10 Superheroes The World Needs Right Now

Clark Kent’s a pretty dull fellow and instead of standing up for truth and justice, all his alter ego seems interested in these days is cashing the cheques from a series of increasingly clunky films. Far more interesting is his Spanish equivalent, who who wears red tights, a blue cape and a sequined mask.

Supersonic Man’s powers include the ability to see through walls, lift bulldozers (once they’ve turned into wooden props) and turn handguns into bananas, though he spends most of the film being dangled in front of rear-projected aerial footage while chintzy music plays. He’s on Earth to stop Dr Gulik (Cameron Mitchell), an evil genius living in a hollowed-out volcano who wants to kidnap a famous scientist and develop a world-conquering weapon.

In other words, a mild-mannered Spanish-speaking superhero has to defeat a crazy American billionaire in order to save the world from destruction. Which is easily done because Dr Gulik turns out to be a pushover, more interested in quoting Shakespeare and comparing himself to Julius Caesar than putting any serious thought into his masterplan.

Crazy billionaire taking over the planet? Couldn’t happen here.