This 15-year-old James Gunn movie exposes one of the most ridiculous things about the superhero genre

Before James Gunn got to play in the Marvel and DC sandboxes, he made up his own hero in 2011’s superhero parody Super. Released 15 years ago in early April, 2011, the movie stars Rainn Wilson as Frank Darbo, a religious short-order cook whose wife leaves him after she gets back into drugs. Feeling lost, Frank ends up having a vision where he’s touched by the hand of God and decides to help his fellow man by becoming a crimefighter. Wearing an obviously homemade, bright red costume, he adopts the persona “The Crimson Bolt” and begins running around hitting bad guys — like drug dealers, pedophiles, and movie theater line cutters — with a giant wrench.