Every R-Rated Superhero Movie Ranked From Worst to Best

Hey!! Youngsters Comics

This questionably punctuated phrase, discovered on prime the outdated “spinner racks” positioned in outdated drug shops and journal stands, sums up the enchantment — and the restrictions — of the primary few many years of comedian books. Comics have been for teenagers, plain and easy.

Whereas the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s produced some daring comics, it wasn’t till the Eighties that the general public’s understanding of comedian books started to develop as one thing greater than these colourful little pamphlets for teenagers. Even that shift occurred, it was nonetheless a few years earlier than the media impressed by these comics started to embody extra mature themes and concepts as effectively.

As of late, adult-oriented superheroes may be discovered throughout films and TV and streaming providers. 2024’s releases alone embrace Deadpool & Wolverine, a remake of one of many earliest R-rated superhero films The Crow, and a sequel to Joker, one of many highest-grossing R-rated films of any variety in historical past.

For the needs of this checklist, we’ve organized all of those films in accordance with their common rating on the movie-based social community Letterboxd. In accordance with their customers, the primary couple movies are “mature” or “for adults” solely in probably the most technical sense. However the previous couple of movies can stand alongside the perfect of the perfect of any style in historical past.

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