But superhero cynics could suggest that Batman vs Superman represents the latest in a series of overly safe bets for blockbusters.
Webber's Red Bull teammate, Sebastian Vettel, who is fourth in the standings, only 1 point behind Hamilton, made a series of overly aggressive moves earlier in the season.
Over a decade ago New Labour began taking university applications as a marker of success, morphing hundreds of perfectly practical occupations into a series of overly academic exam papers, bearing little relevance to the real world of everyday work.
Then, in 1986, Uruguay's reputation was blackened in the eyes of most of the watching world with a series of overly-combative displays.
And in true viral video fashion, the singer has since been turned into a series of "overly-attached girlfriend" memes featured on Reddit and BuzzFeed.
They travel to Australia, South Africa or New Zealand, warm-up with a series of fraught and sometimes overly violent matches against fired-up provincial sides, and then face their hosts in a three-match Test series of superb physicality, tension and excitement.
If they had their way, her departure - thought to have been prompted by Channel 4's requirement that she take a pay cut from an estimated £800,000 a year down to £100,000 - would be marked by a national day of mourning and her reign marked by a series of bronze statues in overly snug Roland Mouret dresses.
"On the Water" is narrated in a series of flashbacks by Anton, an overly sheltered, if underloved, boy sentenced to an adolescence in a public housing project.
Twelve years ago, Cleveland police agreed to a series of voluntary reforms to temper overly aggressive officers.
A series of misses included: the gooey, molassesy, overly sweet Singapore wings, sprinkled with sesame seeds; the crisp calamari, supposedly grilled, but deadly pale, more than half of them seriously undercooked; the jumbo sea scallops with asparagus risotto overwhelmed by saffron; the Pommery mustard chicken, tasty enough, but slathered with Dijon mustard.
Dudley's differences with Winthrop came to the fore again in January 1636, when other magistrates orchestrated a series of accusations that Winthrop had been overly lenient in his judicial decisions.
