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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 106 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Watch The Boys for exactly that. You won't get that from Disney.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 55 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Also the Invincible animated series does it too.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 21 points 4 weeks ago

I totally agree with both your comments, but to be fair, they said "movies".

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe season 1 of the boys. It devolves into disgust porn in the later seasons.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I made it to the first episode of season 3. It was just trying way too hard at that point to not be a show anymore but pure shock value

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 70 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 38 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Came here to say both of these lol.

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

But even in The Boys it’s just the bad guys doing that.

The dark reality is that the good guys need to watch themselves too.

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 weeks ago

Spoiler for the latest season and the spinoffThey don't mostly because they know the risk.

In Gen V, the main character gets her powers by accidentally killing her parents.

And in the latest season, Huey's dad kills a bunch of patients because of his confusion due to dementia.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

spoilerBro, the show opens with A-Train running through Huey's girlfriend and turning her into flesh casserole. It's the exposition to the main plot of the movie. They talk about how it happens all the time and they have a whole procedure for damage control. They introduce a support group for people hurt by supes, including a guy whose girlfriend accidentally froze his dick off during sex.

I suppose there's an argument that supes aren't really "good guys", but that traditional good vs. bad dichotomy isn't really the point of the show.

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 45 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

It always bugged me how in Man of Steel, Superman has to deal with the moral quandary of breaking the bad guy’s neck at the cost of vaporizing a family.

Like they spent the previous 20 minutes punching each other through buildings. No way that was the first family they killed.

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[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 41 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think Hancock had a few instances of that

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Never got around to that one, worth it?

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 21 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Critically panned, across the board, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It could have done with another couple of rounds of script polishing.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 30 points 4 weeks ago

It was two movies Frankensteined into one. The first half is awesome. The second, not so much.

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[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

It's not a good movie but it's a fun watch if you're not expecting much.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's okay, not memorable though. I can't seems to recall anything from that movie but i do remember i have fun watching it.

[–] Mister_Feeny@fedia.io 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I remember liking half of it. Oddly enough, I can't remember whether I liked the first half where he's a drunken bum, or the second half, where he's more together, but I specifically remember thinking half of it was decent at least.

So yeah, I agree that it's not very memorable.

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Have it on in the background.

I never fully understood Katherine Heigl's character and her point in the plot.

It's decent. Not great.

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[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

I wanted to like the movie, but drunk will smith just didn't do it at all for me.

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[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 22 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

It’s good, but upon re-watching it now from when I first watched it, and thinking a little differently about it - Superman talks about needing to be careful to not hurt people and cause deaths. Then he proceeds to put Darkseid through several buildings that obviously weren’t evacuated, followed by punching him so hard he goes through a couple layers of earth and totally destroys a bunch of infrastructure. He essentially shows his power and ignores everything he just said.

I still love seeing Superman let loose and fuck Darkseid’s shit up though. 😂

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I hadn't seen it before so my first thought was "uhhh... Superman?"

I mean were those buildings even evacuated? He probably killed a fair few innocent bystanders there 😂

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Superman knows where there's people and where there isn't. Authors can argue there wasn't anyone there.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Just because he knows he shouldn't lose control, that doesn't mean that it won't happen now and again.

I know a bunch of things that I should do and still fuck up on a regular basis.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, but he literally just gave a speech about it and then proceeds to ignore in roughly less than 30 seconds. 😂

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[–] saint@group.lt 26 points 4 weeks ago

They cut all such scenes and pasted into The Boys, in a Mark Twain style “Sprinkle these around as you see fit!”.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Perhaps they are going for a tone of heroic escapism, or fantastical drama over gory and downbeat "realism".

If you really just want to see heroes maiming people it's been done. Invincible, The Boys (show and comic). Even back to the 90s there were comics like Stormwatch that centered on the premise of "realistic" consequences of super powers.

Aye, it's all about what theme you're exploring or mood that's being set. We don't have batman exploding into mist when he fights people who can lift planes/cruise ships with their bare hands, because that's not the story being told. When the theme is about the consequences of powers, rather than the escapism and being good (the 'super' part of superman being his morals and convictions), we get the boys and their (gory) explosions.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

The web serial Worm by Wildbow, written like 10-15 years ago maybe, is also a pretty good superhero deconstruction.

[–] haywire7@lemmy.world 22 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't The Incredibles have a backstory like that where supes are basically illegal after they caused too much collateral damage?

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Mr. Incredible is sued for stopping a man's suicide and injuring him instead.

In a Disney film.

This is explicitly stated, to the camera, within the first 5 minutes.

Holy shit Disney, you hadn't "Up'd" us yet, chill

[–] fishpen0@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

The first Incredibles movie was released two years before Pixar was bought by Disney

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

And it was Brad Bird working on it, a Simpsons alumni. They always punch higher than usual writers.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Pixar wasn't owned by them, but they were contractually obligated to be making movies for and with Disney

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

This article is a great rundown of Pixar and Disney, but while the latter did publish Pixar's movies through the nineties and early naughties they had very little creative influence over them - especially compared to what would come post acquisition. Even the four "transitional" films (that had already begun production in 2006) are clearly more Pixar than Disney.

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[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Invincible covers this a lot.

It's a major plot point in avengers as well, tbf, and why they spit up.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I loved the first season of invincible. The thought came after watching a gif of captain America splitting a log with he bare hands. Like there should be PPE for just being around a super hero. He split that log with enough force to send a splinter strait through someone skull.

Like deku in my hero flicks air to create a pressure wave that can propel him into the sky. The insane amount of force at play should have more collateral damage.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Him splitting that log with his hands was safer to stand near than someone hitting it with a maul, which is how it’s usually split.

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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago

Someone did an analysis of what would happen if Superman actually punched you at full strength, and it turns out his fist would never connect with you, because you’d be vaporized by the wave of nuclear explosions erupting from his knuckles as they caused air molecules to fuse in nanoseconds.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago

I mean this is how Civil War and Age of Ultron comes about?

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I think Zach Snyder tried for this in Batman v Superman but of course he did so with no appreciation of the themes or subtlety. And Martha.

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[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Brightburn. I haven't seen it (yet), but alternate universe where Superman becomes evil. Trailers showed him absolutely wrecking his classmates in anger and frustration.

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[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Misfits is not really what you're asking for, but is a more light hearted a-typical superhero show about people who were sentenced to community service all accidentally gaining super powers. They mostly use their powers selfishly but not in evil ways. It's pretty well done as far as character growth

[–] joerel@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

This was a great show.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 8 points 4 weeks ago

Irredeemable covers this.

While only a comic its a fantastic telling of a superhero going insane and the others trying to stop him. The Plutonian levels whole cities and kills millions in the first issue lol. It's fucking wild.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Exploring the failed attempts and the real struggles of being a hero.

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