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TBT: Early X-Men comics highlight the role that performative masculinity often plays in the character arcs of Silver Age heroes whose potential to subvert masculine norms can be undermined when their success is still modeled and measured by patriarchal standards. #xmen 1/12
ALT The Xmen surrounding an injured Professor Xavier on a wheelchair
As the anointed leader of the X-Men, and with Jean Grey on his arm, Cyclops wins the race to the position of prominence within patriarchal culture by the standards and norms through which success is measured in a patriarchal society. 11/12
ALT Cyclops is about to deliver books to Jean under Professor X's command
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In “For the Man Who Has Everything…” Alan Moore’s narrative explores the relationship between fantasy and reality to advance Superman beyond a defining attribute of the character: his fixation on what might have been had Krypton not been destroyed. #superman 1/11
Letting Superman give up the fantasy of the life not lived is thus a deeply poignant bit of character growth for a hero who has always been intrinsically defined by the haunting legacy of said fantasy and the tragedy surrounding him as a result. 10/11
