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Topic: Marvel Universe

Oscar Isaac as Steven Grant in Marvel Studios' "Moon Knight" (Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios)

Oscar Isaac's dodgy MCU debut

Melanie McFarland
(Marvel/Getty/Spencer Platt/Photo montage by Salon)

"Thor: Ragnarok": A rebuke to Trump?

Amanda Marcotte
Jason Aaron (WikiMedia/Marvel)

Real-life "Southern Bastards"

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump; Stars of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" (Getty/Chip Somodevilla/ABC/Kurt Iswarienkio)

Marvel's anti-Trump parody

Amanda Marcotte
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Mike Colter and Frankie Faison in "Luke Cage (Netflix/Myles Aronowitz)

"Luke Cage" & the empathy gap

Nico Lang
Olivia Munn in "X-Men: Apocalypse" (Fox)

"X-Men" face ancient boredom

Andrew O'Hehir
Krysten Ritter in "Jessica Jones" (Netflix)

12 more women for "Civil War"

Mark Peters
Chris Hemsworth as Thor in "The Avengers" (Marvel)

The real cost of a Marvel body

Nico Lang
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Chris Evans in "Captain America: Civil War" (Marvel)

Captain America: Really Trump?

Andrew O'Hehir
Jon Bernthal in "Daredevil" (Netflix)

"Daredevil"‘s anti-war message

Mark Peters
(Twentieth Century Fox)

Don’t straightwash "Deadpool"

Nico Lang
"The Avengers" (Marvel Studios)

Marvel’s Trump agenda

Matthew Rozsa
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(Lucasfilm/Paramount Pictures)

Marvel-Disney: A new Cold War

Andrew O'Hehir
Martin Freeman in "Sherlock," Patrick Wilson in "Fargo, Dean Strang of "Making a Murderer" (BBC/FX/AP/Morry Gash)

Keep your man-child antiheroes

Paula Young Lee
Krysten Ritter in "Jessica Jones" (Netflix/Myles Aronowitz)

What Jessica Jones lost to TV

Eli Keel
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