10 Annoying Things Every Superhero Movie Does

9. All Corporate Businessmen Are Bad (Unless They're The Hero)

As seen in: Iron Man, Ant Man, Spider-Man

When it comes to writing a villain evil enough to go toe to toe with a superhero, writers often boil it down to two choices: an all-powerful alien or a disgruntled businessman (usually a CEO) who ends up involved in some kind of experiment.

Going further, it's common for these villains to be friends with the hero and, at first, appear to be on the right side of the law, eventually showing their true motives lie in greed and power. Though it's always been popular, since the late 2000s and especially into the 2010s, big business has been repeatedly depicted as an immoral, untrustworthy force with a seemingly charming exterior, with directors perhaps trapping into real-world anxieties.

Of course, the exception to the "all business is bad" trope is when the hero - like Tony Stark - is involved with the corporate world, but even then these characters always have a sinister double like Obadiah Stane who shows them just how evil their company really is.