106 points

Watch The Boys for exactly that. You won’t get that from Disney.

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Also the Invincible animated series does it too.

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21 points

I totally agree with both your comments, but to be fair, they said “movies”.

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10 points

Maybe season 1 of the boys. It devolves into disgust porn in the later seasons.

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4 points

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

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1 point

The wild thing is that the shock value was toned down from the comics

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70 points

Watch The Boys.

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38 points

And Invincible

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Came here to say both of these lol.

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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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10 points
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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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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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1 point

the penis scene was just pure gold.

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45 points

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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4 points

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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1 point

Terrible movie due to the plot, but it has some really good looking scenes

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41 points

I think Hancock had a few instances of that

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6 points

Never got around to that one, worth it?

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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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30 points

It was two movies Frankensteined into one. The first half is awesome. The second, not so much.

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3 points

There’s a deleted scene where Hancock meets a woman at a bar and takes her home. It’s kinda weirdly emotional and totally should’ve been left in the movie imo. Here’s the scene.

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1 point

It was a script undirected for 12 years

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16 points

It’s not a good movie but it’s a fun watch if you’re not expecting much.

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12 points

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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10 points

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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5 points

Have it on in the background.

I never fully understood Katherine Heigl’s character and her point in the plot.

It’s decent. Not great.

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1 point

Fair enough!

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4 points

I wanted to like the movie, but drunk will smith just didn’t do it at all for me.

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3 points

The first 2/3rds of the movie is really good. The last part is pretty bad. Overall I enjoyed it.

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Love this scene

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It’s good, but upon re-watching it now from when I first watched it, and thinking a little differently about it - Superman talks about needing to be careful to not hurt people and cause deaths. Then he proceeds to put Darkseid through several buildings that obviously weren’t evacuated, followed by punching him so hard he goes through a couple layers of earth and totally destroys a bunch of infrastructure. He essentially shows his power and ignores everything he just said.

I still love seeing Superman let loose and fuck Darkseid’s shit up though. 😂

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8 points

I hadn’t seen it before so my first thought was “uhhh… Superman?”

I mean were those buildings even evacuated? He probably killed a fair few innocent bystanders there 😂

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4 points

Just because he knows he shouldn’t lose control, that doesn’t mean that it won’t happen now and again.

I know a bunch of things that I should do and still fuck up on a regular basis.

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