Annika Hagley is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA. Her research interests revolve around the mediation of 9/11 through pop culture lenses, political rhetoric, and decision-making in Congress.Michael Harrison is Associate Professor of Spanish at San Diego Mesa College, USA. His research has examined superhero iconography in Spanish literature and cultural, political, and social discourses of sexual and gender identity and queer sexual citizenship in comics from Spain.

• Introduction 1. The Demons That Haunt Us: Christopher Nolan’s Batman and the Faces of Evil 2. The High Price of Freedom: Captain America 3. We Create Our Own Demons: Iron Man 4. Post 9/11 and the Reappearing Women: Wonder Woman 5. A Miracle of Counter Resistance: Post 9/11 Racial Narratives in Black Panther 6. The Marginalized "Other": Mutant Identities in the X-Men Films Conclusion

Annika Hagley is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA. Her research interests revolve around the mediation of 9/11 through pop culture lenses, political rhetoric, and decision-making in Congress.Michael Harrison is Associate Professor of Spanish at San Diego Mesa College, USA. His research has examined superhero iconography in Spanish literature and cultural, political, and social discourses of sexual and gender identity and queer sexual citizenship in comics from Spain.

• Introduction 1. The Demons That Haunt Us: Christopher Nolan’s Batman and the Faces of Evil 2. The High Price of Freedom: Captain America 3. We Create Our Own Demons: Iron Man 4. Post 9/11 and the Reappearing Women: Wonder Woman 5. A Miracle of Counter Resistance: Post 9/11 Racial Narratives in Black Panther 6. The Marginalized "Other": Mutant Identities in the X-Men Films Conclusion

Annika Hagley is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA. Her research interests revolve around the mediation of 9/11 through pop culture lenses, political rhetoric, and decision-making in Congress.Michael Harrison is Associate Professor of Spanish at San Diego Mesa College, USA. His research has examined superhero iconography in Spanish literature and cultural, political, and social discourses of sexual and gender identity and queer sexual citizenship in comics from Spain.

• Introduction 1. The Demons That Haunt Us: Christopher Nolan’s Batman and the Faces of Evil 2. The High Price of Freedom: Captain America 3. We Create Our Own Demons: Iron Man 4. Post 9/11 and the Reappearing Women: Wonder Woman 5. A Miracle of Counter Resistance: Post 9/11 Racial Narratives in Black Panther 6. The Marginalized "Other": Mutant Identities in the X-Men Films Conclusion