Electro: Fantasy Gate

[Abishai100]

Electro (Maxwell "Max" Dillon) is a fictional character, a supervillain who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. An enemy of Spider-Man, he gained the ability to control electricity after being struck by lightning while working on a power line. The character has been depicted in numerous Spider-Man cartoons and video games. In 2009, he was ranked as IGN's 87th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time (source of information: Wikipedia).

Unlike other fantasia world superhumans such as Raiden (the super-warrior God from the Mortal Kombat universe who controls lightning) and Video-Man (another rival of Spider-Man who can travel through electric wires) who tamper with or manipulate electricity, Electro is overtly unhappy with how he gained his powers and is therefore a distinct Frankenstein creature.

Electro can therefore be compared with other comic book style super-villains who are generally angry for how they came to be so different and unusually superhuman. Such avatars include Mr. Freeze (DC Comics), a man with a terrible accident-caused dependency on temperature, and the Green Goblin (Marvel Comics), a man-turned-creature who turned to crime to make sense of his bizarre appearance.

Electro is like Mr. Freeze, Green Goblin, and others, but what makes him unique is his obsession with electricity. As we know from science textbooks and relevant works of literature, electricity stirs human curiosity because of its atmospheric friction impact. While other forces of nature such as magnetism and air vacuums also create turbulence, electricity is a burst of energy that is by definition inconveniently incompatible with other unpolarized elements.

Electro is a master of the electric-static chaos of Spider-Man's otherwise sane world.


This is why Electro literally introduces comic book fans to the scientific conceptualization of 'unnatural physics' and the spiritual conceptualization of 'unnatural evil.'

Electro invites readers to ruminate on the contours of wrath, terrorism, and purgatory.








Electro (Wikipedia)


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[Mister Mets]

That's an interesting way of looking at the character.

I don't know of anyone who associated Electro with purgatory though.