Despite being at the heart of ethics, the question as to why one should behave morally is a surprisingly difficult one to answer. So difficult in fact that I have plenty of ethics texts that don’t even try to address it. Instead, they are happy to explain the types (and …
Absolute Wonder Woman Ethics
Welcome to my exploration of the ethics of one of the most popular iterations of DC comics’ Wonder Woman character: Absolute Wonder Woman, created by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman. This ongoing series is now up to 10 issues, with some very interesting normative ethics – along with great writing …
Comics, Ethics and AI
Having hit a double milestone recently for this site (six months and over 100,000 human-written words of content about the ethics of comic books!), I thought it was time for something different: examining the promise and peril of AI through my experience of researching and writing about comic book ethics. …
Fantastic Four Ethics
Most of these ethics overviews are of individual characters. But for Marvel’s Fantastic Four (FF) franchise, it doesn’t make sense to consider them individually. They are more than just a team of superheroes – they are a family, and one whose inter-relationships precede the origin of their powers. I am …
X-Men Ethics – Characters (Mi-Z)
This is my second “snapshot” overview of the ethics of many of the key mutant characters in the X-Men stories. I have already expanded some of these into stand-alone posts, but this should serve as helpful background for some of my upcoming commentaries (especially the conclusion to the A.X.E.: Judgment …
X-Men Ethics – Characters (A-Ma)
I thought I would provide here a quick “snapshot” overview of the ethics of many of the key mutant characters in the X-Men stories. I have already expanded some of these into stand-alone posts – and may do more in the future – but this should serve as helpful background …
Thor Ethics
Ah, but what makes one worthy? The ethics of Marvel’s Thor are very much centered around this point – worthiness. What is it exactly, and who decides if you have it? Thor is a bit of a different character in the Marvel Universe of superheroes. He is not from Earth, …
The 8 Deaths of Spider-Man Ethics
This great story arc recently came to an end in the Amazing Spider-Man, Vol 6, series by Marvel comics. The main story line was written by Joe Kelly and Justina Ireland, with tie-in issues by Derek Landy and Christos Gage. The series deals very explicitly with the topic of death, …
The Vision ethics
The Vision is a reoccurring character with the Avengers in the Marvel Universe. He is an artificial being known as a “synthezoid” in the comics (a special type of android that that has synthetic humanoid body parts). He was married to the Scarlet Witch (a very significant character), and forms …