Deadpool and philosophy : my commonsense is tingling / edited by Nicolas Michaud and Jacob Thomas May.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Michaud, Nicolas, editor.

May, Jacob Thomas, editor.

Series:

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 107.

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deadpool (Fictitious character)--History and criticism.

Deadpool.

Deadpool (Fictitious character).

Antiheroes--History.

Antiheroes.

Superheroes--History.

Superheroes.

Good and evil.

Philosophy--Miscellanea.

Philosophy.

History.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 334 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Open Court, 2017, ©2017.

Summary:

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 think outside the box, and this collection of essays examines the profound implications of this most contradictory and perplexing comic book character.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-323) and index.

ISBN:

0812699491

9780812699494

OCLC:

939426806