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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
39 films tagged superheroes
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2025 · Science fiction
Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, is pulled into a fight over a rare metal found in the ocean after the president who once hunted the Avengers asks for his help. Big fights, and a lot of political manoeuvring.
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2008 · Action
Batman, a new district attorney and a straight-arrow cop try to break organised crime in Gotham, and a criminal with no name and no plan starts pulling the city apart. Much of it is about what each of them will agree to do.
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2025 · Animation
A young Aztec whose father was killed by Spanish conquistadors grows up to be a priest in Moctezuma's court, and fights the invaders behind a bat mask. Animated, and pitched at adults rather than children.
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2025 · Action
Several people who received organs from the same mysterious donor find they picked up superpowers along with them, and start looking for each other. A comedy, built like a superhero origin story.
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2019 · Action
What is left of the Avengers regroups after losing, and goes looking for a way to undo it. Three hours long, with a huge cast, and it assumes you have seen a good many of the films before it.
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2018 · Action
A warlord crosses the galaxy collecting six stones that would let him do anything he likes with the universe, and every hero on the board tries to stop him. It cuts between half a dozen groups on different planets.
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2005 · Action
A billionaire's son leaves Gotham after his parents are killed and spends years abroad learning to fight, then comes back to a city run by mobsters. A good half of it is the training and the building of the kit.
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2025 · Science fiction
On a retro-futurist Earth where four astronauts came home with powers and became celebrities, a planet-eating giant marks the world for destruction. They go up to meet him, with a baby on the way.
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2025 · Science fiction
Marvel's second-string operatives are sent into the same secret facility with orders to kill each other, work out they have been set up, and have to get out together. Fights, and a lot about their worst memories.
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2014 · Animation
A teenage robotics whiz in a city that is half San Francisco and half Tokyo teams up with a soft inflatable healthcare robot his brother built. It is bright and fast, with a real sad streak running under the jokes.
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2025 · Action
The immortal mercenaries are back at work when the one they left at the bottom of the sea five hundred years ago is pulled up alive and comes looking for them. Fights in a lot of cities, and a long grudge.
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2025 · Fantasy
A woman arrives in Bangalore from Sweden, works night shifts and keeps to herself, until she steps in to stop a man from a local organ trafficking ring and the neighbours start wondering what she is. It is the first part of a superhero series.
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2018 · Action
After his father's death, T'Challa comes home to take the throne of Wakanda, an African country hiding technology no one else has, and finds his claim challenged. A superhero film with a lot of family argument and court politics in it.
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2026 · Action
Four years after a spell wiped him from everyone's memory, Peter Parker guards New York anonymously while his old friends move back to town. Then someone starts attacking the facilities holding the people he locked up.
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2026 · Action
Sent to Earth after kryptonite poisoned the city where she was born, Kara spends her twenty-third birthday drifting from planet to planet, until someone hurts her dog Krypto. More a chase across strange worlds than a save-the-city superhero film.
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2026 · Action
Frank Castle has killed the last of the men behind his family's deaths and now lives alone in a New York block gone to crime, seeing people from his past who are not there. It is grim, violent, and stays in a few streets.
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2014 · Action
Steve Rogers is working for a spy agency he trusts less every week when an attack from inside it puts him on the run with Black Widow. It plays like a 1970s conspiracy film with fights in it.
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2012 · Science fiction
Three high-school boys climb down a hole in a field and come out able to move things with their minds, and at first they mostly mess about. Shot as if one of them is filming the whole time.
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2016 · Action
A mercenary comes out of an experiment with powers he never asked for and goes after the man who did it to him, talking to the audience the whole way. Rude, fast, and joking through the violence.
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2014 · Action
A small-time thief picks up a mysterious orb and ends up in an alien prison with a green assassin, a talking raccoon and a tree. Big, loud, colourful, and joking most of the way through.
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2008 · Action
A billionaire who sells weapons is taken prisoner in Afghanistan and builds himself a way out, then keeps building once he gets home. Light on its feet, with as much workshop as fighting.
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2019 · Drama
A clown-for-hire in a filthy 1980s city looks after his mother, takes seven kinds of pills and wants to do stand-up. The camera never leaves him, and it turns grim very early.
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2010 · Action
A comic-obsessed teenager buys a wetsuit online and starts patrolling his neighbourhood as a superhero, which goes about as well as you would expect. Very violent, and going for laughs throughout.
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2017 · Action
An old Wolverine drives a limo near the Mexican border and hides a sick Professor X across it, until a girl with familiar habits needs taking north. A road movie, and much more violent than the ones before.
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2004 · Action
Two years in, the job is wrecking his grades, his rent and the one relationship he wants, just as a scientist with four mechanical arms starts tearing up New York. Big set pieces built around a fairly sad life.
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2023 · Animation
A teenage Spider-Man from Brooklyn is pulled into a society of hundreds of Spider-people from other worlds, who have rules about how these stories are supposed to go. Loud, fast, packed with detail, and it stops mid-story.
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2018 · Animation
A Brooklyn teenager gets spider powers and finds himself sharing the city with Spider-People pulled in from other dimensions. It is fast, loud and drawn like a comic book page.
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2021 · Action
With his name public and his life coming apart, Spider-Man asks a wizard for a spell to make everyone forget him, and it goes wrong. Big fights, plenty of jokes, and it leans on the films before it.
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2012 · Action
Six heroes who cannot stand each other are put on the same team because a god from another realm has turned up on Earth with an army. Bright, jokey, and built towards one very long fight.
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2022 · Action
In his second year out at night, Batman follows a killer who leaves riddles addressed to him at every scene, and the trail runs into the city's oldest families. Long, rainy, and closer to a detective film than a superhero one.
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2004 · Animation
Superheroes have been banned for years, and a bored insurance clerk who used to be one takes a secret job that pulls his whole family into it. Fast and funny, and half of it is a marriage under strain.
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2017 · Action
Thor loses his hammer, lands on a junk planet run by a showman, and has to fight his way off it to get home. Jokes the whole way through, bright colours, and a synthesiser soundtrack.
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2000 · Thriller
A security guard walks away from a train crash without a scratch, and a man who collects comic books tells him what he thinks that means. Slow, grey, and much closer to a drama than to a cape.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2009 · Action
In a 1985 where costumed heroes have been outlawed and the world is close to nuclear war, one of them is thrown out of a window and an old colleague starts asking why. Long, slow and very violent.
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2017 · Action
A warrior raised on a hidden island of women pulls a pilot out of the sea, learns there is a world war on, and goes to stop it. Origin story first, then trenches and very big fights.
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2014 · Action
With mutants hunted to near extinction in the future, one of them is sent back to 1973 to stop the thing that started it. Two time periods running at once, and a lot of faces from the earlier films.
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2024 · Action
A mercenary who talks to the audience drags a reluctant Wolverine across timelines to save his own. Rude, violent, and stuffed with references.
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2002 · Action
A New York student bitten by an altered spider spends half the film working out what he can do and the other half fighting a man in a green suit. Bright and earnest.
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2025 · Action
Superman intervenes in a foreign invasion and the world argues about whether he should have, while a billionaire works on getting rid of him. Bright, busy and openly hopeful.
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