Has there been a Superhero Musical Movie released in cinema theaters?
So I just watched the teaser trailer to Frozen 2 and while I was getting superhero training vibes from Elsa's interaction with the sea, I realized that this is a musical which got me thinking, has there be a superhero musical movie?
Just to cover the obvious superheroes have been covered as a musical in different formats:
Live Theatre: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (2010)
Television: "Duet" (The Flash) (2017)
Web: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
Something tells me there is a Bollywood movie or two that covers the topic, but primarily interested in Western intellectual property.
If there is a straight to video earlier than Dr. Horrible, that would be interesting to know.
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So I just watched the teaser trailer to Frozen 2 and while I was getting superhero training vibes from Elsa's interaction with the sea, I realized that this is a musical which got me thinking, has there be a superhero musical movie?
Just to cover the obvious superheroes have been covered as a musical in different formats:
Live Theatre: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (2010)
Television: "Duet" (The Flash) (2017)
Web: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
Something tells me there is a Bollywood movie or two that covers the topic, but primarily interested in Western intellectual property.
If there is a straight to video earlier than Dr. Horrible, that would be interesting to know.
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@closevoters dunno, that doesn't look like a recommendation. Plus we have a meta somewhere about "has there ever been any X" questions being on-topic, so, voted to leave open.
– Jenayah
yesterday
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Once upon a time, there was going to be a Broadway musical about Batman. It never got produced on the stage, much less turned into a film, but Jim Steinman has posted MP3 files of the songs intended for the musical. One good place to find them is freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm
– Lorendiac
yesterday
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Does Flash Gordon count?
– Chloe
yesterday
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@user14111 I think you answered your own comment:The title character has nothing you'd call a superpowerbut an interesting pick.
– Morrison Chang
22 hours ago
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Not a contender (for several reasons), but I wanted to mention the Buffy episode Once More With Feeling.
– Arcanist Lupus
21 hours ago
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So I just watched the teaser trailer to Frozen 2 and while I was getting superhero training vibes from Elsa's interaction with the sea, I realized that this is a musical which got me thinking, has there be a superhero musical movie?
Just to cover the obvious superheroes have been covered as a musical in different formats:
Live Theatre: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (2010)
Television: "Duet" (The Flash) (2017)
Web: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
Something tells me there is a Bollywood movie or two that covers the topic, but primarily interested in Western intellectual property.
If there is a straight to video earlier than Dr. Horrible, that would be interesting to know.
movie history-of super-hero
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So I just watched the teaser trailer to Frozen 2 and while I was getting superhero training vibes from Elsa's interaction with the sea, I realized that this is a musical which got me thinking, has there be a superhero musical movie?
Just to cover the obvious superheroes have been covered as a musical in different formats:
Live Theatre: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (2010)
Television: "Duet" (The Flash) (2017)
Web: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
Something tells me there is a Bollywood movie or two that covers the topic, but primarily interested in Western intellectual property.
If there is a straight to video earlier than Dr. Horrible, that would be interesting to know.
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@closevoters dunno, that doesn't look like a recommendation. Plus we have a meta somewhere about "has there ever been any X" questions being on-topic, so, voted to leave open.
– Jenayah
yesterday
1
Once upon a time, there was going to be a Broadway musical about Batman. It never got produced on the stage, much less turned into a film, but Jim Steinman has posted MP3 files of the songs intended for the musical. One good place to find them is freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm
– Lorendiac
yesterday
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Does Flash Gordon count?
– Chloe
yesterday
1
@user14111 I think you answered your own comment:The title character has nothing you'd call a superpowerbut an interesting pick.
– Morrison Chang
22 hours ago
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Not a contender (for several reasons), but I wanted to mention the Buffy episode Once More With Feeling.
– Arcanist Lupus
21 hours ago
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@closevoters dunno, that doesn't look like a recommendation. Plus we have a meta somewhere about "has there ever been any X" questions being on-topic, so, voted to leave open.
– Jenayah
yesterday
1
Once upon a time, there was going to be a Broadway musical about Batman. It never got produced on the stage, much less turned into a film, but Jim Steinman has posted MP3 files of the songs intended for the musical. One good place to find them is freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm
– Lorendiac
yesterday
3
Does Flash Gordon count?
– Chloe
yesterday
1
@user14111 I think you answered your own comment:The title character has nothing you'd call a superpowerbut an interesting pick.
– Morrison Chang
22 hours ago
1
Not a contender (for several reasons), but I wanted to mention the Buffy episode Once More With Feeling.
– Arcanist Lupus
21 hours ago
3
3
@closevoters dunno, that doesn't look like a recommendation. Plus we have a meta somewhere about "has there ever been any X" questions being on-topic, so, voted to leave open.
– Jenayah
yesterday
@closevoters dunno, that doesn't look like a recommendation. Plus we have a meta somewhere about "has there ever been any X" questions being on-topic, so, voted to leave open.
– Jenayah
yesterday
1
1
Once upon a time, there was going to be a Broadway musical about Batman. It never got produced on the stage, much less turned into a film, but Jim Steinman has posted MP3 files of the songs intended for the musical. One good place to find them is freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm
– Lorendiac
yesterday
Once upon a time, there was going to be a Broadway musical about Batman. It never got produced on the stage, much less turned into a film, but Jim Steinman has posted MP3 files of the songs intended for the musical. One good place to find them is freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm
– Lorendiac
yesterday
3
3
Does Flash Gordon count?
– Chloe
yesterday
Does Flash Gordon count?
– Chloe
yesterday
1
1
@user14111 I think you answered your own comment:
The title character has nothing you'd call a superpower but an interesting pick.– Morrison Chang
22 hours ago
@user14111 I think you answered your own comment:
The title character has nothing you'd call a superpower but an interesting pick.– Morrison Chang
22 hours ago
1
1
Not a contender (for several reasons), but I wanted to mention the Buffy episode Once More With Feeling.
– Arcanist Lupus
21 hours ago
Not a contender (for several reasons), but I wanted to mention the Buffy episode Once More With Feeling.
– Arcanist Lupus
21 hours ago
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Yes. But it's so-so bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Captain_Invincible
The Return of Captain Invincible is a 1983 Australian musical comedy superhero film starring Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee. It grossed a mere $55,110 at the Australian box office despite a budget of $7 million.[2]
There's a Youtube review
answered yesterday
David JohnstonDavid Johnston
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Darn it, I am glad someone remembered this but I so badly wanted to share the classic bit where Christopher Lee sings the drinking song.
– Broklynite
18 hours ago
"But it's so-so bad." --I dispute that assertion. The music is by Richard O'Brien of Rocky Horror, and Christopher Lee has never turned in a duff performance, ever. And yes, I AM including the enigmatic Mr. Sender in The Stupids. He LOVED doing comedy. youtube.com/watch?v=meXAVS2vb2o
– VBartilucci
9 hours ago
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Not a movie, but a play and then a TV special. From Wikipedia:
It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman is a musical composed by Charles Strouse, with lyrics by Lee Adams and book by David Newman and Robert Benton. It is based on the comic book character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics.
1966 for the play and about a decade later for the TV adaption.
(It's always been one of those things I am intensely curious but also terrified of ever seeing)
answered yesterday
BlazeBlaze
86519
I have the CD album and I'm rather fond of it. I've also seen a recording of the TV adaptation.
– Lorendiac
yesterday
Good to know! Cheers!
– Blaze
yesterday
!Jack Cassidy! Miles Mellough from The Eiger Sanction. Now there's a different Superman.
– Organic Marble
yesterday
This one is interesting, may be the one to predate the Spiderman musical and Flash/Supergirl musical. Great find
– Morrison Chang
23 hours ago
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There is in fact a Bollywood movie musical about a superhero!
Mr. India
A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
I would actually recommend watching it. It's funny/corny like Dr. Horrible but not too corny (I hate corny). It's actually on YouTube.
YouTube - Mr. India
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You could say Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog might be considered a superhero and musical. Though it is a parody (with some good songs), it may not be what you have in mind.
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Thanks. I had forgot that the term 'movie' is nebulous in the age of Netflix. Updated my question, but good thought!
– Morrison Chang
yesterday
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Dr Horrible was never envisioned as a movie. It's a direct-to-the-web musical show
– Valorum
yesterday
@Valorum I have only ever watched Dr. Horrible as a movie, and I assume most people are the same.
– Kevin Workman
yesterday
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@Valorum: "movie" is a similarly nebulous term here. I assume you mean "feature film" (I can't think of a better phrase, one might exist), but DrHSAB is a movie in the sense that it is cinematographic. calling it a "musical show" can wrongly be inferred to mean that it was intended as a stage production (I'm aware that "web" implies video, but that's an indirect implication that not everyone is going to immediately register)
– Flater
17 hours ago
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@Flater "theatrical release"?
– origimbo
17 hours ago
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Depending on where you draw the lines for "superhero movie" and "musical", various of the Lego Movies might count. For instance, here's a musical number from Lego Batman.
answered 23 hours ago
Geoffrey BrentGeoffrey Brent
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Not a movie, but theatre play (whole on youtube).
It's called "Holy Musical B@man!" by Team StarKid (also did the Very Potter Musical)
Youtube - Holy Musical B@man!
answered 14 hours ago
ZikatoZikato
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+1 because it's the best superhero musical there is, though it's not a movie.
– Newbie12345
12 hours ago
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I'm very upset with you answering this, because as soon as I saw the title of the question, I was going to post this myself. This is an amazingly good play, tons of great lines, and nearly the entire soundtrack is on my Spotify favorites playlist. Take my +1! :)
– Salmononius2
11 hours ago
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There's Disney's animated musical film Hercules. The protagonist wasn't (until the end, at least) a mortal man, but had superhuman strength, and spent a lot of the flick training with a professional "hero trainer" Philoctetes, and in musical bits.
It wasn't billed as a "superhero" movie at the time, but in the 20th century that didn't exactly exist as a defined genre yet, and being a "Disney movie", complete with musical numbers, was probably considered a bigger sales driver.
His origin story in the movie is very similar to Wonder Woman's in the 2017 movie. Both got their powers through being children of Zeus, but were sent to Earth to live as mortals. (Arguably, the original Thor movie had a similar setup as well).
The movie's theatrical release was in 1997.
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What do you mean "superhero" wasn't a genre yet? By the time 1997 rolled around, we had decades of comics, multiple Batman movies, multiple Superman movies, we had several years of the Power Rangers, whose pilot episode explicitly called them a team of superheroes, and so on...
– Mason Wheeler
6 hours ago
@MasonWheeler - I mean a movie genre. At that point there had been a series of 4 Batman films that were ongoing (although the last one was so badly received that the star often joked that he'd killed the franchise), a Superman franchise of 4 that ended on a similar bomb a decade earlier, and perhaps a few one-offs here and there that were either super old, or didn't do very well. Its only looking back at it now where they are being pumped out like westerns that we include such films in the "genre" .
– T.E.D.
6 hours ago
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Depending on whether you consider Buffy to be a superhero, and a TV episode to be a movie, possibly Once More with Feeling.
answered 17 hours ago
Faheem MithaFaheem Mitha
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OK there's ambiguity between TV episode and movie, but how could anyone claim Buffy is not a superhero? Fights for good? Check. Defeats evil superpowered beings? Check. Has superpowers? Check.
– thumbtackthief
12 hours ago
@thumbtackthief I had originally thought of Buffy, but by your definition shouldn't I also include Harry Potter? Personally in my mind I was trying to restrict it to where the hero narrative includes interaction with the wider 'normal' society and interaction with law enforcement/authority of that 'normal' society. Parallel societies push it more into the fantasy realm but its a sliding scale, so I'll leave it to the community to judge.
– Morrison Chang
11 hours ago
Harry Potter doesn't have superpowers, and he's no more extraordinary than all the other wizards.
– thumbtackthief
11 hours ago
@thumbtackthief No argument here, but opinions do vary. And Buffy's superpowers are fairly muted as those things go. I mean, she can't even fly.
– Faheem Mitha
9 hours ago
Without Harry's wand, he's basically useless. Whereas Buffy.... bit.ly/2Xcalfc
– thumbtackthief
9 hours ago
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The Hungarian-Canadian cartoon Cat City from 1986 could qualify, as it features many musical inserts and the protagonist has abilities that are, while not strictly superpowers, definitely above those of the normal mice: folding his tail to the shape of a key, cutting a ship's rope with his teeth, using his tail as a propeller to cross an ocean, bending an arm-wide metal pipe into U shape, memorizing multiple pages of technical drawings in seconds, etc.
answered 15 hours ago
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Yes. But it's so-so bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Captain_Invincible
The Return of Captain Invincible is a 1983 Australian musical comedy superhero film starring Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee. It grossed a mere $55,110 at the Australian box office despite a budget of $7 million.[2]
There's a Youtube review
answered yesterday
David JohnstonDavid Johnston
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Darn it, I am glad someone remembered this but I so badly wanted to share the classic bit where Christopher Lee sings the drinking song.
– Broklynite
18 hours ago
"But it's so-so bad." --I dispute that assertion. The music is by Richard O'Brien of Rocky Horror, and Christopher Lee has never turned in a duff performance, ever. And yes, I AM including the enigmatic Mr. Sender in The Stupids. He LOVED doing comedy. youtube.com/watch?v=meXAVS2vb2o
– VBartilucci
9 hours ago
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Yes. But it's so-so bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Captain_Invincible
The Return of Captain Invincible is a 1983 Australian musical comedy superhero film starring Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee. It grossed a mere $55,110 at the Australian box office despite a budget of $7 million.[2]
There's a Youtube review
answered yesterday
David JohnstonDavid Johnston
1,089510
1
Darn it, I am glad someone remembered this but I so badly wanted to share the classic bit where Christopher Lee sings the drinking song.
– Broklynite
18 hours ago
"But it's so-so bad." --I dispute that assertion. The music is by Richard O'Brien of Rocky Horror, and Christopher Lee has never turned in a duff performance, ever. And yes, I AM including the enigmatic Mr. Sender in The Stupids. He LOVED doing comedy. youtube.com/watch?v=meXAVS2vb2o
– VBartilucci
9 hours ago
add a comment |
Yes. But it's so-so bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Captain_Invincible
The Return of Captain Invincible is a 1983 Australian musical comedy superhero film starring Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee. It grossed a mere $55,110 at the Australian box office despite a budget of $7 million.[2]
There's a Youtube review
answered yesterday
David JohnstonDavid Johnston
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Yes. But it's so-so bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Captain_Invincible
The Return of Captain Invincible is a 1983 Australian musical comedy superhero film starring Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee. It grossed a mere $55,110 at the Australian box office despite a budget of $7 million.[2]
There's a Youtube review
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David JohnstonDavid Johnston
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David JohnstonDavid Johnston
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David JohnstonDavid Johnston
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David JohnstonDavid Johnston
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Darn it, I am glad someone remembered this but I so badly wanted to share the classic bit where Christopher Lee sings the drinking song.
– Broklynite
18 hours ago
"But it's so-so bad." --I dispute that assertion. The music is by Richard O'Brien of Rocky Horror, and Christopher Lee has never turned in a duff performance, ever. And yes, I AM including the enigmatic Mr. Sender in The Stupids. He LOVED doing comedy. youtube.com/watch?v=meXAVS2vb2o
– VBartilucci
9 hours ago
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Darn it, I am glad someone remembered this but I so badly wanted to share the classic bit where Christopher Lee sings the drinking song.
– Broklynite
18 hours ago
"But it's so-so bad." --I dispute that assertion. The music is by Richard O'Brien of Rocky Horror, and Christopher Lee has never turned in a duff performance, ever. And yes, I AM including the enigmatic Mr. Sender in The Stupids. He LOVED doing comedy. youtube.com/watch?v=meXAVS2vb2o
– VBartilucci
9 hours ago
1
1
Darn it, I am glad someone remembered this but I so badly wanted to share the classic bit where Christopher Lee sings the drinking song.
– Broklynite
18 hours ago
Darn it, I am glad someone remembered this but I so badly wanted to share the classic bit where Christopher Lee sings the drinking song.
– Broklynite
18 hours ago
"But it's so-so bad." --I dispute that assertion. The music is by Richard O'Brien of Rocky Horror, and Christopher Lee has never turned in a duff performance, ever. And yes, I AM including the enigmatic Mr. Sender in The Stupids. He LOVED doing comedy. youtube.com/watch?v=meXAVS2vb2o
– VBartilucci
9 hours ago
"But it's so-so bad." --I dispute that assertion. The music is by Richard O'Brien of Rocky Horror, and Christopher Lee has never turned in a duff performance, ever. And yes, I AM including the enigmatic Mr. Sender in The Stupids. He LOVED doing comedy. youtube.com/watch?v=meXAVS2vb2o
– VBartilucci
9 hours ago
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Not a movie, but a play and then a TV special. From Wikipedia:
It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman is a musical composed by Charles Strouse, with lyrics by Lee Adams and book by David Newman and Robert Benton. It is based on the comic book character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics.
1966 for the play and about a decade later for the TV adaption.
(It's always been one of those things I am intensely curious but also terrified of ever seeing)
answered yesterday
BlazeBlaze
86519
I have the CD album and I'm rather fond of it. I've also seen a recording of the TV adaptation.
– Lorendiac
yesterday
Good to know! Cheers!
– Blaze
yesterday
!Jack Cassidy! Miles Mellough from The Eiger Sanction. Now there's a different Superman.
– Organic Marble
yesterday
This one is interesting, may be the one to predate the Spiderman musical and Flash/Supergirl musical. Great find
– Morrison Chang
23 hours ago
add a comment |
Not a movie, but a play and then a TV special. From Wikipedia:
It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman is a musical composed by Charles Strouse, with lyrics by Lee Adams and book by David Newman and Robert Benton. It is based on the comic book character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics.
1966 for the play and about a decade later for the TV adaption.
(It's always been one of those things I am intensely curious but also terrified of ever seeing)
answered yesterday
BlazeBlaze
86519
I have the CD album and I'm rather fond of it. I've also seen a recording of the TV adaptation.
– Lorendiac
yesterday
Good to know! Cheers!
– Blaze
yesterday
!Jack Cassidy! Miles Mellough from The Eiger Sanction. Now there's a different Superman.
– Organic Marble
yesterday
This one is interesting, may be the one to predate the Spiderman musical and Flash/Supergirl musical. Great find
– Morrison Chang
23 hours ago
add a comment |
Not a movie, but a play and then a TV special. From Wikipedia:
It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman is a musical composed by Charles Strouse, with lyrics by Lee Adams and book by David Newman and Robert Benton. It is based on the comic book character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics.
1966 for the play and about a decade later for the TV adaption.
(It's always been one of those things I am intensely curious but also terrified of ever seeing)
answered yesterday
BlazeBlaze
86519
Not a movie, but a play and then a TV special. From Wikipedia:
It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman is a musical composed by Charles Strouse, with lyrics by Lee Adams and book by David Newman and Robert Benton. It is based on the comic book character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics.
1966 for the play and about a decade later for the TV adaption.
(It's always been one of those things I am intensely curious but also terrified of ever seeing)
answered yesterday
BlazeBlaze
86519
answered yesterday
BlazeBlaze
86519
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BlazeBlaze
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BlazeBlaze
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I have the CD album and I'm rather fond of it. I've also seen a recording of the TV adaptation.
– Lorendiac
yesterday
Good to know! Cheers!
– Blaze
yesterday
!Jack Cassidy! Miles Mellough from The Eiger Sanction. Now there's a different Superman.
– Organic Marble
yesterday
This one is interesting, may be the one to predate the Spiderman musical and Flash/Supergirl musical. Great find
– Morrison Chang
23 hours ago
add a comment |
I have the CD album and I'm rather fond of it. I've also seen a recording of the TV adaptation.
– Lorendiac
yesterday
Good to know! Cheers!
– Blaze
yesterday
!Jack Cassidy! Miles Mellough from The Eiger Sanction. Now there's a different Superman.
– Organic Marble
yesterday
This one is interesting, may be the one to predate the Spiderman musical and Flash/Supergirl musical. Great find
– Morrison Chang
23 hours ago
I have the CD album and I'm rather fond of it. I've also seen a recording of the TV adaptation.
– Lorendiac
yesterday
I have the CD album and I'm rather fond of it. I've also seen a recording of the TV adaptation.
– Lorendiac
yesterday
Good to know! Cheers!
– Blaze
yesterday
Good to know! Cheers!
– Blaze
yesterday
!Jack Cassidy! Miles Mellough from The Eiger Sanction. Now there's a different Superman.
– Organic Marble
yesterday
!Jack Cassidy! Miles Mellough from The Eiger Sanction. Now there's a different Superman.
– Organic Marble
yesterday
This one is interesting, may be the one to predate the Spiderman musical and Flash/Supergirl musical. Great find
– Morrison Chang
23 hours ago
This one is interesting, may be the one to predate the Spiderman musical and Flash/Supergirl musical. Great find
– Morrison Chang
23 hours ago
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There is in fact a Bollywood movie musical about a superhero!
Mr. India
A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
I would actually recommend watching it. It's funny/corny like Dr. Horrible but not too corny (I hate corny). It's actually on YouTube.
YouTube - Mr. India
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Captain Man
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There is in fact a Bollywood movie musical about a superhero!
Mr. India
A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
I would actually recommend watching it. It's funny/corny like Dr. Horrible but not too corny (I hate corny). It's actually on YouTube.
YouTube - Mr. India
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Captain Man
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ChloeChloe
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There is in fact a Bollywood movie musical about a superhero!
Mr. India
A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
I would actually recommend watching it. It's funny/corny like Dr. Horrible but not too corny (I hate corny). It's actually on YouTube.
YouTube - Mr. India
edited 10 hours ago
Captain Man
199210
answered yesterday
ChloeChloe
1,1471718
There is in fact a Bollywood movie musical about a superhero!
Mr. India
A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
I would actually recommend watching it. It's funny/corny like Dr. Horrible but not too corny (I hate corny). It's actually on YouTube.
YouTube - Mr. India
edited 10 hours ago
Captain Man
199210
answered yesterday
ChloeChloe
1,1471718
edited 10 hours ago
Captain Man
199210
edited 10 hours ago
Captain Man
199210
edited 10 hours ago
Captain Man
199210
199210
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ChloeChloe
1,1471718
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ChloeChloe
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You could say Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog might be considered a superhero and musical. Though it is a parody (with some good songs), it may not be what you have in mind.
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Thanks. I had forgot that the term 'movie' is nebulous in the age of Netflix. Updated my question, but good thought!
– Morrison Chang
yesterday
6
Dr Horrible was never envisioned as a movie. It's a direct-to-the-web musical show
– Valorum
yesterday
@Valorum I have only ever watched Dr. Horrible as a movie, and I assume most people are the same.
– Kevin Workman
yesterday
3
@Valorum: "movie" is a similarly nebulous term here. I assume you mean "feature film" (I can't think of a better phrase, one might exist), but DrHSAB is a movie in the sense that it is cinematographic. calling it a "musical show" can wrongly be inferred to mean that it was intended as a stage production (I'm aware that "web" implies video, but that's an indirect implication that not everyone is going to immediately register)
– Flater
17 hours ago
1
@Flater "theatrical release"?
– origimbo
17 hours ago
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You could say Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog might be considered a superhero and musical. Though it is a parody (with some good songs), it may not be what you have in mind.
answered yesterday
dmoonfiredmoonfire
1,387159
Thanks. I had forgot that the term 'movie' is nebulous in the age of Netflix. Updated my question, but good thought!
– Morrison Chang
yesterday
6
Dr Horrible was never envisioned as a movie. It's a direct-to-the-web musical show
– Valorum
yesterday
@Valorum I have only ever watched Dr. Horrible as a movie, and I assume most people are the same.
– Kevin Workman
yesterday
3
@Valorum: "movie" is a similarly nebulous term here. I assume you mean "feature film" (I can't think of a better phrase, one might exist), but DrHSAB is a movie in the sense that it is cinematographic. calling it a "musical show" can wrongly be inferred to mean that it was intended as a stage production (I'm aware that "web" implies video, but that's an indirect implication that not everyone is going to immediately register)
– Flater
17 hours ago
1
@Flater "theatrical release"?
– origimbo
17 hours ago
|
show 1 more comment
You could say Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog might be considered a superhero and musical. Though it is a parody (with some good songs), it may not be what you have in mind.
answered yesterday
dmoonfiredmoonfire
1,387159
You could say Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog might be considered a superhero and musical. Though it is a parody (with some good songs), it may not be what you have in mind.
answered yesterday
dmoonfiredmoonfire
1,387159
answered yesterday
dmoonfiredmoonfire
1,387159
answered yesterday
dmoonfiredmoonfire
1,387159
answered yesterday
dmoonfiredmoonfire
1,387159
1,387159
Thanks. I had forgot that the term 'movie' is nebulous in the age of Netflix. Updated my question, but good thought!
– Morrison Chang
yesterday
6
Dr Horrible was never envisioned as a movie. It's a direct-to-the-web musical show
– Valorum
yesterday
@Valorum I have only ever watched Dr. Horrible as a movie, and I assume most people are the same.
– Kevin Workman
yesterday
3
@Valorum: "movie" is a similarly nebulous term here. I assume you mean "feature film" (I can't think of a better phrase, one might exist), but DrHSAB is a movie in the sense that it is cinematographic. calling it a "musical show" can wrongly be inferred to mean that it was intended as a stage production (I'm aware that "web" implies video, but that's an indirect implication that not everyone is going to immediately register)
– Flater
17 hours ago
1
@Flater "theatrical release"?
– origimbo
17 hours ago
|
show 1 more comment
Thanks. I had forgot that the term 'movie' is nebulous in the age of Netflix. Updated my question, but good thought!
– Morrison Chang
yesterday
6
Dr Horrible was never envisioned as a movie. It's a direct-to-the-web musical show
– Valorum
yesterday
@Valorum I have only ever watched Dr. Horrible as a movie, and I assume most people are the same.
– Kevin Workman
yesterday
3
@Valorum: "movie" is a similarly nebulous term here. I assume you mean "feature film" (I can't think of a better phrase, one might exist), but DrHSAB is a movie in the sense that it is cinematographic. calling it a "musical show" can wrongly be inferred to mean that it was intended as a stage production (I'm aware that "web" implies video, but that's an indirect implication that not everyone is going to immediately register)
– Flater
17 hours ago
1
@Flater "theatrical release"?
– origimbo
17 hours ago
Thanks. I had forgot that the term 'movie' is nebulous in the age of Netflix. Updated my question, but good thought!
– Morrison Chang
yesterday
Thanks. I had forgot that the term 'movie' is nebulous in the age of Netflix. Updated my question, but good thought!
– Morrison Chang
yesterday
6
6
Dr Horrible was never envisioned as a movie. It's a direct-to-the-web musical show
– Valorum
yesterday
Dr Horrible was never envisioned as a movie. It's a direct-to-the-web musical show
– Valorum
yesterday
@Valorum I have only ever watched Dr. Horrible as a movie, and I assume most people are the same.
– Kevin Workman
yesterday
@Valorum I have only ever watched Dr. Horrible as a movie, and I assume most people are the same.
– Kevin Workman
yesterday
3
3
@Valorum: "movie" is a similarly nebulous term here. I assume you mean "feature film" (I can't think of a better phrase, one might exist), but DrHSAB is a movie in the sense that it is cinematographic. calling it a "musical show" can wrongly be inferred to mean that it was intended as a stage production (I'm aware that "web" implies video, but that's an indirect implication that not everyone is going to immediately register)
– Flater
17 hours ago
@Valorum: "movie" is a similarly nebulous term here. I assume you mean "feature film" (I can't think of a better phrase, one might exist), but DrHSAB is a movie in the sense that it is cinematographic. calling it a "musical show" can wrongly be inferred to mean that it was intended as a stage production (I'm aware that "web" implies video, but that's an indirect implication that not everyone is going to immediately register)
– Flater
17 hours ago
1
1
@Flater "theatrical release"?
– origimbo
17 hours ago
@Flater "theatrical release"?
– origimbo
17 hours ago
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Depending on where you draw the lines for "superhero movie" and "musical", various of the Lego Movies might count. For instance, here's a musical number from Lego Batman.
answered 23 hours ago
Geoffrey BrentGeoffrey Brent
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Depending on where you draw the lines for "superhero movie" and "musical", various of the Lego Movies might count. For instance, here's a musical number from Lego Batman.
answered 23 hours ago
Geoffrey BrentGeoffrey Brent
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Depending on where you draw the lines for "superhero movie" and "musical", various of the Lego Movies might count. For instance, here's a musical number from Lego Batman.
answered 23 hours ago
Geoffrey BrentGeoffrey Brent
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Depending on where you draw the lines for "superhero movie" and "musical", various of the Lego Movies might count. For instance, here's a musical number from Lego Batman.
answered 23 hours ago
Geoffrey BrentGeoffrey Brent
2414
answered 23 hours ago
Geoffrey BrentGeoffrey Brent
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answered 23 hours ago
Geoffrey BrentGeoffrey Brent
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Not a movie, but theatre play (whole on youtube).
It's called "Holy Musical B@man!" by Team StarKid (also did the Very Potter Musical)
Youtube - Holy Musical B@man!
answered 14 hours ago
ZikatoZikato
2,03021526
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+1 because it's the best superhero musical there is, though it's not a movie.
– Newbie12345
12 hours ago
1
I'm very upset with you answering this, because as soon as I saw the title of the question, I was going to post this myself. This is an amazingly good play, tons of great lines, and nearly the entire soundtrack is on my Spotify favorites playlist. Take my +1! :)
– Salmononius2
11 hours ago
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Not a movie, but theatre play (whole on youtube).
It's called "Holy Musical B@man!" by Team StarKid (also did the Very Potter Musical)
Youtube - Holy Musical B@man!
answered 14 hours ago
ZikatoZikato
2,03021526
3
+1 because it's the best superhero musical there is, though it's not a movie.
– Newbie12345
12 hours ago
1
I'm very upset with you answering this, because as soon as I saw the title of the question, I was going to post this myself. This is an amazingly good play, tons of great lines, and nearly the entire soundtrack is on my Spotify favorites playlist. Take my +1! :)
– Salmononius2
11 hours ago
add a comment |
Not a movie, but theatre play (whole on youtube).
It's called "Holy Musical B@man!" by Team StarKid (also did the Very Potter Musical)
Youtube - Holy Musical B@man!
answered 14 hours ago
ZikatoZikato
2,03021526
Not a movie, but theatre play (whole on youtube).
It's called "Holy Musical B@man!" by Team StarKid (also did the Very Potter Musical)
Youtube - Holy Musical B@man!
answered 14 hours ago
ZikatoZikato
2,03021526
answered 14 hours ago
ZikatoZikato
2,03021526
answered 14 hours ago
ZikatoZikato
2,03021526
answered 14 hours ago
ZikatoZikato
2,03021526
2,03021526
3
+1 because it's the best superhero musical there is, though it's not a movie.
– Newbie12345
12 hours ago
1
I'm very upset with you answering this, because as soon as I saw the title of the question, I was going to post this myself. This is an amazingly good play, tons of great lines, and nearly the entire soundtrack is on my Spotify favorites playlist. Take my +1! :)
– Salmononius2
11 hours ago
add a comment |
3
+1 because it's the best superhero musical there is, though it's not a movie.
– Newbie12345
12 hours ago
1
I'm very upset with you answering this, because as soon as I saw the title of the question, I was going to post this myself. This is an amazingly good play, tons of great lines, and nearly the entire soundtrack is on my Spotify favorites playlist. Take my +1! :)
– Salmononius2
11 hours ago
3
3
+1 because it's the best superhero musical there is, though it's not a movie.
– Newbie12345
12 hours ago
+1 because it's the best superhero musical there is, though it's not a movie.
– Newbie12345
12 hours ago
1
1
I'm very upset with you answering this, because as soon as I saw the title of the question, I was going to post this myself. This is an amazingly good play, tons of great lines, and nearly the entire soundtrack is on my Spotify favorites playlist. Take my +1! :)
– Salmononius2
11 hours ago
I'm very upset with you answering this, because as soon as I saw the title of the question, I was going to post this myself. This is an amazingly good play, tons of great lines, and nearly the entire soundtrack is on my Spotify favorites playlist. Take my +1! :)
– Salmononius2
11 hours ago
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There's Disney's animated musical film Hercules. The protagonist wasn't (until the end, at least) a mortal man, but had superhuman strength, and spent a lot of the flick training with a professional "hero trainer" Philoctetes, and in musical bits.
It wasn't billed as a "superhero" movie at the time, but in the 20th century that didn't exactly exist as a defined genre yet, and being a "Disney movie", complete with musical numbers, was probably considered a bigger sales driver.
His origin story in the movie is very similar to Wonder Woman's in the 2017 movie. Both got their powers through being children of Zeus, but were sent to Earth to live as mortals. (Arguably, the original Thor movie had a similar setup as well).
The movie's theatrical release was in 1997.
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Lorendiac
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What do you mean "superhero" wasn't a genre yet? By the time 1997 rolled around, we had decades of comics, multiple Batman movies, multiple Superman movies, we had several years of the Power Rangers, whose pilot episode explicitly called them a team of superheroes, and so on...
– Mason Wheeler
6 hours ago
@MasonWheeler - I mean a movie genre. At that point there had been a series of 4 Batman films that were ongoing (although the last one was so badly received that the star often joked that he'd killed the franchise), a Superman franchise of 4 that ended on a similar bomb a decade earlier, and perhaps a few one-offs here and there that were either super old, or didn't do very well. Its only looking back at it now where they are being pumped out like westerns that we include such films in the "genre" .
– T.E.D.
6 hours ago
add a comment |
There's Disney's animated musical film Hercules. The protagonist wasn't (until the end, at least) a mortal man, but had superhuman strength, and spent a lot of the flick training with a professional "hero trainer" Philoctetes, and in musical bits.
It wasn't billed as a "superhero" movie at the time, but in the 20th century that didn't exactly exist as a defined genre yet, and being a "Disney movie", complete with musical numbers, was probably considered a bigger sales driver.
His origin story in the movie is very similar to Wonder Woman's in the 2017 movie. Both got their powers through being children of Zeus, but were sent to Earth to live as mortals. (Arguably, the original Thor movie had a similar setup as well).
The movie's theatrical release was in 1997.
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Lorendiac
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answered 9 hours ago
T.E.D.T.E.D.
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What do you mean "superhero" wasn't a genre yet? By the time 1997 rolled around, we had decades of comics, multiple Batman movies, multiple Superman movies, we had several years of the Power Rangers, whose pilot episode explicitly called them a team of superheroes, and so on...
– Mason Wheeler
6 hours ago
@MasonWheeler - I mean a movie genre. At that point there had been a series of 4 Batman films that were ongoing (although the last one was so badly received that the star often joked that he'd killed the franchise), a Superman franchise of 4 that ended on a similar bomb a decade earlier, and perhaps a few one-offs here and there that were either super old, or didn't do very well. Its only looking back at it now where they are being pumped out like westerns that we include such films in the "genre" .
– T.E.D.
6 hours ago
add a comment |
There's Disney's animated musical film Hercules. The protagonist wasn't (until the end, at least) a mortal man, but had superhuman strength, and spent a lot of the flick training with a professional "hero trainer" Philoctetes, and in musical bits.
It wasn't billed as a "superhero" movie at the time, but in the 20th century that didn't exactly exist as a defined genre yet, and being a "Disney movie", complete with musical numbers, was probably considered a bigger sales driver.
His origin story in the movie is very similar to Wonder Woman's in the 2017 movie. Both got their powers through being children of Zeus, but were sent to Earth to live as mortals. (Arguably, the original Thor movie had a similar setup as well).
The movie's theatrical release was in 1997.
edited 2 hours ago
Lorendiac
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answered 9 hours ago
T.E.D.T.E.D.
1,776616
There's Disney's animated musical film Hercules. The protagonist wasn't (until the end, at least) a mortal man, but had superhuman strength, and spent a lot of the flick training with a professional "hero trainer" Philoctetes, and in musical bits.
It wasn't billed as a "superhero" movie at the time, but in the 20th century that didn't exactly exist as a defined genre yet, and being a "Disney movie", complete with musical numbers, was probably considered a bigger sales driver.
His origin story in the movie is very similar to Wonder Woman's in the 2017 movie. Both got their powers through being children of Zeus, but were sent to Earth to live as mortals. (Arguably, the original Thor movie had a similar setup as well).
The movie's theatrical release was in 1997.
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Lorendiac
11.8k241116
answered 9 hours ago
T.E.D.T.E.D.
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edited 2 hours ago
Lorendiac
11.8k241116
edited 2 hours ago
Lorendiac
11.8k241116
edited 2 hours ago
Lorendiac
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answered 9 hours ago
T.E.D.T.E.D.
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answered 9 hours ago
T.E.D.T.E.D.
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answered 9 hours ago
T.E.D.T.E.D.
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What do you mean "superhero" wasn't a genre yet? By the time 1997 rolled around, we had decades of comics, multiple Batman movies, multiple Superman movies, we had several years of the Power Rangers, whose pilot episode explicitly called them a team of superheroes, and so on...
– Mason Wheeler
6 hours ago
@MasonWheeler - I mean a movie genre. At that point there had been a series of 4 Batman films that were ongoing (although the last one was so badly received that the star often joked that he'd killed the franchise), a Superman franchise of 4 that ended on a similar bomb a decade earlier, and perhaps a few one-offs here and there that were either super old, or didn't do very well. Its only looking back at it now where they are being pumped out like westerns that we include such films in the "genre" .
– T.E.D.
6 hours ago
add a comment |
1
What do you mean "superhero" wasn't a genre yet? By the time 1997 rolled around, we had decades of comics, multiple Batman movies, multiple Superman movies, we had several years of the Power Rangers, whose pilot episode explicitly called them a team of superheroes, and so on...
– Mason Wheeler
6 hours ago
@MasonWheeler - I mean a movie genre. At that point there had been a series of 4 Batman films that were ongoing (although the last one was so badly received that the star often joked that he'd killed the franchise), a Superman franchise of 4 that ended on a similar bomb a decade earlier, and perhaps a few one-offs here and there that were either super old, or didn't do very well. Its only looking back at it now where they are being pumped out like westerns that we include such films in the "genre" .
– T.E.D.
6 hours ago
1
1
What do you mean "superhero" wasn't a genre yet? By the time 1997 rolled around, we had decades of comics, multiple Batman movies, multiple Superman movies, we had several years of the Power Rangers, whose pilot episode explicitly called them a team of superheroes, and so on...
– Mason Wheeler
6 hours ago
What do you mean "superhero" wasn't a genre yet? By the time 1997 rolled around, we had decades of comics, multiple Batman movies, multiple Superman movies, we had several years of the Power Rangers, whose pilot episode explicitly called them a team of superheroes, and so on...
– Mason Wheeler
6 hours ago
@MasonWheeler - I mean a movie genre. At that point there had been a series of 4 Batman films that were ongoing (although the last one was so badly received that the star often joked that he'd killed the franchise), a Superman franchise of 4 that ended on a similar bomb a decade earlier, and perhaps a few one-offs here and there that were either super old, or didn't do very well. Its only looking back at it now where they are being pumped out like westerns that we include such films in the "genre" .
– T.E.D.
6 hours ago
@MasonWheeler - I mean a movie genre. At that point there had been a series of 4 Batman films that were ongoing (although the last one was so badly received that the star often joked that he'd killed the franchise), a Superman franchise of 4 that ended on a similar bomb a decade earlier, and perhaps a few one-offs here and there that were either super old, or didn't do very well. Its only looking back at it now where they are being pumped out like westerns that we include such films in the "genre" .
– T.E.D.
6 hours ago
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Depending on whether you consider Buffy to be a superhero, and a TV episode to be a movie, possibly Once More with Feeling.
answered 17 hours ago
Faheem MithaFaheem Mitha
310113
2
OK there's ambiguity between TV episode and movie, but how could anyone claim Buffy is not a superhero? Fights for good? Check. Defeats evil superpowered beings? Check. Has superpowers? Check.
– thumbtackthief
12 hours ago
@thumbtackthief I had originally thought of Buffy, but by your definition shouldn't I also include Harry Potter? Personally in my mind I was trying to restrict it to where the hero narrative includes interaction with the wider 'normal' society and interaction with law enforcement/authority of that 'normal' society. Parallel societies push it more into the fantasy realm but its a sliding scale, so I'll leave it to the community to judge.
– Morrison Chang
11 hours ago
Harry Potter doesn't have superpowers, and he's no more extraordinary than all the other wizards.
– thumbtackthief
11 hours ago
@thumbtackthief No argument here, but opinions do vary. And Buffy's superpowers are fairly muted as those things go. I mean, she can't even fly.
– Faheem Mitha
9 hours ago
Without Harry's wand, he's basically useless. Whereas Buffy.... bit.ly/2Xcalfc
– thumbtackthief
9 hours ago
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Depending on whether you consider Buffy to be a superhero, and a TV episode to be a movie, possibly Once More with Feeling.
answered 17 hours ago
Faheem MithaFaheem Mitha
310113
2
OK there's ambiguity between TV episode and movie, but how could anyone claim Buffy is not a superhero? Fights for good? Check. Defeats evil superpowered beings? Check. Has superpowers? Check.
– thumbtackthief
12 hours ago
@thumbtackthief I had originally thought of Buffy, but by your definition shouldn't I also include Harry Potter? Personally in my mind I was trying to restrict it to where the hero narrative includes interaction with the wider 'normal' society and interaction with law enforcement/authority of that 'normal' society. Parallel societies push it more into the fantasy realm but its a sliding scale, so I'll leave it to the community to judge.
– Morrison Chang
11 hours ago
Harry Potter doesn't have superpowers, and he's no more extraordinary than all the other wizards.
– thumbtackthief
11 hours ago
@thumbtackthief No argument here, but opinions do vary. And Buffy's superpowers are fairly muted as those things go. I mean, she can't even fly.
– Faheem Mitha
9 hours ago
Without Harry's wand, he's basically useless. Whereas Buffy.... bit.ly/2Xcalfc
– thumbtackthief
9 hours ago
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Depending on whether you consider Buffy to be a superhero, and a TV episode to be a movie, possibly Once More with Feeling.
answered 17 hours ago
Faheem MithaFaheem Mitha
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Depending on whether you consider Buffy to be a superhero, and a TV episode to be a movie, possibly Once More with Feeling.
answered 17 hours ago
Faheem MithaFaheem Mitha
310113
answered 17 hours ago
Faheem MithaFaheem Mitha
310113
answered 17 hours ago
Faheem MithaFaheem Mitha
310113
answered 17 hours ago
Faheem MithaFaheem Mitha
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OK there's ambiguity between TV episode and movie, but how could anyone claim Buffy is not a superhero? Fights for good? Check. Defeats evil superpowered beings? Check. Has superpowers? Check.
– thumbtackthief
12 hours ago
@thumbtackthief I had originally thought of Buffy, but by your definition shouldn't I also include Harry Potter? Personally in my mind I was trying to restrict it to where the hero narrative includes interaction with the wider 'normal' society and interaction with law enforcement/authority of that 'normal' society. Parallel societies push it more into the fantasy realm but its a sliding scale, so I'll leave it to the community to judge.
– Morrison Chang
11 hours ago
Harry Potter doesn't have superpowers, and he's no more extraordinary than all the other wizards.
– thumbtackthief
11 hours ago
@thumbtackthief No argument here, but opinions do vary. And Buffy's superpowers are fairly muted as those things go. I mean, she can't even fly.
– Faheem Mitha
9 hours ago
Without Harry's wand, he's basically useless. Whereas Buffy.... bit.ly/2Xcalfc
– thumbtackthief
9 hours ago
add a comment |
2
OK there's ambiguity between TV episode and movie, but how could anyone claim Buffy is not a superhero? Fights for good? Check. Defeats evil superpowered beings? Check. Has superpowers? Check.
– thumbtackthief
12 hours ago
@thumbtackthief I had originally thought of Buffy, but by your definition shouldn't I also include Harry Potter? Personally in my mind I was trying to restrict it to where the hero narrative includes interaction with the wider 'normal' society and interaction with law enforcement/authority of that 'normal' society. Parallel societies push it more into the fantasy realm but its a sliding scale, so I'll leave it to the community to judge.
– Morrison Chang
11 hours ago
Harry Potter doesn't have superpowers, and he's no more extraordinary than all the other wizards.
– thumbtackthief
11 hours ago
@thumbtackthief No argument here, but opinions do vary. And Buffy's superpowers are fairly muted as those things go. I mean, she can't even fly.
– Faheem Mitha
9 hours ago
Without Harry's wand, he's basically useless. Whereas Buffy.... bit.ly/2Xcalfc
– thumbtackthief
9 hours ago
2
2
OK there's ambiguity between TV episode and movie, but how could anyone claim Buffy is not a superhero? Fights for good? Check. Defeats evil superpowered beings? Check. Has superpowers? Check.
– thumbtackthief
12 hours ago
OK there's ambiguity between TV episode and movie, but how could anyone claim Buffy is not a superhero? Fights for good? Check. Defeats evil superpowered beings? Check. Has superpowers? Check.
– thumbtackthief
12 hours ago
@thumbtackthief I had originally thought of Buffy, but by your definition shouldn't I also include Harry Potter? Personally in my mind I was trying to restrict it to where the hero narrative includes interaction with the wider 'normal' society and interaction with law enforcement/authority of that 'normal' society. Parallel societies push it more into the fantasy realm but its a sliding scale, so I'll leave it to the community to judge.
– Morrison Chang
11 hours ago
@thumbtackthief I had originally thought of Buffy, but by your definition shouldn't I also include Harry Potter? Personally in my mind I was trying to restrict it to where the hero narrative includes interaction with the wider 'normal' society and interaction with law enforcement/authority of that 'normal' society. Parallel societies push it more into the fantasy realm but its a sliding scale, so I'll leave it to the community to judge.
– Morrison Chang
11 hours ago
Harry Potter doesn't have superpowers, and he's no more extraordinary than all the other wizards.
– thumbtackthief
11 hours ago
Harry Potter doesn't have superpowers, and he's no more extraordinary than all the other wizards.
– thumbtackthief
11 hours ago
@thumbtackthief No argument here, but opinions do vary. And Buffy's superpowers are fairly muted as those things go. I mean, she can't even fly.
– Faheem Mitha
9 hours ago
@thumbtackthief No argument here, but opinions do vary. And Buffy's superpowers are fairly muted as those things go. I mean, she can't even fly.
– Faheem Mitha
9 hours ago
Without Harry's wand, he's basically useless. Whereas Buffy.... bit.ly/2Xcalfc
– thumbtackthief
9 hours ago
Without Harry's wand, he's basically useless. Whereas Buffy.... bit.ly/2Xcalfc
– thumbtackthief
9 hours ago
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The Hungarian-Canadian cartoon Cat City from 1986 could qualify, as it features many musical inserts and the protagonist has abilities that are, while not strictly superpowers, definitely above those of the normal mice: folding his tail to the shape of a key, cutting a ship's rope with his teeth, using his tail as a propeller to cross an ocean, bending an arm-wide metal pipe into U shape, memorizing multiple pages of technical drawings in seconds, etc.
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The Hungarian-Canadian cartoon Cat City from 1986 could qualify, as it features many musical inserts and the protagonist has abilities that are, while not strictly superpowers, definitely above those of the normal mice: folding his tail to the shape of a key, cutting a ship's rope with his teeth, using his tail as a propeller to cross an ocean, bending an arm-wide metal pipe into U shape, memorizing multiple pages of technical drawings in seconds, etc.
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The Hungarian-Canadian cartoon Cat City from 1986 could qualify, as it features many musical inserts and the protagonist has abilities that are, while not strictly superpowers, definitely above those of the normal mice: folding his tail to the shape of a key, cutting a ship's rope with his teeth, using his tail as a propeller to cross an ocean, bending an arm-wide metal pipe into U shape, memorizing multiple pages of technical drawings in seconds, etc.
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The Hungarian-Canadian cartoon Cat City from 1986 could qualify, as it features many musical inserts and the protagonist has abilities that are, while not strictly superpowers, definitely above those of the normal mice: folding his tail to the shape of a key, cutting a ship's rope with his teeth, using his tail as a propeller to cross an ocean, bending an arm-wide metal pipe into U shape, memorizing multiple pages of technical drawings in seconds, etc.
answered 15 hours ago
zovitszovits
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answered 15 hours ago
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answered 15 hours ago
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answered 15 hours ago
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@closevoters dunno, that doesn't look like a recommendation. Plus we have a meta somewhere about "has there ever been any X" questions being on-topic, so, voted to leave open.
– Jenayah
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Once upon a time, there was going to be a Broadway musical about Batman. It never got produced on the stage, much less turned into a film, but Jim Steinman has posted MP3 files of the songs intended for the musical. One good place to find them is freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm
– Lorendiac
yesterday
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Does Flash Gordon count?
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yesterday
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@user14111 I think you answered your own comment:
The title character has nothing you'd call a superpowerbut an interesting pick.– Morrison Chang
22 hours ago
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Not a contender (for several reasons), but I wanted to mention the Buffy episode Once More With Feeling.
– Arcanist Lupus
21 hours ago