But I'm working on an update with supervillains, so by the time I finish that update it will be superheroes vs. supervillains.
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A wearable that can detect supervillains by their unique smells.
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Chris Messina appears as Victor Zsasz, one of the supervillains.
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And I'm all for women as villains, especially sociopathic supervillains.
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We already have almost perfect supervillains serving in the administration.
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Buy "The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains" on Quirk Books' webstore .
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What is the line that supervillains should or shouldn't cross?
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The Starks just can't stop making supervillains by being arrogant, apparently!
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The photo prompted a flurry of memes comparing them to supervillains.
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At the very least, this must come as wonderful news to supervillains.
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In "GoldenEye" and "Die Another Day," James Bond fights supervillains in Cuba.
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But instead of supervillains, Holland had to deal with real-life bullies.
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We've put together a comprehensive ranking of all the MCU's major supervillains.
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The team does battle with Nazis and other assorted tyrants and supervillains.
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The main change is that these days the supervillains might wear military uniforms.
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There are villains and supervillains, crime and punishment, winks and splatter-happy schtick.
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Doreen Green has a tail, talks to squirrels and fights supervillains and she manages.
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So, is he a prisoner in his own house, surrounded by real-life supervillains?
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Grab your DC Comics books, because your favorite supervillains are back at it again.
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In Cleverman, injustice isn't caused by a handful of supervillains; it's built into society.
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Harold is clearly evil, in the gleeful, scenery-chewing way of Netflix-Marvel supervillains.
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Here are seven male superheroes (including a couple supervillains) wearing way too much face makeup.
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They depict a Manichaean world populated by gods, or superheroes and supervillains, in endless conflict.
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Sada Baby finds joy in being the boogeyman, and rap can always use more supervillains.
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At a time when supervillains are winning at the voting booth, diverse superheroes are sorely needed.
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They attract charismatic supervillains and cause explosions and other visual spectacles when they engage with evildoers.
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It's much more entrenched in the horror genre, delving into fiends and witches instead of supervillains.
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It has more well-rounded female characters than most stories about superpowers, supervillains and super-everything.
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It's fun to watch superheroes punch out supervillains, and The Defenders serves up plenty of that.
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Iron Man, (Robert Downey Jr.), who tells him to leave the supervillains to the real superheroes.
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"I go after the cadre of supervillains," he told the crowd during a recent stump speech.
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Only businessmen and supervillains do that, and you don't want to be anywhere near either of those.
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On Earth Two they're supervillains who go by the smirky names of Killer Frost and Reverb (respectively).
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It's an adaptation of Runaways, a series about teenagers who run away after discovering their parents are supervillains.
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Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) sees regulation as a necessity, the only thing that separates superheroes from supervillains.
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So, compared to Diana's tremendous and practical outfit, how do other women superheroes and supervillains' costumes stack up?
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There won't be any new jobs this year, but you can expect a bunch of superheroes and supervillains.
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Spider-Man was an acknowledgment that growing up is exhausting, and sometimes hurts more than scuffles with supervillains.
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That's what happens after a half-decade of rampant winning and occasional showboating, which made them so-called supervillains.
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On Friday, they announced a partnership with defense contractor Northrop Grumman, considered by many to be very literal supervillains.
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Armageddon, Ahmed Qoqas' latest mod, warps the docile suburbia of SimNation into an epic struggle of superheroes and supervillains.
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Unlike most superheroes and supervillains, Ward, as a (relatively) ordinary guy, actually holds his fate in his own hands.
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He is still a cerebral, introspective teenager from outer-borough New York, contending with existential confusions and merciless supervillains.
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The field of possible supervillains includes Danny Huston as a German commander and Elena Anaya as a diabolical chemist.
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Batman doesn't often consider the humanity of the supervillains he dispatches, he just does what needs to be done.
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While the franchise has given us some truly memorable superheroes, it's been significantly less successful at crafting compelling supervillains.
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There are enough scheming supervillains in this movie to fill out the boardroom at an entire new Legion of Doom.
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Indeed, the coming year has supervillains, superheroines, and even a few superstar team-ups that aren't based on comic books.
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We're also currently in a political moment in which even the most asinine supervillains no longer seem so far-fetched.
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But the league's equivalent of Luke Skywalker was also recast as Darth Vader, villain 1A on a team of supervillains.
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It's about two French teenagers who transform into superheroes to protect Paris from supervillains, and teach kids about confidence too.
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At the end of issue five, X-Men supervillains Apocalypse, Exodus, and Mr. Sinister all arrive on the island of Krakoa, and they agree to live there and protect the livelihood of all mutants: Given that these people are supervillains with evil tendencies, it seems as though this feel-good reunion and truce can't stand.
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Showrunner Joe Pokaski decided to avoid supervillains in season 1, and instead confront systemic problems like police corruption and corporate greed.
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The reason it does is Thanos, the villain at its center, is one of the best movie supervillains of all time.
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That glowing ooze you see in the movies that finds its way into water sources and destroys ecosystems and births supervillains?
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They amplified the absurd machismo of the era by wearing paper maché missile "dicks," parading themselves as patriotic, war-mongering supervillains.
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Batman's nemesis, the Joker, is uniquely chilling among supervillains for one very specific reason: He's never had a definitive origin story.
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Supervillains Journals Set This 3-pack of pocket-sized journals lets your loved ones brag about and plot out their diabolical schemes.
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Nico and Chase were put in a Hunger Games-style superhero deathmatch in Avengers Arena and worked with supervillains in Avengers Undercover.
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Youngblood, on the other hand, treats its Nazis like cartoon supervillains—literally faceless soldiers it asks you to slaughter with a friend.
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Sure, it primarily trafficked in the language of superheroes, but Marvel characters of the era grappled with far more than spandex supervillains.
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Let's start with Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, the architect of the central "supervillains are forced to defend America or die" plan.
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"Suicide Squad," about a gang of DC Comics supervillains, also set sales records overseas, where it has collected an additional $132 million.
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Runaways tells the story of six teenagers who find out their parents are actual supervillains in a powerful group called the Pride.
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There are difficult characters, antiheroes, supervillains, leading men and women who test the limits of likability — and then there is Becky Something.
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The list includes superheroes and supervillains, a dozen new animals, options to give emoji red hair, white hair, or no hair at all.
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We're also introduced to two new supervillains, the Marionette and the Mime, who help to add more sorely-needed diversity to the fold.
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First introduced in the 1980s, Cloak and Dagger primarily focused on fighting the war on drugs, rather than doing battle with costumed supervillains.
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One Los Angeles-based anchor called President Trump "the worst ruler in history," skipping supervillains from Hitler and Stalin to Mao and Mussolini.
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"Now it's all just supervillains trying to destroy the Earth, and superheroes fighting one another for vaguely defined reasons," Van explains to his staff.
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But, unlike a team of costumed supervillains, they can't be halted with a punch in the snoot or a zap from a ray gun.
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Which means this scene could be laying the groundwork for the Sinister Six, a gang of supervillains who regularly torment Spidey in the comics.
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In recent times, however, Wakanda had taken it on the chin — flooded by Namor the Sub-Mariner and ravaged by a team of supervillains.
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The movie – which stars Smith, Leto and Margot Robbie – brings together a motley crew of supervillains, united to aide in a secret government mission.
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The film's most disturbing element is its reminder that you're being constantly surveilled by would-be supervillains, and that's not on the MPAA ratings rubric.
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The government in the show hasn't been taken over by supervillains, à la Hydra infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its spinoff shows.
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Here is a quick breakdown of what's to come: Suicide Squad The upcoming film featuring a team of the world's most dangerous supervillains, out Aug.
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DC's superheroes and supervillains are landing in the South Bank region, one brick at a time, for the "The Art of the Brick" contemporary show.
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The recent Suicide Squad is supposedly about supervillains forced to do good, even if it means sacrificing themselves to a cause they don't believe in.
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This should probably go without saying, but in a movie about a team of supervillains, the most important task is to establish the team dynamics.
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Superheroes are culturally Americanized and historically have mostly been about defending a certain way of life from supervillains, or fighting to be accepted in society.
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With pen and brush, he keeps Spider-Man flying over New York City, soaring from skyscraper to skyscraper, in a never-ending battle against supervillains.
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Watch: "The Gentlemen," from the British director Guy Ritchie, features villains and supervillains, crime and punishment, winks and splatter-happy schtick, our film critic writes.
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Supreme Villainy: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Most (In)Famous Supervillain Memoir Never Published by King Oblivion and Matt D. Wilson King Oblivion, PhD is the most famous supervillains in the world, and as the CEO of the International Society of Supervillains, he's responsible for Nixon's election, the theft of Japan (the entire country), the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and quite a bit more.
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The Runaways, which has 62 issues total over three trade series, focuses on teen superheroes who find out their parents are supervillains in the Avengers universe.
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Or conservative supervillains jerking liberal chains and rattling leftwing cages on mainstream tech platforms by acting out a manist, white-supremacist tantrum-pantomime in plain sight.
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No matter how hard he tries, his move to the Bay Area made the Warriors shift from being the superheroes of the league to the supervillains.
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Gru ends up making an enemy of an elite group of supervillains known as The Vicious 6 after stealing something very precious from them, an amulet.
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PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly editorial director Jess Cagle asked Keaton and Wilson during a SiriusXM Town Hall about playing supervillains in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Aquaman, respectively.
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He's played tech billionaires, wealthy supervillains and Wall Street traders, but Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg says in his own life, his spending is mostly on essentials.
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That's exactly what's going on with the new DC Extended Universe film Suicide Squad, which turns a group of supervillains into a top-secret government task force.
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They both come off as irrationally committed to the hunt (and, like all supervillains, irrationally unkillable), and both risk locating the atrocities of slavery in individual pathology.
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In trying to pitch the least controversial political messages possible — in general, we shouldn't let supervillains kill lots of people — blockbusters don't just lose sight of their stakes.
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He's dealing with his own backyard supervillains, but his best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) wants him to come over and help build a 3,000-piece Lego Death Star.
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For starters, it's not like these absences would leave only Happy Hogan behind to continue the fight with Thanos, or the supervillains sure to follow in his wake.
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Thus, the broad portrayals of Gotham's supervillains were appropriate to the material, and Romero's interpretation of the Joker as a merry prankster is one of the show's highlights.
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Watch: "The Gentlemen," the latest movie from the British director Guy Ritchie, features villains and supervillains, crime and punishment, winks and splatter-happy schtick, our film critic writes.
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The show's basic premise, about a group of teens who discover that their parents are all supervillains and run away to fight them, is beautifully on the nose.
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The New Warriors should sound familiar to Marvel devotees; the original team was created back in 1989 as a group of teenage heroes facing supervillains and real-world problems.
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It also helps that the protagonists' parents in Cloak & Dagger are flawed but reasonable people, as opposed to mass-murdering supervillains who are still meant to draw audience sympathy.
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Davis's heartless, airless delivery really brought the character to life — making her more menacing than any of Suicide Squad's supervillains and perhaps making her the supervillain of the movie.
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For the past 214 years, Marvel has been building up its world of superheroes, supervillains, cosmic guardians, Wakandan warriors, Infinity Stone-enhanced AIs, telekinetic witches, strange doctors, and spidermen.
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As a member of the Marvel Universe, Natalie Portman knows a thing or two about supervillains — and she recognizes those qualities in a very famous former classmate from Harvard.
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"Runaways," a comic book series that began in 2003, takes that idea to its logical conclusion: The supervillains that the teenage heroes have to defeat are their own parents.
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To truly be the greatest hero in the world, he needs supervillains to fight, so he sets about making them by stealing the compound that gives heroes their powers.
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Now Funny or Die is taking on the taboo subject, with a video that portrays fictional supervillains as outraged by weak laws that do little to protect sexual assault survivors.
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The world of a black James Bond demands an acknowledgment that not just any fuckboy can pimp dash cams, hired goons, women, and supervillains into a "mission accomplished" end credit.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with the "killer with a heart of gold" trope, but it's a far cry from the "supervillains go crazy" story the film is selling up front.
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"Suicide Squad," in theaters August 5, will debut Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and Deadshot (Will Smith) as members of a team of supervillains tasked with taking down an even bigger bad.
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Shannon Chamberlain is a PhD candidate in English at Berkeley, where she writes about the influence of literature on Adam Smith and, in her spare time, novels about middle school supervillains.
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Unlike many of DC Entertainment's superheroes (think: Wonder Woman) and supervillains (think: Phoenix's Joker), there's an edge of camp and crassness to Quinn— oftentimes cartoonish humor undercuts her violence and horror.
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Now Variety is reporting that Disney has plans for limited series that will star Marvel superheroes like Loki and Scarlet Witch (yes, they're actually reformed supervillains, but let's not get technical here).
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Phe-ee-ew. But then his superheroes, and his supervillains too, had problems and lived in the real world, unlike the cut-out cardboard creatures that ruled the genre until he chanced along.
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AR: I'm glad that beyond recasting Thomas Wayne (very effectively!) as an elitist jerk, Joker didn't make me work out any DC pantheon logistics — like, is Arkham Asylum still full of other supervillains?
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In contrast with modern supervillains like the Zodiac Killer, who terrorized in part because they seemed capable of striking anyone at anytime, this boogieman favored a very particular kind of victim: Italian grocers.
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It had a campy tone that haunted Aquaman's image for years: Aquaman and his teenage sidekick, Aqualad, ride around on seahorses named Storm and Imp, facing off against supervillains, pirates and sea monsters.
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A photograph of President Donald Trump, the president of Egypt, and the Saudi king touching a sinister-looking glowing orb in 2017 went viral, with many people saying they looked like plotting supervillains.
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The CW shows boost soap opera drama to superhero levels work by making the personal plotlines as outsized as the action, as characters learn that close relatives are secret supervillains or time-travelers.
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Emily: Yes, Far From Home's occasional bits about fake news are particularly pointed, but when I watched Jake Gyllenhaal's delightful turn as Mysterio — a turn that has made me believe in supervillains again!
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A PlayStation 4 exclusive which soared in plenty of reviews, Marvel's Spider-Man makes you feel like Peter Parker himself as you traverse New York City to save the day from classic Spidey supervillains.
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It will continue the DC Cinematic Universe's focus on gritty stories and investment into great supervillains — which is a stark contrast to Marvel's hyper-focus on great heroes at the cost of disposable villains.
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Their team-up has precedent in the comics – in the Infinite Crisis storyline, Deathstroke was a key member of Lex's society of supervillains, along with Black Adam, Talia al Ghul, Dr. Psycho, and more.
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Corralled by Viola Davis's Amanda Waller, Suicide Squad's titular supervillains must head into battle with a powerful force from beyond this dimension, all the while hoping their own internal conflicts don't tear them apart.
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David Ayer's dark DC Comics adaptation assembles a heterogeneous squad of Hollywood heavyweights like Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Will Smith and Viola Davis to tell the tale of supervillains who come under government employ.
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From shopping cart rollercoaster rides to shape-throwing supervillains, here are some viral tweets that will only make sense to people whose favourite weekend destination is Tilted Towers... Have you made a roller coaster yet?
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The shark can do what no other villainous horror movie creature really can: In addition to engaging in epic bite-offs against other creatures, it can combine with those other creatures to create animalia supervillains.
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It's hard to spend time in New York City and not have at least some contact with its subways, buses or rail lines — and that applies to superheroes and supervillains as well as ordinary commuters.
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Just imagine something like FX's Baskets or Netflix's BoJack Horseman set in a world of superheroes and supervillains — silly and just a little bit sad with some intriguing thoughts about wasted potential and finding your purpose.
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Pros: Kendrick can really communicate complex concepts that illustrate how society is shit, and if supervillains do one thing a lot, it's trying to break the hero down by persuading them how naive their cause is.
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It seemed inevitable that Marvel's sharp and witty Runaways comic — about the high-stakes misadventures of a group of teens who discover that their parents moonlight as supervillains — would become a TV show at some point.
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He sees Jessica as beneath him intellectually, but the real question is whether Jessica is punching below her weight class by going after a conventional (though extremely dangerous) criminal after two seasons of fighting more traditional supervillains.
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Yes, nobody wants supervillains like the Underminer robbing banks, but there's a process in place to ensure those banks and the money within them, and having superheroes leap in to save the day just complicates that process.
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Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson and Paul Walker are the speed demons, thrill-riding past not one but two supervillains (Jason Statham and Djimon Hounsou) while in the service of some government types (Kurt Russell and Dwayne Johnson).
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Before I booted up Half-Life again last week, I hadn't realized how much I've come to take grinding, scavenging, and aimless wandering for granted, even when I'm supposedly chasing a crazed cultist or a league of supervillains.
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It's about the high-tech gadgets and sports cars, the beautiful locations and exciting action sequences, the martinis and witty quips, the unhinged maniacal supervillains and whatever strange method they're planning on using to take over the world.
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Water bottle This underrated and overlooked piece of gear is the Batman of traveling: there when you need it, invisible when you don't, and critical in the fight against organized crime and supervillains in the city of Gotham.
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It would have been easy for Cloak & Dagger to follow The Flash's highly successful formula and have the initial power-granting incident produce a bounty of supervillains, which the protagonists would have to use their new powers to stop.
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So, to be clear: Amanda Waller is assembling a team of the most powerful supervillains on Earth in order to save it, and she needs Slipknot, who is basically an upgraded REI salesperson, to help by … scaling a wall?
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On May 22, 2017, President Donald Trump, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, and Saudi Arabia's King Salman touched a sinister-looking glowing orb, yielding numerous memes suggesting they were evil supervillains launching a plan to end the world.
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The show is based off of the 2003 Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona comic book series The Runaways, and this trailer introduces us to six teenagers who discover that their parent are members of The Pride, group of supervillains.
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Obviously, artists and supervillains everywhere are desperate to try it out, but they can't, because artist-slash-supervillain Kapoor has been given exclusive rights to use it, hopefully because he plans to paint Cloud Gate black and ruin everyone's Chicago Instagrams.
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At times I found myself wishing that Green Room had more moral weight to it — that it had presented the neo-Nazis as something other than cartoon supervillains, meant to be so bad that we'd applaud when they were bloodily dispatched.
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It's also fitting, and almost too cutting, that amid America's current introspection into how our institutions are run and the culture they breed, one of the most exciting TV shows coming down the pike focuses on the next generation of supervillains.
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In the original Marvel Runaways comic, launched by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona in 2003, six kids learn that their parents are secretly supervillains who run Los Angeles through a powerful and malevolent organization called The Pride.
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Today marks the 25th anniversary since the premiere of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" ... and to celebrate the longtime franchise, we've taken a trip down memory lane to see what some of the most memorable superheros and supervillains look like now!
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 1): 83%What critics said: "There is some meat here, more than just the carnage; the show demonstrates how the actual supervillains of today use surveillance and NDAs instead of death rays and killer robots.
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That is the language of the brochures and websites of the city's safe dealers, a small but longstanding industry that manages fears in and around the diamond district not only of disasters like fires or explosions, but also of hypothetical supervillains.
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It is, essentially, a political drama that just happens to star supervillains and other monsters, and the unmistakable star of the show is Amanda Waller, who quickly proves herself to be one of the most powerful people in DC's comic book universe.
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It is, essentially, a political drama that just happens to star supervillains and other monsters, and the unmistakable star of the show is Amanda Waller, who quickly proves herself to be one of the most powerful people in DC's comic book universe.
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Originally introduced in 2003 as part of Marvel's Tsunami line of comics inspired by the storytelling of Japanese manga, Runaways followed a group of teenagers (and one pre-teen) who ran away from home after discovering that their parents are secretly supervillains.
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Playing bad guy and gang leader Ray Marcus in Nocturnal Animals served as a departure for the actor, who is used to being the hero, whether it was battling supervillains in Kick-Ass and Avengers: Age of Ultron or monsters in Godzilla.
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So today, we start The Verge's four-part fall movie preview, which will look ahead at the next four months of cinema — from serious dramas to holiday family films, with plenty of stops in the middle for one-off supervillains and space monsters.
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In Old Man Logan, a 2008 story that ran in the pages of an ongoing Wolverine series, Millar told the story of an older, sadder Wolverine in a brutish post-apocalyptic future where most superheroes are dead and the supervillains have won.
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That's a pretty great place for this story to reside, centering as it does on a group of Los Angeles teens who learn their parents are secret supervillains, and discover their own superpowers in the process of uncovering and evading their parents' evildoings.
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And How to Save the World by Lexie Dunne, coming next month, is the third book in a series about Gail Godwin, a young woman who was nicknamed Hostage Girl after supervillains kept capturing her but eventually becomes a superhero in her own right.
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Powerless stars Vanessa Hudgens, Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi, Ron Funches and Christina Kirk as employees of Wayne Security, a subsidiary of Wayne Industries (yes, Wayne as in Bruce, aka Batman) which develops products that are designed to keep regular joes safe when supervillains attack.
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When Marvel announced that author Rainbow Rowell would be bringing back Runaways — the beloved early-aughts comics series about a diverse group of teens who learn their parents are supervillains, which is soon to become a live-action Hulu original series — the buzz was deafening.
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As Bilge Ebiri at the Village Voice pointed out last month, this tendency of tentpole movies to insist on supervillains bent on breaking or remaking the planet has coincided with the tone of our news coverage and our political discourse taking just as hard a turn toward the apocalyptic.
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Ted Cruz spent the final days of his campaign for the New Hampshire primary, in which he finished third, speaking out against an important issue: the risk that the government might use the draft to force innocent girl children into single combat against psychotic supervillains thrice their size.
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About a half-hour into the movie, after it had gotten through the interminable mini-origin stories for its many supervillains (though, curiously, not all of them, since a couple are dropped into the story, seemingly at random, later on), I suddenly realized just how bored I was.
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Musk has previously been compared to other supervillains such as the Superman nemesis Lex Luthor, and he has frequently been the subject of jokes about secretly being a supervillain thanks to his innovative, often wacky devices and gadgets, such as the Not-a-Flamethrower and the new Tesla Cybertruck.
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And though all that time has passed for us, no time has passed for the Parr family, who pick up right where they left off, battling supervillains, struggling to find their place in a world that doesn't always trust those with exceptional abilities, and squabbling with each other.
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To bring Runaways to the page, he took a time-honored storytelling trope – the inevitable struggle between children and their parents – and gave it a comic book twist: the Runaways band together after discovering their parents, who ultimately gave them their powers, are members of a secret cabal of supervillains.
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What began, inauspiciously, as a show about supervillains racing through time via a time machine has since become a repository of the nuttiest notions its writers can come up with, from a battle with a possessed guitar (which our heroes lose) to a giant, lovable Furby-like creature named Beebo.
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Topher Grace joined forces with the symbiotic suit for 2007's Spider-Man 3, and Sony announced plans for a standalone movie based on the character in 2013, planned as part of a trio of projects that included a third Amazing Spider-Man, and a movie focusing on Marvel supervillains the Sinister Six.
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As the youngest MCU title hero by at least a decade, Peter is uniquely qualified to demonstrate what it means to come of age in an era of superheroes and supervillains, and how that might shape the morality or self-image or general outlook of an impressionable mind still working all that stuff out.
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Bat shurikens UV lamp Ball bearing grenadesGauntlet flashlight Medical kitBattery pack Laser designatorBat-camStrobe stun gunGas dispenser Smoke bombsBat flaskConcealed laryngeal microphoneTwo-way radioWe can't help but raise an eyebrow over the 'Bat flask' being recognized as an official Bat-gadget, but even the Dark Knight must need the occasional hit of liquid courage to keep battling supervillains.
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Among other seismic shifts throughout the entertainment industry, Disney's deal with Fox will bring the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, their respective villains, and several other characters back under the roof of the Disney-owned Marvel Studios, making this the first time in history that Marvel's most popular superheroes and supervillains will share the same cinematic universe.
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Ayer also isn't blind to what Waller needs to be to succeed: he undermines all his supervillains by giving them secret sentimental sides and soft hearts, but she's the full-on murdering sociopath who's colder than all of them, and she gives the film a spine and a dark edge that isn't blunted by comic relief.
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A new DC comic by well-known artist and writer Frank Miller features a pair of supervillains working to help reelect President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE.
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The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains (out today via Quirk Books) is a companion piece to 2015's The League of Regrettable Superheroes, and chronicles such terrifying antagonists as Brickbat, a guy in a bat costume who carries around exploding bricks, or Morris's personal favorite, Swarm, a caped menace whose body is made up of killer bees that also happen to be Nazis.
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In the wake of kids dying because heroes couldn't stop supervillains from blowing up their school, a mother who lost her son presents an argument to Stark that he ultimately comes to agree with: Policemen are trained and held accountable for their actions, and superheroes should be too: On the other side, Rogers believes that government regulation of superheroes would encroach on their civil liberties.
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After the title was canceled in 2007 following a decline in quality and readership after Vaughn's departure, the Runaways themselves — a group of Los Angeles teens who run away from home after discovering their parents are secretly supervillains, and go on to develop their own special abilities — lingered at the edges of Marvel's stable of characters, popping up individually here and there as a part of other storylines.
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But superhero comic book covers tend to be superheroes striking poses fighting evil or supervillains striking poses fighting good, with a certain strategy to their art: According to the 2017 annotated version of Watchmen, because of the way comic books are displayed in an overlapping pattern in comic book stores, the trick is to push titles toward the center and keep the imagery to the center and right of the cover page.
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While the new clip features a fair bit of footage we've seen before, there's plenty of new stuff as well, from the Squad undergoing basic training (or whatever you'd call a bunch of supervillains on a military base) to Deadshot coaxing a firestorm out of El Diablo, to a few new zingers from Harley—and even new footage of Leto's Joker, which is shaping it up to be just as creepy as his on-set behavior.
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