American culture has long represented Mixed-Race identity in paradoxical terms.
This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the Wasp \'s tragic mulatta villain Ghost to the cinematic depiction of Aquaman as a heroic "half-b.
On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality.
American culture has long represented Mixed-Race identity in paradoxical terms