My Super Ex-Girlfriend



A film from the director of Ghostbusters starring Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson. The latter plays Matt Saunders; your basic everyman, who unwittingly ends up dating Superheroine G-Girl's alter ego. He finds out her secret, but soon also discovers that she's a Clingy Jealous Girl and breaks up with her for being controlling and dangerous.

She doesn't take it very well. Meanwhile, her nemesis hatches a plan to use this domestic dispute to depower her, and enlists Matt to spring the trap.

"Professor Bedlam: I'm not a Super Villain! I'm just smarter, wealthier, and have better taste than you."
 * Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male: The Movie. The film basically portrays a manipulative, controlling, physically and emotionally abusive relationship enhanced with superpowers, as a comedy. A Gender Swap would be the stuff of nightmares.
 * Not that it's portrayed as exactly okay - but definitely less shocking/dramatic as it would be if gender-swapped.
 * Acquired Situational Narcissism: Jenny acquires this along with her superpowers and became G-Girl, leaving poor Barry alone and embittered to become Prof. Bedlam.
 * Any Torment You Can Walk Away From..
 * Alliterative Name: G-Girl's Secret Identity is named Jenny Johnson. It gets a Lampshade Hanging near the beginning.
 * Animal Assassin: G-Girl throws a live shark through her ex's bedroom window.
 * Applied Phlebotinum: The source of G-Girl's superpowers. (Specifically, Green Rocks.)
 * Beware the Superman: Particularly if they're a Clingy Jealous Girl and you're planning to break up with them.
 * Breast Expansion: Happen's as part of G-Girl's origin story.
 * Captain Ersatz: G-Girl is basically a female Superman, complete with a copy of Lex Luthor.
 * Casanova Wannabe: Matt's friend Vaughn..
 * Cat Fight:.
 * Clark Kenting: Wig + Nerd Glasses = Instant disguise!
 * Clingy Jealous Girl
 * Dating Catwoman:.
 * Destructo-Nookie
 * Do Not Call Me Paul: Professor Bedlam does not appreciate being referred to as Barry.
 * Everyone Can See It: Between Matt and Hannah.
 * Everyone Loves Blondes: Includes the main guy going from the superheroine G-Girl to his crush, Hannah..
 * Justified, because.
 * It seems the power turns redheads blonde and blondes into redheads.
 * Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks: When G-Girl turns on Matt, she throws a shark at him. It almost kills him, despite his apartment being on dry land.
 * Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Guy dates a super-girl. Guy breaks up with super-girl. Super-girl is angry. Hilarity Ensues!
 * Eye Beams: On lower settings, they're useful for Face Doodling. Nothing wrong with shooting people in the head, right?
 * Fan Service Pack: An effect of the Green Rocks.
 * Finger-Suck Healing: Hannah sucks on Matt's finger to remove a splinter.
 * Flying Brick
 * Good People Have Good Sex: Subverted when we see Matt and Hannah have sex,
 * Heroic Comedic Sociopath
 * Hypocritical Humor: Carla. Throughout the film, she practically considers men as always sexually harassing women, and pushing for the woman to file a complaint against the guy despite the guy doing nothing. During the credits, Carla goes up to a male employee and grabs his butt.
 * Kick the Dog Burn The Fish
 * Kryptonite Factor: Played with. G-Girl's "kryptonite" comes from the same meteor that gave her her powers in the first place.
 * Mad Scientist: Professor Bedlam.
 * Magic Meteor
 * Man of Wealth and Taste: Lampshaded.


 * Most Common Superpower: Exposure to Green Rocks made G-Girl grow a few cup sizes.
 * Mundane Utility
 * Nigh Invulnerable: Even her hair. One wonders how she gets it cut.
 * Her heat vision?
 * Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: with SUPERPOWERS!!!
 * Right Through His Pants
 * Romantic Comedy: With superheroes!
 * Sassy Black Woman: Carla, in a weird pseudo-Straw Feminist sort of way.
 * Shamu Fu: Again, G-Girl threw a LIVING shark at her ex. That'll learn 'em!
 * Shaped Like Itself: One character describes G-Girl as "spinning like a spinny thing."
 * Shiny Midnight Black: The Romantic False Lead in the way of Matt and Hannah's relationship has hair like this. Probably due to the lighting but the trope is much in effect.
 * Stephen Ulysses Perhero: Professor Bedlam's real name is Barry Edward Lambert.
 * Super Speed
 * Super Strength
 * Suppressed Rage: When Matt first mentions "needing space", Jenny's OK with it...until he mentions dating other people, when she slams the knife she is chopping carrots with into the board..
 * Victorious Childhood Friend:.
 * With Great Power Comes Petty Revenge
 * Yandere - and a super-powered one at that.