25 Superheroes That Deserve Their Own Television Show

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16. Jonah Hex 

The cynical Western hero might have failed on the big screen, but Jonah Hex deserves a chance at redemption.

Debuting in a guest appearance on Legends of Tomorrow, Hex gets to play tour guide to the gang of misfits. However, a Wild Western is a welcome change of genres on television nowadays. Superheroes have become a symbol for the disenfranchised such as Luke Cage dealing with gentrification, or The Gifted with discrimination, but Jonah Hex would be the first to deal with the ramifications of parental abuse.

When he was a young boy, Hex suffered at the hands of his alcoholic and abusive father which left him to fend for himself. It’s sadly a narrative which a lot of people will relate to, and it’s a story that needs to be told.

DC Comics has had some difficulty giving Hex his own line of comic books but his history is so rich that there’s no reason he couldn’t work on the small screen. He’s a hardened bounty hunter who loses almost everyone he loves in life. After enlisting in the army, and becoming disillusioned by the system, Hex trades in his duty to become a lone wolf.

While networks have been cautious when it comes to introducing violent vigilantes as their leads, Netflix found great success with The Punisher that it proves they can make for interesting television. The key is that the violence is used as a tool to highlight character development rather than just gratuitous scenes meant to be gruesome for no other reason than to just have fight scenes.