What do Captain America, Exodus, and Sleepwalker all have in common? They're strangers in a strange land! Come to a weird place with us as we examine what it's like to be in the unknown!

SHOW NOTES:

• Intro
• • Reminder to vote in awards show
• Background

• • Stories about characters displaced in time or space are innumerable
  • Superman - last son of Krypton
  • Captain America - man out of time
  • Shining Knight (Sir Justin) - member of King Arthur's Court, revived in 1941 and joined the Seven Soldiers of Victory (24:22)
  • Exodus - born in 12th century Paris, sealed away in a tomb by Apocalypse (30:32)
  • Martian Manhunter - last of his kind, aloof from mankind (34:47)
  • Sleepwalker - displaced from the Mindscape, where everything changes based on subconscious needs and desires of inhabitants - to him, Earth is strange (40:22)
  • So many more examples
• Real world analogues (48:56)
• • Refugees/Immigrants/Exiles
  • Coma patients
  • Transitions with cognitive impairment
  • Prisoners/detainees
• Break (72:27)
• • Plugs for Ignorance Was Bliss, Play Comics, and Saladin Ahmed
• Treatment
• • In-universe - Doc becomes Al (73:40)
  • Out of universe - (76:41)
• Ending
• • Next episodes: Black Adam, Hank McCoy, Mental Health Avengers
  • Review read: Brian Wayne - Always a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ show! Great concept and extremely entertaining!
  • Plugs for social

References:

• Tolerance paradox - Anthony (19:15)
• Apocalypse episode - Anthony (30:35)
• Back to the Future Part II - Anthony/Doc (33:56)
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson - Doc (35:55)
• Doctor Manhattan - Doc (39:36)
• Christopher Titus - Doc (44:45)
• Projective identification - Doc (46:30)
• Ethnic enclave - Doc (53:30)
• "If I Could Turn Back Time" by Cher - Doc (62:15)
• Lost scene about Red Sox - Anthony (65:09)
• "Measure of a Man" by Elton John - Doc/Anthony (87:20)

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