Capitalist Superheroes Quotes

“Bruce Wayne’s childhood experience of losing his parents during a random back-alley mugging remains the primary origin story for the Batman character, but other than irrationally (or, more accurately: insanely) motivating his desire to fight crime, the trauma seems to have had little discernable effect on his character.”
― Dan Hassler-Forest, Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age

“Significantly, Superman’s first scene shows Jor-El rendering judgment, his deciding vote imposing the “Law of the Father ” on the criminal General Zod and his two followers, whose removal from Krypton’s symbolic order figuratively represents the castration associated with patriarchal punishment.”
― Dan Hassler-Forest, Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age