Super: Cops Vs Super Villain [updated]

We’ve all seen the classic setup. The sky tears open over a major metropolitan skyline. A caped demigod floats down to trade laser vision with a purple-skinned madman. Buildings crumble. Civilians scream. The hero saves the day, brushes the dust off his emblem, and flies off into the sunset.

It’s awesome. But it’s also lazy.

That is the moment the genre transcends. When the system fails, and the Super Cop has to decide if they are a cop first, or a human being second. Do they break the law to stop the monster? Do they shoot the unarmed Brute in the back of the head?

No, there aren't laser eyes. But Nicholas Angel is a Super Cop. The villain (Timothy Dalton’s Simon Skinner) is a Super Villain in a business suit. He controls the town. He has unlimited resources. He has a network of sleeper agents (the Neighborhood Watch).