# What superhero or superhero team would you LIKE to see get a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 15, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064 "2017-06-15T21:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/21 "2017-06-16T04:47:30Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Am I misunderstanding the definition of superhero? Well, two of those guys are currently heroes in the comics, and the third was just recently the Lifebringer, so… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/22 "2017-06-16T05:03:54Z")
btw, Brandon Sanderson’s _Reckoners_ books were optioned. If they can make the films without screwing them up, I’d love to see them. For those who haven’t heard of them or read them, they posit a world where a mysterious red light appears in the sky. Soon, a very small percentage of the population develops superpowers, somehow obviously tied to the new mini-star. Society is soon wrecked all to hell and back by the new “Epics” who walk among us. All three books and the novella were excellent, IMO; both good fun and very intense. ETA: Not a comic book, I know, but still about people with super powers. ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/23 "2017-06-16T05:29:04Z")
Legion of Super Heroes = enormous cast! Spider-Woman is a great idea, for the precisely reasons \*\*Don Draper \*\*describes. Its the Ed Brubaker \*The Sleeper \*conundrum - as a double agent, after a while you lose track of who you are working for. > [@G0sp3l](#): > > Cloak and Dagger That’s an interesting thought. For me, its the Archie Goodwin / Walt Simonson _Manhunter_. There’s a tonne of pathos in that story. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/24 "2017-06-16T05:49:41Z")
[Herbie Popnecker (aka, The Fat Fury).](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Popnecker) I came across him one day while browsing the net, and he really captured my imagination. He’s everything a superhero ought to be. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/25 "2017-06-16T10:35:57Z")
Invincible. It would have to be rated R because of all the blood. Sent from my SPH-L720T using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/26 "2017-06-16T10:51:47Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > The Flaming Carrot > > Normalman > > Megaton Man > > The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (I know, I know… it’s never gonna happen now) > > Robo-Hunter > > Strontium Dog > > ETA: That’s just off the top of my head; I’m sure there are others. If you’re filming 2000AD strips, I want ABC Warriors: for those unfamiliar, they were a team of misfit army surplus robots who combined squabbling and backstabbing with battling Evil in space. Think Dirty Dozen meets Magnificent Seven except deranged combat bulldozers punching Cthulhu. It was a fucking brilliant strip, and it could have been written to be filmed. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/27 "2017-06-16T11:22:28Z")
I want a do-over of Howard the Duck. Before Logan, I wanted to see X-23 introduced via an adaptation of [NYX](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/nyx/4050-17987/) followed by the [X-23 miniseries](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/x-23/4050-18176/). After Logan, I want to see X-23 introduced via an adaptation of [NYX](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/nyx/4050-17987/) followed by the [X-23 miniseries](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/x-23/4050-18176/). Groo the Wanderer. Usagi Yojimbo. If manga can count, it would be nice to see a good adaptation of [The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kurosagi_Corpse_Delivery_Service). Some version of Magik, possibly [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magik_%28Illyana_and_Storm%29) miniseries. I would mention Runaways, but they are already working on a Runaways movie. Maybe a [Doop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doop_%28comics%29) vs. [Slimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slimer) cross-over movie… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/28 "2017-06-16T11:40:19Z")
[del]Groo[/del] [del]Cerebus[/del] [del]Matter-Eater Lad[/del] Actually I’ll second the “Grendel” suggestion above. Rich, intense, and with a lot of potential for development in other films. I’d also love to see a good quality Ambush Bug film (something Weedonesque); I am aware at least one crappy one has been made but it’s difficult to write for a character who knows he’s fictional. I’d rather see “Top Ten” as an ongoing television show, much like Amazon is doing for the latest version of The Tick (which incidentally looks very promising). But right now I’d like the solo MCU Black Widow film we keep getting promised. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/29 "2017-06-16T12:22:58Z")
_Lobo_. It may be happening, it may not, we’ll see. I’d imagine it would be an ideal “me too” response to Marvel’s **Deadpool**. _Spawn_ deserves a better movie than he received in 1997. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/30 "2017-06-16T12:32:48Z")
I’d like to see **The Fantastic Four** done right. Fer cryin’ out loud, they had four tries, and they managed to screw them all up, mostly by going off the comic book script. FF was my favorite comic back in the 1960s, in the heyday of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. Give the real Galactus, not the Johnny-come-lately swarm of insect things. I want a universe of Kirby Dots illustrating Cosmic Power. Let me see the full glory of what CGI can unleash, with the Silver Surfer flying through the Negative Zone. Let me see Ben and Johnny Storm bantering and pulling pranks on each other. Lemme see the Submariner’s or the Mole Man’s monsters invading New York. So far, the best screen treatment of the FF has been Pixar’s **The Incredibles** , which got the movements, the banter, and the menace down straight. And, he’s not a superhero (arguably), but for Crom’s sake let someone do **Conan the Barbarian** right. Adapt a Robert E. Howard story, you mooks, instead of thinking you can write your own – you screw it up every time. I want to see _The Tower of the Elephant_ or _Rogues in the House_ or _Red Nails_. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/31 "2017-06-16T13:21:55Z")
> [@TYphoonSignal8](#): > > Legion of Super Heroes = enormous cast! Since the LSH isn’t terribly familiar to the general public (especially since DC stopped publishing it), they’d have to start with the origin story anyway. Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Lightning Lad to start with is easy to introduce. Then, add from there. It’d make a good basis for a series, _and_ seems like a good way to get an actually likable Superboy, instead of the mopey Superman the DCU has now. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/32 "2017-06-16T13:33:28Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > If you’re filming 2000AD strips, I want ABC Warriors: for those unfamiliar, they were a team of misfit army surplus robots who combined squabbling and backstabbing with battling Evil in space. Think Dirty Dozen meets Magnificent Seven except deranged combat bulldozers punching Cthulhu. It was a fucking brilliant strip, and it could have been written to be filmed. I could go for an ABC Warriors movie. Can we fit Nemesis the Warlock and Ace Garp in there somehow? Full disclaimer: 2000 AD totally fucking rocks! They’ve had more ideas in their progs than any can count and their willingness to try new stories, characters, artists and writers is, to me, legendary. I just wish they could get a decent film made. (Okay, yeah, the last one, _Dredd_ was pretty good. Not great, but pretty good. And that’s without even bothering to compare it to _Judge Dredd_ (where I actually thought Stallone was good, btw)). ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/33 "2017-06-16T13:59:05Z")
The Shadow and Doc Savage done right. The Ron Ely Doc Savage was campy, and a lot less fun than it tried to be. The Shadow, with Alec Baldwin, was better but still a misfire. Having a star who didn’t hate being in the movie would have made it better yet. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/34 "2017-06-16T13:59:07Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Anyway, what superhero (or comic book series) would go see a movie about? I would love to see Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s [_Marshal Law_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal_Law_(comics)). The first six-issue run would make a great story. I’d also like to see Adam Warren’s [_Empowered_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowered), but I think he’s got a long way to go toward resolving his big over-arching plot - even though he’s already on his tenth book. A movie would have to focus on one of the sub-plots (Ooh! Maybe [_Empowered vs. the Solider of Love!_](https://www.amazon.com/Empowered-Soldier-Love-Adam-Warren-ebook/dp/B01NCXSR1A)) in order to come to a conclusion that doesn’t torpedo his future plans for the series. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/35 "2017-06-16T14:19:11Z")
Nextwave. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/36 "2017-06-16T14:25:24Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > So far, the best screen treatment of the FF has been Pixar’s **The Incredibles** , which got the movements, the banter, and the menace down straight. Well, there was also Roger Corman’s version. Which was almost unsettlingly faithful to the origin story and character appearances. Compared to the other cinematic outings, at the very least. (And, technically speaking, it absolutely did not underperform at the box office or on the home video market. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/37 "2017-06-16T14:33:07Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Well, there was also Roger Corman’s version. Which was almost unsettlingly faithful to the origin story and character appearances. Compared to the other cinematic outings, at the very least. > > (And, technically speaking, it absolutely did not underperform at the box office or on the home video market. 😃 ) I’ve seen it. It’s unbelievably lame, with pretty awful film quality, acting, and effects. Corman made it only to hang onto the rights, and, boy, does it show. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/38 "2017-06-16T14:38:35Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. I would love to see Shang-Chi just so long as it is NOT wire-fu (ala “Into the Badlands”) Though not quite a “super” hero, I’d love to see a Barry Ween (boy genius) movie. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064/39 "2017-06-16T14:46:04Z")
I would love to see AC Comics’ FemForce come to either television or the big screen : > **[Femforce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femforce)** > > Femforce is a comic book published by AC Comics that began publication in 1985, detailing the adventures of the titular team: the "Federal Emergency Missions Force" or "Femforce", some of them original creations, while others originated in the 1940s and 1950s, lapsing into public domain by the time Femforce was published. The team are, as their name implies, all superheroines, and are the first and the longest running all-women 'super-team'. The series has passed 150 issues, a significant mile Th... ---
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Animal Man. Not the straight boring Silver Age Animal Man, the weird [Morrison version](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5102TM8KQKL._SX304_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-or-superhero-team-would-you-like-to-see-get-a-movie/789064.md?page=3)