With 'Jupiter's Legacy,' the "Self-Aware Superhero" Genre Has Jumped the Shark Created by Steven S. DeKnight
Wanted fame. Like all of those properties, it's a deconstruction, this time of superheroes. Kinda. It doesn't really matter, since the capes-and-tights genre is already oversaturated to the point where the deconstructions get deconstructed. "What if there was a Superman that wasn't a perfect guy?" these shows dare to ask. Audiences already have The Boys and Invincible, so here's another show to tell you that in "real life," superheroics would actually be extremely violent and morally compromised. Isn't that just a wild idea? The show's problem isn't just that we're already privy to the self...
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