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Super hero movies should have more scenes of them accidentally maiming people just because of the sheer amount of power they weild. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 70 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Watch The Boys.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 38 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And Invincible

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Came here to say both of these lol.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

Spoiler for the latest season and the spinoff

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.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

spoiler

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.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

spoiler

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

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

the penis scene was just pure gold.