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HEROES AND VILLAINSPSYCHOLOGY OF COMICS
HISTORY OF COMICS
• Superman – July 1938 Action Comics #1
• Batman – May 1939 Detective Comics #27
• Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham - 1954
• Comics Code Authority – 1954
• Fantastic Four – November 1961 Fantastic Four #1
• The Killing Joke by Alan Moore & Brian Bolland - 1988
• Marvel bypasses CCA – 2001
• DC bypasses CCA - 2011
COMICS CODE AUTHORITY
• Crime is depicted as bad
• Respect for authority
• Good always triumphs over evil
• No excessive violence
• No horror, terror, gore, excessive blood, lust
• No vampires, zombies, werewolves, or cannibals
• No profanity, nudity, exaggeration of female anatomy
• No “illicit sex relations” or “sexual abnormalities”
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WHAT MAKES A HERO?
WHAT MAKES A VILLAIN?
THE DUALITY OF CONFLICT
CONTROL & JUSTICE CHAOS & ANARCHY
DUALITY
SELFLESSNESS VS NARCISISM FEAR VS WILL
AXIS
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS CRIME SYNDICATE
UNDER THE MASK DR. ANDREA LETAMENDI
• Director of Clinical Training at
Hathaway-Sycamores Child &
Family Services in L.A.
• PhD in Clinical Psychology from UC
San Diego
• BA in Psychology from Cornell
• Host – The Arkham Sessions
DARK REFLECTIONS
• Why do we love villains? Why are
we drawn to the morally corrupt
criminal, the bloodthirsty monster, the
self-aware psychopath? • They bring out the super in
superheroes.
• The villain will draw out the
intelligence, power, physical and
emotional strength from a hero.
THE SYMPATHETIC VILLAIN
• We understand that a path toward
destruction is always wrong at the
moral level, but at the psychological
level there is always an unmet need
driving the behavior: A warm hand
to hold for Victor Fries, a sense of
community for Oswald Cobblepot,
stability for Basil Karlo, wholeness
for Harvey Dent.
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