Perhaps the intellect and will seem to be immaterial because they actually are immaterial. Perhaps water seems to be a form because it is a form… [P]erhaps we need to dispense with physicalism altogether, and go back to first the first principles to see where we’ve gone wrong.

Before continuing, I note that it is possible to believe in just one god, without believing in the One God. A person who worships the sun, or the earth, or the universe as a singular entity is really no different than a polytheist, in a metaphysical sense.

The core of the two worlds is still the heroic struggles of the demigods (DC) and the human struggles of the heroes (Marvel). Neither ethos is absolutely uniform in-world, and there are many degrees of difference even within the different suburbs of each shared comic universe.