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We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen

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madarauchiha's review

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adventurous emotional funny inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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I love but hate superheroes. Not to be an elitist hipster, but marvel and dc comics are incredibly tedious these days. The rote, flashy, emotionless 3 hour long movies and poorly done tv series make me want to avoid the genre altogether. This isn't exactly this.

The best I could relate this to is a sci fi movie. Not a book adaption of a sci fi movie, but definitely one that you'd catch in smaller showings before popping up on daytime television to fill in some slots. It has the potential to become a cult classic.

I like that it wasn't clingy to standard hero vs villain plots. I was expecting a connect the dots, very basic premise, and was glad to find there is a little more thought put into this.

I think the female main character was treated fairly well as far as comic book type superheroes are treated. 

I have mixed feelings on how the police were portrayed in this story. They are definitely not heroes in real life and can we please get over copaganda already? Us Asians are not exempt from their brutality, no matter how much you want to be the Model Minority.

I would love to see more from this story line, honestly. It sort of gives me Megamind feelings but not as an exact copy. More like something in the same venn diagram section, you know?

Content warnings:
Minor emetophobia

Major: pro police sentiment, alcohol abuse, gore, death, memory loss, violence, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric institutions, human experimentation, medical abuse, torture, abuse, unreality, demolition, live burial / claustrophobia,

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