Thor - The Dark World, the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is now in the cinemas. It's the 8th such film from Marvel in just five years, which kicked off with Iron Man in 2008. Superheroes are everywhere you look these days, we just can't seem to get enough of them.

So, where did they come from? Starting with Superman giving rise to the genre 75 years ago at the advent of the Second World War, superheroes have been subjected to critique for encouraging violence since their very infancy and evolved through censorship to take on an established role in modern culture...[Continue reading]