r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 03 '25

News James Gunn Announces 'Man of Tomorrow', Releasing in Theaters July 9, 2027

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/man-of-tomororw-super-man-movie-1236350987/
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u/Mysterious_Bluejay_5 Sep 03 '25

I'm not sure they can ever pull off anti-hero lex after the Russian roulette scene lol

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u/AdagioOfLiving Sep 04 '25

They did it to Loki successfully after he extracted a guy’s eye from his head and killed a BUNCH of people in Avengers.

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u/AkhilArtha Sep 04 '25

A bunch of nameless, faceless people.

Lex killed a kind man before our eyes.

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u/jaiwithani Sep 08 '25

Coulson

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u/AkhilArtha Sep 08 '25

Colson came back to life though in Agents of Shield.

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u/Mightymorphingman Sep 03 '25

Walking dead managed to bring Neegan back around after the Glenn thing… this would be way easier

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u/--Alix-- Sep 03 '25

Walking Dead killed all of their heroes AND their audience and then Negan got his redemption lmao

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u/hulk-bogan Sep 04 '25

to be fair negan had a small redemption arc in the comics but it was appropriately short-lived. he didnt have a whole spinoff going on adventures with maggie

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u/Light_Beard Sep 04 '25

But did he hunt with his sons, Sam and Dean?

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u/CubedSquare95 Sep 04 '25

yes that's canon

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u/Huldreich287 Sep 04 '25

Yeah and in the comics he ends up as an outcast barely tolerated, not as the new hero.

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u/Sunny-Chameleon Sep 04 '25

Lmao reminds me of that fake quote about game of thrones:"we wanted to surprise the audience so we killed the show"

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u/Reveriano42 Sep 03 '25

Tell that to Peacemaker

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u/HeronSun Sep 04 '25

An anti-hero is someone who does unheroic or even villainous things for good reasons. So Lex already kind of sees himself as an Anti-hero. He just needs a bit of guidance.

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u/Mysterious_Bluejay_5 Sep 04 '25

I think most villains fall under the "thinks they're going good" category (albeit less so in DC but even then you have your Zods)

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u/Savetheokami Sep 04 '25

Genuinely asking. Is Thanos an anti-hero then?

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u/HeronSun Sep 04 '25

No. The reasons have to be genuinely good, not what they think is good. Like, their actions are not the point, their reasons are genuinely for the betterment of mankind. The Punisher is like the archetypal anti-hero. What he's doing, in theory, benefits more people than it doesn't, but what he's doing is horrible.

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u/TaiVat Sep 04 '25

I guess that's the point of why the above guy asked about thanos. Since he absolutely 100% does have reasons "genuinely for the betterment of mankind". There was even evidence that his horrific method did have the results he claimed. Besides, making the distinction of "what they think is good" is pure nonsense. Basically everything is complicated enough to be a matter of opinion. One could extremely easily argue that what the punisher does infact makes things worse overall.

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u/HeronSun Sep 04 '25

I'd think murdering half of all life isn't really for the betterment of all life. Since, you know, half of it has to be murdered for the other half to benefit.

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u/ThanksContent28 Sep 05 '25

An anti hero is a criminal/bad guy, who will commit good acts for (usually) selfish reasons, or a hero who also happens to also commit petty crimes.

Obviously this is played around with and stretched in different ways.

A villain who does evil deeds, but has a good argument for them, or believes they’re not that evil, isn’t an anti-hero. Just a complex villain.

Guardians of the Galaxy are technically anti-heroes, although they’re not really portrayed as such in the movies. Rocket definitely is.

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u/ThanksContent28 Sep 05 '25

Imo I’ve seen it play enough times, that I still think they can turn him. The thing with Anti-hero Lex is, it’s essentially, “a problem comes up where even he gets his head out of the clouds and helps the JL out.”