All-New Wolverine: Moving on with your life and not repeating your predecessor's mistakes. Pretty much every story is Laura either stopping her own past from ruining her life or learning to avoid Logan's bad decisions.
Annihilation How even the most flawed, weak, failed, and underestimated of us can still rise to the call.
The Avengers: No matter how great you are, there are problems you will not overcome alone.
Avengers Academy: Choosing to do the right thing, even if other options are easier.
Also, acknowledging and learning from past tragedies without letting them define you.
The ideals of America vs the realities of America, and whether or not they can be reconciled with each other.
Champions: Young people can change the world for the better.
Carol Danvers has been described by one of her writers as an exploration of being The Determinator even after a series of traumas:
Kelly Sue De Connick: Carol falls down all the time, but she always gets back up — we say that about Captain America as well, but Captain America gets back up because it's the right thing to do. Carol gets back up because 'Fuck you'.
Doctor Strange: The self-defeating nature of Pride and superiority of knowledge and wits over raw power.
Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment: There is a price for every victory.
Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme: No matter how weak or troubled we are, we can still contribute to a group being greater than the sum of its parts.
"With great power, there must also come great responsibility"; what it means to have power and to use it in a socially and morally responsible way. It could be said that this theme applies to most, if not all superhero stories to some extent, but none more so than Spider-Man.
Being a hero even when there is no reward for being one; it won't get bills paid, it won't help your love life and it won't get you fame and respect. But you do it anyway, because it's the right thing to do.
Your actions and choices have consequences, including the ones you didn't intend or expect, and you have to live with them whether you like it or not, and whether it was your fault or not.
Everyone has some kind of secret, either a big one or a small one, and there's always more to people than you assume. Just as the world assumes little of Peter Parker and Spider-Man, Peter himself often underestimates or misjudges the people around him.
You have to work for everything in your life, whether it's your job, your superhero calling, your marriage, or your relationships. People are complicated, messy, and demanding, and you have to be there for them, make things work, and never take people for granted.
Spider-Man: Life Story takes the theme of responsibility and explores how to balance conflicting responsibilities, like those of a superhero with responsibilities towards one's family or country, what happens if we neglect some in favor of others and how the idea what that means has changed over the years.
Miles Morales takes the themes of Spider-Man and adds to it that all of this remains true regardless of who you are and what way of life you come from. Anyone can be a hero. Power and responsibility will not disappear from your life just because you think you don't have what it takes.
Squadron Supreme: How far are you willing to go to create a world without war or crime, even if it means taking away the personal rights and freedoms of others.
The Unbelievable Gwenpool: Don't expect your journey to be easy just because you're the hero of your own story.
The Unstoppable Wasp: Helping others help themselves is better than either forcefully trying to "fix" them or expecting them to "fix" themselves on their own.
Choosing to do the right thing in the face of prejudice and injustice.
Is it better to protect the world that you have or to fight for a better world? Who is ultimately more heroic: those who defend the innocent and fight for peace, or those who strike back against injustice and fight for change?
New X-Men: Academy X: People and their rivals probably are not as different as they would like to believe.
Craig Kyle and Chris Yost's run: Innocence Lost, especially loss of trust in your idols and authorities.
X-Men: Legacy vol.2 (Legion's book): Are you really in control of your life? Or are you controlled by your past burdens and people around you?
