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Kick-Ass (Movie)
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| “ | Then three assholes laying into one guy while everyone watches? And you wanna know what's wrong with me? Yeah, I'd rather die, so bring it on! | „ |
| ~ Kick-Ass to a group of thugs |
Background
Kick-Ass is a teenage crime-fighting superhero and the main protagonist of Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2. Kick-Ass is the superhero identity of David "Dave" Lizewski.
| This dropdown contains the synopsis of David's story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise! |
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| Early Life
Dave Lizewski is considered to be an ordinary New York City high school student and is the child of James Lizewski, a loving single father after Dave's mother suddenly died from an aneurysm. In his point of view, he is not good at sports, and is not the smartest, socially interactive person. His best friends are Todd Haynes and Marty Eisenberg. He has a crush on Katie Deuxma but she barely notices him. He has a great interest in comic books and superheroes, but he wonders why no one wants to be a superhero. He takes his interest in comic books as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. When he decides to fight crime, he purchases a costume from eBay, wields two batons, and calls himself "Kick-Ass". In Kick-Ass 1 In his first attempt at crime-fighting, he tries to stop two thugs from stealing a car, but is stabbed and subsequently run over by a car. Dave is taken to a hospital and undergoes intense physical rehabilitation. Metal plates are placed all over his body and his nerve endings now delay reactions to injuries, making him almost immune to physical pain. Rumors begin to spread around at Dave's school that he is gay due to "being found naked in an alley after being mugged", and Katie, believing the rumors, becomes sympathetic towards Dave and strikes up a friendship with him. While attempting to rescue a missing cat named Mr. Bitey, Kick-Ass gets caught up in a gang-related attack involving three thugs viciously beating up one man. He uses his new-found ability to resist any form of pain to his advantage and fights off the gang, saving the injured man's life. His actions are recorded by a bystander and placed on YouTube, and Kick-Ass quickly becomes both an internet and national sensation. Dave and Katie become closer and Dave reluctantly decides to go along with the rumor that he is gay in order to spend time with Katie. After learning from Katie that her abusive ex-boyfriend Rasul, a petty drug dealer, is continuously harassing her, Dave convinces her to leave Kick-Ass a message on his website to deal with Rasul personally. Kick-Ass goes to confront Rasul at his apartment to warn him off Katie. Rasul challenges Kick-Ass to stop him. Kick-Ass shoots Rasul with a taser, but is quickly overpowered by Rasul's thugs. Rasul grabs a knife and is about to kill Kick-Ass when he is suddenly impaled on a spear from behind by Hit-Girl, another costumed vigilante, who proceeds to fight and kill Rasul's thugs and steal his money. After introducing herself to Kick-Ass, she prepares to depart with her father and crime-fighting partner Big Daddy. She wants Kick-Ass to escape with them, but he is too afraid to risk his life by jumping from one rooftop to another. Disappointed, they leave without him. Dave returns home, feeling inferior compared to Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, and falls asleep, but later in the night, he is confronted by the duo, who, having discovered his identity after tracing his IP. Dave becomes jealous when a new costumed hero called Red Mist makes a name for himself as a crime-fighter. He agrees to meet him, and the two come to respect each other. Red Mist takes Kick-Ass for a ride in the Mist mobile, and the two arrive at a burning warehouse. The two search the place for survivors but everyone inside has already been killed. They escape just as the warehouse explodes. Feeling overwhelmed by the seriousness of his situation, Dave decides to give up being Kick-Ass, but first, he decides to visit Katie under his Kick-Ass persona, revealing himself to her as Kick-Ass, and confesses that he is not gay. He apologizes and expresses his affection for her. Katie is initially hurt, but realizes she loves him and the two become romantically involved. Dave receives a long list of messages from Red Mist on his website, requesting another meeting. The two meet again, and Red Mist claims that the dead men from the burned down warehouse "had some motherfuckers for friends" who believe he and Kick-Ass killed them, and are after both of them. Kick-Ass agrees to contact Big Daddy and Hit-Girl for aid. The four meet at one of Big Daddy's safehouses, but Red Mist, who in reality is the son of mob kingpin Frank D'Amico, and merely posed as a superhero in order to lure out the vigilantes responsible for killing his father's henchmen and drug dealers, reveals himself to be a traitor when he repeatedly shoots Hit-Girl until she falls out of a window to her apparent death. A group of goons then raid the safehouse and capture both Kick-Ass and Big Daddy. D'Amico arranges for both Kick-Ass and Big Daddy to be executed on national television and later the internet as a message to the public that "being a superhero is bad for your health". The two are bound to chairs and tortured. The goons are about to set them both on fire when Hit-Girl (who survived due to wearing a bulletproof vest) appears and kills them all, but fails to stop one of the goons from burning her father alive, resulting in his death. After making their escape, Dave offers to let Hit-Girl stay at his house, but she is determined to avenge her father and finish what they started; to bring down D'Amico's operation and take revenge for the death of her mother, who had committed suicide out of grief after Big Daddy (during his days as a police officer) was framed as a drug dealer by D'Amico after rejecting the crimelord's offer to work for him. She decides to give Kick-Ass a chance to atone for his inadvertent role in her father's death by helping her gain vengeance, and she gives him instructions on how to use a jetpack, combined with two Gatling guns. With new-found confidence, Dave readies himself for the upcoming battle. Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl launch an assault on D'Amico's headquarters, fighting their way through the gangster's henchmen. They come face-to-face with Red Mist and D'Amico himself. Kick-Ass fights Red Mist while Hit-Girl takes on D'Amico. During his brawl with Red Mist, the two knock each other unconscious at the same time. Kick-Ass soon recovers and grabs Big Daddy's bazooka, which had been stolen during the raid on Big Daddy's safehouse. He prevents D'Amico from killing Hit-Girl by blasting him out of his office window with the bazooka which explodes in mid-air instantly killing D'Amico. Kick-Ass lifts a wounded Hit-Girl in his arms and escapes on the jetpack. Kick-Ass reveals his true identity to Hit-Girl, although she already knows his real name having traced his IP address previously. Accepting him as a friend, Hit-Girl reveals her own true identity to Dave as Mindy Macready, and the two shake hands. Dave and Mindy retire from crime-fighting and try to lead normal lives. Dave is trustful of the new superheroes inspired by Kick-Ass who have taken a stand against crime. In Kick-Ass 2 After the events in the first film, Dave hung up his costume and went back to being a normal teenager, saying that being a superhero was way too dangerous. Dave was now a senior but he still didn't know what he wanted to do with his life and was dying of boredom. While watching the news, Dave sees other real life superheroes being interviewed, saying that Kick-Ass inspired them to become heroes. That same night, Dave decided to get his old suit out and become Kick-Ass again. However, Dave determined he would need to be trained in combat before returning to be a hero. The next day at school Dave catches up with Mindy who was just about to skip school, the two hop into the taxi cab where Dave begs Mindy to train him. Mindy at first refuses but Mindy then agrees to train him once Dave says he would do anything she says. Dave's training began right away with him going through some harsh training exercises, his training included hand-to-hand combat, pull ups (which he could barely do) wrestling and weapon disarming. As the days went on Dave started to improve on his training exercises, learning how to fight without his weapons, do pull ups (without Mindy's assistance) and gaining some real muscle. After a while Mindy decided it was time for Dave's first field test so the two met up in an alley where Mindy gave Dave some new clothes to wear and told him to go fishing. Once dressed Dave walked down the street wearing expensive clothing, Mindy stayed in contact with him through an earpiece. It wasn't long before Dave got the attention of some thugs who began to follow him, Mindy ordered Dave to walk into an alley where the thug surrounded him. The leader of the gang pulled out a knife and told Dave to hand over his bag and at that very moment Dave swung the bags to hit two thugs and began fighting. Dave was able to beat each thug on his own until he was knocked onto the ground, the thugs began kicking Dave until Mindy showed up in her Hit Girl outfit. Mindy easily defeated each thug with her nunchucks and double bladed sword, after the fight Dave angrily confronts her saying that she almost got him killed but the conversation is cut short when a cop arrives at the scene. Dave tells Mindy to run while he deals with the cop. The next day, Dave waits for Mindy outside the school but she's a no show, Dave catches up with her in the hallway where she apologizes to him for everything that had happened. Dave tells her not to worry about it and that they should skip school and continue training, but Mindy reveals that she is done being Hit Girl, shocking Dave. He tries to convince Mindy not to quit and their conversation gets so loud that everyone in the hall wall hears them and assumes that Mindy is breaking up with Dave. Marty, Todd and Katie also hear their conversation and once Mindy leaves Katie approaches Dave and breaks up with him, thinking that he has been cheating on her with Mindy. Later that day, Dave decides to hit the streets as Kick-Ass, but he still feels lonely without Hit-Girl by his side. Dave then looks up a superhero on Facebook calling himself Doctor Gravity, the two later meet up and patrol the streets together. The two heroes get to know each other and while approaching a store Doctor Gravity talks about a guy who is building a superhero team and asks Kick-Ass if he's interested, which Dave of course accepts. After Doctor Gravity leaves to use the restroom, Kick-Ass is approached by two guys, one who is recording him with a cell phone, Kick-Ass asks the men if they need help and out of nowhere one of the men pulls out a pipe and begins to attack Kick-Ass. Dave easily disarms the man and takes on both of the thugs. Dave is able to handle both of the goons until he is knocked onto the ground and gets beaten on. One of the thugs prepares to smash Dave's face with the pipe until Doctor Gravity blocks his attack with his "Zero G Device" (aka a Baseball bat wrapped in tinfoil), Together the two heroes are able to defeat the thugs but are force to retreat when the see them coming back with friends. Doctor Gravity tells Kick-Ass that they have a team meeting tomorrow and that he will email him the address before the two part ways. The next day, Kick-Ass is sitting in an alley texting Mindy, trying to convince her to attend the meeting, but met again with Mindy refusing the offer. Suddenly the door behind Kick-Ass opens revealing a secret elevator with Doctor Gravity inside, once underground Dave follows Doctor Gravity where he leads him to Justice Forever's HQ and sees a group of heroes having a meeting. Once settled in all the heroes introduce themselves the leader being Colonel Stars and Stripes, the Colonel's dog Eisenhower, the husband and wife duo Remembering Tommy, Insect Man, Night Bitch & Battle Guy, who Dave realizes as his best friend Marty who made up a fake origin story so he can be a part of Justice Forever. The Colonel forgives Battle Guy for lying and then leads the team into the meeting room which is full of gear, the colonel offers Kick-Ass a spot on the team in which Dave gladly accepts. The next couple of days Justice Forever begins to upgrade their hideout, train, patrol the streets and help those in need. At the same time, Dave develops a sexual relationship with Night Bitch. At school, Dave tries to convince Mindy to sneak out and help the team on their first big mission but Mindy refuses again saying that she never breaks a promise. At night, Dave is on a rooftop with Marty were he lets out a battle cry, the two head down to Peak Human level once the rest of the team arrives. The Colonel explains to the team that their mission is to shut down a whorehouse operation and to everyone's surprise the colonel knocks on the door. A huge guard opens the door and tells the team to fuck off and at that moment the colonel knocks the guard out with a few hits surprising the whole team. Before entering the building, the colonel tells the team to have fun while stopping the criminals before incapacitating the front guard and entering the facility. Kick-Ass & the rest of his team work together and are able to defeat all the thugs. The Colonel forces the gang leader to tell him where the girls are hidden by having Eisenhower bite him on the balls. Kick-Ass, along with Night Bitch, escort the girls out of the building and into a van that will take them to a shelter, the team then celebrates their victory in their van. With the mission being a success the team continued to patrol the streets and at the same time gained new members. Dave felt bad for keeping Todd in the dark so he & Marty decided to tell him the truth and asked him to join justice forever but when Todd showed them his costume Dave & Marty couldn't help but laugh and make funny for his lack of originality, causing Todd to leave the room angry. At night, Dave gets a surprise visit from Mindy who is in tears, she tells him that the girls she was hanging out with are actually evil and mean, Dave cheers her up by telling her that she is a strong person and, even without the mask, she is still Hit Girl cause that's who she really is. When Mindy asks Dave on how she should get even, he tells her to beat them at their own game by being herself. After school, Dave notices that his dad is home earlier and when he enters his room he sees his dad holding his Kick-Ass costume. His dad tells him that he was searching for drugs because he was worried about him but then says drugs would have been better. Dave tries to explain himself to his dad that what he is doing is not wrong but his dad tells him that superheroes are not real and that this is the real world that has real consequences. Dave angrily packs his things before storming off. Dave tells his dad that his life has no meaning and when he's gone no one is going to notice. Justice Forever has a meeting at a pizzeria where the team mourn the Colonel's death, a super-villain calling himself "The Motherfucker" trashed their hideout and had his team, the Toxic Mega Cunts, kill the Colonel. Kick-Ass wonders who this guy is and why he has a problem with them and that's when Marty checks his phone and says that they should start walking in pairs because the Motherfucker just tweeted that the colonel was just the beginning. Dave suddenly notices that Night Bitch is missing and asks if anyone has seen her. After the Toxic Mega Cunts attack Night Bitches neighborhood the cops track down all the heroes by their IP address and begin a mass arrest on all superheroes. Dave realizes that his dad was right and that the real world had real consequences. At the hospital, Dave visits Night Bitch who is still recovering from her attack, Dave tells her that they’re going to get the guys who attacked her but Night Bitch says there's no point, they’re not real superheroes and she thinks it’s time for them to get back to the real world. On the way home, Dave decides that it’s time for him to make up with his dad but once he reaches his house he sees the cops walking out of his house with his dad and his Kick-Ass costume. Dave realizes that his dad told the cops that he was Kick-Ass in order to protect him, Dave tries to reach his dad but the cops prevent him and is forced to watch the police drive away with his father. Dave calls Mindy and asks her for help, but she tells him that she is grounded and can't get involved. Dave visits his dad in jail where he tells him that he should have let him deal with the consequence, Dave tells his dad that there are people out there who want to kill Kick-Ass and that he's not safe, but his dad tells him that he'll be out by tomorrow. Before he leaves, Dave promises his dad that he will never wear his costume again. The next day Dave arrives home with Marty and while settling in, Dave gets a text from Red Mist showing the corpse of his father in prison hung by a n. Dave falls over, unable to speak coherent sentences when Marty asks what's wrong. A couple days later Mindy, Marcus and Justice Forever attend Mr.Lizewski's funeral, Dave thanks the team for attending. When they bring up Chris, Dave tells them not to worry because he's not looking to get revenge and that he's never putting on his costume again. Insect Man tells Dave that he can't quit, as he was the one who started it. Mindy walks towards Dave and asks him if he blames her for not helping. Dave says that she was right and that if he gave up being a superhero like his dad said, he would still be alive, stating that Dave only blamed himself. The two friends embrace each other until Mindy spots the Toxic Mega Cunts who open fire on everyone. Mindy pushes Dave out of the way from an incoming grenade resulting in her getting knocked out by the attack, The super-villains continue their attack and Dave tries to get up, only for the villains to capture him and throw him into their van, driving off to their headquarters. The Toxic Mega Cunts give Dave his Kick-Ass costume and tell him to put it on, but Dave refuses. Just when the villains are about to torture him, Mindy (who had climbed onto the van) rescues Dave and kills all the villains except for one. Mindy interrogates the Tumor in a junkyard before Dave tells her that he can't do this right now and that it's his dad’s funeral. Mindy tells Dave that she knows what he's going through and that the pain hurts, but she explains that maybe that's the real meaning of being a superhero; Taking that pain and turning it into something good. At that moment, Dave takes in Mindy's words and agrees to put on his costume one last time. The two learn from the Tumor that Chris is gathering an army of supervillains at his hideout and he plans on burning the city down with his homemade bombs. The Heroes return to Big Daddy's hideout and, while Mindy informs Marcus, Dave sends a message to all the other superheroes in New York that they need their help. As Dave prepares to suit up Mindy offers him a syringe containing adrenaline but Dave says it's not his style, Mindy explains to Dave that this isn't a comic book and that real people are going to die. Mindy says he needs to be prepared for anything and at that moment, Dave looks at Big Daddy's costume and, with a smile, tells Mindy that he is. Kick-Ass, now wearing Big Daddy's Armor, and Hit Girl arrive at the Motherfucker's lair where he is giving a speech. Kick-Ass calls Chris out, with the Motherfucker simply laughing as he approaches the heroes, mocking them for showing up outnumbered. Hit Girl tells Chris that they also brought their friends along, suddenly the doors open and an army of superheroes enter the warehouse. Kick-Ass and the Motherfucker stare at each other as both armies wait for battle. The two insult each other before Kick-Ass delivers a punch to the Motherfucker's face, signaling the two armies to engage into combat; Justice Forever vs The Toxic Mega Cunts. As Dave fights his way through the villains, he spots Chris making a run for it, he angrily calls out his name and then tackles him onto the ground but Chris is able to wiggle his way out and runs towards his table to grab Mother Russia's machete. Dave is able to easily counter all of Chris's attacks and land painful hits, but before he can defeat Chris, two villains appear and hold him down. Chris prepares to cut Dave open but Remembering Tommy arrives and defeats the two villains, freeing Kick-Ass. Chris tries to make another run for it on the top of his shark tank, Dave confronts him again and the two clash again. After a brief struggle Dave overpowers Chris & disarms him. However another villain attacks Dave giving Chris enough time to escape, Dave knocks the villain out, jumps off the shark tank and follows Chris to the roof. Once Dave reaches the roof he sees that it’s completely empty but when he turns around Chris hits him across the face with a bucket. Dave falls onto the ground in a daze, Chris picks up the baton that Dave dropped and asks him “What is the point of wearing a mask if you can't do what you want?” Dave tells him that he wants to do good which angers Chris, who begins to hit Dave with his own baton. Dave is able to kick Chris in the balls, giving him enough time to get back up on his feet. Kick-Ass stands tall and tells the Motherfucker that the hit was for the Colonel. An angered Chris attacks Dave but Kick-Ass is able to dodge his attack and land a hit on his back to which he dedicates that hit to Night Bitch. Chris attacks again but Dave counters his attack and lands a blow right across his face making Chris spit out blood, Dave dedicates that hit to his Dad. The two continue their fight until Dave finally disarms Chris and knocks him down onto the skylight, Kick-Ass stands victorious over the Motherfucker until the skylight begins to crack. Suddenly the skylight breaks and Chris begins to fall but Dave is quick on his feet and lunges over just in time to grab Chris' hand, saving him. As Dave holds onto his defeated foe, Chris asks him what he is doing, with Dave telling him that he is saving his whiney ass. This deed angers Chris, who says that he'd rather die than be saved by his father's killer. Dave can see that Chris still thinks that he's an actual supervillain who will return from the dead and come back another day to kill him. Dave tries to bring Chris back down to earth by telling him that he doesn't live in a comic book and that in real life if you die it’s all over. Chris, still not listening, yells at Dave he made superheroes real & that he started everything, Chris vows to end all the heroes and tells Dave that he's immortal. Chris finally forces Dave to lose his grip & falls, Kick-Ass watches in horror as Chris begins to fall to his death, and at the same time Chris finally snaps back into reality and realizes that he's about to die. To Dave's surprise and relief, Chris ends up landing into his own shark tank, the villain resurfaces unharmed and screaming with joy. Chris begins to apologize to Dave for everything that he did but there is suddenly movement in the tank, and after a brief period, Chris is pulled underwater (by a shark that was put in the tank). Kick-Ass assumes Chris is dead when all his see is blood surfacing to the top of the tank. At the same time, Justice Forever has beaten the Toxic Mega Cunts and made a citizen’s arrest. Dave removes his mask and wonders, did he really make the world a better place or did he just end something that all began when he first put on his mask. Hit Girl & the rest of the team join Kick-Ass on the roof and warn him that the police are on their way and that they have to go. Dave congratulates the team on their victory and, with Hit-Girl, decides to do one last victory shout. Mindy gives Dave a ride home where she reveals that she's leaving New York. Dave tries to talk her in to staying but Mindy tells him that she's wanted for murder and that vigilantes don't get a free pass. Dave says that the people of New York still need her, but Mindy tells Dave that they have him now. Dave tells her that he's not like her, but Mindy tells him that you don't have to be a badass to be a superhero, you just need to be brave. With that Mindy kisses Dave, which surprises him, and she says that was her first kiss and then drives off. Once Mindy left New York, Dave finally realized where his life was going and why superheroes can't exist in the real world because the real world needed real heroes. Not someone dressing up in a costume, but a genuine badass who can really kick ass. Dave is later seen continuing his training and has now begun to upgrade his costume to resemble that of Big Daddy's material. |
Powers and Stats
Key: Pre-Training | Post-Training
Tier: 9-C physically, 9-B with melee weapons and firearms, Higher with Bazooka | At least 9-C physically, 9-B with firearms, Higher with Bazooka
Name: David Lizewski, Kick-Ass
Origin: Kick-Ass
Sex: Male
Age: 15 in Kick-Ass 1, 18 in Kick-Ass 2
Classification: Human, Superhero
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: Peak Human level (Can damage those who can hurt him. Fought off a group of thugs), Wall level with melee weapons and firearms (Can easily cut grown adults' limbs off with weapons), Higher with Bazooka (Incinerated Frank D'Amico's body with a single missile) | At least Peak Human level physically (Far stronger than before. Damaged the Mother Fucker, who fell from the top of his headquarters and was just fine. Should scale to Hit-Girl who shattered a glass table), Wall level with melee weapons and firearms, Higher with Bazooka
Durability: Peak Human level (Survived being stabbed and hit by a car without his metal plates. Was hit with a trash can) | At least Peak Human level (Stronger than before. Should scale to Hit-Girl who survived being thrown into a glass table)
Striking Strength: Peak Human Class | At least Peak Human Class
Lifting Strength: Unknown
Travel Speed: Peak Human (Trained his acrobatics skills prior to crime fighting), Higher with Jetpack (Flew across New York in just a few seconds) | Superhuman (Should scale to Hit-Girl who can keep pace and catch up with cars), Higher with Jetpack
Combat Speed: Transonic (Should be somewhat comparable to Hit-Girl), Higher with adrenaline (Hit-Girl managed to blitz Mother Russia while under the adrenalins' effects), Higher with Bazooka (Blitzed Frank D'Amico), High Hypersonic with explosives | At least Transonic (Faster than before), Higher with adrenaline, Higher with Bazooka, High Hypersonic with explosives
Reaction Speed: At least Transonic (Should be somewhat comparable to Hit-Girl who dodged several bullets from close distances which travel at over 700 mph. Scales to weaker characters) | At least Transonic (Faster than before)
Stamina: Superhuman (Helped Hit-Girl infiltrate Frank D'Amico's headquarters even after being beaten and bleeding out) | Superhuman
Range: Standard Melee by himself, Extended Melee with melee weapons, Kilometers with firearms
Intelligence: Above Average pre-training (Despite lacking former training, he has shown to be able to use weapons, like the Minigun Jet Pack and the bazooka, without any prior training. Can form basic strategies during combat) | Gifted post-training (Was trained by Hit-Girl. Was making a new version of the Kick-Ass suit akin to that of Big daddy's. Easily out skilled the Motherfucker)
Powers and Abilities
Standard Equipment
Batons and taser
Other
Standard Tactics: Kick-Ass will usually attempt to attack his opponents' weak points (Examples being kneecaps and head) as an attempt to incapacitate the opponent or scare them off. Kick-Ass is also willing to kill an opponent if he feels the need. Alternatively, Kick-Ass will use his other weapons and gadgets if he feels the need to or has knowledge in advance.
Weaknesses: His lack of training makes him very predictable in combat to more skilled foes. His metal plates and nerve damage doesn't numb all pain. | Although he was trained for a time, he can still be easily overwhelmed by large numbers of people.
Battle Records
None.
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- Key: Both were at 9-C
- Conditions: None.
- Location: SBA
- Restrictions: None.
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