Bucky Barnes: From “Winter Soldier” to Avenger
While every Marvel character has a complicated backstory of some kind, Bucky Barnes is in a league of his own. Sure, Iron Man was a selfish, greedy war profiteer and […]
The X-Men’s Ororo Munroe: Finding the Purpose in our “Storm”
Ororo Munroe, better known as “Storm”, knows a little something about the interesting dual nature of the winds and the rain… while these elements certainly possess the capacity to be […]
Marvel’s Hawkeye: Gifts that are Matched to our Calling
Of all the people who make up the Avengers in the MCU, Hawkeye is the one who seems most out of place. He wasn’t given superpowers by exposure to gamma […]
Ben Grimm: A Unique Transformation for a “Fantastic” Calling
Ben Grimm was living a fairly normal life before he was exposed to the radiation that transformed him into “The Thing”… an accident that granted him superhuman strength and endurance, […]
The Fantastic Four’s Mr. Fantastic: The Adversities that “Stretch” us into our Destiny
Reed Richards already possessed an incredible gift to help humanity in the form of his genius level intellect, but it was the accident that gave him his “stretching powers” that […]
Marvel’s Ronan: Overcoming the Accuser
With a title like “Ronan the Accuser”, it’s clear that Ronan isn’t here to make friends or play nice with others, and the hammer that he wields isn’t just for […]
Spider-Man: The “Spider Bite” that Becomes our Calling
On the surface, there isn’t too much difference between Peter Parker’s “Spider-Man” and the gallery of rogues he is frequently forced to deal with. Each of them suffered devastating personal […]
Loki and the Secret to Finding our “Glorious Purpose”
Loki may have undergone the most dramatic transformation in the entire MCU, starting out as a manipulative villain consumed with achieving his “glorious purpose”… a selfish desire to see his […]
Final Fantasy IV: Cecil’s “Re-class” and Ripping Off the Labels from our Past
While each entry in the Final Fantasy series is notable for different reasons, FFIV truly broke its own rules by allowing the protagonist Cecil to “switch classes” during the game. […]
Final Fantasy: Small Beginnings, Big Endings
Like most game series that have survived from their original 8-bit NES incarnations into the modern era of photo-realistic graphics, Final Fantasy has come a VERY long way. When this […]
Finding God in Video Games 