슈퍼 빌런과 사탄: 영화 <원더 우먼>과 <스파이더맨: 홈 커밍>에 나타나는 슈퍼 빌런의 악마성 연구 = Super Villain and Satan: Super Villain’s Evilness in Wonder Woman and Spider-Man: Homecoming

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper examines two super villains in two recent films, Wonder Woman and Spider-Man: Homecoming and reveals their significant similarity with Satanic evilness. This study focuses on the basic and essential concepts of Satanic evil, which had been conceptualized and accomplished by Demonologists like St. Augustine and St. Aquinas: first, evil is lack of good, or evil is non-being, so evil is a completely unexplainable phenomenon; second, Satan is within community, so he always hides his own self. Ares, the super villain in Wonder Woman, fully mirrors the traditional Antichristian evil characters. Under the name of Sr. Patrick Morgan, he completely hides his identity and approaches Wonder Woman in order to destroy her. The origin of his evilness is inexplicit while the motivation of his evil behavior is also unexplainable in legal or moral terms. Although Spider-Man: Homecoming provides convincing reasons why Adrian Toomes has to become a horrific figure, Vulture, Toomes still remains Satanic, because he is found as evil within community hiding his own self. Toomes, however, shows the possibility of being saved as a human by his memory while Ares is finally defeated as an evil by the power of good, Wonder Woman.

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