For example, I’d like to see a Lois Lane movie
Or maybe a tv series or comic book
You might check out Free Guy. It’s about a video game NPC who comes to life in a Grand Theft Auto themed universe.
That’s a good movie
Breaking Bad actually happens in the Marvel universe. They just don’t mention any of it because they are busy selling drugs and such.
Any sources on this, or are you just joking?
I like to think The Breakfast Club is in the marvel universe. No reason it can’t be
It is. If the last scene doesn’t freeze, that guy throws his fist up so he can fly away home.
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.
Hey, that bowling ball was sentient!
Sounds funny
“We’re not your classic heroes. We’re the other guys.”
The movie is on YouTube in full
Andor, depending on whether you consider Jedi superheroes.
Came here to say Rogue One but also this yeah
Jedi/Force users… definitely have superpowers
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
Encanto.
Interior China town is tangentially related. Not super hero world but procedural police show world and it follows people not part of the cast
Think “law and order” if it followed the guy who they interviewed once at a bar to ask about a murder. It’s a show following that guy’s life, but you see “marishka hargatay” sometimes, but only briefly as they cross paths. It’s also a surreal show that knows it’s filming a show while the characters don’t know they are characters in a show.
Sounds interesting
It is a good premise, but drags a bit in execution for me. Ronny chieng from the daily show is in it and does a great job.
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
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
Monty Python’s Life of Brian is the first one that came to mind
Ah yes, the one about a normal guy living in the time of Jesus
Agents of Shield was about Shield: The Marvel universe non-superhero government agency made to… Uh… Keep superheroes in check? I don’t even remember, lol.
But they’re just regular ass people who are badasses without super powers.
They’re far from regular ass people. Some are borderline geniuses, some are non-powered who can nearly go toe-to-toe with powered villains, artificially enhanced in some way, and are/become powered themselves.
yeah there was a super powered member of the team I think to eventually. still I do think its a good example although like technically iron man has no superpowers its just technology from the universe.
I plan to watch that eventually
Gotham Central and Ordinary are a couple good graphic novels that explore this idea.
Sounds good
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
Not a movie, but the song Jimmy Olsen Blues by the Spin Doctors seems on point.
I’ll have to check that out
Marvels for sure if you’re into reading comics.
Marves Agents of Shield? Season 1 specifically. Season 2 and on goes into metahuman territory
On the flip side of the coin, Maximus from Inhumans
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 helps they dive into some of the whackier bits of Marvel’s universe
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.
But even when it does, you always have Ming-Na Wen as May kicking butt as a normal human.
I mean, almost all of them kick various kinds of butt as normal humans!
