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8 voters
Physical Disability
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The multiverse model offers an elegantly postmodern solution to character stasis in a market-driven serial publishing system which privileges constancy over major change.
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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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With emancipation comes the opening up of new possibilities for challenging assumptions over women's appearance and, more radically, the gender order itself. Ventura (She-Thing) comes not only to accept her new "intragender" status but to see it as advantageous -- for dealing with her misandry, for personal growth, and even for becoming a person capable of giving and accepting love.
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― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
― Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond