History Anime / SuperCrooks2021

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Johnny's crew are also his friends. Really they are buddies that run heists together. Thus they never mean him any real harm but a devastating like of foresight and planning means that they have screwed him over on more than one occasion. The most notable is getting Johnny thrown into the slammer, causing him to miss [[spoiler: his wedding to Kasey]].

** The setting for the Bastard heist is hold in Japan instead of Spain. More specifically, it's an island close to Japan.

* ReducedToBadass: When everyone's superpowers are nullified, Preatorian still easily beats up Johny and his accomplices. Then a depowered Gladiator fairly easily beats up Preatorian.

* AdaptationExpansion: The animated version expands on how each characters know one another, and the events leading to the original storyline.

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Gladiator doesn't join the heist for the money, nor does he care about screwing over Matts. He hates the thought of working with villains and only does so because they're blackmailing him and he wants to get back at Praetorian for beschmirching the superhero name. Indeed, [[spoiler:Gladiator lets Praetorian give the rest of the team a beating before stepping in and easily handing Praetorian's ass to him.]]

* {{Technopath}}: Downplayed. Johnny's electricity powers give him some control over electronic devices by messing with their circuitry.

** Gladiator's motivation is changed slightly from the comics. Instead of being an ArmoredClosetGay who sleeps around on the downlow, he's out and married to a man -- but still sleeps around on the downlow. Johnny still blackmails him into joining the crew, but by threatening to reveal his indiscretions rather than his sexuality. (In the English dub, Gladiator is still an ArmoredClosetGay who sleeps around on the downlow.)

** Gladiator's motivation is changed slightly from the comics. Instead of being an ArmoredClosetGay who sleeps around on the downlow, he's out and married to a man -- but still sleeps around on the downlow. Johnny still blackmails him into joining the crew, but by threatening to reveal his indiscretions rather than his sexuality.

** Gladiator's motivation is changed from the comics. Instead of being an ArmoredClosetGay who sleeps around on the downlow, he's out and married to a man -- but still sleeps around on downlow.

* CreatorProvincialism: The Bastard heist's setting moving from Spain to Japan allows the Japanese writer, director, and animator to include many Japanese cultural hallmarks.
* CoolOldGuy: The Heat, as in the comics, is an elderly ally who uses a heat gun. The anime makes him even cooler -- instead of having PlayingWithFire powers, he kept his comics reputation of being very accomplished supervillain for decades, but this time [[BadassNormal without the need of superpowers]]. He's also able to make successful robberies and heists without the need to kill anyone.

* FingerSnapLighter: Variation, Johnny holds his palm over a cigarette and uses his ShockAndAwe powers to light it. He later lights TK's cigarette from a distance.

* WickedCultured: Supervillain Matts keeps Creator/PietMondrian paintings in his office and waxes philosophical about the art's abstractions and meanings.

* TheHeist:
** The first act involves Johnny and his friends doing a low-level plan to rob several jewelry stores.
** The second act starts with Carmine recruiting the group to infiltrate a superhero headquarters, in order to retrieve a helmet of an old villain. [[spoiler: They pull it off, if barely, but it doesn't last, and it was AllForNothing in the end.]]
** The third act of the anime adapts the original comic story where Johnny rallies the gang himself five years later. This time, to steal a valuable suitcase from the TheDreaded Christopher Matts, AKA The Bastard.

* WindsOfDestinyChange: New character Kismet's power is to induce bad luck around him.

* AdaptationDyeJob: The Gladiator's criminal costume is pink in the comic, but red in the anime.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Carmine's plan might have gone off without a hitch had [[spoiler:Praetorian -- a "superhero" in league with the Network -- (a) not gone to the bathroom while the other Union of Justice members left to deal with their fake ZombieApocalypse and (b) had SuperHearing as his randomly activated power.

* ShockAndAwe: Johnny has powers over electricity and can use it to control electronic devices of all sorts, from ATM machines to planes.

** Subverted by the Bastard, the world's top supervillain. During his farewell speech he relates that his villain career probably started when he killed his mother...

* SpannerInTheWorks: Carmine's plan might have gone off without a hitch had [[spoiler:Praetorian (a) not gone to the bathroom while the other Union of Justice members left to deal with their fake ZombieApocalypse and (b) had SuperHearing as his randomly activated power.

* SpinOff: It's set within the world of ''Series/JupitersLegacy'', with the Utopian and the Union of Justice directly mentioned in the first episode, and showing up in person later on, but follows an otherwise unrelated set of characters.

* Kacey, Johnny's beautiful and more sensibly ambitious girlfriend, who has a CompellingVoice.

''Super Crooks'' is a {{superhero}} [[TheCaper heist]] anime based on the comic ''ComicBook/{{Supercrooks}}'' by Creator/MarkMillar. A SpinOff of ''Series/JupitersLegacy'', it was directed by Dai Satō, written by Motonobu Hori, with music by Music/TowaTei. It was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on November 25, 2021.

Johnny Bolt once had dreams of using his [[ShockAndAwe electricity powers]] for heroism. But after causing a tragic incident in his hometown, he falls into a life of petty crime. He eventually recruits a group of superpowered criminals for one big heist.

* FingerSnapLighter: Variation, Johnny holds his palm over a cigarette and uses his ShockAndAwe powers to light it.

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Roddy and Sammy have healing powers and put them to very good use; they're frequently losing limbs and taking injuries that would kill a normal person dozens of times over. At one point, Roddy jumps head first into a plane's propeller and gets turned into bloody mist, but he's alive the next time we see him.

** The anime adaptation starts with Carmine recruiting the group to infiltrate a superhero headquarters, in order to retrieve a helmet of an old villain. [[spoiler: They pull it off, if barely, but it doesn't last, and it was AllForNothing in the end.]]

* StartOfDarkness: The first episode serves as the criminal protagonist's origin story. Upset at causing a terrible incident that hurt many people, Johnny realizes he can use his electricity powers for crime instead when he accidentally triggers a nearby ATM to release money. SmashCut to him being an adult criminal in jail.

* AdaptationDyeJob: The Gladiator criminal costume is pink in the comic, but red in the anime.

* AdaptationalSuperPowerChange: The Heat in the comics has fire manipulation powers. In the animated version, he's got no powers at all.
* CoolOldGuy: The Heat, as in the comics, is an elderly ally who uses a heat gun in conjunction with his powers. The anime explains that he has been a very accomplished supervillain for decades without the need of superpowers, and able to make successful robberies and heists without the need to kill anyone.

* AdaptationSuperPowerChange: The Heat in the comics has fire manipulation powers. In the animated version, he's got no powers at all.

* AdaptationDyeJob: The Gladiator criminal costume is pink in the comic, but a different color in the anime.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Like most of Millar's works, the anime had to take many liberties and changes to adapt it for a wider audience. While it still maintains a dark comedic tone, a lot of the author's usual cynicism and over the top crassness is absent from the anime. In particular, a lot of Gladiator's more problematic aspects from the comic (being blackmailed for being in the closet, numerous gay jokes at his expense, his intentionally pink heist costume, etc.) have been changed or removed.
* ShockAndAwe: Johnny has powers over electricity.

* SpinOff: It's set within the world of ''Series/JupitersLegacy'', with the Utopian and the Union of Justice directly mentioned in the first episode, but follows an otherwise unrelated set of characters.

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Johnny Bolt once had dreams of using his [[ShockAndAwe electricity powers]] for heroism. But after causing a tragic incident in his hometown, he falls into a life of petty crime, and recruits a group of superpowered criminals for a big heist job -- targeting the world's top villain, Christopher Matts aka The Bastard.