MOVIES IN AMERICA?   Pt1   2500w

HOW DOES THE IDEA OF MANIFEST DESTINY INFLUENCE THE CONCEPT OF SUPERHERO COMICS 

Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, expressed the philosophy that led 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion. Its advocates believed that the “United States was destined by God to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent”. (History.com) Historian Frederick Merk says that this concept was born out of “a sense of mission to redeem the Old World by high example… generated by the potentialities of a new earth for building a new heaven”. (Merk) Although it is a historical concept, the spiritual heritage of Manifest Destiny is kept in the modern days as one of the fundamental American ideas. Superhero comics and movies, for example, present the same sense of mission of one savior making the world a better place. Cooperating with other American ideas at the same time, the idea of Manifest Destiny influenced the concept