Villainous Disability: Gazing the Deformed Bodies of Supervillains in Comics

Comics and the comic world (as shown in the adapted versions of movies) has been fascinating the adult and children equally for quite a long time. The super hero movies are being watched only for the pleasure of seeing the hero win over the dark forces and how these heroes with the help of their superpowers save the world from an imminent danger or an alien attack. The movie is so well organized that we tend to always see the world only from the perspective of a hero. The villain or the super-villain or the anti-hero is always othered here. Othering happens in the pretext of the man’s tendency to see things in binaries. When the hero’s counterpart arrives, the viewers wait for the thrilling moments and action sequences. But less do we know about how the anti-hero or the villain came into being. What social circumstances and mental conditions made them fall into such villainy? This paper explores the questions of all sorts and inspects into the politics of moulding a super-villain amidst heroic deeds of the super-hero. Disability studies amalgamated with Cultural Studies provides an apt platform to see how a societally-crippled man or woman turns into a villain. Understanding villains psychologically and socially forms the core of this research.