Table of Contents
Introduction: Earth’s Mightiest Philosophers 1
Part One What Would An Avenger Do?
1 Superhuman Ethics Class with the Avengers Prime 5 Mark D. White
2 Shining the Light on the Dark Avengers 18 Sarah Donovan and Nick Richardson
3 The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Family 28 Jason Southworth and Ruth Tallman
Part Two Who Is An Avenger?
4 Superhero Identity: Case Studies in the Avengers 43 Stephen M. Nelson
5 I Am Made of Ink: She-Hulk and Metacomics 57 Roy T. Cook
6 The Self-Corruption of Norman Osborn: A Cautionary Tale 71 Robert Powell
Part Three Should the Avengers Do More Than Avenge?
7 Forgivers Assemble! 83 Daniel P. Malloy
8 Gods, Beasts, and Political Animals: Why the Avengers Assemble 98 Tony Spanakos
9 Cap’s Kooky Quartet: Is Rehabilitation Possible? 113 Andrew Terjesen
Part Four Do the Avengers Ever Go Too Far?
10 Fighting the Good Fight: Military Ethics and the Kree-Skrull War 131 Christopher Robichaud
11 Secrets and Lies: Compromising the Avengers’ Values for the Good of the World 142 Louis P. Melançon
12 The Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Problem with Proactive Superheroics 154 Arno Bogaerts
Part Five What Kind of World Do The Avengers Live In?
13 Can Kang Kill His Past Self? The Paradox of Time Travel 171 Andrew Zimmerman Jones
14 “No Other Gods Before Me”: God, Ontology, and Ethics in the Avengers’ Universe 183 Adam Barkman
15 Love Avengers Style: Can an Android Love a Human? 194 Charles Klayman
16 The Way of the Arrow: Hawkeye Meets the Taoist Masters 204 Mark D. White
Aooendix: Why Are There Four Volumes of Avengers? 217
Contributors: Avengers Academy 221