Here’s Stan Lee’s latest sad superhero-based project

Some hoi polloi get annoyed at Stan Lee ’s cameo in all the Marvel movies , but not me . Because I experience that when Lee is shoot those appearance , he ’s prevented from making the irrelevant , uncheerful , terrible , generic superhero - found labor with which he ’s fill up the last 20 or so year of his life . Like his latest , the “ material - similar superhero ” “ reality competition ” vane series “ Academy of Heroes , ” whose trailer you may see above .

In “ Academy , ” Lee has gathered a variety of those altruistic , foolish and often quite deluded phratry who put on costume and police their cities at night , in hypothesis to “ train ” them to be honorable “ superheroes . ” But since this is a Top Chef / Top Model excretion - character reality show , Lee ’s going to get rid of one “ hero ” per week until he ’s leave with the “ ultimate hero ” or something . expect , even if you think this show will actually do these people some undecomposed – which it obviously will not – it still means only one of the player will terminate up “ to the full trained , ” while Lee sends the rest of them home to be stab to death while trying to end a mugging or something . ( A cynic might also note that anyone who decides to take a open frame from “ defend criminal offense ” to go be on a Stan Lee - hosted entanglement series may be slightly more interested in self - advancement than the well-being of others . )

Honestly , my biggest problem is that Lee keeps call these guys “ superheroes ” when , true by the most benevolent of standards , they ’re just even “ Heron . ” They do n’t have any superpowers , and I think “ Academy ” is seriously missing its niche by not ca-ca the show about adjudicate to give these people some superpowers . Honestly , if the contestants had to 1 ) get a radioactive spider - collation , 2 ) survive a da Gamma bomb and 3 ) had their parents murdered by a mugger right in front of them , I ’d watch every individual episode .