Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers, The (29 page)

pragmatic maxim and

unreciprocated

Love (Mistress)

Love-Himself

lying

secrets and

MACH-1

Madame Masque

Magneto

mantle theory

Marvel, Ms..
See also
Danvers, Carol

Mar-Vell.
See also
Captain Marvel

Mason, Louise “Weezie,”

Mason, Mark

Masque, Madame

Masters of Evil

Maximoff, Django

Maximoff, Marya

Maximoff, Pietro.
See
Quicksilver

Maximoff, Wanda.
See
Scarlet Witch

McCloskey, Deirdre

Mephisto

metaphysics

identity and

justice and

self-awareness and “metafiction,”

MGH (Mutant Growth Hormone)

Mighty Avengers

Milgram, Stanley

Mockingbird (Bobbie Morse)

Modok

Moonstone (Karla Sofen)

moral exemplarism

moral goodness

Morse, Bobbie (Mockingbird)

Namor the Submariner

Narcissus

need-love

Nefaria, Count Luchino

Nefaria, Giulietta (Madame Masque)

negative duties

Nelson, William

Nicomachean Ethics
(Aristotle)

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Noh-Varr

numerical identity

Odin

O’Grady, Eric (Ant-Man)

Omni-Wave Projector

Onslaught

ontology

definitions

as equal opportunity

God and gods

moral goodness and

Order, Master

Osborn, Norman

change and

ethics and

justice and

political community and

power and

rehabilitation and

values and

paradox of forgiveness

Parker, Peter.
See also
Spider-Man

Patriot (Eli Bradley)

Peirce, Charles S.

philia,

Phobos

Plato

political community

arête
and

defined

eudaimonia
and

philia
and

polis,
defined

society and

zoon politikon,

Polus

Popeye

positive duties

power

authenticity and

responsibility and

sophistry and

Power Man.
See
Cage, Luke

pragmatic maxim, love and

predicament of irreversibility

Punisher

Pym, Henry “Hank”

change and

character and

ethics and

forgiveness and

identity and

political community and

rehabilitation and

Taoism and

values and

Quicksilver

character and

forgiveness and

identity and

rehabilitation and

Taoism and

time travel and

values and

Ragnarok

Ramonda

Red Skull

rehabilitation

character and

defined

punishment and

as second chance

vice and

virtue and

relativity, theory of

Republic
(Plato)

“retcon,”

Reynolds, Lindy

Reynolds, Robert.
See also
Sentry

Reynolds, Richard

Rhodes, James

Richards, Reed (Mr. Fantastic)

Richards, Sue (Invisible Woman)

Ringmaster

ring of Gyges

Rogers, Steve.
See also
Captain America

Romanova, Natasha.
See also
Black Widow

Ronan the Accuser

Ronin.
See also
Barton, Clint

Sagan, Carl

Scarlet Witch

character and

forgiveness and

love and

rehabilitation and

Taoism and

time travel and

values and

Secret Avengers

secrets

lying and

Segar, E. C.

self-awareness

identity and

metaphysics and “metafiction,”

time and distance perspective

Sentry

Serpent

She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters)

S.H.I.E.L.D.

Shuri (Black Panther)

Siege of Asgard

Sin

Singer, Peter

Skaar

Skrulls

Slott, Dan

Socrates

Sofen, Karla (Moonstone)

Songbird

sophistry

soul, love and

Space Phantom

speciesism

Speedball

Spider-Man.
See also
Parker, Peter

Spider-Woman

Squadron Supreme

Squirrel Girl

Stark, Tony

change and

character and

ethics

forgiveness and

identity and

justice and

political community and

See also
Iron Man

Stature (Cassie Lang)

status quo

Stilt-Man

Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology
(Reynolds)

Superhuman Registration Act

supreme emergency (Walzer)

Supreme Intelligence

Taoism

Chuang Tzu on

heroism and

humility and

Lao Tzu on

Tao Te Ching
(Lao Tzu)

wei wu wei,

T’Chaka (Black Panther)

T’Challa (Black Panther)

Thanos

Thimble Theatre,

third-party forgiveness

Thor

change and

ethics and

love and

ontology and

political community and

Taoism and

Thrasymachus

Thunderbolts

Tigra

Timely Comics

time travel

closed loops