Invincible #8
Low-Frequency
Listener (L-FL): Clinical psychologist Robin Rosenberg joins us today via her list for the typology
of supervillains in “Sorting Out Villainy: A Typology of Villains and Their
Effects on Superheroes.” Rosenberg classifies the types
of villains as:
The Straightforward Criminal
The Vengeful Villain
The Heroic Villain
The Sadistic Supervillain
Facing different villains, Rosenberg asserts, “reveals a different
aspect of the superhero. In doing so,
each aspect that comes to the fore provides an added dimension to the
definition of the superhero.”
Invincible
#8 (I#8): In my story, Invincible
encounters a heroic villain, but the story begins as Mark comforts the
superhero Eve after her boyfriend cheats on her. Mark and his father go to the
funeral for the Guardians of the Globe. A supervillian attacks the funeral and
two groups return to the graveyard to try to achieve immortality by
disinterring the body of the Immortal.
The “added dimension to the definition of the superhero”
caused by a sadistic supervillain is that even heroes must deal with death. A
panel depicting a superhero woman holding her daughter’s hand reinforces the
idea that superheroes are still humans in confronting mortality, if super
humans.
L-FL:
Indeed.
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