8. Wanted
Wanted has the same essential seed of an idea but that is purely where the similarities end. The film tells the story of Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) discovering that he's the son of a professional assassin and deciding to join the secret guild his father worked for, the panic attacks he routinely suffers from actually being an untrained ability that results in bursts of superhuman strength, speed, and reflexes. Taking their targets from the binary codes contained in a mysterious tapestry, the film follows Gibson's induction and ultimate destruction of the group he was adopted into with all the style and effects you'd expect from a late 00's action film. The comic on the other hand is a little less cliche and a lot more bitter and twisted. Wesley Gibson is a thoroughly downtrodden and pathetic young man who is approached by the Fox, an assassin who shoots everyone in a sandwich shop before revealing to Gibson that she belongs a powerful organization of supervillains. The supervillains, known as the Fraternity, were born from desire to wipe out superheroes from the world after becoming tired of being repeatedly defeated and jailed and the six issue comic follows Gibson's initiation into this group to replace his father, a supervillain known as the Killer..