Stan Lee (far right) names The Defuser the winner on WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPER HERO?: Finale (2007).
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Mania Grade: C
Episode: Finale
Starring: Stan Lee
Produced By: Andy Sheer, Stan Lee
Episode: Finale
Starring: Stan Lee
Produced By: Andy Sheer, Stan Lee
WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPER HERO?: Finale
By: Stephen LackeyDate: Saturday, September 08, 2007
Mistake number one was to make this season finale a two hour special. You know what can happen when you eat to much cheese don’t you? At any rate, that’s what we got, a two hour finale featuring Hyperstrike, Hygena, and The Diffuser. At the beginning of the episode, the final three were given a mission to take out a power source that Dr. Dark was using to energize Giant Stan Lee, who was crushing through the city Godzilla style. It looked really cheap but it was humorous and I guess that was the point. So, to take out the power supply, the team has to fight through three angry dogs. Desperate to prove herself and knowing she won’t be able to stand up against the dogs Hygena comes up with a plan to make herself bait for the dogs to allow Hyperstrike and Diffuser to destroy the power supply. Of course, they slip into those puffy suits to do the job and they complete the mission. Eventually, Stan awards the team with versions of their action figure. Diffuser even took his action figure to bed with him. At the end of the episode, instead of whittling the group down to two, there was all this false suspense, only to have Stan tell the group that none of them would be eliminated. If there was no intention to kick anyone off, they could have spent more time making the mission or giant Stan more fun. The cliffhanger ending to the first hour was quite funny to me though, an ECW wrestler named “Balls” shows up at the lair all menacing like.
The order of the missions for the final hour feels anticlimactic. It was probably decided to be done this way so that the previous hour would end with a cliffhanger. So, in the second hour, Balls informs the final three that he is at the lair to take them for a final bit of training at a stunt school. The green screen stuff is pretty funny, especially with the unbelievably stiff Diffuser. Then the stunt trainer trains them on how to pull off punches and fight scenes. As if his name wasn’t funny enough, Balls tells everyone that wrestling is real just before he leaves to allow the heroes to continue their training. After the training was complete and the heroes are preparing to leave, Dr. Dark drops from the ceiling ready for a fight. Now, the fight sequence actually wasn’t too bad, they all worked through their movements well and it was pretty fun. So the final shot is that they all use their special abilities to blast Dr. Dark through a door. Now, if the series would have ended here it wouldn’t have been too bad because at least it would have ended on a fight. We still wouldn’t know who Dr. Dark really is or what why he wanted to kill the heroes, or what happened to the Bee Chick but at least there was a fight. At any rate after the fight the heroes are sent to a press event with Kennedy, remember her from MTV all those years ago? Apparently the heroes have learned nothing from Diffuser’s giving up a weapon to a kid several episodes ago and Hyperstrike revealing his real last name to other kids because they all spill their guts in a makeup room getting ready for the press event. So, are all three of these heroes just stupid? Oh, and before it’s all over, Stan talks to each hero individually to try and get them to cry and he succeeds two out of three times.
