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There a meme going around lately, saying that the September 11 attacks gave rise to our current boom in superhero movies. And there definitely some truth to it 鈥?superheroes gave us a nice escapist fantasy in the wake of a terrible tragedy, and allowed us to talk about some stuff we couldn ;t have addressed in straight-up narratives. But how much of the past decade superhe
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