Kryptonite

or the best-fitting mental picture of a criminal? What comes to mind is due to the coding in a culture, or a rule-governed system of signs which are shared and used to generate and circulate meanings in and for that culture. Codes are used in order to convey meanings that constitute our cultural world, many of which are seen through television, films and other forms of media. In Season 1, Episode 7 of Superman: The Animated Series, the hero and villain relationship is clearly seen throughout the film. John Corben, a criminal that escaped from prison with the help from a doctor, turned to Luthor to help him with his deadly illness. The only way to ensure that he would survive was to implant Metallo into Corben’s body. Metallo contained kryptonite, one of Superman’s true weaknesses, and allowed him to have superhuman strength and agility. Luthor ordered Corben to destroy Superman, and report back to him when the task was accomplished. In order to draw distinction between heroes (Superman) and villains (Corben), film producers use many different elements such as lighting, appearance, and behavior. All in all, I argue that these subtleties allow individuals in a society to clearly define the differences between hero and villain within the film based on cultural norms. In John Fiske’s book, Television Culture (1987), he asserts that producers (and writers) use these techniques in order to provoke certain meanings and pleasures within that particular society. Fiske claims that…

A hero can be classified by many things. A hero can be superman, a police officer, and even your mom, but what makes a hero? Is it someone who can fly or shoot laser beams from their eyes or someone who saves a baby from a burning building? I’ll admit some of these characteristics are far-fetched since I don’t know anyone who can fly or randomly saves babies on a normal day. All heroes, including super ones, all have something in common, they're admired for their courage or an outstanding thing…

A hero can be classified by many things. A hero can be superman, a police officer, and even your mom, but what makes a hero. Is it someone who can fly or shoot laser beams from their eyes or someone who saves a baby from a burning building. I’ll admit some of these characteristics are far-fetched since I don’t know anyone who can fly or randomly saves babies on a normal day. All heroes, including super ones all, have something in common, they're admired for their courage or an outstanding thing…

battle Superman, a superhero whose powers include superhuman strength, vision, speed, and flight? That’s highly unlikely to happen! Looking from the other side how come Batman still remains to be such a fascinating superhero whose fame isn’t fading regardless not possessing the superhuman powers? So, naturally :-), I decided to compare these two superheroes in several categories and then to decide which one is better. 1. Round 1-The Technology; Every true fan of Batman knows that this…

Luthor agrees only to release Superman's mother if he brings him Batmans head. Superman then storms in, underestimating Batman, not knowing that he has the weaponized kryptonite. After they throw each other against walls for an unsatisfying 5 minutes, Batman pulls out a staff tipped with a lethal amount of weaponized kryptonite. Right before Batman is about to finish off Superman, Superman pleads to “save martha”. Batman becomes very confused by this because Martha is the name of Batman’s Mother…

Many of you may assume Superman would win the battle because obtaining kryptonite would be extremely difficult since it is a rare mineral.However Batman constantly has a plan and is equipped, he carries kryptonite on his utility belt therefore when he does fight Superman, he's ready.Batman also observed supermans fighting style when they were friends.Batman would be able to avoid his moves, furthermore, predict what he would do next. In the end, Batman will come out superior.He possesses no…

The very anticipated movie of Batman V Superman stars Henry Cavil as Superman and alter ego Clark Kent, Ben Affleck as Batman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. The movie starts a year and four months after the tragedy in the fictional Metropolis with General Zod who was from Krypton and wanted to destroy Earth to make a planet for Kryptonians. Superman is still doing his righteous duty and helping others who are in need but is also seen as a controversial topic.After…

The reason for choosing these two particular films being superman the movie (1978) and Man Of Steel (2013) is to show the evolution of this particular super hero film, this showing how in time filmic technology improves. By doing these two films that have the same story line it shows us how superhero films are so similar to fairytales as they are able to be repeated again and again and still catch the attention of many, by choosing these two particular films it shows the very beginning of…

Music is used throughout the world to tell stories of tragic incidents of which case require a hero. In some cases the lyrics of the song describe the obligated attributes for what the damsel in distress essentially needs. Five songs that are conforming to this are Holding out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler, Superman (it’s not easy) by Five for Fighting, Superheroes by The Script, and My Hero by The Foo Fighters. In Bonnie Tyler’s, “Holding out for a Hero”, she describes someone who is in an…

they went to atlantis where they had a party. But then atlantis was attacked by black manta. The black manta was defeated and so was atlantis. So they left the flooded area they headed for the watch tower when a prison break happened.every villain escaped from the prison. Especially the Joker they all had abilities to destroy stuff. So they sent a warning to the watch tower to alert all super hero. The hero put everyone back except Bane. He was so strong he was able to break into the batcave…