The Deconstructionist: Breaking the Sixth Wall

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We’re Through The Looking Glass, Here, People.
 
Okay, pay attention, because this one gets confusing.
 
Superheroes have been around for decades. We’ll begin with Superman, as one of the oldest and certainly most well known of the breed. Now, Superman began in 1938 as a comic-book character, an alien orphan from the planet Krypton. He was raised among humans and fought evil, but only in comic books. We, as readers, were observing Superman through a transparent yet impermeable barrier known as ‘the fourth wall.’ That is, Superman may inspire us, but otherwise he had no genuine no role in the real world. Later, there would be Superman television shows and movie series, but again, the fourth wall remained mostly intact.
 

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