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Briton wrote:

Sendraks wrote:

Briton wrote:Enough of this childish super hero (or heroine) shite FFS.

Wut?

Well you'd think programme/film makers would have a bit more imagination (I was ranting at them). Just personal taste...I think all this super-hero output is crappy.

Heresy! You Philistine, you! Can't you appreciate that superheroes represent our innate human need to believe in something bigger than ourselves...?



Kidding!

Edit: Damn! Matt_B beat me to it!

Actually, the superhero is just an overt example of the much overused story-line of "the one", a messiah figure or a lone hero that swings the balance... be it a Bruce Willis or a Steven Segal... or a Superman or an Iron Man.
Sometimes it's a brash hero (e.g. Spider-man) or a flawed anti-hero, but the notion of "the one" that prevails against all odds is basically the same.
It takes a writer like George Lucas to lay it on really thick (Anakin was "the chosen one" who would "fulfill the prophecy and bring balance to the Force"), but the notion of a "chosen one" as plot device can be seen in any number of movies.
John Carter of Mars was a "chosen one".
Leeloo in The Fifth Element was at least good to look at.
There's another "chosen one" in the upcoming Jupiter Ascending, which looks like a mash-up of the two aforementioned movies.

Plenty of costumed superheroes still to come. The following are all in the works...
Marvel's Ant-Man, more X-Men movies, a reboot of The Fantastic Four, a Justice League movie, and so on...

Groan.