From its opening moments, Megamind pokes fun
at superhero tropes — from Megamind's voiceover [«I was eight days old and still living at home.
Not exact matches
Unlike other
superhero teams that have
at least one person the others look to as the «leader» of the group, The Defenders subverts that
trope by putting its heroes on a relatively level playing field (physically) and revels into the fact that they're a group of Type - As.
Deadpool / Wade Wilson knows he's in a
superhero movie (he also knows he's played by amiable Canadian man Ryan Reynolds) and skewers the
tropes that have become a mainstay
at the multiplex for the better part of a decade.
Vanity Fair got a comment from Sebastian Stan that possibly hinted
at a
superhero wedding, a mainstay
trope of the comic books:
Worse yet, while Deadpool 1 managed to make Wade feel like a totally new look
at tried - and - true
superhero tropes, Deadpool 2 reduces him to yet another in a long line of masked men who are motivated to act heroically by the loss of a woman in their life.
South Park: The Fractured But Whole picks up where The Stick of Truth left off, but takes aim
at superhero movies rather than high fantasy
tropes.