Originally published at: Join the March Madness brackets for the Best Superhero Movie | Boing Boing
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Man there’s a lot of terrible movies on there. My pick for the best is Spiderverse
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The Crow wins. Hands down.
Into the Spiderverse a close second.
If I have to do the Final 4 it would be:
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Crow
Into the Spiderverse (edging out Deadpool)
The Dark Knight
-10 points for not including The Shadow on the independent side. 
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Greaser’s Palace.
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No Howard the Duck?
Not like it would win, but it’s not so bad that it should be automatically disqualified…
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The bracket also has The Incredible 2. Which i guess is meant to be The Incredibles 2? If so i’m baffled that someone would pick the sequel over the first one. I enjoyed it but the first one is pure gold.
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Exactly - and they could have used that slot for The Shadow.
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Ghost Rider could also easily get axed from the list 
its really terrible
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Howard the Duck is a comic book movie, but I’m not sure it counts as a superhero movie. Even in his own comic I don’t think Howard is exactly classified as a superhero.
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Yeah, that makes sense, though I feel like some of the others don’t strictly qualify, for various reasons, as superheroes as well (Flash Gordon, Dredd, Joker).
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I just ran through this with a group of teenagers. There was a lot of recency bias, and I had to explain a few movies to them (I’d really like them to see Darkman!). That said, Avengers: Endgame took the ship:
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Superman 2. The best superhero movie made before digital effects.
General Zod and co are such good villains they have been permanently part of Superman canon for the last 40+ years in various types. Christopher Reeve was always great at balancing goofy and heroic.
Who doesn’t get a little tingle when Reeve says, “General, care to step outside?”
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Agreed; out of all the comic book movies ever made, that is the one which most feels and looks like a moving graphic novel.
Plus, it has Spiderham…
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Same is probably true for Tank Girl, though she’s certainly a superhero to me.
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To me experiencing Spiderverse for the first time was unlike anything i had seen before. Other superhero movies i also love did not get as much pure joy out of me like this one did. The visuals are great but the sound design and soundtrack are also fantastic.
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No Lego Batman?
I guess that he was busy. I hear he likes to fight around, so that makes sense…
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Top 4
The Avengers
The Crow
The Dark Knight
Into the Spiderverse
Avengers edged out Endgame for me…Endgame lost points because
- Nebula didn’t end up with the gauntlet at some point
- No Coulson…not even a shot of him in Tahiti
- The Riff for Avengers is (imo) better than Endgame, and that matters damnit!
Top spot…depends on what you’re in the mood for 
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Bah. I wish they had made a Static Shock movie…
Thor Ragnarok of course.
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I guess it’s good they limited this to US superhero movies, or else Hentai Kamen would have to be addressed…
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