For example, I’d like to see a Lois Lane movie
Or maybe a tv series or comic book
Mystery Men is all about the B-Team superheroes who have to step up after Captain Amazing, super hero of Champion City, releases Casanova Frankenstein from the insane asylum in order to get better ratings and sponsorships but instead gets kidnapped and accidentally psycho-frakulated. Their powers are: get mad, throw forks, fart, bowling ball, shovel, and invisible when nobody is looking. Doug Jones shows up as Pencilhead and Dane Cook as The Waffler during tryouts. Tom Waits also shows up as basically Tom Waits.
Sounds funny
“We’re not your classic heroes. We’re the other guys.”
The movie is on YouTube in full
Since Batman has been mentioned a bunch, you may like a twist on his formula. In the Absolute Batman comics, Bruce Wayne isn’t rich at all - and engineered some of his gadgets off his job at a construction site. But The Joker? Obscenely rich.
Sounds interesting
Gotham Central and Ordinary are a couple good graphic novels that explore this idea.
Sounds good
Wonder Man has powers, but we see very little of them. It’s mostly about a persecuted minority trying to get work as an actor. Ben Kingsley is fantastic in the show.
I like that show
Not a movie, but the song Jimmy Olsen Blues by the Spin Doctors seems on point.
I’ll have to check that out
Marves Agents of Shield? Season 1 specifically. Season 2 and on goes into metahuman territory
I hadn’t thought of that. I haven’t gotten around to watching that series yet
I remember enjoying it and I dont typically care for Marvel
Yeah but the first season seems quite directionless and a slog, I remember enjoying it far more from season 2. However I might be wrong.
It’s excellent, but weird.
The first season is monster of the week and fine but nothing amazing. Until it reaches the Captain America Winter Soldier crossover. In that film SHIELD is revealed to be HYDRA, so the same event unfolds in the show. It’s awesome.
The second season is a bit directionless. It was supposed to link up with the new Marvel show Inhumans (who are kinda like X-Men, but legally distinct.)
But about halfway through that season and for the rest of the series they largely ignore the rest of the MCU and connected properties, which gives them a lot of freedom and the ability to tell their own stories.
I think a tightly connected TV series and films universe would have been great, as it was when they connected the SHIELD/HYDRA reveal. But since different people were in charge of movies versus TV, and the TV guy sucked, doing their own thing was the best option, and it worked well.
Not a movie but The Boys is a show that largely follows a regular guy impacted by the fallout of living in a world with superpowered people. Solid show though!
Also The Watchmen show and movie are mostly regular people with no actual powers. The show is excellent, the movie is pretty decent.
There’s other stuff out there (Agents of Shield, Gotham, Arrow, etc.), but most of it is not nearly as good as the above two shows IMO.
Those sound good. I like when the MCU kind of shows life in the MCU from the perspective of regular people. Like Spiderman Homecoming and Ms Marvel, even though they’re about superpowered characters, we kind of get a glimpse at the MCU through the lens of everyday people
Yeah, Watchmen and The Boys are a little darker than the MCU but better IMO.
Powerless is about unpowered characters in a super hero universe.
Sounds fun
Andor, depending on whether you consider Jedi superheroes.
We have a few pieces of Star Wars media that aren’t about the jedi. Yet still no Star Trek media that isn’t about Starfleet. I guess Picard and Prodigy kinda sorta qualify
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Not a movie but There’s been a lois lane cartoon show: My Adventures with Superman
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Megamind, though he is a super-person, is unpowered and develops his tech in response to a superpowered person. Suoer interesting movie!!!
Thank you, I’ll have to check that out
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Oh I have an old one: Norman Normal.
It’s about a guy who’s the only one in the family not developing super abilities.Sounds like Encanto or Sky High before he gets his powers
The two Joaquin Phoenix Joker movies, maybe kinda sorta? No flying or capes or utility belts, but they’re about Batman characters, and presumably set in a Batman universe, or at least a precursor/adjacent universe.
Well, I wasn’t counting that because it’s about a traditional supervillain, much like the Venom movies,
But it is essentially about a non-superpowered character and we wouldn’t even know it’s superhero adjacent if he had a different name
Marvels for sure if you’re into reading comics.
