Defendor
Why this pick
Like Super, it treats a self-appointed masked hero as both absurdly funny and painfully sincere, grounding scrappy vigilante action in loneliness, moral conviction, and damaged human connection.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Like Super, it treats a self-appointed masked hero as both absurdly funny and painfully sincere, grounding scrappy vigilante action in loneliness, moral conviction, and damaged human connection.
Why this pick
A similarly unruly, violent take on ordinary people attempting superheroism, balancing comic-book fantasy with bodily consequences, dark humor, and a heightened pop visual style.
Why this pick
This low-budget anti-superhero story shares Super’s uncomfortable blend of delusion, vulnerability, and earnest desire to do good, with comedy that gradually reveals real emotional stakes.
Why this pick
Its furious satire and escalating violence echo Super’s abrasive comic energy, while keeping the focus on alienated outsiders whose righteous impulses become dangerously unmoored.
Why this pick
For Super’s collision of bright comic sensibility and profoundly disturbed psychology, this offers an equally stylized, darkly funny portrait of isolation and denial that never becomes emotionally weightless.
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01 / THE STORY
After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, but lacking in heroic skills.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Frank Darbo

Libby

Sarah

Jacques
Detective John Felkner

Abe

Pet Store Employee

Toby