Now, when someone asks for an explanation of transhumanism, I use pop culture as my guide. For animal uplift, I use Remy from Ratatouille and Dug from Up!. For sentient robots I use The Iron Giant and Wall-E. For transhumanism I use superheroes; namely Batman, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Superman. With these four heroes, plus a few X-Men if necessary, I can explain any idea in the transhumanist repertoire. The key is not to get the example just right but to give the new idea a place to land in the person’s mind.