‘Black Adam’ Proves It’s Time for Edgy Superhero Movies to Die

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‘Black Adam’ Proves It’s Time for Edgy Superhero Movies to Die
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We've had our fill of 'edgy' superhero movies. Let's try something new!

These films, like most Marvel fare, find success for their obscure heroes through formulaic accessibility. Buthas none of those newcomer-friendly traits—it is devoid of humor, likable heroes, or emotional soft spots. Instead, the character’s whole debut orients around one flimsy theme: Black Adam might kill someone on-camera, which is something that is both against the rules and badass. That’s what we’re meant to believe, anyway.

It was an overpowering motif in the late-1990s—an age of the band of KoRn and comics artist—where the only way to encourage kids to purchase superhero comic books was the promise that the characters within would subvert all of the established idioms of the genre. McFarlane’s Spawn, probably the most iconic character of the period, was a demon from Christian Hell, who loomed on a throne composed of skulls and machine guns.

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