El-Khoury, Toufic2023-05-152023-05-152017https://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/80https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20638This article explores the question of evil and its metaphysical and moral implications in a series of animated movie adaptations of the DC Universe produced since 2006. The contemporary evolution of the medium, called the “Iron Age of comics”, has seen the auto-reflexive nature of comics produce problems and themes related to the main question discussed in Christian theodicy: how can we perceive and define the possibility of evil in a world where God’s omnipotence should have eliminated such a possibility? Moreover, why does evil seem to spread indefinitely in spite of all the efforts deployed by superheroes to stop evil? We will discuss the problem of evil as a natural narrative topic in light of comics’ mythological and religious roots and with a particular study case: DC Comics Multiverse as an illustration of Leibniz’s “best of all possible worlds” argument.engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 GenericEvilDC UniverseAnimated MoviesDC MultiversIronic IllustrationLeibniz’s Theodicy30010.25364/05.3:2017.1.410.25969/mediarep/194512617-3697