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          I mean just the first episode of Invincible shows him absolutely destroying an old woman because he doesn’t have a handle on his powers yet. And then later he finds out she didn’t make it and he almost quit being a superhero because of it.

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      But even in The Boys it’s just the bad guys doing that.

      The dark reality is that the good guys need to watch themselves too.

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        They don’t mostly because they know the risk.

        In Gen V, the main character gets her powers by accidentally killing her parents.

        And in the latest season, Huey’s dad kills a bunch of patients because of his confusion due to dementia.

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        Bro, the show opens with A-Train running through Huey’s girlfriend and turning her into flesh casserole. It’s the exposition to the main plot of the movie. They talk about how it happens all the time and they have a whole procedure for damage control. They introduce a support group for people hurt by supes, including a guy whose girlfriend accidentally froze his dick off during sex.

        I suppose there’s an argument that supes aren’t really “good guys”, but that traditional good vs. bad dichotomy isn’t really the point of the show.

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          The “good” Supes also occasionally have to deal with collateral damage they cause

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          Like Starlight accidentally blinding a bystander when stopping a robbery, which then comes back to haunt her

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            That was such a bullshit copout. Like, yeah she blinded someone, which is horrible in its own right, but in the story if Starlight hadn’t acted then the woman would have been dead instead of blind. I’d take that trade any day.

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        Super Crooks has this, iirc there’s even a comment at one point about the heroes having a bigger body count than the villains.

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    It always bugged me how in Man of Steel, Superman has to deal with the moral quandary of breaking the bad guy’s neck at the cost of vaporizing a family.

    Like they spent the previous 20 minutes punching each other through buildings. No way that was the first family they killed.

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      I’ve missed a lot of DC movies, but wasn’t Ben Affleck’s Batman inspired to come out of retirement due to this … Or something like that? I might be completely bungling the details.

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        Yeah, more or less. Then they stop fighting because both of their moms are named Martha. That movie is one of the worst things ever created.

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        Critically panned, across the board, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It could have done with another couple of rounds of script polishing.

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        It’s okay, not memorable though. I can’t seems to recall anything from that movie but i do remember i have fun watching it.

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          I remember liking half of it. Oddly enough, I can’t remember whether I liked the first half where he’s a drunken bum, or the second half, where he’s more together, but I specifically remember thinking half of it was decent at least.

          So yeah, I agree that it’s not very memorable.

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            You liked the drunken bum half. It just gets more stupid when the other guy’s woman is a super hero too.

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              I mean, sort of. It was funny when she got pissed off and did some stupid stuff to make him leave. Didn’t she throw a refrigerator, and him with it, through the house wall?

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    They cut all such scenes and pasted into The Boys, in a Mark Twain style “Sprinkle these around as you see fit!”.

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    Perhaps they are going for a tone of heroic escapism, or fantastical drama over gory and downbeat “realism”.

    If you really just want to see heroes maiming people it’s been done. Invincible, The Boys (show and comic). Even back to the 90s there were comics like Stormwatch that centered on the premise of “realistic” consequences of super powers.

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      Aye, it’s all about what theme you’re exploring or mood that’s being set. We don’t have batman exploding into mist when he fights people who can lift planes/cruise ships with their bare hands, because that’s not the story being told. When the theme is about the consequences of powers, rather than the escapism and being good (the ‘super’ part of superman being his morals and convictions), we get the boys and their (gory) explosions.

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      The web serial Worm by Wildbow, written like 10-15 years ago maybe, is also a pretty good superhero deconstruction.

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    Didn’t The Incredibles have a backstory like that where supes are basically illegal after they caused too much collateral damage?

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    Someone did an analysis of what would happen if Superman actually punched you at full strength, and it turns out his fist would never connect with you, because you’d be vaporized by the wave of nuclear explosions erupting from his knuckles as they caused air molecules to fuse in nanoseconds.

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    I think Zach Snyder tried for this in Batman v Superman but of course he did so with no appreciation of the themes or subtlety. And Martha.

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    Brightburn. I haven’t seen it (yet), but alternate universe where Superman becomes evil. Trailers showed him absolutely wrecking his classmates in anger and frustration.

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    Misfits is not really what you’re asking for, but is a more light hearted a-typical superhero show about people who were sentenced to community service all accidentally gaining super powers. They mostly use their powers selfishly but not in evil ways. It’s pretty well done as far as character growth