Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Hero or Villain?
After reading the first series, it was unclear to me whether Adele was being portrayed as a hero or a villain within the comic. In fact she seemed to be more villain than hero because she had been chasing her own objective and was not afraid to harm others or care if they were killed along the way. This reminded me of my earlier blog post about the professor X in the X-men. I described how the professor never faulted in his objective and was not afraid to sacrifice others to achieve his cause. Could Adele be similar in this respect? Better yet, what constitutes a hero? Is it the idea that they must not be afraid to make sacrifices (good and bad) in order to affirm their beliefs or must they be entirely pure in nature? It is still unclear to me what her role is and I hope things will clear up in the next reading.
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I also very much struggles with determining whether Adele was the hero or the villain of the story. Even after finishing the comic it wasn't clear to me who the story's hero was, or if there even was one. What I find particularly interesting is that in the cinematic representation of the story it is very clear that Adele is the strong-moraled do-gooder hero of the story. On top of the multitude of other inaccuracies presented by the film, I would argue that the most dramatic difference is their completely different interpretation of the role of Adele, considering that they use her as the clear, justice-serving protagonist.
ReplyDeleteI think Adele's morality is more ambiguous than Prof X's. At least with Prof X, we know his greater goal of uniting mutants and humans together in harmony, whereas with Adele, things are quite unclear. She has henchman, kidnaps, and ends part 2 as a fugitive. I think we root for her as we root for Bonnie and Clyde. We don't know her motives, she does things that are muddy in terms of morality, and she comes across as a crook more often than a detective. Yet we have fun rooting for her, and the surrounding cast of characters are either so dim-witted or explicitly evil that it's a pleasure to see Adele put her fingers into all the pots.
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