Movies With Superheroes That Aren't Superhero Movies

[j9ac9k]

Leaving out supernatural stuff like vampires and magicians:
Push
Dreamscape
Limitless
Firestarter
Dead Zone
Beastmaster
The Gift
Lucy

[AnakinFlair]

Every Fast and the Furious movie from 4 onward. 4 was still mostly grounded; 5 kicked it up a notch, but then from 6 onwards logic no longer applied.

[CliffHanger2]

The One-Jet Li
Jumanjii

[Powerboy]

Defining a superhero as someone who can routinely accomplish physical feats no ordinary person can do. A few off the top of my head:

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Harry Potter
Ghost

What are some you can come up with?

Obviously, any Rambo, Chuck Norris, Seagal, Arnold movie. Basically almost any 1980s or any action movie.

[Immortal Weapon]

Rosewood. Ving Rhames character in the movie is a superhero. Pulling off feats no normal person can do and surviving things that should have killed him.

[marvelprince]

I don't think nearly every other character was ever considered as a mutant. X-MEN in the 70/80s era which was no doubt their best era in terms of actually quality comic book story because those were the Chris cLaremont eras, their universe started to build the stand alone universe, that it has sort of completely become now.

Never heard of anyone thinking Hulk, Daredevil, Fantastic 4 were nearly called mutants. infact that was the era, marvel was sort of selling the narrative their heroes were just ordinary humans, that had extra ordinary human things happened to them. exposed to gamma rays , radio active spiders or cosmic rays and they are meant to be more relatable than the DC heroes

I do remember a point when every new character with a new ability was just a mutant cause that was easy I guess.

[Doom'nGloom]

Bollywood action movies have some of the most ridiculous action scenes I've ever seen. Some may even surpass Fast franchise.

[Frobisher]

I do think basically every action hero from before CGI finally allowed movies to catch up to depicting the feats so easily rendered in ink in the pages of comic books was a superhero (John Matrix walking straight at soldiers all firing rifles at him - all missing due to the sheer bulk of his muscles warping reality). But then you can level that accusition at practically every hero back to Giglamesh, and if you do that you'd be more correct to invert the claim and actually say that modern comic book characters are simply part of a very long tradition of heroes who achieve feats that are above what the average person can do.

[luprki]

Anything with Dwayne The Rock Johnson

[TheRay]

Anything with The Rock? Even Baywatch?

[j9ac9k]

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

[CliffHanger2]

Anything with The Rock? Even Baywatch?

He did pull off some above average stuff.

[luprki]

Anything with The Rock? Even Baywatch?

Definitely Baywatch

[inisideguy]

Did anyone mention Die Hard?

[j9ac9k]

Did anyone mention Die Hard?

Isn't the point of Die Hard that he's specifically not super-human like other 80s action heroes?