Watch The Boys.
And Invincible
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.
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.
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.
I mean this is how Civil War and Age of Ultron comes about?
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
While only a comic its a fantastic telling of a superhero going insane and the others trying to stop him. The Plutonian levels whole cities and kills millions in the first issue lol. It’s fucking wild.
Didn’t The Incredibles have a backstory like that where supes are basically illegal after they caused too much collateral damage?
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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Watch The Boys for exactly that. You won’t get that from Disney.
Maybe season 1 of the boys. It devolves into disgust porn in the later seasons.
I made it to the first episode of season 3. It was just trying way too hard at that point to not be a show anymore but pure shock value
Also the Invincible animated series does it too.
I totally agree with both your comments, but to be fair, they said “movies”.
I think Hancock had a few instances of that
Never got around to that one, worth it?
Critically panned, across the board, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It could have done with another couple of rounds of script polishing.
It was a script undirected for 12 years
It was two movies Frankensteined into one. The first half is awesome. The second, not so much.
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.
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.
You liked the drunken bum half. It just gets more stupid when the other guy’s woman is a super hero too.
It’s not a good movie but it’s a fun watch if you’re not expecting much.
I wanted to like the movie, but drunk will smith just didn’t do it at all for me.
They cut all such scenes and pasted into The Boys, in a Mark Twain style “Sprinkle these around as you see fit!”.
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.
The web serial Worm by Wildbow, written like 10-15 years ago maybe, is also a pretty good superhero deconstruction.
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.
Exploring the failed attempts and the real struggles of being a hero.
