10 Annoying Things Every Superhero Movie Does

1. The Hero And Villain Have The Same Powers

As seen in: Black Panther, Logan, Ant Man

A super-villain is always constructed to be the perfect ying to their hero's yang, but studios like to make this relationship as explicit as possible, often making heroes and villains share the same powers, and often even the same costumes.

Perhaps the most recent example came in Black Panther, where the titular hero went toe to toe with Killmonger, a villain who donned a strikingly similar suit and the exact same set of powers as the protagonist. It made for a great showdown, as the only thing differentiating the two was their ideological alignment, but it would have landed so much better had audiences not seen superheroes fight their exact doubles so many times before.

It's no lie that some of the best super-villains are mirror images of their foils, but there's a way to retain this dynamic without literally making them exact doubles. The Joker and Batman are defined by being two sides of the same coin, but that relationship is so interesting because physically they're so different, unlike, say, Iron Monger and Iron Man, who are distinguished simply by one being "good" and one being "bad".