'Sabra is a mess. As a character she is, frankly, unhinged; as a concept, she’s a perfect example of the perils of creating a flat nationalist hero as a fantasy stand-in for a very real, very ugly conflict,' writes asher_elbein
as the superheroine Sabra. It wasn’t the character’s obscurity that had people talking. After all, announcing C-list superheroes is the bread and butter of Disney’s perpetual hype machine. It was, instead, the nature of the character in question.As a character she is, frankly, unhinged; as a concept, she’s a perfect example of the perils of creating a flat nationalist hero as a fantasy stand-in for a very real, very ugly conflict.written by Bill Mantlo and drawn by Sal Buscema.
It’s an odd moment in an odd, rather politically jumbled comic. Yet the Hulk’s words clearly hit home to a woman who has, throughout the issue, spoken of Arab people only as terrorists and butchers. Here, she is forced to consider the fact that people she’s been fashioned into a weapon against are not a monolith—and in doing so, touches an aspect of her that she’s suppressed. As Mantlo puts it: “It has taken a monster to awaken her own sense of humanity.
It’s also usually the first thing to get thrown out the window. Sabra’s pain is immediately weaponized by outside supervillains, who mind-control her into attacking the diplomats and trying to disrupt the peace process. After a lot of punching, one of the New Warriors—Justice, an American Jew whose eyes remind Sabra of her son—manages to snap her out of it by reciting the Mourner’s Kaddish, a prayer spoken in memory of the deceased.
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