Best superhero movie of all time? (Nominations thread)

If you make a television series set in the Marvel universe but it has no superheroes (or even regular heroes, to make this really clear) is it still a superhero show?

Like a sitcom where folks just name drop supers while having dinner or something? Marvel universe is in background but has no impact on the characters? No, I wouldnt consider that a super hero show.

What if it is a show about a superhero but we never see any of their superheroing. Like, say, a Batman and Robin sitcom where we only see them in Wayne Manor or the Batcave.
 

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What if it is a show about a superhero but we never see any of their superheroing. Like, say, a Batman and Robin sitcom where we only see them in Wayne Manor or the Batcave.
Yeah, and in that vein, which is a show I was thinking about too: is Gotham a superhero show?
 

If you make a television series set in the Marvel universe but it has no superheroes (or even regular heroes, to make this really clear) is it still a superhero show?
I would argue that Astro City issues that only focus on ordinary people -- which is about a third to half of the issues I've read -- are still absolutely superhero comics, since the characters are moving about in the context of a superheroic world and its conventions impact their lives.

See the Eisner-winning single issue story "The Nearness of You," which is about one ordinary man's grief and loss. I won't spoil what happened to him, but it's completely tied up in big superhero comic stuff.
 







Mystery Men.
Even though I like more powerful supers in the genre itself, that movie was one of the few that had heart and characters that didn't feel like they were made in a corporate boardroom, nor a plot that felt 'big studio sanitized').

Since the genre became big, everything that's come out has had that 'blockbuster' feel of being full of flash and low on substance.
 

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