Shapeshifting

Merlin the Magician in an important fictional character throughout legends and history. He is known as a powerful sorcerer and a mentor for the future King Arthur. His magical abilities include shapeshifting, spells, and foresight. According to legend, Merlin was born during the rule of King Vortigern, a 5th century warlord, in Carmarthen, Wales. He was given the name Myrddin Emrys, or Ambrosius, by his mother, the princess of Dyfed, whose father was a sub-king (King’s second in command). Merlin

In It Follows, director David Robert Mitchell combines the tale of ordinary adolescents coming to age with a shapeshifting antagonist, as he masterfully blends the paradoxical topics of youthful, romantic realism and paranormal horror. While more subtle than the stereotypical “slasher” horror film, exploring loftier themes such as existentialism, sexual socialization, mortality, and sexual morality, it never strays from its main purpose: bringing fear and terror to the audience. Mitchell uses a number

Body image is an issue that has been brought up over the past years. Whether it is a video from Buzzfeed on how the ideal body type of women has changed over the centuries, Dove commercials about inner beauty, or a new Disney princess movie that stars an hour glass shaped protagonist who goes on a grand adventure to save her kingdom. Body image has become a major part of the daily lives of American citizens. Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe is a show that offers to challenge the stereotype that

Toni Morrison’s Beloved tells the story of a female slave, Sethe, and her dream of forging a family and freedom. Sethe’s life entailed a struggle from slavery to freedom; from a girl to a mother. The life of a slave deteriorated to a life comparable to a farm animal’s under the conditions of their labor and accommodations. Slavery is a topic that requires more than words to explain the hardships and feelings slaves endured. Because of this, Morrison utilizes symbols to convey the deep, dark themes

Marvel is a comics publishing company founded in 1939, whose main purpose is to entertain children and teenagers. In the beginning of February 2014, Marvel announced that a Muslims American teenager from New Jersey will be taking over the comic book series Ms. Marvel. Having them release Ms. Marvel so late down their career is ironic, especially with the current state of world affairs, from terrorism to Donald Trump wanting to ban Muslims from the US. Studying Ms. Marvel will help us decide what

time. After she told him, Frank had been trying to learn how to use it. Mars knew he did not know of the powers, so he gave him a spear with a dragon tooth on the end. It allowed him to call up a undead soldier to fight for him. Frank got his shapeshifting powers from a Greek ancestor named Periclymenus who got it as a gift from his father Poseidon. So in conclusion, Frank has a few powerful

catastrophe strikes” (smithsonian) through most of the Pacific oceans, of which leads to Maui’s encounter with Moana. Maui is pulled out of his everyday life and sets out to “Lalotai” a supernatural underworld to retrieve his hook that gives him shapeshifting powers. The second step of the monomyth cycle is to encounter any supernatural force and defeat it. Maui proved this true when him and Moana enter Lalotai: A world underneath the ocean that demons and monsters inhabit. Maui set out to find Tamatoa

saved Porziella. In the tale, it states, “But Ceccone, taking aim, shot out one of his lights, and he dropped to the ground like a fallen pear” (54). In the Enchanted hind, Cannerlo is kidnapped and dropped in the cave waiting to be eaten by the shapeshifting ogre. The ogre tricked Cannerlo by acting like a hind making Cannerlo drop his supplies. The ogre is then killed by Fenizia, Cannerlo’s best friend who came to rescue him. In the tale, it states, “He set the dogs upon the hind “ogre” and tore it

Beowulf; a man whose greatness begun when he saved an entire kingdom from the clutches of the vile monster Grendel. Beowulf was known for countlessly putting his body and his life on the line to save his people. His courage and determination is what kept his legacy alive for all of these years. Not only that, but the respect he had for the people around him made him a remembered warrior as well. That’s what I think makes a hero. Being determined to get a job done, having the courage to step in and

Vampires possess certain abilities or powers that are accepted as facts, even though the exact properties of these powers may be interpreted differently by different people. Some of these abilities include superhuman strength, levitation, hypnotism, shapeshifting, and a lack of a reflection. Through the ages, vampires have mostly maintained