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15 Super Movies for Super Bowl Sunday

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Sports fans everywhere would agree there’s really no better name for an event than “Super Bowl.” It’s just so simple. So perfect. College football has a million bowl games, and some of them have really cool names: Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, etc. But there has to be one bowl to rule them all, and what better word for it than “super”?

As the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots get ready to clash in the 60th Super Bowl on Sunday, we decided to look at that word itself. What else is “super” in pop culture? And not just in general. What is literally called “super”? Below are our 15 favorite movies with “super” in the title.

15. Super Pumped (2022)

We’re putting this at 15 only because it’s not a movie. It’s a TV show. But it’s a really good TV show with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the founder of Uber alongside Kyle Chandler, Uma Thurman, and more, so we think it’s certainly super.

14. Super Buddies (2013)

By definition, the Air Bud franchise has no basis in reality. So the fact that Bud and his buddies got to become superheroes in this sequel makes all the sense in the world.

13. Supervixens (1975)

Director Russ Meyer always knew exactly what he was doing with his movies, and one of the best examples is Supervixens, a very of-its-time exploitation film featuring all manner of buxom beautiful women with the word “super” in their name. Why? More like “Why not?”

12. The Super (1991)

Not all “super” movies are about “super” people. Case in point, 1991’s The Super, which stars Joe Pesci as a landlord who is forced to live in one of his own buildings. It’s pretty bad in terms of 1990s Joe Pesci movies, but it’s still a 1990s Joe Pesci movie.

11. DC League of Super Pets (2022)

Clearly, there’s going to be some DC representation on this list, right? But slightly lower than those other Super movies we’ll get to soon is this surprisingly cute animated film.

10. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

I don’t love this movie, but most people do, and I will still admit that it’s pretty special to see a franchise as beloved by so many become such a big, beautiful, wildly successful movie.

9. My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

Uma Thurman stars as a superhero dumped by a normal guy (Luke Wilson); she then terrorizes him for revenge. It’s not great, but it was directed by the legendary Ivan Reitman, who has a lot of fun blending the superhero and romantic comedy genres.

8. Super 8 (2011)

J.J. Abrams’ love letter to Amblin and the films of Steven Spielberg doesn’t quite live up to those standards, but, when compared to some of the other movies on this list, certainly is better than the others. Also, how can you not put Super 8 at eighth?

7. Supercop (1992)

One of the earliest Jackie Chan movies to get a wide release in the U.S., Supercop (which is actually Police Story 3) is classic Jackie, with all the action, stunts, and laughs you’d expect. It’s not one of his best, but it’s highly entertaining.

6. Super Fly (1972)

One of the marquee films of the blaxploitation genre, Super Fly is a super cool crime thriller with one of the best soundtracks of all time. A stone-cold classic.

5. Super Size Me (2004)

One of the best ideas for a documentary ever, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock decided to find out what would happen if he ate McDonald’s every day for a month. Spoiler alert, it’s not good. For him. The movie is very good.

4. Super (2010)

Before he got his hands on that other Super character (don’t worry, we’re getting there), James Gunn wrote and directed this very underrated action comedy starring Rainn Wilson, Elliot Page, and many others. It’s pretty messed up, but that makes it great.

3. Super Troopers (2001)

For many, this would clearly be the top choice of “super” movies. And don’t get us wrong, we love this hilarious police comedy made by and starring the Broken Lizard gang. It’s timeless. But another super character is just a little more timeless.

2. Superman: The Movie (1978)

This list could’ve easily just been Superman movies, but where’s the Joe Pesci/Air Bud/McDonald’s fun in that? Instead, we’re going to choose the Richard Donner original to just cover them all. James Gunn’s 2025 version, the Donner sequel, Dawn of Justice, and all of them. Consider this every Superman movie rolled up into one. Well, except for…

1. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)

Yes, we’re ending this “super” list on a serious note. This documentary about the actor who portrayed Superman and the incredible yet tragic life he led is truly everything the word “super” is about. A can’t-miss guaranteed to make you love not just Reeves but Superman and even life itself.

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Nathan Fillion Teases Guy Gardner’s Path From ‘Superman’ to ‘Lanterns’

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With the release of the James Gunn-helmed Superman, the start of this era of DC Studios is set to make a summer blockbuster debut. And in it, we’ll meet a new slew of superhero characters, including the first Green Lantern within this DCU, Guy Gardner, as played by Nathan Fillion.

Fillion is no stranger to the Green Lantern Corps., as the actor has a history of portraying the more iconically recognized hero Hal Jordan in Warner Bros. Animation’s straight-to-video animated DC films. Now, he’s set to appear as a tonally more devious and loudmouth Lantern in Superman, on an Earth where other Lanterns are also active.

It’s raised the question of how Guy will come to intersect with the planned Lanterns series starring Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre as Hal Jordan and John Stewart, respectively. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Fillion discussed how he thinks Guy Gardner’s egocentric hero will square up to the other Lanterns.

“Aaron, he’s got a voice like butter. And he’s statuesque, like he’s carved out of marble,” Fillion told the magazine. “He’s very, very specific about his character and what his character’s going through. His character’s clearly going through something. And then along comes this gregarious, smug son of a bitch in Guy Gardner. And in that show… boy, Guy Gardner. I’ve dropped more F-bombs in that project than I have in, I think, my entire career put together.”

The show is currently shooting, and Fillion has been confirmed to appear in it after another planned stint as Gardner on Peacemaker. He continued to describe how there will be some sort of change coming for Gardner’s in the form of bonding with the other Lanterns. “By the end of it, you can tell there is a shift,” Fillion said. “Guy Gardner is no longer comfortable. He is no longer feeling smug. Then you can see where John’s strength really lies. That is a strong individual. I don’t really have any scenes directly with Hal Jordan, but meeting Kyle, he’s everything you’d hope he would be. Very fun, very nice man, very lighthearted, and fun to be around.”

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Kill the Justice League Undid the Part About Killing the Justice League

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One of the boldest moves Rocksteady made when it unveiled its Suicide Squad game after years of rumors was its subtitle: this was going to be a game about you, as players, fighting and being forced to slaughter DC’s finest heroes, before Braniac could puppet them into being his own deadly occupation force. Then Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League actually came out, and pretty much no one was happy. Now, weeks before its first anniversary, the live-service game is going out with… well, not really a bang, and barely even a whimper.

The base version of Kill the Justice League climaxed with the death of Superman and Wonder Woman alike, as the titular team braced themselves for Brainiac’s defeat and the realization that there were dozens upon dozens of alternate realities with their own Braniacs under threat for them to save, setting up the game’s live-service structure for months to come. But then Kill the Justice League faced a critical drubbing and dire sales, leaving Rocksteady scrambling to offer fixes alongside its planned rollout of future content—content that came to an end this week with the game’s eighth and final major update, just two weeks before the game would celebrate its first anniversary. That would already be not-great if Kill the Justice League stuck any kind of landing, but instead, its final story content revealed that the whole thing had been kind of a pointless hoodwink.

The story content of this week’s eighth episode ends with the defeat of the final Braniac variant in the multiverse at Taskforce X’s hands… with a little extra help from Superman and Batman, who it turned out hadn’t been killed during the events of the main game. Instead, those deaths—which sparked a sea of controversy at the time, when it was believed that Kevin Conroy’s portrayal of Batman in Kill the Justice League would be his final posthumously released performance as the Dark Knight—were that of clones.

On the one hand, players who actually stuck around shouldn’t be surprised—previous updates had seen Harley, Captain Boomerang, King Shark, and Deadshot already liberate Green Lantern and Flash from Braniac’s clutches after their own apparent deaths, traveling to alternate worlds and putting them in stasis, so the revelation that Batman and Superman were also clones is not that surprising. And yet, it means that players who’ve stood by Kill the Justice League at its lowest points have been rewarded with the realization that they never actually got to, well, kill the Justice League. The only casualty by the end of all this is actually Wonder Woman, who had avoided Braniac’s mind control in the initial game, only to be killed by (the newly revealed as a clone) Superman.

And so, Suicide Squad ends with Taskforce X and the Justice League going their separate ways: the League staying behind to atone for “their” crimes by monitoring the multiverse to finish off any lingering Braniac threats, and the Suicide Squad, freed from Amanda Waller’s embedded explosives, finding their own tiny pocket of the multiverse to go celebrate and hang out in. But to end it all this way—an animated slideshow cutscene and a casual, flippant explanation from Harley Quinn via voice over that covers the clone reveal in half a line—speaks to just what a miserable conclusion this all turned out to be, for what was meant to be the long-awaited future of the Batman Arkham universe.

At least there’s some heroes alive now that they can all carry on with, if that future ever arrives?

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