Frank's son, Chris, suggests a different approach. Frank believes Kick-Ass is responsible for the attacks and targets him, though he mistakenly kills a party entertainer who is dressed like Kick-Ass. They have been undermining Frank's operations by raiding his warehouses, robbing his money and destroying his drugs. Against the protest of his former partner Marcus Williams, Damon trains himself and Mindy as preparation for getting revenge on Frank. His wife committed suicide, leaving behind his daughter Mindy. Framed by Mafia boss Frank D'Amico, he was jailed. Big Daddy's real identity is Damon Macready, formerly an honest cop. However, Hit-Girl and Big Daddy pay him a visit and encourage him. After coming home, Dave realizes he is in over his head and plans to give up crime-fighting. Before they can kill him, two costumed vigilantes, Hit-Girl and her father, Big Daddy, intervene, easily slaughter the thugs and leave with their money. At Rasul's place, Kick-Ass is quickly overwhelmed by Rasul's thugs. Responding to a request from Katie, he confronts a drug dealer, Rasul, who has been harassing her.
Calling himself "Kick-Ass", he sets up a Myspace account where he can be contacted for help. Dave returns to crime-fighting and gains notoriety after saving a man from a gang attack.
Unhappy with the misunderstanding, Dave nevertheless appreciates the opportunity to get closer to Katie. As a result, his longtime crush, Katie Deauxma, immediately attempts to become his friend. In his absence from school, a rumor spreads that he is gay. After recovering, he gains a capacity to endure pain and enhanced durability due to having some bones replaced with metal. During his first outing, he gets stabbed and hit by a car. He purchases and modifies a scuba diving suit and arms himself with batons. Inspired by comic books, Dave plans to become a real-life superhero. In 2018, Vaughn announced his intentions to reboot the series.ĭave Lizewski is an ordinary teenager who lives in Staten Island, New York. The film has gained a strong cult following since its release on DVD and Blu-ray.Ī sequel, written and directed by Jeff Wadlow and produced by Vaughn, was released in August 2013, with Johnson, Mintz-Plasse, and Moretz reprising their roles. In 2011 it won the Empire Award for Best British Film. Despite having generated some controversy for its profanity and violence performed by a child, Kick-Ass was well received by both critics and audiences. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 26 March 2010, by Universal Pictures, and in the United States on 16 April, by Lionsgate. Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy ( Nicolas Cage), a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico ( Mark Strong) and his son Red Mist ( Christopher Mintz-Plasse), has trained his eleven-year-old daughter ( Chloë Grace Moretz) to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl. It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski ( Aaron Johnson), who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". It is based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. In the mid-1980s, gay men in the San Francisco Bay Area who called themselves "bears" met informally at Bear Hug (sex) parties and via the newly-emerging Internet.Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero film directed by Matthew Vaughn from a screenplay by Jane Goldman and Vaughn. The term "bear" was popularized by Richard Bulger, who, along with his then partner Chris Nelson (1960–2006), founded Bear Magazine in 1987. George Mazzei wrote an article for The Advocate in 1979 called "Who's Who in the Zoo?", that characterized gay men as seven types of animals, including bears. Īt the onset of the bear movement, some bears separated from the gay community at large, forming "bear clubs" to create social and sexual opportunities of their own.
Many clubs are loosely organized social groups others are modeled on leather biker-patch clubs, with a strict set of bylaws, membership requirements, and charities. Bear clubs often sponsor large yearly events – "bear runs" or "bear gatherings" – like the annual events such as Southern HiBearNation in Melbourne, Bear Pride and Bear Essentials in Sydney, Bearstock in Adelaide, HiBearNation in St. Louis, Missouri, SF Bear Weekend, CBL's Bear Hunt, Bear Pride in Chicago, Atlanta Bear Pride, Texas Bear Round Up (TBRU) in Dallas, Orlando Bear Bash, and Bear Week in Provincetown (since 2001), drawing regional, national and international visitors. Many LGBT events attract a significant bear following, such as Southern Decadence in New Orleans. "Sociology of the Urban Gay Bear", written by Les K.