The title is a bit big, and I still like "Black Robe Pickets" very much, and this work can be regarded as a precedent for anti-superhero films.
But the production of American dramas is always procrastinating, and once the first season is found to be popular, the screenwriter will be arranged to expand the plot immediately.
In the first season of "Black Robe Pickets", one of the seven people was killed, but in the next few seasons, the seven people were stunned and didn't die (Xuan Se was killed by Azu)
If it continues to be filmed like this, I'm really worried that this drama will end badly, just like "The Walking Dead".
Of course, while waiting for the fourth season of "Black Robe", there is also a more violent niche American drama season 2 also online, we may be able to take a look: the second season of "Invincible Young Man".
As a cartoon, "The Invincible Boy" does not have a wide audience, but because of its cartoon form, its plot is more compact, the scenes are more violent, broken arms and legs are commonplace, and the protagonist is often beaten up with blood.
It can be said to be a very good anti-superhero series.
The world view of "Invincible Young Man" is a bit similar to DC's Justice League, and this world also has its own superhero team, in which Aquaman/Batman/Flash are all available.
The Almighty Man is a superman-like existence, and he knows everything by listening to the name, has no weaknesses, and is also an alien who came to Earth.
As a result, not long after the start of the play, that is, just after introducing the superhero team, the crew arranged an extremely explosive scene: the Almighty Man gathered all his teammates and killed them one by one.
Immediately afterwards, Almighty tells people all over the world that he is a soldier sent by an alien planet to conquer the earth, and everyone on that planet has the same superpowers as himself, and if the earthlings do not surrender, they will be completely wiped out.
Of course, our protagonist is certainly not the Almighty, but his son Mark.
No one on earth can beat the Almighty, but as a descendant of the Almighty, Mark has also awakened his own strength and can barely fight the Almighty.
What's more, Mark is kind.
Remembering his father's betrayal of Earth, Mark fights his father with all his might, only to be beaten to the ground.
At this time, the Almighty suddenly repented and flew away from the earth.
Mark was then recruited by someone similar to the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., and became the most powerful protector on Earth after Almighty.
This team also has many people with superpowers to fight criminals together, such as replicants, Eternals, girls who can transform like Hulk, and so on.
The second season of "Super Young" reveals the whereabouts of the Almighty.
Mark is commissioned by an insect planet to help, only to discover that the ruler of the place is his father, Almighty.
Almighty tells the story of how he has been learning from the pain of leaving Earth, falling into suspicion of the violent conquest of his home planet, and then constantly exiling himself in the universe, accidentally saving the insect people and helping them build their own planet.
And he also fell in love with one of the insect people, and gave birth to a son of the insect family.
But now that Almighty's home planet is ready to conquer the insect planet, the repentant Almighty decides to rebel against his home planet and defend the insects.
However, he is only one person, and his strength is far from enough, and now he is looking for Mark to help him raise this offspring with insect genes.
In this way, Mark went out and brought back a younger brother for himself. And his mother has to help her ex-husband raise her son.
Of course, "The Invincible Young Man" is good-looking, not only because of the love-hate entanglement between these protagonists, but also because of the exquisite portrayal of the supporting roles in this work.
A replicant can keep duplicating herself, and after replication, her body has no primary or secondary status, she has the same consciousness, and as long as an individual exists, she can continue to replicate, ensuring that she will not be completely killed.
Therefore, every time we fight, we can see a large number of her individuals killed, and the scene is extremely bloody.
Of course, the replicants themselves have always been alive, but no one has ever thought that the death of each individual is actually a real experience of death for the replicants themselves.
So in the second season, we saw that Eternal Man actually got involved with the replicants. At first, I thought it was quite ruined, after all, the age difference between these two people is too big.
Later, I realized that Eternal Man had also experienced too much death in his eternal life, and he was the one who could understand replicants best.
With this paragraph, the subsequent deaths of replicants appear even more sad.
That time when they went out on a mission, it was actually a very ordinary and ordinary day, and the opponent was also a lizardman who had fought back and forth many times.
Everyone, including me as an audience, thought that the little problem of their giggling and slapstick would be solved.
After all, the real big crisis is when Mark and Eternal Man lead a team to stop the Martian colonists in the universe.
Who knew that the speed of the replicant's self-replication would obviously not be able to keep up with the speed of the opponent's crushing, until only the last individual was caught by the opponent, and she could no longer replicate, and was killed in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, "Ant-Man" was also eaten by the opponent, and the entire team completely collapsed.
All this came so suddenly, suddenly it was like an ordinary afternoon, a few people were walking on the most familiar path, and suddenly they were run over by a car that ran a red light.
The sadness is extremely coincidental and reasonable.
Unlike the pure evil taste in "Black Robe Pickets", "The Invincible Boy" is full of more personalized self-expression in addition to the deconstruction of superheroes.
The whole work reveals a touch of sadness from the soundtrack to the plot.
With so many episodes, if you watch it in one sitting, it feels like an old friend telling you about his miserable life in a very playful way.
You'll be happy to listen to him, but you'll also feel sorry for what happened to him.