Breadcrumb Home When superheroes battle evil, why does Washington always lose? Wednesday, April 18, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/movies/superhero-movies-washington-dc.html University of Iowa film professor and comics scholar Corey Creekmur weighs in on why the nation's capital is rarely the site of climatic confrontations. The reasons range from comic-book history to Hollywood antagonism.