Super Spidey Senses Reimagined: Black Consciousness and Femininity
In December 2018 Marvel released a new movie Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse . Miles Morales, an Afro-Latino teenager assumes the role of the new Spiderman when Peter Parker is killed by Kingpin. Additionally, as Peter Parker is typically a white man, Morales is heralded as a new avenue in which to consider the potentiality of the black body as superhuman. As Mario Worlds and Cody Miller state “in recasting Spider-Man as Miles Morales, and Afro-Latino male, Marvel comics engaged in a process known a “race-bending”...the practice in comic books (and other media) of taking an established character and rebooting them as another ethnicity” (Worlds and Miller 2). Racebending, as they call it, is a form of restorying, where the reshaping of narratives works to represent perspective and experiences that are often missing and silenced. While Worlds and Miller argue that this process is integral as it subverts social opinions that villainize otherness, it is also forces us to consi...
