Superhero, a list by Michael Mcdermott

7.4

/205850/

74

/7576/

72

/4148/

3.7

/246331/

88

/122/

86

/8465/

82

/21/

4.0

age 9+

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

77

6.8

/123640/

70

/4746/

67

/2441/

3.3

/104811/

89

/114/

76

/5205/

83

/16/

4.0

age 8+

Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop them.

45

5.0

/80674/

56

/3301/

55

/1823/

2.2

/67161/

31

/103/

23

/3549/

44

/15/

2.5

age 8+

Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.

62

6.2

/36635/

65

/1238/

63

/625/

3.3

/65720/

73

/22/

64

/1330/

42

/8/

A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.

40

4.8

/54048/

57

/2321/

54

/1083/

2.2

/50277/

13

/86/

38

/2678/

28

/22/

age 13+

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

71

7.5

/428392/

74

/14639/

72

/8339/

3.6

/567874/

77

/142/

84

/28997/

69

/21/

2.0

age 12+

Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman, a costumed hero who strikes fear into the hearts of villains. But when a deformed madman known as 'The Joker' seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld, Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis ever while protecting both his identity and his love interest, reporter Vicki Vale.

49

46

5.0

/8381/

54

/294/

54

/193/

2.8

/11974/

32

/227/

Melvin Junko was a nerdy weakling until he fell into a vat of toxic waste, turning him into the first ever superhuman creature from New Jersey. This time, he takes on Tokyo.

49

5.6

/28071/

59

/1077/

58

/649/

2.7

/19019/

25

/16/

33

/1263/

63

/4/

The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. His ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast and became the Punisher, living in the sewers and exacting vigilante violence against mob bosses throughout the city. When the populace is caught in the midst of a gang war that he caused, Castle must again emerge from the shadows and save the innocent.

42

39

4.4

/5949/

45

/215/

49

/142/

2.5

/7484/

25

/164/

Desperate to raise money for the experimental surgery that could restore his blind fiancee's eyesight, Toxie accepts a lucrative job with the evil multinational conglomerate Apocalypse Inc.

64

6.8

/111365/

70

/4557/

67

/1899/

3.4

/121252/

46

/57/

81

/8130/

51

/21/

2.5

age 8+

A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

66

6.4

/73968/

65

/2385/

64

/1462/

3.4

/76311/

80

/159/

60

/1537/

65

/15/

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

33

3.3

/15958/

46

/716/

44

/445/

1.9

/13574/

16

/19/

19

/522/

During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America". Racing to Germany to sabotage the rockets of Nazi baddie "Red Skull", Captain America winds up frozen until the 1990s. He reawakens to find that the Red Skull has changed identities and is now planning to kidnap the President of the United States.

48

46

5.0

/6833/

57

/325/

55

/190/

2.7

/8361/

33

/6/

39

/290/

FBI agent Max Reed witnesses Dr. Tetsu Segawa - a researcher for the mysterious Chronos Corporation - being murdered. Dr. Segawa had stolen an alien device known as "The Guyver" from Chronos. College student Sean Barker, whose girlfriend's father was Dr. Segawa, finds the Guyver's hiding spot while watching the forensic team investigating the crime scene.

52

6.0

/63846/

66

/2528/

62

/1205/

2.9

/57597/

36

/42/

67

/5079/

45

/20/

1.0

age 8+

The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.

66

6.6

/65136/

69

/2310/

65

/1007/

3.4

/50645/

67

/66/

65

/1662/

58

/9/

3.0

age 11+

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.

69

7.1

/347455/

71

/11983/

69

/6914/

3.6

/469160/

82

/94/

73

/18876/

68

/24/

2.0

age 14+

The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck's timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shreck tries to kill her, she's transformed into the sexy Catwoman. She teams up with the Penguin and Shreck to destroy Batman, but sparks fly unexpectedly when she confronts the caped crusader.

49

5.2

/9369/

60

/357/

57

/187/

2.7

/5344/

27

/15/

37

/239/

2.5

One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the information in any book ... for about thirty seconds. Now his friends and family want him to protect their community from the dreaded Golden Lords.

79

7.5

/228526/

76

/8490/

75

/4382/

3.8

/300699/

88

/74/

90

/17211/

72

/15/

3.5

age 17+

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.

38

37

3.8

/8733/

42

/387/

44

/211/

2.1

/14432/

31

/13/

31

/300/

When dosed with cosmic rays, four intrepid astronauts are given incredible powers. They decide to form a superhero group called the Fantastic Four to fight their arch-enemy, Dr. Doom.

56

6.1

/28795/

65

/1076/

60

/551/

2.9

/16364/

38

/52/

45

/942/

50

/30/

3.0

Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "the power to cloud men's minds", The Shadow comes blazing to the rescue with explosive results.

70

7.0

/463205/

72

/18902/

70

/10935/

3.4

/805930/

81

/58/

68

/23490/

59

/12/

3.0

age 12+

Stanley, a meek bank employee, turns into an eccentric and maniacal green-skinned superhero who can bend reality, after wearing a wooden mask that was created by Loki, the Norse god of mischief.

51

50

5.1

/11083/

57

/407/

52

/194/

2.7

/7981/

41

/365/

age 13+

Darryl is a childlike man with a genius for inventing various gadgets out of junk. When he stumbles on a method to make his clothes bulletproof, he decides to use his skills to be the lowest budgeted superhero of all.

50

5.5

/280012/

56

/9464/

54

/5445/

2.5

/308163/

41

/73/

33

/18280/

54

/23/

2.5

age 13+

Batman faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, and the Riddler, a disgruntled ex-Wayne Enterprises inventor seeking revenge against his former employer by unleashing his brain-sucking weapon on Gotham City's residents. As the caped crusader also copes with tortured memories of his parents' murder, he has a new romance, with psychologist Chase Meridian.

47

5.6

/131094/

62

/5002/

58

/2634/

2.6

/61528/

21

/53/

31

/2768/

2.0

age 15+

In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.

46

45

5.1

/6263/

55

/323/

56

/293/

2.5

/3808/

48

/23/

20

/172/

Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.

43

4.6

/23256/

55

/955/

55

/581/

2.4

/13308/

16

/37/

40

/1501/

age 17+

A murder victim is brought back to life by a mysterious crow. With the help of a beautiful woman, he exacts revenge on his killers – only to realize his enemy has discovered the one weakness that can destroy him forever.

34

3.8

/280445/

47

/9000/

43

/5276/

1.9

/313138/

11

/95/

16

/20516/

29

/21/

2.0

age 11+

Batman and his sidekick Robin attempt to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze, who wants to make Gotham City into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy, a botanical femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contend with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl, joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.

76

7.3

/656270/

77

/29215/

72

/14479/

3.7

/911084/

91

/92/

80

/21957/

72

/22/

3.0

age 12+

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

28

3.0

/15804/

41

/449/

43

/270/

1.7

/11356/

4

/24/

19

/319/

28

/12/

When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome electrohammer and riding a gadget-packed motorcycle, he's ready to wage war... if he can fix the untimely glitches in his untested gear.

54

5.3

/3309/

60

/146/

63

/100/

2.5

/2995/

43

/14/

36

/85/

3.0

age 9+

Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - the wise and strong robot from another galaxy. Spencer puts Cybersuit on and becomes a different kind of guy

52

6.1

/39176/

64

/1283/

61

/465/

3.0

/18969/

50

/30/

66

/2359/

48

/17/

0.5

A devout Mormon living in L.A. becomes a pornographic actor after his martial arts moves impress a big-time director.

70

6.8

/208267/

68

/6161/

65

/4222/

3.4

/158835/

86

/76/

73

/7182/

62

/22/

3.0

age 12+

It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.

29

3.8

/46696/

51

/1365/

44

/755/

2.0

/17039/

5

/82/

15

/1141/

12

/19/

age 13+

British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.

67

7.1

/326391/

73

/16580/

68

/6490/

3.5

/371402/

59

/113/

78

/14807/

47

/25/

3.0

age 17+

The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.

36

4.2

/53441/

49

/1976/

44

/1284/

2.1

/63617/

20

/64/

19

/4205/

36

/22/

1.5

age 10+

John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John -- along with his niece, Penny, and her trusty dog, Brain -- uses his new powers to discover who was behind the explosion.

59

6.1

/73456/

65

/2376/

58

/885/

3.1

/51191/

59

/103/

57

/3801/

66

/24/

2.0

age 12+

When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.

44

4.9

/13677/

54

/652/

55

/396/

2.3

/7540/

18

/11/

43

/901/

Alex Corvis, a man wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend, returns from the dead and sets out to find the real killer.

72

7.3

/685618/

74

/26217/

70

/11925/

3.4

/739075/

82

/176/

83

/28281/

64

/33/

2.5

age 11+

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

51

41

5.7

/2692/

55

/93/

51

/42/

2.9

/1420/

47

/15/

55

/142/

38

/8/

America's seventh best superhero team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. Lifelong fan Nightbird joins the group just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members' extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart.

71

7.3

/464292/

73

/19516/

71

/9713/

3.7

/479560/

70

/172/

77

/12562/

62

/31/

3.0

age 13+

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

57

54

5.8

/6900/

57

/228/

60

/160/

2.9

/7255/

64

/11/

64

/301/

41

/8/

A horrific explosion creates a dimensional portal between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxie is trapped in the mirror dimension, Tromaville comes under the control of his evil doppelganger, the Noxious Offender.

66

6.7

/250277/

69

/11139/

65

/5061/

3.3

/194889/

57

/149/

68

/10427/

52

/28/

3.5

age 18+

Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.

74

7.4

/952533/

75

/33100/

73

/20177/

3.9

/2160457/

90

/278/

67

/1692241/

73

/38/

2.5

age 11+

After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.

52

6.2

/427533/

68

/19020/

63

/10395/

3.0

/421488/

38

/197/

45

/17428/

49

/37/

1.5

age 12+

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

49

5.3

/239323/

55

/9421/

52

/5341/

2.2

/197221/

42

/229/

35

/13790/

42

/35/

3.0

age 14+

A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.

37

3.5

/7698/

47

/519/

41

/396/

1.9

/14228/

40

/5/

23

/278/

age 8+

After capturing Claw, all the criminals have gone into hiding. Until Claw escapes! Gadget thinks he will get the case, but everyone else has other plans. A new version of the Gadget project is unveiled in the form of G2. Strict orders are given for Gadget to stay away from G2 and every crime scene, but Gadget feels he is needed more than anyone.

74

7.4

/607013/

73

/20461/

70

/10663/

3.4

/576972/

85

/249/

85

/25911/

68

/37/

3.0

age 12+

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

55

5.7

/290523/

58

/10821/

55

/6132/

2.5

/233979/

63

/238/

29

/14065/

54

/40/