On May 27, 1995, actor Christopher Reeve, who’s career was launched by his film portrayal of Superman, was paralyzed from the neck down in a horseback riding accident. In light of the mysterious death of George Reeves, TV’s first Superman, fans began to question whether or not the role was cursed.

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Nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche proposed the idea that the superior man, his Übermensch, is not bound by social mores, but lives by rules of his own making. A number of notorious killers, Adolph Hitler among them, embraced this philosophy, the idea that they were superior — beyond good and evil.

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