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I always thought it would be kind of neat to have a version of Don Quixote set in the present and in which the title character has a comic book superhero obsession instead of a "knight-errant" obsession...
It's been done, with a repetition of the two-part scheme, with the first part being black comedy (with tragic undertones) showing just how incompetent and selfish the protagonist's motivations are, and the second showing him having matured and having acquired genuine altruistic motives (and still being tragic). It's called Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2.
You mean the graphic novels, right? I saw the movie but didn't read them.
You'd be in for a surprise or two...
I know that they changed several things, like the real past of "Big Daddy"...
The tone changes drastically as a result.
Indeed. Much of the movie is about Hit Girl being a badass; I think the graphic novel plays it for tragedy, though.
This sounds kind of like Watchmen (although it is Cold War Era, rather than the "present").