
10 Superhero Movies That Double As Period Pieces
These superhero films don’t just use history as a backdrop—they integrate their time periods as essential story elements that shape heroes’ journeys.
These superhero films don’t just use history as a backdrop—they integrate their time periods as essential story elements that shape heroes’ journeys.
These days, it may be hard to imagine that there was a time when superhero movies didn’t dominate the box office. In reality, for many years, superhero movies were seen as risky, oddball properties, giving rise to a wide array of titles like Buckaroo Banzai, Flash Gordon, The Meteor Man, Toxic Avenger, Blankman, The Guyver, and many others. Some of these earlier super films…
When someone gets superpowers, it’s normal to think they can do anything. Folks get bitten by radioactive spiders and waste no time throwing on some spandex and kicking a criminal’s butt all over the city. Of course, it’s not exactly like that, and in the more realistic stories about flying gods with immense power, jumping in…