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Whether due to incoherent writing, shallow character development, or complete misfires in tone, a bad origin story can doom even the most promising superhero project. A good superhero origin story ...

“Why is every superhero movie an origin story?” complained Entertainment Weekly film critic Adam Markovitz after seeing a trailer for this summer’s Man of Steel—yet another version of the ...

Here was a superhero who seemingly forgets that he's ... Nowhere in The Flash's story does Nora Allen have an accent. I scanned my memories as fast as I could to try to figure if I had ever ...

Turns out, the film is the superhero origin story you didn’t see coming. In previous films, the human characters played by Wahlberg, Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, etc., were nothing more than ...

The main challenge facing this young Latinx superhero is TV, and the sense this origin story would have been more at home on a venue like Disney+ (rival Marvel’s playground) or the CW.

OPINION: Richard Roundtree's groundbreaking portrayal of John Shaft was a turning point for Black art, culture and self-identity, but it is also a superhero origin story. In 2018, while writing a ...

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