All Superheroes Must Die 2011

Charge/John, played by Jason Trost, Cutthroat/Ben, played by Lucas Till, The Wall/Charlie, played by Lee Valmassy, and Shadow/Jill, played by Sophie Merkley, awaken in a seemingly abandoned town, all bearing strange injection marks on their wrists. Through a network of televisions, their nemesis Rickshaw, portrayed by James Remar, broadcasts a ruthless claim: he has staged a citywide game that puts innocents at risk and has stripped the heroes of their powers. To prove his point, a civilian is killed near Cutthroat’s location, and Rickshaw instructs the group to converge at a designated meeting ground. A brief reunion reveals that Charge still retains some abilities, though the others are shaken; Rickshaw interjects with new orders, and Charge steps forward to lead the team, leaving Cutthroat visibly unsettled by the shift in dynamics.

The crew soon finds themselves in a hardware store, where Rickshaw forces each member to select a weapon before dividing them into pairs for a deadly trial. Charge and Cutthroat head to the lumber mill, while The Wall and Shadow move toward the scrap yard. In the mill, they discover civilians strapped to explosives whose fuses are already lit. Charge faces off against Sledgesaw, one of Rickshaw’s goons, while Cutthroat attempts to defuse the devices. Charge overpowers his foe, and the pair manage to cut the fuse—but Rickshaw remotely detonates the charges moments after Charge saves them both from a catastrophic blast. As the wreckage smolders, Cutthroat laments that, with his speed powers, he could have saved the civilians, a reflection that foreshadows the weight of their lost abilities.

Across town in the scrap yard, The Wall and Shadow are assaulted by Manpower, who wields a flamethrower. The Wall charges at him after the fuel runs out, only to fall without his powers, and Shadow, stripped of her own invisibility, cannot shield him from a fatal strike. When Charge and Cutthroat arrive, they defeat Manpower, but The Wall’s wounds are dire and deemed untreatable. Charge urges Shadow to stay with The Wall as he outlines a plan to defeat Rickshaw. He warns that Rickshaw doesn’t care about victory; he kills civilians simply to wound them. Still, his observation proves accurate when Rickshaw executes the trapped civilians moments after The Wall’s death, and then provides the group with the coordinates for a new “Bonus Round.”

The trio proceeds to a cabin where three civilians are held, finding three coffins bearing their names and a single gun. Rickshaw appears and offers a grim bargain: spare one civilian for each of them only if they commit suicide at their respective coffin. Charge, however, Takes the gun and executes the hostages himself, defending that Rickshaw would kill them anyway and that this act protects the others from temptation. Cutthroat, recognizing Charge’s unwavering resolve, trusts that his plan will carry them through, recalling how the four were once close friends and how Charge urged them to become heroes after gaining their powers. Flashbacks reveal Charge’s leadership and hint at the possibility of feelings between Charge and Shadow, though nothing was ever acted upon. Rickshaw congratulates Charge on the grim move and sends them toward a bar.

Inside the bar, two guns lie beside the TV. Rickshaw reappears, revealing that he has taken Cutthroat’s sister as a hostage and ordering Cutthroat to kill the other two to save her. Charge and Shadow plead for a different path, but Rickshaw strikes out in anger, injuring Shadow and slashing Charge across the chest with one knife before Charge drives his own knife into Rickshaw’s chest. Cutthroat dies in the chaos, and Rickshaw kills his sister in retribution. The friends mourn, and Charge confesses his love for Shadow, explaining that, unlike the others who gained powers and immorality from the mysterious object that fell from the sky, he never possessed powers and thus has aged steadily as time passed. He reveals that he can locate Rickshaw by sight, not by sound, but he needs the location of the next TV set to close the distance.

The two locate the next TV site, where Rickshaw forces one to kill the other in a cruel game of cat and mouse. Charge instructs Shadow to shoot as if he had died, ensuring Rickshaw would be distracted long enough for him to close in. Shadow reluctantly complies, and Charge then triangulates Rickshaw’s position and storms the hideout. A stunned Rickshaw, still alive, is shot with a shotgun and a failsafe device is triggered just as he dies. Charge tells Shadow to flee, but she stays to liberate the civilians in the Last Round and discovers Charge’s map, which marks Rickshaw’s remaining coordinates. Shadow locates Rickshaw, helps him to his feet, and the two retreat as the countdown ticks down, with only a minute to spare.

In a post-credits moment, a pair of eyes belonging to Cutthroat flicker open, hinting at an unspoken return.

The film weaves a taut, brutal arc about loyalty, sacrifice, and the price of power, following a quartet of once-closely bonded heroes who must reckon with betrayal, the loss of abilities, and their own capacity for violence as they chase a merciless foe through a ruined town.