America’s new political fantasy: The superhero

Last summer, Superman was held in a pocket dimension on the verge of collapsing Metropolis. In 2016, Captain America, the symbol of our nation, was on the run from the government. In 2014, a U.N. body was infiltrated by a Nazi organization that survived from the 1940s. In 2012, the World Security Council dropped a nuclear weapon on New York. None of this is accidental. For as long as they have existed, superhero stories have been an insight into American values and a sign of changing times. In the 1940s, Captain America presented a pro-military ideology while fighting Nazis and the U.S.’s isolationist policies. In the 1960s, the X-Men served as a symbol for oppressed minority groups during the civil rights movement, and the Fantastic Four continued to feed into growing U.S.

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