Abstract

The first episode of She-Hulk Attorney at Law focuses on the claim that super-powered individuals have a duty of beneficence. But this duty is in tension with the idea that heroes perform supererogatory actions--if you are obligated to hep others than it is not clear there is any room left to help others in a way that goes beyond the expectations of duty. The article suggests that heroism is really just making choices that are worthy of esteem