Deadpool and philosophy

Book 2016

If you know that someone is writing the script of your life, can you really be a hero? Deadpool is the super-anti-hero who knows he's in a comic book. His unique situation and blood-stained history give rise to many philosophical puzzles. Are his actions predetermined by the writers, or does he trick the writers into scripting his choices? And what happens when Deadpool breaks into the real world to kill the writers? Deadpool challenges us to thi...

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Antiheroes History

Deadpool (Fictitious character) History and criticism

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Popular culture and philosophy Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 107

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ISBN:

9780812699494
0812699491

Description:

x, 334 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

It's about F*$&ing time
Breaking sixteen walls / Rhiannon Grant
Deadpool the Dark Angel / Christopher Ketcham
The only chapter in this book you need to read! / John V. Karavitis
How much Deadpool is too much Deadpool? / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone and Caleb Turner
The anti-hero's journey / Andy Vink
The accidental hero / Darian Shump
Why Deadpool isn't a hero (yet?) / Matthew Brake
How shitty can a hero be? / Corey Horn
Is headless Deadpool still Deadpool? / Ben Fulman
Always a pallbearer, never the corpse / Heidi Samuelson
Immortality is misery / John Altmann
Only Deadpool is sane / Chad William Timm
Weapon X machina / Cole Bowman
I'm an X-Man! / Daniel Malloy
Good citizen Deadpool? / Jorge Humberto Sanchez Perez
The beautiful face behind the mask / Kyle Alkema and Adam Barkman
Wade Wilson fights like a girl / Michael R. Berry and Christopher Natale
Thus slaughtered Deadpool / Nicol Smith
Deadpool can't know fear / Louis Melançon
Deadpool's genocide of the Marvel Universe / William R. Livingston --= A naughty little puppet, but still a puppet / Shawn McKinney
How to solve the contradictions in Deadpool Killustrated / Jamie Cawthra
A chimichanga for the mercenary soul / Gabriel Cruz
Won't the real Wade Wilson please stand up? / Ben Abelson
Deadpool kills God / Nicolas Michaud
Why we love to watch Deadpool... play with himself / Jacob Thomas May
The mystic with the mouth / John Thompson
Zen and the art of Deadpool / Gerald Browning

Control Number:

2055794

Other Authors:

May, Jacob Thomas, editor
Michaud, Nicolas, editor

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