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 …
Official launch of Comic Philosophy
Welcome to my official launch post for comicphilosophy.com! I have been working for many months on preparing the look and feel of the site, and writing the background pages and initial character ethics posts. It has finally progressed to a stage where I’m willing to share it with the world, …
X-Men Ethics – Magneto
Marvel’s Magneto is an interesting character to profile for normative ethics, as he has gone through a lot of cycles of redemption and reversion over his long run in the comics. He has very much been on the upswing in modern times though, as the opening quote makes clear. As …
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) Ethics
“Captain Marvel” is an alias that has been used by a number of different Marvel comics characters over the years. When I was first collecting comics in the early 1980s, it was used by Monica Rambeau (currently known as the superhero Photon, since 1996). Before that, it was Mar-Vell of …
X-Men Ethics – Introduction
One of my goals with this site is to show how comic book stories have always illustrated normative ethics principles. But another goal is to show how some normative ethics theories and perspectives have changed over the decades, and how that is reflected in current writers taking a different view …