With Captain America: Civil War and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice on the horizon,the allure of superhero-on-superhero scraps never loses its appeal. But what does our enjoyment say about us?As a kid, one of my favourite comics was a particularly improbable 1974 Hulk v Thing battle in which the two muscle-bound superheroes switched brains. After a few pages to set up the tall concept, or The Thing-in-the-Hulk’s body and the Hulk-in-the-Thing’s body proceeded to hit each other for the rest of the issue,destroying property and grimacing, not necessarily in that order. No saving the world, and no foiling evil plots – just two monsters with swapped personalities beating the supersnot out of each other.
With Captain America: Civil War and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice on the horizon,2016 is shaping up to be a year with lots of superhero-on-superhero action, beating seven shades out of one other. Rarely in the history of the big screen has there ever been so many muscle-bound goombahs thumping each other for so shrimp reason amid so much hype.
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Source: theguardian.com