Hero Worship: Making Sense of Marvel and ESPN's '1 of 1: Genesis'

The Marvel Entertainment/ESPN Films co-production 1 of 1: Genesis is a documentary with a simple, somewhat sublime idea: In this mundane, superhero-less world, who is our Spider-Man? Could it be goalie Tim Howard , who uses a kind of spider-sense to intuit which way a soccer ball is headed? Or maybe Tony Hawk, as determined to master a new trick as Spider-Man was to free himself from a ton of collapsed iron in the classic 1966 issue " The Final Chapter! " And who is our Captain America, injecting himself with a secret serum that makes him bigger, stronger and wait, scratch that. There are some comparisons too out-of-bounds for 1 of 1 .

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