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Flawed superheroes

Maybe it's time superheroes were increasingly projected in films as flawed humans and not gods

A still from the film Deadpool | Photo: foxmovies.com
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A still from the film Deadpool | Photo: foxmovies.com

Kumar Abishek
The face of superheroes is slowly changing. Recently, Amazon Prime Video came up with well-received The Boys; earlier this year, a movie, Brightburn, was released. HBO is also coming up with a re-imagined version of DC Comics' iconic Watchmen series. Over the past 10 years, several comic books have come up, showing the darker side of our superheroes — the most prominent being DC's Injustice: Gods Among Us

In all of these, superheroes are either villains or at least flawed personalities. In an earlier Eye Culture (‘Superheroes are like us and more’; March 23, 2019), I had reasoned why people are
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