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This is basically the setup for The Boys (except instead of a car it’s a person)
If it weren’t for that opening I would not watch the show. Had no idea what it was about, never read the comics. Just saw a video on why Homelander is a great villain and I went to check it out. After that scene it was just “oh wow. There are stakes!”
Can’t wait for the new season next week
Also, people should watch GenV if they haven’t. It’s surprisingly good
Check out the comics, the Super Duper arc is amazing.
And instead of actually trying to perform a public service, the superhero is
spoiler
Looking for drugs
Insurance companies are benevolent enough to cover that, right? Right?
“Act of God”, get fucked. Also we raised your monthly fee by 50% because, based on previous events, you’re more likely than others to have you car Hulk-smashed.
“Act of God”
No, that’s just if Thor or Loki smashes your car.
They pay that out once begrudgingly and then add “act of mutant” to the list
points at a Hawkeye arrow in the windshield
Ugh, fine adds “act of normal guy who is just weirdly good with a bow and arrow” to the list
Insurance must be through the roof the same way it’s gone up the last few years because of higher accident rates globally.
I think super heros would probably just crash the insurance market
Yeah they just stop insuring folks, a real problem lately with Florida and California.
I once played at Iron Man knockoff for a super hero ttrpg. The source of his wealth was shorting insurance companies.
What system?
Hero System. Iirc used a vpp to define all the different suits as I could only wear one at a time.
My experience playing that game was… something…
A true hero.
A few years ago i had to get my upper lip sewed back on after a mountain bike accident and the insurance still has not paid for the surgery because a cosmetic surgeon was the only person at the hospital who could do it
This is the plot of Spiderman Homecoming
funny how the lesson pulled from that is to beat up the poor and disgruntled and not how horrible and evil insurance companies are. The MCU movies are fucked up and kind of anti woke.
I really like My Hero Academia for being grounded like that with superheroes having to register and stuff, doing public good beyond fighting, and having Vigilantes that still want to help out but they aren’t scouted, because they couldn’t get into a proper hero education program on a great spin-off that I would argue is better than the main manga.
Or when it hits and does absolutely nothing.
He just throws it on top of your coworkers cars, so now you can’t even carpool the day after.
The thing I wonder is why people want to live in NYC in the marvel universe
Wouldn’t they come up with some kind of insurance plan for the supers?
Like “Hey the Hulk just used my car as a pair of boxing gloves. Am I covered?”
Seeing as how the cops can cause collateral damage and be completely unaccountable, yeah, no. You ain’t getting shit.
(We should totally end qualified immunity though.)
It’s mentioned in the films, think it’s the Stark foundation that covers hero damage.
Damage control… They are in the MCU, but the comic is worth a read… Written by Dwayne McDuffie
we’re never getting another hulk movie
Never seems unlikely
Nerd Alert: A team named Damage Control would clean up the post-fight superhero messes. I think they were sort of adapted to TV in Ms. Marvel but they were more of an FBI-type of agency.
But do they reimburse people for their losses? I actually think a Disney plus series focused on the real world effects and had a more grounded/black comedy approach would be fascinating.
I don’t get why they keep showing us the insane universe they built from the same perspective each time. After a decade and a half of superhero POV, I think seeing one thing about an entirely ordinary person would be great
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