Abstract
The Introduction to Anatomy of the Superhero Film surveys the four main forms or somatotypes that superhuman embodiment takes in Tim Story’s Fantastic Four series. These somatotypes, as this chapter contends, inflect the meaning of the costuming, special effects, and diegetic construction of other superhero films. Moreover, the visual effects in these films work to transcode the vital organs, fluids, cells, and microbiotic flora of the anatomies of the different characters in them into distinct sets of superpowers. Taking a speculative realist approach to these characters’ corpora, Anatomy of the Superhero Film argues that the uniqueness of the superhero film consists in the fact that it enables us to reimagine, if not directly access, their virtual capacities and mysterious cores.
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