Philosophical Impact of Comic Character Religions
Religion of Comic Book Characters
If anyone would like to engage in a discussion of the religions of various comic characters with a slant towards the philosophical implications of the religious views these characters maintain feel free to comment.
For example: Does religion provide a core defining component of a character or do religions exist as tacked-on additions to suppliment an already defined character? Is Nightcrawler's Catholicism as integral to the character as, say, Shadowcats Judaism?
4 comments:
That last question there?
Pretty subjective, innit? I mean, if we're talking Adam Warlock, The Aquarian, or you know.. Thor, Wonder Woman, Hercules, Ares, or any other member of a host of pantheons incarnated in ink and paper...
Then, yeah... their belief system is pretty fundamentally integral, and far more than characters like, say Kitty Pride's Judaism.
.... But not more integral than Ben Grimm's. But that's just becuase the Thing is a mensch and a golem.
What?
No one wants to argue?
Or simply no one cares?
Also? Going through that list?
The entry for Multiple Man is kinda great.
Mostly because the newest tact on that guy is he's so wracked with questions he's taken to creating duplicates.. and sending them off to live their own lives for a couple years before reabsorbing them.
So he's got a number of different aspects dabbling in different religions. While he himself.. is.. well.. conflicted and casting himself as the lead in a noir story.
Similarly, it's good to know Ghost Rider is ... eclectic.. considering he's now the loose, rebellious tool of a renegade angel.
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