In Watchmen, Silk Spectre is a costumed crime fighter named Laurie Juspeczyk (Malin Akerman). In fact she is Silk Spectre II, having taken over the family business from her mother Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino).

After barely escaping an ambush, mafioso Sal Bertolinni (Jim Carrey) decides to leave behind his life of crime. He becomes a born-again Christian and the masked vigilante known as Colonel Stars and Stripes.

300 shows a slightly dramatized account of the Battle of Thermopylae, where Spartan King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) clashed with Persian King Xerxes. The vastly outnumbered Spartans make a valiant stand, but I can’t help wonder how they’d have done with some armor, or a shirt, on.

In Sucker Punch, Babydoll (Emily Browning) is sent to the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane when her abusive stepfather blames her for her sister’s death. Scheduled to be lobotomized, she enters a fantasy world where she encounters the rest of the Sucker Punch crew.

Based on Alan Moore’s Hellblazer comics, John Constantine (Matt Ryan) can see the supernatural in our everyday world. He must do all he can, including the morally questionable, in the fight against the evil paranormal. You can simply substitute a black tie to dress up as Keanu Reeves’s Constantine. Whoa.

In Hancock, John Hancock (Will Smith) has superpowers like superhuman strength and the ability to fly. Working as a vigilante, his reckless actions routinely cause damage, in turn damaging Hancock’s public image. It’s no wonder he turns to the bottle.