Hit-Girl & Kick-Ass
Hit-Girl & Kick-Ass is a media franchise based on the adventures of superheroes of the same name. Set in the Millarworld, it began in 2008 with the Marvel comic Kick-Ass – The Dave Lizewski Years, followed by the anthology Millarworld Annual in 2016 and 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, following in 2020 and 2023. The comic series were created by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. Hit-Girl is a young vigilante (later a Kingsman agent) going around the world stopping crime in violent ways, while Kick-Ass has had two people take the mantle, a hero (Dave Lizewski) and a villain (Patience Lee).
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Hit-Girl logo as used in the solo series (top) and the Kick-Ass logo (bottom) | |
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| Original work | The Dave Lizewski Years (2008–2014) |
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| Book(s) | See the Literature section |
| Comics | Kick-Ass series
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| Traditional | See the Merchandise section |
| Video game(s) | See the Video games section |
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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, 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 third Kick-Ass film, titled School Fight, directed by Damien Walters, had secretly been greenlit, cast, and had completed filming.