Marves Agents of Shield? Season 1 specifically. Season 2 and on goes into metahuman territory
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I hadn't thought of that. I haven't gotten around to watching that series yet
I remember enjoying it and I dont typically care for Marvel
It's excellent, but weird.
The first season is monster of the week and fine but nothing amazing. Until it reaches the Captain America Winter Soldier crossover. In that film SHIELD is revealed to be HYDRA, so the same event unfolds in the show. It's awesome.
The second season is a bit directionless. It was supposed to link up with the new Marvel show Inhumans (who are kinda like X-Men, but legally distinct.)
But about halfway through that season and for the rest of the series they largely ignore the rest of the MCU and connected properties, which gives them a lot of freedom and the ability to tell their own stories.
I think a tightly connected TV series and films universe would have been great, as it was when they connected the SHIELD/HYDRA reveal. But since different people were in charge of movies versus TV, and the TV guy sucked, doing their own thing was the best option, and it worked well.
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But even when it does, you always have Ming-Na Wen as May kicking butt as a normal human.
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Not a movie but The Boys is a show that largely follows a regular guy impacted by the fallout of living in a world with superpowered people. Solid show though!
Also The Watchmen show and movie are mostly regular people with no actual powers. The show is excellent, the movie is pretty decent.
There's other stuff out there (Agents of Shield, Gotham, Arrow, etc.), but most of it is not nearly as good as the above two shows IMO.
Those sound good. I like when the MCU kind of shows life in the MCU from the perspective of regular people. Like Spiderman Homecoming and Ms Marvel, even though they're about superpowered characters, we kind of get a glimpse at the MCU through the lens of everyday people
Yeah, Watchmen and The Boys are a little darker than the MCU but better IMO.
The Boys... a little darker than the MCU
'Little' is doing a *lot *of work in that sentence. Episode 1 has a named character literally exploded into blood and chunks by a speedster supe running right through her.
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Extraordinary, was a British show about the only girl that didn't get a superpower, in a world where everyone does.
Ohhh, that was a fun one!
Does Agent Carter count? I don't think she's a superhero?
Yeah, I think that counts. I haven't gotten around to watching it yet
I’d say that the show Gotham is primarily about Jim Gordon and an adolescent Bruce Wayne dealing with all of the supervillains in Gotham City, but, drama queens that they all are, the show is a lot about them too
The show is about Gordon walking in announcing GCPD and then punching someone in the face. Zsasz shows up every now and then and shoots up the police and then leaves.
But it's mainly Gordon punching people and yelling GCPD
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There was a TV show about Batman’s butler.
That sounds fun
I made two episodes in before I dumped it. I thought it was trash.
It was not
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There was a show called powerless. It was about employees at Wayne enterprises. It was a comedy. It didn’t last long.
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The Boys ?
Yes to a point, but consider…
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…Hughie and Butcher both take Compound V in the books and a temporary version in the show, which gives them powers, and the universe is set up so, theoretically, anyone who wants powers can get them.
Yes but the driving force for the narration is « how people without powers will react to people with power » but yes it’s not all non-power characters
I'm not super familiar with that show but it is about superpowered characters isn't it?
Of course that brings up the question of what the definition of a superhero is. Technically Batman, Black Widow, and Hawkeye are non-superpowered characters
The first season is more about the effects of super power on normal people lives and they react about it … after that there’s a lot of power that are thrown around
What you’re searching have been done in comics but not a lot in TV or movie IIRC
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The Boys is about non-superhero characters in a superhero universe, pretty much matches your post question. The core group of people ("The Boys") start out as regular people living in a world being trashed by people with superpowers.
As the series progresses it does veer off from that but maybe the first season is closer to what you're looking for.
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Breaking Bad actually happens in the Marvel universe. They just don't mention any of it because they are busy selling drugs and such.
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You might check out Free Guy. It's about a video game NPC who comes to life in a Grand Theft Auto themed universe.
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Encanto.
Mystery Men is all about the B-Team superheroes who have to step up after Captain Amazing, super hero of Champion City, releases Casanova Frankenstein from the insane asylum in order to get better ratings and sponsorships but instead gets kidnapped and accidentally psycho-frakulated. Their powers are: get mad, throw forks, fart, bowling ball, shovel, and invisible when nobody is looking. Doug Jones shows up as Pencilhead and Dane Cook as The Waffler during tryouts. Tom Waits also shows up as basically Tom Waits.
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Agents of Shield was about Shield: The Marvel universe non-superhero government agency made to... Uh... Keep superheroes in check? I don't even remember, lol.
But they're just regular ass people who are badasses without super powers.
They're far from regular ass people. Some are borderline geniuses, some are non-powered who can nearly go toe-to-toe with powered villains, artificially enhanced in some way, and are/become powered themselves.
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Oh I have an old one: Norman Normal.
It's about a guy who's the only one in the family not developing super abilities.
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Not a movie but There's been a lois lane cartoon show: My Adventures with Superman
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Megamind, though he is a super-person, is unpowered and develops his tech in response to a superpowered person. Suoer interesting movie!!!
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Wonder Man has powers, but we see very little of them. It's mostly about a persecuted minority trying to get work as an actor. Ben Kingsley is fantastic in the show.
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The two Joaquin Phoenix Joker movies, maybe kinda sorta? No flying or capes or utility belts, but they're about Batman characters, and presumably set in a Batman universe, or at least a precursor/adjacent universe.
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