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For example, I'd like to see a Lois Lane movie

Or maybe a tv series or comic book

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[-] dregan@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Gotham Central and Ordinary are a couple good graphic novels that explore this idea.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

Sounds good

[-] DampSquid@feddit.uk 3 points 23 hours ago

Monty Python's Life of Brian is the first one that came to mind

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Ah yes, the one about a normal guy living in the time of Jesus

[-] crazyduck@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Interior China town is tangentially related. Not super hero world but procedural police show world and it follows people not part of the cast

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago
[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago

Not a movie, but the song Jimmy Olsen Blues by the Spin Doctors seems on point.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

I'll have to check that out

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

Sounds interesting

[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Hey, that bowling ball was sentient!

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"We're not your classic heroes. We're the other guys."

The movie is on YouTube in full

[-] ptc075@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

You might check out Free Guy. It's about a video game NPC who comes to life in a Grand Theft Auto themed universe.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

That's a good movie

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Breaking Bad actually happens in the Marvel universe. They just don't mention any of it because they are busy selling drugs and such.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I like to think The Breakfast Club is in the marvel universe. No reason it can't be

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It is. If the last scene doesn't freeze, that guy throws his fist up so he can fly away home.

[-] Dry_Monk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Andor, depending on whether you consider Jedi superheroes.

[-] vapordays@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

Came here to say Rogue One but also this yeah

Jedi/Force users... definitely have superpowers

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

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[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I like that show

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

Marves Agents of Shield? Season 1 specifically. Season 2 and on goes into metahuman territory

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[-] roger.wood@feddit.online 34 points 2 days ago

Extraordinary, was a British show about the only girl that didn't get a superpower, in a world where everyone does.

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[-] Elextra@literature.cafe 28 points 2 days ago

Does Agent Carter count? I don't think she's a superhero?

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[-] homes@piefed.world 26 points 2 days ago

I’d say that the show Gotham is primarily about Jim Gordon and an adolescent Bruce Wayne dealing with all of the supervillains in Gotham City, but, drama queens that they all are, the show is a lot about them too

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[-] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 days ago

There was a show called powerless. It was about employees at Wayne enterprises. It was a comedy. It didn’t last long.

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[-] Killer_Tree@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

No powers, just a fantastic gangster's rise to power story. The setting occurs in the aftermath of superhero events, so I think it checks all the boxes (and it's fantastic!)

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[-] IWW4@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 days ago

There was a TV show about Batman’s butler.

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[-] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Powerless is about unpowered characters in a super hero universe.

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[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

Yes to a point, but consider…

Tap for spoiler…Hughie and Butcher both take Compound V in the books and a temporary version in the show, which gives them powers, and the universe is set up so, theoretically, anyone who wants powers can get them.

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