Since The Boys is finally ending its run with season 5, Jack Quaid will likely need a worthy replacement for the show in the action genre. Interestingly, it looks like the actor's movie will not only be the perfect follow-up to his portrayal of Hughie in The Boys but also give him a strange but fascinating superpower from a 17-year-old superhero flick. Even before Jack Quaid starred as Hughie in The Boys, he had a few mainstream movie and TV projects, like Logan Lucky, Vinyl, and Rampage, under his belt. 1c3i4v

Though hopes for Kick-Ass 3have been high for over a decade, the anti-superhero franchise is currently returning in a Kick-Ass reboot. The Kick-Ass movies star Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Dave Lizewski, a timid high schooler who decides to put his comic book obsession to good use by becoming a real-life superhero. Chloë Grace Moretz co-stars as Mindy Macready, better known as Hit-Girl, a much more effective real-life superhero whose combat skills put Kick-Ass to shame. With its clever dissection of superhero tropes, the Kick-Ass series was ahead of its time.

Matthew Vaughn is working on a new Kick-Ass movie, but this announcement, along with a previous update, makes his plans for Kick-Ass’ reboot trilogy even more confusing. The rise of the superhero genre made way for darker and more violent characters to get a chance on the big screen, and among them is Kick-Ass. Created by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., Kick-Ass focuses on the young vigilante of the same name, who, after meeting fellow vigilante Hit-Girl, goes on violent missions to stop crime across the city.

Kick-Ass is officially coming back with a reboot trilogy, but the plans for this return are already risking repeating the same mistake that killed the franchise a decade ago. The rise of the superhero genre in film thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe made way for other, more obscure and mature superheroes to be adapted to the big screen. Among them is Kick-Ass, created by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., and which made the jump to the big screen with Matthew Vaughn as director and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Dave Lizewski a.k.a. Kick-Ass.

With a decade gone since the last movie came out, Matthew Vaughn has re-confirmed his Kick-Assreboot plans and given a filming timeline. Based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s graphic novels of the same name, the first two movies centered on geeky teenager Dave Lizewski as he sought out to become a real-life superhero, eventually becoming embroiled in a larger world of like-minded people as they faced a variety of organized crime. Serving as star-making turns for Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloë Grace Moretz, the first movie garnered widespread acclaim and was a box office success, spawning a far less successful sequel.

Kick-Ass has come out of retirement, with Dave Lizewski putting the costume back on once more – for what could either be the beginning of a new era, or the character's final adventure. Mark Millar's Big Game series has been full of twists and turns, shocks and surprises, but its most exciting moment yet comes as the original Millarverse hero returns to his iconic green outfit, becoming Kick-Ass once more.

Creator Mark Millar continues to mash his various iconic properties together into what is being called the Millarverse, a shared continuity which debuted in the crossover series Big Game – with the third issue set to feature a confrontation between Kick-Ass's Hit-Girland Millar's villainous version of Batman, known as Nemesis, in what is set to be a graphic, bloody battle of attrition.

Warning: Contains Spoilers from Big Game #1!

Kick-Assholds the key to the Millarverse, the interconnected comic book stories from the mind of Mark Millar, as revealed by the creator himself in an interview with CBR, where he discussed the Big Game crossover event, which serves to bring nearly two decades worth of independent comic titles into a single sprawling continuity.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the star of Kick-Assand Kick-Ass 2, and here's how old he was in both films. While Aaron Taylor-Johnson has gone on to become a pretty major star, the Kick-Ass series was one of the actor's breakout roles, with the action comedy being what launched him into stardom. Due to the nature of the films, Aaron Taylor-Johnson was pretty young when acting in Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2, with his age having an incredible influence on the films.