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Even Superheroes Have Humble Beginnings


This are is helping people remember how even our superheroes can come from the humblest beginnings and most tragic origins…

Every story has a beginning. Our past shapes who we are and influences who we become. It’s true whether you’re a regular human or a superhero. Artist Khoa Ho took a look at the origins of heroes such as Batman, Iron Man, Superman, and more. When you look into their past, you see an orphan, a genius, and an alien. They evolved into something bigger, and this beautiful minimalist style art shows the transition perfectly.

http://nerdapproved.com/misc-weirdness/art-reminds-us-even-superheroes-have-humble-beginnings/

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Keith “Maggie” Brown
I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.
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5 responses to “Even Superheroes Have Humble Beginnings”

  1. ptero9 Avatar
    ptero9

    Michael Meade talks/writes about this a lot suggesting that the wound is necessary to find one’s strengths. I love the orphan image!

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    1. Keith Wayne Brown Avatar
      Keith Wayne Brown

      Just really catches it all up in one cipher.

      I agree with Meade here. Very much necessary in the Society of Discipline that the hero have a wound which, in a sense, wakes him/her up to the alienation that would keep many of us from searching for our ownmost self or Existenz.

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      1. ptero9 Avatar
        ptero9

        Very well said and very true in my life as I would imagine it to be for many of us.

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    Keith Wayne Brown

    namaste _/|\_

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