usual heterosexual white guys, who deserve a big screen outing of their own. Some are classics (Storm, The Question) and some are a little less known (Apollo and Midnighter), but all are needed to bring a little diversity to the current crop of caped crusaders on screen today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Black Panther (Marvel Comics, African American)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/phantom-marvel/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12341\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12341\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/phantom-marvel.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Marvel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/phantom-marvel.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/phantom-marvel-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marvel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Black Panther has the distinction of being (arguably) the first African American superhero. Before the Falcon, Storm, Luke Cage or the John Stewart-era Green Lantern, there was T'Challa, a.k.a. the one and only Black Panther. T'Challa's story starts in Africa, where he is the chief of the panther tribe of Wakanda and defender of his hidden nation. As chief, the Panther has access to magical artifacts and herbs that enhance his agility, strength and senses to superhuman heights. Later in his career, he joins the Avengers, but not before he meets his true love, a girl from a neighboring tribe named Ororo Munroe, a.k.a. Storm. The two are eventually married, making for one of the best superhero couplings since forever. Another fun fact: Black Panther's publication actually predates the founding of the Black Panther Political Party by about four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Mantis (Marvel Comics, Vietnamese and German) \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/mantis_1970s_avengers_h1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12340\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Mantis_1970s_Avengers_h1.jpg\" alt=\"Mantis_1970s_Avengers_h1\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Mantis_1970s_Avengers_h1.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Mantis_1970s_Avengers_h1-400x232.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marvel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The half-Vietnamese, half-German Mantis has a celestial backstory more complicated than even Wolverine's amnesia plotlines (at one point, she's thought to be some kind of outer-space Madonna primed to birth an alien messiah, you know, as one does). Her powers include a mastery of martial arts, advanced control over her autonomic functions (heartbeat, blood loss, body temperature) and an ability to astral project. Mantis is such a powerful empath she's even able to find weakness in Norse God Thor and quickly overpowers him. One of her more compelling character arcs is a period as a sex worker in Vietnam. Let's see \u003cem>that\u003c/em> in the next \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> movie (a team Mantis eventually joins).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Storm (Marvel Comics, African)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/3207391-storm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12342\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12342\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/3207391-storm-1024x607.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Marvel\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marvel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know that Storm has already technically had four big screen outings in the X-Men series (five if you count her childhood cameo in \u003cem>X-Men: First Class\u003c/em>), but seriously, let's talk about an underused character. Mystique and Jean Grey aside, most of the women in X-Men are criminally underused. If ever there was a Marvel woman worthy of a spin-off, it's Storm. Between her childhood divided as a orphan pickpocket in Egypt and a weather witch worshipped by an African tribe as a goddess, her superior superpowers (seriously, she could end this drought in twenty minutes with a white-eyed summoning of heavy rain) and one of the most iconic heroine looks in all comiclandia, she's got more than enough heft to carry an entire film. What makes Storm's underuse all the worse is that Academy Award winner Halle Berry keeps coming back to the part \u003cem>desperate\u003c/em> to do something other than play sidekick to the men. Bryan Singer, please consider a standalone Storm feature. I want to see Halle \"let it go\" like that chick in \u003cem>Frozen\u003c/em> and freeze an entire slew of baddies in a magical CGI blizzard. If Halle is tired of the role, wouldn't \u003cem>Scandal\u003c/em>'s Kerry Washington be a great new choice? She's got the acting chops, the attitude and she's already a sort of heroine on TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Vixen (D.C. Comics, African)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 545px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/vixen_002/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12343\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12343 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Vixen_002.jpg\" alt=\"Vixen_002\" width=\"545\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Vixen_002.jpg 545w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Vixen_002-400x317.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: D.C. Comics\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the minute I saw Lupita Nyong'o, I hoped that Hollywood would wake up and cast her as one of the best black heroines since Storm. Since then, there's been a few rumors this might actually come to pass! Vixen's powers and backstory are tied to her African roots, making African born Nyong'o a match in more ways than just her incredible resemblance to some incarnations of the character. Born Mari Jiwe McCabe in the fictional nation of Zambesi, Mari is the latest in a long line of Tantu descendants to wield the power of the legendary Tantu Totem, which gives her the power to assume animal abilities to protect the innocent. To get the totem, she first has to battle her warlord uncle and (gasp) survive life in the fashion industry as a model. A superheroine of color who also serves as an indictment on the white-ideal-obsessed modeling industry? Yes, please! In the meantime, let's just hope Nyong'o's role in the new \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> film contains enough action that D.C. decides they'd be fools not to build a Vixen series around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Aztek (D.C. Comics, Latino) \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/aztek_011/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12344\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12344\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Aztek_011-1024x364.jpg\" alt=\"Aztek_011\" width=\"640\" height=\"228\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: D.C. Comics\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not since Wonder Woman's origins in Greek mythology has a superhero used existing myths and legends to such great effect. Aztec was born Uno, a child raised to one day be the champion of the god Quetzacoatl to battle the evil Tezcatipoca. Like Wonder Woman, he uses a magic suit of armor handed down by the gods to enhance his powers and abilities. His superpowers include flight, god-like strength, body camouflage, as well as manipulation of his body mass. Another cool aspect of this hero is that he was blind for a while (like Daredevil before him), adding him to the list of differently-abled heroes that includes the great Charles Xavier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Apollo and Midnighter (Wildstorm, Gay Couple)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/apollo-midnighter/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12345\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12345\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Apollo-Midnighter.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo-Midnighter\" width=\"640\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Apollo-Midnighter.jpg 658w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Apollo-Midnighter-400x168.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Wildstorm\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Authority members Apollo and Midnighter are as close as superhero partners can get. Well, actually...they're closer. If Batman and Superman were in a romantic relationship, they'd basically be Apollo and Midnighter, the gay superhero couple from Wildstorm's \u003cem>Stormwatch\u003c/em> series. The gritty, not always clearly moral characters (there's far more killing in Wildstorm comics than in Marvel and D.C.) are dark and conflicted, but never waver in their marriage. I wish all gay little boys could get their hands on some Apollo and Midnighter comics. Not only would they learn heroes come in all forms and sexualities, but they'd also get to hope to one day meet an Apollo or Midnighter of their very own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Question/Renee Montoya (D.C. Comics, Latina, Lesbian)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/87_reneemontoya/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12346\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12346\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/87_ReneeMontoya.jpg\" alt=\"87_ReneeMontoya\" width=\"640\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/87_ReneeMontoya.jpg 628w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/87_ReneeMontoya-400x177.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: D.C. Comics\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know the lesbian Batwoman Kate Kane is the most obvious choice for a gay female superhero film, but I've always had an overwhelming admiration for her lover, former Gotham City police detective Renee Montoya in her mantle as The Question. Although not the first to take up the blank face, Montoya is a great metaphor for all the faceless women of color she gets to represent in her vigilante incarnation. Hardened by her police work and her past, the recovering alcoholic Montoya is complicated and a bit of a loner at times, but her intentions are always in the right place. Plus, Montoya's Question has some of the best gadgets in Gotham, including a non-fatal energy pistol and that iconic blank mask that protects her from poison gasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Northstar (Marvel Comics, First Superhero to Come Cut as Gay)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/astonishing-x-men51-0011/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12347\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12347\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/astonishing-x-men51-0011.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Marvel\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/astonishing-x-men51-0011.jpg 519w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/astonishing-x-men51-0011-400x221.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marvel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid, there was always something about Alpha Flight/X-Men member Northstar that drew me to him... When he came out of the comic closet in 1992 (the first comic book character to do so), it all made sense. We were compatible, so to speak. The French Canadian hero has a great backstory: he was a one-time Olympic athlete and he's super close to his twin sister Aurora, who's another character worthy of the big screen. In addition to being the first out comic character, Northstar (real name Jean-Paul Beaubier) also adopted an HIV-positive infant, who was abandoned at birth in one of the first major comic storylines addressing the crisis. His powers are also remarkable; Northstar can channel his kinetic energy into his body for super speed, super power and even super stamina and endurance. In 2012, Northstar had another comic first: he married his longtime partner, Kyle Jinadu, in \u003cem>Astonishing X-Men #51\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As studios mine the dregs of comic books for straight white heroes, here are some minority, LGBT and female heroes who deserve the spotlight.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1401925705,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":1507},"headData":{"title":"Wanted: Movie Superheroes Who Aren't Straight White Men | KQED","description":"As studios mine the dregs of comic books for straight white heroes, here are some minority, LGBT and female heroes who deserve the spotlight.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"12290 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=12290","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/","disqusTitle":"Wanted: Movie Superheroes Who Aren't Straight White Men","path":"/pop/12290/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/storm-phantom-marvel/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12348\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12348\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/storm-phantom-marvel.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Marvel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/storm-phantom-marvel.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/storm-phantom-marvel-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marvel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Superman. Batman. Iron Man. Captain America. Wolverine. All beloved comic book superheroes with big screen adaptations that live up to their legends. And all heterosexual white guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that there's anything wrong with heterosexual white guys (some of my best friends are heterosexual white guys), but when the world is made up of a significant amount of different kinds of people, why aren't there more big screen heroes to reflect that? It's a question that I pondered especially hard when I found out that Ant-Man is getting his own movie. Yes, Ant-Man; another heterosexual white guy and a third-string hero at best (apologies, diehard Ant-Man fans). Why are we resorting to an Ant-Man film when comic books have some great heroes to choose from that reflect the rest of the population with compelling stories of their own?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the best superheroes beyond the usual heterosexual white guys, who deserve a big screen outing of their own. Some are classics (Storm, The Question) and some are a little less known (Apollo and Midnighter), but all are needed to bring a little diversity to the current crop of caped crusaders on screen today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Black Panther (Marvel Comics, African American)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/phantom-marvel/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12341\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12341\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/phantom-marvel.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Marvel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/phantom-marvel.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/phantom-marvel-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marvel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Black Panther has the distinction of being (arguably) the first African American superhero. Before the Falcon, Storm, Luke Cage or the John Stewart-era Green Lantern, there was T'Challa, a.k.a. the one and only Black Panther. T'Challa's story starts in Africa, where he is the chief of the panther tribe of Wakanda and defender of his hidden nation. As chief, the Panther has access to magical artifacts and herbs that enhance his agility, strength and senses to superhuman heights. Later in his career, he joins the Avengers, but not before he meets his true love, a girl from a neighboring tribe named Ororo Munroe, a.k.a. Storm. The two are eventually married, making for one of the best superhero couplings since forever. Another fun fact: Black Panther's publication actually predates the founding of the Black Panther Political Party by about four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Mantis (Marvel Comics, Vietnamese and German) \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/mantis_1970s_avengers_h1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12340\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Mantis_1970s_Avengers_h1.jpg\" alt=\"Mantis_1970s_Avengers_h1\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Mantis_1970s_Avengers_h1.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Mantis_1970s_Avengers_h1-400x232.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marvel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The half-Vietnamese, half-German Mantis has a celestial backstory more complicated than even Wolverine's amnesia plotlines (at one point, she's thought to be some kind of outer-space Madonna primed to birth an alien messiah, you know, as one does). Her powers include a mastery of martial arts, advanced control over her autonomic functions (heartbeat, blood loss, body temperature) and an ability to astral project. Mantis is such a powerful empath she's even able to find weakness in Norse God Thor and quickly overpowers him. One of her more compelling character arcs is a period as a sex worker in Vietnam. Let's see \u003cem>that\u003c/em> in the next \u003cem>Avengers\u003c/em> movie (a team Mantis eventually joins).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Storm (Marvel Comics, African)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/3207391-storm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12342\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12342\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/3207391-storm-1024x607.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Marvel\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marvel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know that Storm has already technically had four big screen outings in the X-Men series (five if you count her childhood cameo in \u003cem>X-Men: First Class\u003c/em>), but seriously, let's talk about an underused character. Mystique and Jean Grey aside, most of the women in X-Men are criminally underused. If ever there was a Marvel woman worthy of a spin-off, it's Storm. Between her childhood divided as a orphan pickpocket in Egypt and a weather witch worshipped by an African tribe as a goddess, her superior superpowers (seriously, she could end this drought in twenty minutes with a white-eyed summoning of heavy rain) and one of the most iconic heroine looks in all comiclandia, she's got more than enough heft to carry an entire film. What makes Storm's underuse all the worse is that Academy Award winner Halle Berry keeps coming back to the part \u003cem>desperate\u003c/em> to do something other than play sidekick to the men. Bryan Singer, please consider a standalone Storm feature. I want to see Halle \"let it go\" like that chick in \u003cem>Frozen\u003c/em> and freeze an entire slew of baddies in a magical CGI blizzard. If Halle is tired of the role, wouldn't \u003cem>Scandal\u003c/em>'s Kerry Washington be a great new choice? She's got the acting chops, the attitude and she's already a sort of heroine on TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Vixen (D.C. Comics, African)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 545px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/vixen_002/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12343\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12343 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Vixen_002.jpg\" alt=\"Vixen_002\" width=\"545\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Vixen_002.jpg 545w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Vixen_002-400x317.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: D.C. Comics\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the minute I saw Lupita Nyong'o, I hoped that Hollywood would wake up and cast her as one of the best black heroines since Storm. Since then, there's been a few rumors this might actually come to pass! Vixen's powers and backstory are tied to her African roots, making African born Nyong'o a match in more ways than just her incredible resemblance to some incarnations of the character. Born Mari Jiwe McCabe in the fictional nation of Zambesi, Mari is the latest in a long line of Tantu descendants to wield the power of the legendary Tantu Totem, which gives her the power to assume animal abilities to protect the innocent. To get the totem, she first has to battle her warlord uncle and (gasp) survive life in the fashion industry as a model. A superheroine of color who also serves as an indictment on the white-ideal-obsessed modeling industry? Yes, please! In the meantime, let's just hope Nyong'o's role in the new \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> film contains enough action that D.C. decides they'd be fools not to build a Vixen series around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Aztek (D.C. Comics, Latino) \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/aztek_011/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12344\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12344\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Aztek_011-1024x364.jpg\" alt=\"Aztek_011\" width=\"640\" height=\"228\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: D.C. Comics\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not since Wonder Woman's origins in Greek mythology has a superhero used existing myths and legends to such great effect. Aztec was born Uno, a child raised to one day be the champion of the god Quetzacoatl to battle the evil Tezcatipoca. Like Wonder Woman, he uses a magic suit of armor handed down by the gods to enhance his powers and abilities. His superpowers include flight, god-like strength, body camouflage, as well as manipulation of his body mass. Another cool aspect of this hero is that he was blind for a while (like Daredevil before him), adding him to the list of differently-abled heroes that includes the great Charles Xavier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Apollo and Midnighter (Wildstorm, Gay Couple)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/apollo-midnighter/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12345\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12345\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Apollo-Midnighter.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo-Midnighter\" width=\"640\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Apollo-Midnighter.jpg 658w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/Apollo-Midnighter-400x168.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Wildstorm\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Authority members Apollo and Midnighter are as close as superhero partners can get. Well, actually...they're closer. If Batman and Superman were in a romantic relationship, they'd basically be Apollo and Midnighter, the gay superhero couple from Wildstorm's \u003cem>Stormwatch\u003c/em> series. The gritty, not always clearly moral characters (there's far more killing in Wildstorm comics than in Marvel and D.C.) are dark and conflicted, but never waver in their marriage. I wish all gay little boys could get their hands on some Apollo and Midnighter comics. Not only would they learn heroes come in all forms and sexualities, but they'd also get to hope to one day meet an Apollo or Midnighter of their very own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Question/Renee Montoya (D.C. Comics, Latina, Lesbian)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/87_reneemontoya/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12346\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12346\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/87_ReneeMontoya.jpg\" alt=\"87_ReneeMontoya\" width=\"640\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/87_ReneeMontoya.jpg 628w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/87_ReneeMontoya-400x177.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: D.C. Comics\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know the lesbian Batwoman Kate Kane is the most obvious choice for a gay female superhero film, but I've always had an overwhelming admiration for her lover, former Gotham City police detective Renee Montoya in her mantle as The Question. Although not the first to take up the blank face, Montoya is a great metaphor for all the faceless women of color she gets to represent in her vigilante incarnation. Hardened by her police work and her past, the recovering alcoholic Montoya is complicated and a bit of a loner at times, but her intentions are always in the right place. Plus, Montoya's Question has some of the best gadgets in Gotham, including a non-fatal energy pistol and that iconic blank mask that protects her from poison gasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Northstar (Marvel Comics, First Superhero to Come Cut as Gay)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/05/wanted-movie-superheroes-who-arent-straight-white-men/astonishing-x-men51-0011/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12347\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12347\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/astonishing-x-men51-0011.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Marvel\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/astonishing-x-men51-0011.jpg 519w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/astonishing-x-men51-0011-400x221.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marvel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid, there was always something about Alpha Flight/X-Men member Northstar that drew me to him... When he came out of the comic closet in 1992 (the first comic book character to do so), it all made sense. We were compatible, so to speak. The French Canadian hero has a great backstory: he was a one-time Olympic athlete and he's super close to his twin sister Aurora, who's another character worthy of the big screen. In addition to being the first out comic character, Northstar (real name Jean-Paul Beaubier) also adopted an HIV-positive infant, who was abandoned at birth in one of the first major comic storylines addressing the crisis. His powers are also remarkable; Northstar can channel his kinetic energy into his body for super speed, super power and even super stamina and endurance. 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I wasn’t disappointed. Despite my outward journalist appearance, I secretly wish I had a superhero cape. Yes, I love highbrow art house films like the rest of San Francisco. I’ve spent my share of Saturday nights at the Sundance Kabuki viewing foreign language movies and later contemplating the meaning behind Pedro Almodóvar films over a bottle of Napa Valley’s finest red. But I love superhero movies. I always have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what is it about Clark Kent, Peter Parker and Tony Stark that lures armies of audiences to the movie house? Superheroes hold the pantheon of American cultural iconography. Social psychologists study it. Scholars write articles, critical analyses and books on the subject. I am no expert. I can only report what I observe\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>1. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Escapism\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Simply put, these films are fun. They’re exciting. It’s 120+ minutes of pure transcendental escapism -- a mini-vacation from your life. With so much going on in the world -- acts of terrorism home and abroad, immigration reform, wide-spread poverty and global climate change -- superhero movies provide a utopian script for life. You can sit back, kick your feet up, eat a $25 small bucket of popcorn and experience a feeling of security, knowing you are in good hands. You can’t control what is going on in the world. Few really can. But, rest assured, Batman can and will.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3> \u003cstrong>2. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Reflection of Ourselves \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I think deep down, in that little corner of our minds that only we have access to, we all want to be a superhero. The archetypical superhero is symbolic of near-perfection. They are a manifestation of what we wish we had, however unattainable -- a perfect body, perfect teeth, never a hair out of place. I believe it was Shakespeare’s Macbeth who said, “Clothes make the man.” Indeed, superheroes are always fashionable. Billionaire Bruce Wayne is a masked vigilante with serious style wearing perfectly tailored Armani suits. Wonder Woman’s outfit was never an ill-fitting Halloween getup. And caped crusaders also have incredible abilities -- invisibility, x-ray vision, healing power, memory manipulation. Ever had a day you wish you could simply vanish from your office cubicle? Maybe slip out after lunch to catch a 1:05pm ballgame and then simply erase your boss’s memory of your absence? We all have.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>3. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Reflection of our Secret Desire to be Saved \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Perhaps Bonnie Tyler, 1980s semi-diva, was onto something. As she runs out of a burning building, she cries out, “I need a hero.” At first, we may not want to take ownership of our desire to be saved every once and a while. Me? Be in a subordinate position? Just hear me out. We play so many roles in real life -- parent, partner, worker, student, caretaker, bread-winner -- wouldn’t it be nice to let someone else steer the automobile called your life? Even for a day? What if Superman could swoop in and pull you out of rush hour traffic when you are late to work? Or, if Bruce Wayne could fight all your petty quarrels with your in-laws?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>4. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Empowerment\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Anyone who feels disenfranchised can look to superheroes for inspiration and hope. Take bullying. It’s been reported that 6 out of 10 American youth witness bullying every day. Superheroes serve as defenders of the less fortunate, vulnerable, innocent, powerless, weak, and oppressed. They defend fair play, truth, justice, law, and order. In a nutshell, superheroes are defenders of right against wrong. We gravitate towards the superhero genre because it gives us hope that things could get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>5. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Hero’s Journey\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The myth of the hero’s journey is familiar. It all started with the Greeks and their stories of heroes like Hercules and Achilles. In the Middle Ages, Germanic audiences cheered in the mead halls, pounding their bier steins on the table as Beowulf slayed Grendel. Frodo saved Middle-earth in \u003cem>The Lord of the Rings\u003c/em> trilogy and Luke Skywalker used the force to battle Darth Vader and the Emperor. These tales are pervasive in our culture. We all love a good hero’s story...over and over again. Watching the good guy win never gets repetitive. We are drawn to a hero who achieves great deeds on behalf of the group, tribe, or civilization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line is that superhero movies serve a purpose. They have much more than mere video game depth. They help us cope with the external world. They provide hope to people of any age, race and gender. They are stories of empowerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, this summer head out to the theater knowing you can reveal your hidden geek. Watch\u003cem> Iron Man\u003c/em> save the world. See Superman once again duck into a phone booth in \u003cem>Man of Steel\u003c/em>. Marvel at the teeny, tiny leaf people in the animated movie, \u003cem>Epic\u003c/em>. Just go and enjoy. You can watch Ingmar Bergman movies another night.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What is it about Clark Kent, Peter Parker and Tony Stark that lures armies of audiences to the movie house?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1614131751,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":856},"headData":{"title":"Why Are We So Obsessed with Superheroes? - KQED Pop","description":"What is it about Clark Kent, Peter Parker and Tony Stark that lures armies of audiences to the movie house?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"4778 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=4778","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/05/13/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-superheroes/","disqusTitle":"Why Are We So Obsessed with Superheroes?","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/pop/4778/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-superheroes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_4785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/05/13/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-superheroes/im2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4785\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-4785\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/05/im2.jpg\" alt=\"Paramount Pictures\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/05/im2.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/05/im2-400x250.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paramount Pictures\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Post by contributor Gina Scialabba \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw Iron Man 3 this weekend. I wasn’t disappointed. Despite my outward journalist appearance, I secretly wish I had a superhero cape. Yes, I love highbrow art house films like the rest of San Francisco. I’ve spent my share of Saturday nights at the Sundance Kabuki viewing foreign language movies and later contemplating the meaning behind Pedro Almodóvar films over a bottle of Napa Valley’s finest red. But I love superhero movies. I always have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what is it about Clark Kent, Peter Parker and Tony Stark that lures armies of audiences to the movie house? Superheroes hold the pantheon of American cultural iconography. Social psychologists study it. Scholars write articles, critical analyses and books on the subject. I am no expert. I can only report what I observe\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>1. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Escapism\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Simply put, these films are fun. They’re exciting. It’s 120+ minutes of pure transcendental escapism -- a mini-vacation from your life. With so much going on in the world -- acts of terrorism home and abroad, immigration reform, wide-spread poverty and global climate change -- superhero movies provide a utopian script for life. You can sit back, kick your feet up, eat a $25 small bucket of popcorn and experience a feeling of security, knowing you are in good hands. You can’t control what is going on in the world. Few really can. But, rest assured, Batman can and will.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3> \u003cstrong>2. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Reflection of Ourselves \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I think deep down, in that little corner of our minds that only we have access to, we all want to be a superhero. The archetypical superhero is symbolic of near-perfection. They are a manifestation of what we wish we had, however unattainable -- a perfect body, perfect teeth, never a hair out of place. I believe it was Shakespeare’s Macbeth who said, “Clothes make the man.” Indeed, superheroes are always fashionable. Billionaire Bruce Wayne is a masked vigilante with serious style wearing perfectly tailored Armani suits. Wonder Woman’s outfit was never an ill-fitting Halloween getup. And caped crusaders also have incredible abilities -- invisibility, x-ray vision, healing power, memory manipulation. Ever had a day you wish you could simply vanish from your office cubicle? Maybe slip out after lunch to catch a 1:05pm ballgame and then simply erase your boss’s memory of your absence? We all have.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>3. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Reflection of our Secret Desire to be Saved \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Perhaps Bonnie Tyler, 1980s semi-diva, was onto something. As she runs out of a burning building, she cries out, “I need a hero.” At first, we may not want to take ownership of our desire to be saved every once and a while. Me? Be in a subordinate position? Just hear me out. We play so many roles in real life -- parent, partner, worker, student, caretaker, bread-winner -- wouldn’t it be nice to let someone else steer the automobile called your life? Even for a day? What if Superman could swoop in and pull you out of rush hour traffic when you are late to work? Or, if Bruce Wayne could fight all your petty quarrels with your in-laws?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>4. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Empowerment\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Anyone who feels disenfranchised can look to superheroes for inspiration and hope. Take bullying. It’s been reported that 6 out of 10 American youth witness bullying every day. Superheroes serve as defenders of the less fortunate, vulnerable, innocent, powerless, weak, and oppressed. They defend fair play, truth, justice, law, and order. In a nutshell, superheroes are defenders of right against wrong. 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