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The willowy young man is adrift and forlorn, which seems like a legitimate response, but actually isn’t: He’s a synthetic “artificial parallel” of the actual Ian, who died of cancer, and was created to assuage Mary’s grief.

Movie-set gun accidents are aplenty, but the closest parallel of legal consequences for a film set death may be the 1982 “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” when a helicopter shooting a scene crashed and killed actor Vic Morrow and the two Vietnamese child performers who were working in violation of state laws.

In July, Nicola Beer, a vice president of the European Parliament, visited the island, in a recent parallel of Ms. Pelosi’s trip that caused less controversy.

Curiously, Multiverse of Madness’ America does mention her mothers, and the movie shows you a brief glimpse of them together with a young America in a place that looks very much like the Utopian Parallel of the comics.

“What’s happening now in Texas is parallel of what happened to me, but is instead sanctioned by law and encouraged by the culture,” she said.