Astonishing X-Men Essays

  • X-Men: Marvel's Message for Equality

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    adore their hero. In contrast, Marvel Comics promotes superheroes such as the X-Men, a team of superheroes who possess the X-Gene, a DNA mutation that gives each member a different ability. Under the leadership of Professor X, this team fights to protect their world from evil. Despite the many accomplishments of the X-Men, society persecutes them. In fact, when the X-Men first try to recruit Wolverine, he refuses: "Be an X-Men? Who the hell do you think you are? You're a mutant. The world out there is

  • The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig

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    the teams escape. Last to join our team is Wennberg who we know is a skilled blacksmith who happens to hear about their plan and forces himself into the equation. The first few days were the men getting ready to leave the miserable situation they were in the past, but this was not without complications. The men first had to find e...

  • Ryan Reynoldss: Deadpool As A Super Hero

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    DeadPool the character is played by a famous actor named Ryan Reynolds. Ryan Reynolds in this movie plays a character that is technically a super hero because his body heals almost instantly when receiving any kind of damage. He has been shot many times and even cut off his own hand and was perfectly fine afterwards. This being said he is pretty much immortal and goes after the bad guys. This in my book would be considered a super hero. DeadPool, the character Ryan Reynolds plays, is a guy that jokes

  • p1

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    “The Tiger’s Bride” by Angela Carter takes a very peculiar look into the customs of patriarchal society. At first, it seems like a normal short story with its display of women as objects of men, but as the tale develops, the reader finds themselves in a completely different realm of humanity; one where a woman can define herself without the constraints of social masculinity or femininity. By reversing the traditional binaries of male and female, Carter successfully demonstrates her ability to expose

  • Angela Carter’s The Bood Chamber

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    In Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, the theme of transformation appears throughout the short story cycle. The hero/heroine’s virginity acts as a source of strength that protects them from harm. Their lack of fear also saves them from death. Virginity acts as power of potentia, either literally or symbolically and results in a release of an observed transformative power. The bloody chamber serves a different symbolic purpose of transformation for Beauty in “The Courtship of Mr Lyon”, the heroine

  • Firestarter Research Paper

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    An example of pyrokinesis was in the X-Men comics. John Allerdyce, a teenage mutant at Charles Xavier's school for gifted youngsters had a type of pyrokinesis. John could manipulate fire with his mind, but he could not create it. Even though Stan Lee used a type of fire manipulation in his

  • X-Men

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    Their Last Stand It seems to be a foggy spring morning, as two strong willed men walk through the white picket fence door to have their first encounter with a class five discovery, re-starting a never ending battle for acceptance. After all, isn't that what the X-men have always been about, finding true acceptance or at least peace with what you are? Acceptance now is becoming simplistic with the creation of a "cure" for mutants to become human, but mutants seem to think that there is nothing wrong

  • Lord of the Flies

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    Lord of the Flies has several themes that are the key to understanding of literature. Three of the themes of this novel are the fear, courage and lastly survival. Fear has been surrounded throughout the entire novel. With the amount of fear because of an apparent beast, many of the people on the island have changed. Most of the boys have become more violent throughout the novel and have no sense of direction as what to do next. Jack was one of those people who had changed majorly throughout the novel

  • Superhero Vs Superhero Movies

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    the superheroes movies. Not only that, we also even act as them by using a scarf, tie on our necks and crazy around with our friends. Recently, I adored with two kinds of superhero movies after I watched them. Those movies are The Kick-Ass 2 and The X-Men 2 which mainly attract teenager’s attention nowadays when they plan to watch a movie. However, there are many differences between these two superheroes movie that we could see from their abilities, costume, and even their operation when they fight

  • The X-Men Research Paper

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    Beginning of The X-Men The first appearance of the X-Men in the Marvel Comics began the changes in diversity all around the globe. The X-Men brought characters of many different race, ethnicity and citizenship, reassuring the readers that any one can be a hero. Being different wasn’t a problem to the X-men, on the contrary the benefits of being different were endless. The mutants had powers of all sorts due to radiation and exposure their parents received whilst conceiving them. The X-Men created by Stan

  • Persuasive Essay On The Movie X-Men

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    excellent X-Men movie produced to date. It is rumored Hugh Jackman agreed to a pay cut to ensure the movie received an R-rating which I believe proved to make the movie better for mature audiences. Although the plot seems to easily unfold before the viewer, the movie adds closure to the X-Men franchise and opens the door for the next wave of mutants in the Marvel universe. If you enjoy fast paced violence, rage fueled action and foul language you will enjoy Logan. With only two remaining X-Men

  • Heroes and Heroines

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    Heroes and Heroines "Who the heck are you?" Victor Frankenstein cried. "What the heck are you?" "I am the wretch created by your beloved Elizabeth," cried the vaguely female wretch. "Elizabeth has passed the limits of the human realm and in her feverish pursuit of the essential knowledge of the world she has spawned the being that you now see before you!" "And what do you want from me, you frightening monstrosity whom my innocent and sheltered eyes should never have been made to look upon

  • Characters in Comic Books

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    strength and intelligence which made him less human. As a regular human you use ten percent of your brain but slade could use ninety percent which beats Steven Hawking and Einstein. Another fact about this super solider is that he has the strength of ten men and possesses enhanced speed, agility and endurance. Deathstorke’s is unbelievable he has the strength to snap a sword in half, cut through a car with his sword, and take hit without affecting his performance. Slade is also very fast and agile enough

  • Superhero Group

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    There are three separate representative groups in the movie ‘X-men’. However, there is only one group, called the ‘X-men’, that are superheros. The X-men’s founder is Professor X, who wants to protect mutants and make a world where the mutants live together with normal people. Thus, this Superhero group’s goal is to save the world from the war that breaks out between mutants & non-mutants. Through the X-men, we can see and analyze the group goals, cohesion, the importance of leadership, and even

  • Moby Dick Qoutes Ch.36 and 86

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    ye mast headers have before now heard me give orders of a white whale. Look ye! D’ye see this Spanish ounce of gold? It is a sixteen dollar piece men. Whoever of ye raises me a white headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw, he shall have this gold ounce. This example relates to capitalism because Ahab uses money as a way to motivate his men much like money is used as a motivator in a capitalist society. Transcendentalism- On Pg.172 and 173 Ahab talks about his feelings toward moby dick

  • Feminism and Chauvinism in Beauty And The Beast

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    home and takes care of the house and the children. When I reiterated the part over and over I noticed more and more displays of such chauvinistic nature. For instance, It seemed very odd that the men of the town were only paying attention to the pretty women and saying hello to them. Not to mention, how the men ordered around the w... ... middle of paper ... ... The Prince is very beautiful when he appears in front of Belle, this signifies that beauty is not the best thing in life and one should

  • X2: X-Men United

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    X2: X-Men United The ultimate test of a good sequel is its ability to stand alone. X2: X-Men United passes this test with flying colors. Though the story line follows the classic good versus evil paradigm, it is not dependent on the original X-Men movie to tell its story. X2’s plotline twists keep the viewer wondering about the loyalties of characters that appear at one moment to switch to the good side, and then just as easily revert to their roles as bad guys. Requiring the viewer to ask,

  • Valley Forge

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    George Washington is such a powerful and great leader so if I quit then I am not being a very good role model for the troops to follow. The picture in Document B shows George Washington introducing the Congress men to the soldiers and their living condition. This picture shows that George Washington really cares about his soldiers and that he wou... ... middle of paper ... ...ble of pushing through these problems to win the freedom

  • X Men Film Analysis

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    way to gain equality was through peaceful demonstrations; on the other hand, Malcolm X believed that he had a right to defend himself, even if it led to violence. In 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, a comic book was released about a group of mutants that tried to keep peace between their people and the humans. Thirty-seven year later a Hollywood film was made based on the comic book series. X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2000) was a box office hit that earned $157,299,717 in theaters; this

  • Representation Of Ostracism In X-Men

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    ostracism in the X-Men universe is in the graphic novel X-Men: Days of Future Past (1981) written by Chris Claremont and illustrated by John Byrne, which is a collection of the Uncanny X-men #138-143 and X-Men Annual #4. The novel deals with an alternate future set in 2013, one in which an anti-mutant human is elected president in 1984 and installs the Mutant Control Act, which allowed the United States government to create robot sentinels designed to exterminate all mutants of the world. The X-Man of 1981