10 Superhero TV Shows That Completely Missed The Mark

The Cape didn’t sound good, look good and in the end, wasn’t good. Like Iron Fist being compared to his Defenders crew, The Cape perhaps misfired due to what it was replacing. Whilst, Heroes had faltered somewhat the show survived four seasons and garnered a large following. The Cape did not.

Vince Faraday is the Cape, a former soldier and now cop presumed dead. The story follows this “superhero” and his attempts to uncover the true identity of the villain The Chess.

The major issue here apart from the worst villain name ever? The absolute lack of powers that the Cape appeared to have. Faraday was hardly special, with a series of smoke and mirror tricks learned from a gang of bank robbers known as “The Carnival of Crime” the only sense of ‘power’ he could boast.

With the show lacking anything of particular interest, it was cancelled after just one series. Checkmate.