History Film / SuperheroMovie

* BadassPreacher: In a scene the Pope is hitting Rick. (Especially if we consider that an earlier scene, Rick had defeated several security guards easily.)

* TooDumbToLive: Rick's father. One photo of him shows him dressed as a Klu Klux Klan member among a group of less-than-amused black people.

* StopHelpingMe: When the young Rick tries to fight off a mugger, the mugger's gun shoots wildly, injuring Rick's father and mother. Rick's father begs him to stop after a few moments of this.

* ButtMonkey: Rick. And Lance, to an extent.

* CompositeCharacter: Lance fills the roles of both [[JerkJock Flash Thompson]] and Harry Osborn.
* EmbarrassingCoverUp

* JerkJock: Lance

'''Uncle Albert:''' But I love you like your father did. I looked after you like your father did. I even had sex with your mother just like your father did!

:: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by an irritated eye-roll from the Hourglass immediately afterward.

Not by SeltzerAndFriedberg, it's actually from Craig Mazin and David Zucker, the creative team behind ''ScaryMovie 3'' and ''4''. While ''Superhero Movie'' still relies on some of their gags, it can still be considered as good a quality movie as the ScaryMovie series.

Being a parody of the ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'' films, it uses the basic premise. Kid isn't popular, goes on field trip to science-y place, gets bitten by a bug, gets superpowers. Meanwhile, the kid's crush's boyfriend's uncle's company is working on an untested device that can cure anything and tries it on himself to heal his terminal illness, which is due to kill him in one hour. It explodes, and gives him some nifty powers that allow him to suck the life out of people, starting with the board of directors who were observing his demonstration.

!!This Movie provides examples of:

--> '''Dragonfly''': I'm not wearing any diamonds.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by an irritated eye-roll from the Hourglass immediately afterward.

-->"Wow, this is a ''really'' tall building."

-->'''Lou''' (after [[spoiler: a crotch-mounted bomb is right in his face]]): Oh fuck.

* ShoutOut: Leslie Nielson [[spoiler: accidentally sends Stephen Hawking's wheelchair into some railing, and launching Mr. Hawking flying into the air]], almost exactly as he did to OJ Simpson in the first [[TheNakedGun Naked Gun]] movie.

-->'''Rick''': You're not my father.
-->'''Uncle Albert''': But I love you like your father did. I looked after you like your father did. I even had sex with your mother just like your father did!

* ActorAllusion: Rick accidentally kneeling on Leslie Nielsen's groin. It's in the trailer. It's also in ''[[Film/TheNakedGun Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear]]''.

* DivorcedInstallment: Apparently the script began life as ''ScaryMovie 4'', but got turned into its own film after the producers realised they weren't actually spoofing any horror flicks.

* BadassPreacher: In a scene the Pope is hitting rick.(Especially if we consider that an earlier scene, Rick had defeated several security guards easily.)

Oh great, another [[ShallowParody _____ Movie]]...

Wait, what?

[[AvertedTrope It's not actually half bad]]?

It's often lumped into the same category as SeltzerAndFriedberg movies, often unfairly, although it received negative reviews from critics, the humour was matched to that of ScaryMovie.

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* RichesToRags: Rick's family was worth billions when he was a little boy. Unfortunately his father was a terrible investor (telling his son rid of goggle stock and putting everything into Enron while he was dying), so by present day he is middle class.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Rick seems to do this a lot. [[spoiler: his parents deaths included.]]

* BeardOfSorrow: Parodied [[spoiler: It's fake]].

* DolledUpInstallment: Inverted. Apparently the script began life as ''ScaryMovie 4'', but got turned into its own film after the producers realised they weren't actually spoofing any horror flicks.

* RichesToRags: Rick's family was worth billions when he was a little boy. Unfortunately his father was a terrible investor (getting rid of google stock and putting everything into Enron), so by present day he is middle class.

* DeadBabyComedy: Rick being tricked into attacking the Dalai Lama, and the fight that ensues.