Most kids remember the stories from their childhoods that involve
a hero or heroine that solved problems with their fists, like Batman, Wolverine or Beowulf. Most of these heroes started off as normal people until something caused a change in their lives, normally against their will. From these heroes people learned their moral codes. It helped them learn to be strong, to overcome limitations, not to judge others.4 From the X Men we see how intolerance affects the minorities, they stood as an allegory for the different kinds of minorities, starting off for the Jews and blacks and later helped the gays. Even 5 Spiderman who looked at his extraordinary powers as a way to gain fame and fortune had to see the face that his uncle’s death could have been avoided if he used his powers to stop the robber. 6 |
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Out of the hundreds of super heroes produced by Marvel and DC, a number of heroes/villains have shown their religious values throughout the comics, tv shows and movies, and with all credit to their companies it seems to be pretty fair when dolling out the religions. When the Thing can’t fix a problem by smashing it he gets on his knees and prays in Hebrew. Superman is a Methodist,
Elektra is a Greek Orthodox, Captain Commission is Assemblies of God, The Wonder Twins are both of the Latter-day Saints faith, Nightcrawler of the X Men is
Catholic, Omega Sentinel is Hindu, Rampart is Muslim. These are only a few of the known religions which are mentioned, the levels of practicing of course are
different on the character some would even be without one if the writers/creators didn’t come out and say, “Oh yeah him, he’s --”.
Elektra is a Greek Orthodox, Captain Commission is Assemblies of God, The Wonder Twins are both of the Latter-day Saints faith, Nightcrawler of the X Men is
Catholic, Omega Sentinel is Hindu, Rampart is Muslim. These are only a few of the known religions which are mentioned, the levels of practicing of course are
different on the character some would even be without one if the writers/creators didn’t come out and say, “Oh yeah him, he’s --”.