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| Original work | The Dave Lizewski Years (2008–2014) |
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| Comics | Kick-Ass series
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Kick-Ass (also known as Hit-Girl & Kick-Ass, or simply Hit-Girl) is a media franchise based on the adventures of superheroes of the same name, created by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. Set in the Millarworld, it began in 2008 with Marvel's Kick-Ass – The Dave Lizewski Years, followed by the anthology Millarworld Annual from 2016 to 2017, two stand-alone sequel series, Kick-Ass – The New Girl and Hit-Girl, from 2018 to 2020, and two crossover series, Kick-Ass vs. Hit-Girl and Big Game, in 2020 and 2023. In the series, Hit-Girl is a young vigilante (later a Kingsman agent) going around the world stopping crime in violent ways, while Kick-Ass has had three people take the mantle, a hero (Dave Lizewski), a sidekick (Paul McQue), and a villain (Patience Lee).
Kick-Ass, co-written and directed by Matthew Vaughn and also co-written by Jane Goldman, was released in March 2010. The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloë Grace Moretz. A sequel to this film, Kick-Ass 2, written and directed by Jeff Wadlow, was released in August 2013. Adaptations of the films have been published, and numerous Kick-Ass video games have been released since 2010. In January 2024, Matthew Vaughn revealed that a new trilogy of Kick-Ass films are in the works, and that the first two films, directed by Damien Walters and titled School Fight and The Stuntman, had secretly been greenlit, cast, and had completed filming.[1]