- Complete Monster: The villain Rickshaw forces four heroes into a sadistic game wherein he will kill hostages for each of his challenges they fail, murdering one just to prove the severity of his threat. Throughout the challenges, Rickshaw murders hostages anyways against his word; tries to make the heroes commit suicide; attempts to force one to kill the others lest Rickshaw kill his sister; and at the end tries coercing the two surviving heroes to fight to the death. When mortally wounded, Rickshaw activates a detonator to spitefully take the city with him.
- Evil Is Cool: Even folks who hated the movie often called Rickshaw the best part of the film thanks to James Remar's scene-chewing performance.
- Fridge Logic: If the heroes have been operating for years, why do they have such unrealistic expectations when it comes to being a superhero?
- How did Charge manage to fake having super strength with nobody noticing for years?
- Lost in Medias Res: This is a major problem with the film. Very little of the backstory and the characters relations are explained. For example, Cutthroat feeling like he being treated as a second banana is first brought up when it become relevant to the plot.
- Narm: Literally all of the superhero actors give dull, stunted performances that makes them seem more bored with their circumstances rather than angered or intimidated.
- Spiritual Successor: Arguably, this film is one for JLA: Act of God. The plot is about superhumans losing their powers and are useless without them necessitating the Badass Normal to save day while getting tons of Character Shilling.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Let's just say a movie with an ambitious premise best described as "Kick-Ass meets Saw" seriously needed a larger budget. And better writers. And arguably better actors...
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