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After accidentally discovering a superhero?s secret identity, a young psychiatrist is coerced into treating the various mental disorders of a group of eccentric crime-fighters.
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What is your character’s flaw (and inner journey)?
What are the stakes if the psychiatrist chooses not to become shrink-to-the-heroes?
I like this superhero story, which reads as if it will be told through a genre other than Action. It’s not clear what the genre is: Comedy? Thriller?
The stakes are not clear. The young psychiatrist must treat the mental disorders… Before the villain confronts them?… Before they die of old age?…
Try this: instead of ‘young’, psychiatrist, change it for an adjective which expresses more about his/her challenge… A child… or jilted… or corporate… or _____ psychologist,,,
Thank you for sharing!
What nicholasandrewhalls said.
But apart from that, this idea sounds like a lot of fun.
Does the psychiatrist become a stand-in superhero when the heroes in treatment are too down to fight crime?
Thanks for the feedback! Well, as far as flaws go, imagine the disturbing dichotomy of an individual with Superman’s powers and social responsibilities but Charlie Sheen’s love of Peruvian blow and revolving hookers. Surround him with a domestically violent, crime-fighting gay couple and a bulimic supermodel, whose vomit melts porcelain toilets. The psychiatrist is saved by the leader of THE GUILD, SERAPHIM, and offered the opportunity of a lifetime. Feeling indebted, he agrees. Once sworn to secrecy, he realizes that if he makes any attempts to expose what he knows, he will have his mind scrabbled, losing all of his memories, including those of his precious lost love.
What’s your “B” Story? Why not make the shrink a woman?
Are all the women nothing more than sex objects, whores? Way to go to attract the female demographic — NOT!
Thanks DPG! No, they’re not all whores. Actually, the Dr’s dead fiance becomes a type of imaginary guide for him. Since he can’t tell another living soul, she become his confidant and assist him in helping the heroes. However, should he break his vow of secrecy, he loses her and his sanity.
Put it that way, and you got something that could work as a “B” story. Shades and shadows the Jungian anima! Who is her inner ally. Now that is more interesting all than standard issue, formulaic bodacioius bling-bling.
What do you mean? Something like this?
After accidently discovering a superheroes secret identity, a young psychiatrist is coerced into treating the various mental disorders of a group of eccentric crime-fighters, at the peril of losing his own sanity and more importantly, the memories of his one true love.
Clarification: what’s the genre? Super hero or a hybrid Super hero/comedy?
Its a Dark Comedy…
So the running gag is the shrink’s efforts to cure all these superhero-types with personality disorders?
So the running gag is the shrink’s efforts to cure some super-hero types with personality disorders?
So… the running gag is a shrink’s efforts to cure a bunch of super-hero types with personality disorders?
Yes, Sir, that’s pretty much the depth of it. Also, it’s being developed as a series…
I very much like that premise. But at this point I see some devils in the details of your current logline. Good luck refining your concept.
Thank you! I genuinely appreciate the feedback..