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The original was posted on /r/twobestfriendsplay by /u/solidoutlaw on 2023-10-07 22:15:05.

I’ll start off: I found out that Mark Millar did a reboot of one of the “Nemesis” story he wrote years ago, the reboot being called “Nemesis Reloaded”. Now the original story, as well as Millar himself, are known for being overly edgy to the point of the story quality diminishing greatly as a result of it all. And…that rings true for Nemesis Reloaded. To give the gist of it, the story is basically “What if Batman was a villain and a terrorist”? And from there, it’s just five issues of him showing off how cool and smart he is and how he’s 10 steps ahead of everyone else, which, unsurprisingly, made the story kinda boring because no one made him struggle at any point in the main story.

It ends with the continued jerking on how cool and awesome he’s supposed to be, except for when they flashback to a big plot reveal they were hinting at that’s actually quite interesting (spoilers for both the comic and Mark Millar stories) Nemesis Reloaded takes place in the same universe as Wanted. Throughout the story, it flashes back to Nemesis when he was younger, being trained by a mysterious organization, with the leader telling him about the mystery of the president that America literally forgot existed. Once Nemesis completes his training, it’s revealed that the president was forgotten because he knew about an era where super heroes were common place, as well as when all the villains teamed up to defeat them all and take over the world. The mysterious man takes off his mask to reveal himself as Wesley Gibson (no longer designed to look like Eminem, thankfully), and welcomes Gibson into their fraternity, implying more to come.

I’m not the biggest fan of Wanted. In fact, I think the movie, for all it’s flaws, does multiple things better. But that final reveal actually had me nodding my head and going “Okay! If we’re doing this, I’m interested and seeing where it’ll go, for better or for worse.”