If you're tired of cliché-good heroes in tights or clichéd villains, let's take a look at the movie world of Good and Evil from a different angle.
We present to you the top 10 non-standard TV series about superheroes and supervillains. All members of the list are distributed in random order, since each of them is good in its own way.
10.Harley Quinn (2019 - present)
Genre: fantasy, detective, action film
Kinopoisk rating: 7.9
IMDb rating: 8.4
Country: USA
Producer: Cecilia Aranovich, Juan Jose Mesa-Leon and others
Music: Jefferson Friedman
Our super-rated animated series opens, which will reveal not only Harley Quinn, but also other villains of Gotham from the most unexpected sides. They make friends, arrange holidays for younger relatives, have love interests and try to help their loved ones, even if they are complete scumbags.
But if you thought that before you is some sugary TV series trying to "whitewash" the villains, then no, no, and again no. Take children and impressionable people away from the blue screen and get ready for a bunch of obscene and dark jokes, caustic satire, blood flying in all directions from punched heads and severed limbs, as well as massive destruction and fan service (where can we go without it).
9. Gotham (2014-2019)
Genre: fantasy, action, thriller
Kinopoisk rating: 7.7
IMDb rating: 7.8
Country: USA
Producer: Rob Bailey, Danny Cannon and others
Music: David E. Russo, Graeme Revell
What was Gotham like before Batman started his superhero career? How did the service of James Gordon, who got the case of the murders of Martha and Thomas Wayne, begin? What was the relationship between young Bruce Wayne and his butler Alfred? The series "Gotham" will answer these and many other questions.
We recommend watching it if you like the history of the Dark Knight and want to take a look at the place where his younger years passed. The series also features famous villains and antiheroes such as Poison Ivy, Penguin, The Riddler, and Catwoman.
8. Umbrella Academy (2019-present)
Genre: fantasy, action, drama
Kinopoisk rating: 7.5
IMDb rating: 8
Country: USA
Producer: Stephen Sergik, Jeremy Webb and others
Music: Jeff Russo
In the late 80s of the last century, a billionaire eccentric adopted several babies with superpowers. However, his father turned out to be so-so, and he caused many injuries to his adopted children, which came back to haunt him in adulthood.
But this series is not only about how the "supers" coped with the emotional turmoil rooted in their dark childhood, but also about how they had to unite to save the world.
7. Tick (2016-2019)
Genre: comedy, action, adventure
Kinopoisk rating: 6.5
IMDb rating: 7.4
Country: USA
Producer: Romeo Tyrone, Kate Dennis and others
Music: Chris P. Bacon
He is honest and fearless, naive and kind Blue Tick. He is a superhero who could become the star of a children's matinee, but for some reason he fights crime.However, criminality - it is loudly said, here the expression "evil clowns" is more suitable.
This series is irony over the superhero genre, but not evil, but kind, which is reflected in the general feeling of "cartoonish" "Tik".
If you are tired of the gloomy pretentiousness or cynical swagger of modern TV series, check out Tika, it is easy to understand and funny.
6. Bad, also called Waste (2009-2013)
Genre: fantasy, drama, melodrama
Kinopoisk rating: 8
IMDb rating: 8.2
Country: United Kingdom
Producer: Tom Green, Jonathan van Tulleken and others
Music: Vince Pope
What will happen if great power goes not to a responsible person who is ready to sacrifice himself for the good of society, but to a group of marginalized people? Nothing good, which the Dregs will show you.
After being struck by lightning, a group of five young people gain various superpowers - from telepathy to time travel and even manipulation of sex drive. And after that, the streets of the city become even more dangerous, since no newly minted superhero knows what to do with the acquired powers. And they will have to fight, first of all, with the evil within themselves.
5. Doom Patrol (2019 - present)
Genre: fantasy, drama, action
Kinopoisk rating: 7.2
IMDb rating: 8
Country: USA
Producer: Dermott Downs, Harry Giergian and others
Music: Kevin Keiner, Clint Mansell
This is a funny, and at times touching story of lost people who did not ask for superhero powers, and if they did, they did not get what they expected.
A team of morally or physically mutilated almost people who go in search of their kidnapped "father" - the scientist Niels Calder - that's what the "Doom Patrol" is. And if you decide to watch it, then be prepared for a calm pace of the story, non-standard plot twists and strange, very strange superpowers of the main and secondary characters.
4. Legion (2017-2019)
Genre: fantasy, thriller, action
Kinopoisk rating: 7.4
IMDb rating: 8.3
Country: USA
Producer: John Cameron, Noah Hawley and others
Music: Jeff Russo
There was a schizophrenic named David Haller. He was treated for obsessive voices and pictures that arise in his imagination. And then it turned out that everything that he sees and hears “inside himself” is quite real.
This is the plot of Legion, which is an X-Men spin-off starring Dan Stevens. Fight for the paranoid-suspicious super prize, nicknamed Legion, in whose body several personalities coexist (and all with superpowers) will have a variety of powers. All this is furnished brightly, even a little surreal, with good special effects, so it won't be boring.
3. Lucky (2016)
Genre: fantasy, thriller, drama
Kinopoisk rating: 6.5
IMDb rating: 7.2
Country: United Kingdom
Producer: Andy Haye, David Caffrey et al
Music: Ben Bartlett, Nick Green, Corinne Bailey Raim
Policeman Harry Clayton was unlucky neither in his personal life, nor in his work, nor even in gambling. And he would have remained a miserable loser until the end of his days, if not for the mysterious stranger. She gave Harry a bracelet that allows him to control his luck.
But you have to pay for everything in this world. And for the bonus "+100" to luck, Clayton will have to say goodbye to something very dear to him.
2. Music Blog of Doctor Terrible (2008)
Genre: musical, fantasy, comedy
Kinopoisk rating: 8.3
IMDb rating: 8.5
Country: USA
Producer: Joss Whedon
Music: Jed Whedon
Perhaps this is the most unusual series about supervillains and superheroes from our collection. There are several reasons for this.
- It is filmed in the musical genre and includes 13 songs.
- It fits entirely in just 45 minutes. Moreover, the character of all the characters is fully revealed.
- Neil Patrick Harris, who played the main character, performed all the stunts on the set himself.
- Despite such a short format, Doctor Terrible is strong, bright and, more importantly, a completed project. After the final song, there is nothing to say, everything has already been said in a laconic and accessible language.
Doctor Terrible's Music Blog is about a clichéd nutty professor trying to take over the world. However, he is secretly in love with an ordinary girl. And he is constantly defeated by the superhero Captain Hammer, whose body is much stronger than the brain.
In the series, all the cliches from the comics are perfectly played, there are many witty remarks, and everyone who has watched this film masterpiece notes an excellent musical accompaniment.
1. Boys (2019-present)
Genre: musical, fantasy, comedy
Kinopoisk rating: 8.1
IMDb rating: 8.7
Country: USA
Producer: Philip Sgrikkia, Eric Kripke and others.
Music: Christopher Lennertz
You didn't think that a selection of the most non-standard serial movies about superheroes would do without the most sensational project of the last year?
It has everything to turn the superhero genre upside down:
- Insolent from permissiveness, supermen for whom the beauty of a suit and the whiteness of a smile are often much more important than the lives of ordinary people.
- A special detachment of "Boys", which hunts superheroes like mad animals, responding with cruelty to cruelty.
- Rivers of blood, mate, sex and dismemberment.
- A mega corporation that controls superheroes as a valuable media product.
So, if for some reason you have not yet watched the brutal, cruel and at the same time humorous "Boys", be sure to do it. If you have already watched, nothing prevents you from reconsidering, perhaps you will discover previously missed, interesting details.