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Physical Disability
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[In "The Night Gwen Stacy Died"], death took on an existential quality -- the beloved, innocent but weak Gwen is merely a victim, the casualty of a war between superpowered rivals -- and as such the episode proved a turning point int eh genre's depiction of mortality.
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― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
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We should bear in mind the supercrip stereotype as a figure obsessively, indeed maniacally, over-compensating for a perceived physical difference or lack, since, as we shall see, this aspect ties in quite neatly with the genre specificities and narratival concerns of so much Silver Age superhero literature.
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― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond