Super hero movies should have more scenes of them accidentally maiming people just because of the sheer amount of power they weild.
Super hero movies should have more scenes of them accidentally maiming people just because of the sheer amount of power they weild.
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'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.
I think Hancock had a few instances of that
Never got around to that one, worth it?
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.
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.
They cut all such scenes and pasted into The Boys, in a Mark Twain style “Sprinkle these around as you see fit!”.
Didn't The Incredibles have a backstory like that where supes are basically illegal after they caused too much collateral damage?
Invincible covers this a lot.
It's a major plot point in avengers as well, tbf, and why they spit up.
I loved the first season of invincible. The thought came after watching a gif of captain America splitting a log with he bare hands. Like there should be PPE for just being around a super hero. He split that log with enough force to send a splinter strait through someone skull.
Like deku in my hero flicks air to create a pressure wave that can propel him into the sky. The insane amount of force at play should have more collateral damage.
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.
I mean this is how Civil War and Age of Ultron comes about?
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.
Why did you say that name?
It's hard to believe, but Martha ends up doing a lot of collateral damage in this one.
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.
That movie is pretty fucked, but in a weird way that makes it good? Like it's kinda weird seeing Elizabeth Banks and that one guy from The Office being the parents, but they do a good job.
There's one scene in particular that kinda fucked me up, but you haven't seen it so I won't tell you.
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.
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
This was a great show.
Exploring the failed attempts and the real struggles of being a hero.
Man of Steel Woman of Kleenex by Larry Niven is a weird take on this
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