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An iron fist in a velvet glove

Movies – Ever since Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster conceived of Superman as a counter to the Nazi Ubermensch in the 1930s, superheroes have always had an ideological meaning. The most recent comic-book hero to hit the big screen, however, seems to embody the search for meaning in contemporary US foreign policy.

Tags: superheroes, Marvel, Iron Man, foreign policy, politics, war, militarism

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