Despite this setback it has inspired me into creating a few superhero universes of my own; City of Adventures, A Heroes Journey, and Danger Family Adventures.
City of Adventures: The inspiration behind this is from the tv series Young Justice, with a touch of Invincible. Both of those series had great ideas that involve the coming of age of teen heroes who will eventually grow up and see that being a superhero is more complex than what they've expected. City of Adventures is a satire of growing up. There is no status quo. The teen heroes will deal with the challenges of growing up and society changing around them. How they'll adapt to it is up to them.
The closest series that came to mind in regards to that was Watchmen. In Watchmen the characters, some of them, grow old and as society changes so do the heroes. Some for worse while others still try to keep an idealistic mindset.
A Heroes Journey: While it has a superhero character this series is more of an homage of anime and old school science fiction tropes. For instance the series takes the concept of a harem anime but updates it in the manner that the participants involved look better in the process. It also showcase a grim reality concerning alien invasions and superhero works. At their competent the aliens still win despite the heroes assembling, it has to take a full united front of the Earth's defense and several decades of planning for them to strike back and win. And it answered a question that not many alien invasion scenarios answer, why cant the villains and heroes join forces against an invading threat?
Danger Family Adventures: This is a genre throwback to the Pulp Adventure Era. Its basically what if Johnny Quest is a female who grew up and had a family of her own?
Reconstruction is the key theme of these works. It takes apart the genre they're based on, understand how it works, then put it back together again. The superhero genre has always been taken apart but why not put an effort in putting it back together?
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