Superhero Multiverse -

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Part I: Across Platforms and Formats

1.?From Cinematic to Podcast Universe: Wolverine: The Long Night and the Multiplication of the Marvel Multiverse

Cory Barker

2.The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion

Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan

3.Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video Games

Carl Wilson

4.I feel like I'm getting my Wonder Woman back,: Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, Fans, and Authenticities in the DC Extended Universe

Joan Ormrod

5.Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero Cinema

James C. Taylor

Part II: Transformative Meanings

6.Reanimating Witchcraft: Creating A Feminist Embodied Experience in Marvel's Scarlet Witch

Forrest Johnson

7.Resurrecting the Hero: Disrupted Histories, Ghostly Returns, and Gothic Transformations in MCU's Captain America

Lorna Piatti-Farnell

8.Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica Jones

Matthew Thompson

9.Super-heroine Objectification: The Sexualization of Black Widow Across Comic and Film Adaptations

Angelique Nairn

10.An 'Extra-Ordinary' Adaptation: Exploring Time and Trauma in The Umbrella Academy

Carmel Cedro and Blair Speakman

11.Battle of the Black Superheroes: Or, Why Blade Will Never Live in Wakanda

Simon Bacon

Part III: Transnational Dialogues and Evolving Political Contexts

12.From Bat-Manga to Attack on Avengers: Transnational Superhero Adaptations Between Japan and America

Anne Lee

13.Kamen Rider, Masked and Unmasked: Tales of Transcultural Transformation

Sophia Staite

14.Spider-Man, The Panopticon, and The Normalization of Mass Surveillance

Demi Sch?nzel

15.Adapting Judge Dredd: Civic Guardian or Hyperviolent Cop?

Justin Matthews

16.All the President's Supermen: Political Appropriations of Superhero Rhetoric

Michael Soares

Index

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