Growing Diversity In Comics Essay

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Growing Diversity in Comics There have been major changes to the superhero archetype in comics in these recent years as compared to the past. Along with that arises controversy on the subjects like the new female Thor or a black kid as Spiderman. Many are zealously against such changes for reasons like sexism or racism. While many others are fervently behind such changes because they use it to empower their own political views on today’s topics. These topics are important to today’s society however they should not be so important in comic books because comic books should be value-neutral and gender, ethnicity, sexuality and things of this nature should not matter. Let’s discuss a little bit of comic book history for starters. The most iconic superhero in all of American comic book history has got to be Superman. He was created near the beginning of superhero comic books and debuted in Action Comics #1 in 1938[1]. He would remain as the blueprint for many superheroes for years to come as the atypical white American male. But as the years go by there were comic book heroes that came out that go against this archetype such as Wonder …show more content…

These characters may bring up these topics as their stories are being written but at the end of every single story above all the controversy surrounding the characters and all the hate those superheroes still end up saving the day. Why? It is because they depict themselves rising above these insignificant issues to deal with much larger problems at hand. Comic book superheroes that people are addressing as female Thor, black Spiderman, or black Captain America are completely wrong when they do this and is insulting these iconic names by doing so and should address these characters appropriately as Thor, Spiderman, and Captain

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