Set in this country, the modern day equivalent of Iraq.
What is Uruk?
100
The name of the criminal who fell into the vat of the chemicals, before he was known as the Joker. (In the graphic novels.)
Who is The Red Hood?
100
The goals of feminism are often broken down into 3 distinct generations, known as this.
What are waves?
100
This is what Oedipus's name means.
What is bound or swollen feet?
100
He is a psychoanalyst whose work in 'archetypes' helps us better understand the hero as a staple across all cultures.
Who is Carl Jung?
200
Gilgamesh is an example of this genre, a lengthy narrative often featuring heroic deeds and action.
What is an epic?
200
He watches his own daughter shot and is subjected to look at pictures of her body.
Who is Commissioner Gordon?
200
A test to see if two female characters in a movie have a discussion with each other focusing on something other than men.
What is the Bechdel test?
200
He is the King who builds the mead-hall Heorot in the ancient poem Beowulf.
Who is King Hrothgrar?
200
The Greek word for the hero's tragic flaw.
What is Hamartia?
300
The unsuspecting victim of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, who dwells in the Cedar Forest.
Who is Humbaba?
300
This is the Joker's goal, the reason he does what he does, in The Killing Joke and The Dark Knight.
What is 'proving that everyone can fall into madness on their worst day'?
300
This trope is often subverted in feminist media, giving power to the female and leaving the male helpless.
What is the damsel in distress?
300
Oedipus gouges out his own eyes with these, perhaps symbolic of the act of sleeping with his own mother.
What are the broaches that pinned Greek women's clothing together?
300
He provided the three steps of the heroic journey.
Who is Joseph Campbell?
400
This moment perhaps best symbolizes a change in Gilgamesh's life, and he learns that power is not unlimited and tyranny is not the way to rule his people.
What is the death of Enkidu?
400
This is the moment that prompts Superman to take the presidency of the Soviet Union in the novel Red Son.
What is Superman's encounter with his childhood crush?
400
This concept states that women are objectified in film because heterosexual men are in control of the camera, and the film industry in general.
What is the 'male gaze'?
400
He wrote the first work of scholarly criticism that led to a resurgence in popularity for Beowulf in the 20th century. (He also wrote some pretty popular fantasy novels himself.)
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
400
These are the three steps of the heroic journey.
What are departure, initiation, and return.
500
The names of Gilgamesh's father and mother.
Who are Lugalbanda and Ninsun?
500
In the Dark Knight Returns, Batman chooses this symbolic location for his final fight with Superman.
What is Crime Alley?
500
Key elements of this aesthetic movement in arts and literature are: irony, metafiction, and pastiche. Promethea is an example of this.
What is postmodernism?
500
These are Aristotle's three unities, evidenced in Oedipus Rex.
What are the unities of time, place, and action?
500
For Carl Jung, this is the process by which we reconcile the conscious and unconscious aspects of our psyche.