History Anime / SuperCrooks2021

* The Heat/Carmine, Kacey's elderly mentor who, in his prime, was reputed as a formidable villain despite having no powers of his own.

* TK [=McCabe=], a telekinetic and Johnny's friend from prison.

* NightmareFuel: Kasey’s fake demise in the last episode when The Bastard makes [[YourHeadASplode her head explode]]. It seemed as if Kasey died for real, but as it turns out, it was an illusion she placed on The Bastard, and that it was actually his henchman whose [[YourHeadASplode head was exploded by him]].

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: One year later, we get a look at the crew and what they're up to now:

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Johnny's crew are also his friends. Really they are buddies that run heists together. Unfortunately, a devastating lack 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, which also ruins their relationship]].
* YourHeadAsplode: The Bastardcan increase the pressure inside a person’s head and cause it to explode, which he inflicts on anyone he can physically see in his sight. [[spoiler: What seemingly happens to Kasey in the finale, except it turns out to be one of the Bastard's men.]]

* BerserkButton: The Bastard ''hates'' surprises. Makes sense given some control freak tendencies he has, especially in his later years. [[spoiler:Poor Count Orlok learned this the hard way. Especially harsh since [[WeUsedToBeFriends the two of them used to be friends]] a long time ago.]]

* Kacey, Johnny's beautiful and more sensibly ambitious girlfriend, who can hypnotize people through illusions.

* BewareTheSuperman: On the villains side, The Bastard can make people's heads explode any time he pleases from a distance and makes liberal use of it; he also runs most of the villain activity in the world and has many authority figures in his pocket. On the "hero" side Rubberball starts destroying residential buildings, crushing cars and tearing up roads in an attempt to catch Johnny and his friends, who to that point hadn't harmed anyone. The Praetorian starts murdering innocent bystanders the second he's off security cameras and is working for The Bastard. Even Gladiator, the only truly heroic hero in the story doesn't think twice about property damage.
* BroughtDownToBadass: When everyone's superpowers are nullified, Preatorian still easily beats up Johny and his accomplices. Then a depowered Gladiator fairly easily beats up Preatorian.
* BerserkButton: The Bastard ''hates'' surprises. Makes sense given some control freak tendencies he has, especially in his later years. [[spoiler:Poor Orlok learned this the hard way. Especially harsh since [[WeUsedToBeFriends the two of them used to be friends]] a long time ago.]]

** 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 TheDreaded Christopher Matts, AKA The Bastard.

* 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, and can tank hits by Gladiator due to their HealingFactor. 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.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Johnny's crew are also his friends. Really they are buddies that run heists together. Unfortunately, a devastating lack 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]].
* YourHeadAsplode: The Bastard has this as a superpower, inflicting it on anyone he can physically see in his sight. [[spoiler: What seemingly happens to Kasey in the finale, except it turns out to be one of the Bastard's men.]]

* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: What seemingly happens to Kasey in the finale, except it turns out to be one of the Bastard's men.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: One year later, we get a look at the crew

** 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.

* AscendedExtra: Due to the AdaptationExpansion, everyone gets more to do than they did in the original comic, but special mention goes to Johnny's old crew (Forecast, Kismet, and Transmit) who go from one-panel characters to a group that gets to do two low-level heists with Johnny.

** Tk took his family on a vacation to in Asia with a yacht he paid for in cash.

* WhereAreTheNowEpilogue: One year later, we get a look at the crew

** Gladiator's motivation is changed slightly from the comics in the Japanese version. Instead of being an ArmoredClosetGay who sleeps around on the downlow (like in the comics and in the English dub), 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.

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Surprisingly rare for stories where a big bad has great publicity, it actually doesn't take Johnny and the crew taking down the Praetorian once and for all to crush his fake persona in the eyes of the public. While he is acquitted of the charges, at some point during the period of the time skip he has been exposed for his crimes with many citizens sure of his guilt even after trial. Some even go as far as saying they knew he was villian, suggesting that his public image was actually see-through to lots of people.

* Shout-Out:

* ConvictedbyPublicOpinion: Surprisingly rare for stories where a big bad has great publicity, it actually doesn't take Johnny and the crew taking down the Praetorian once and for all to crush his fake persona in the eyes of the public. While he is acquitted of the charges, at some point during the period of the time skip he has been exposed for his crimes with many citizens sure of his guilt even after trial. Some even go as far as saying they knew he was villian, suggesting that his public image was actually see-through to lots of people.

** A lot of traits about the Praetorian, both physical and power-wise,are reminiscent of characters in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

* ZombieApocalypse: Invoked by the crew, who use TK's {{telekinesis}} and Forecast's WeatherManipulation to draw corpses out of their graves and move towards civilians in hordes. They pin it on a "resurrected" {{necromancer}} villain in order to draw the Union of Justice away from their headquarters. Lampshaded repeatedly, as a reporter compares it to ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'', Forecast namedrops Creator/GeorgeARomero, and Paragon likens it to ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies''.

* 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 lack 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]].

* BaldOfAwesome: The animation takes time to focus on the bald head of Gladiator, a brawny and powerful superhero, such emphasizing how it shines when he leaps out of the water.

''Super Crooks'' is a {{superhero}} [[TheCaper heist]] anime based on the comic ''ComicBook/{{Supercrooks}}'' by Creator/MarkMillar. It was directed by Dai Satō, written by Motonobu Hori, animated by Creator/StudioBONES, with music by Music/TowaTei.