Differences Between Comic and Film
While being based on the comic book, Kick-Ass had several notable differences from its comic inspiration.
- Kick-Ass has been shown to be the only character in the film with a similar costume to his comic book counterpart. All of the other main characters have different costumes in the film.
- Frank D'Amico is called John Genovese in the comic book. The name is taken from the Genovese crime family.
- In the film, when Big Daddy quizzes Hit-Girl, they are in the armory while Mindy plays with her new knife. In the book, he quizzes her on a communication device whilst she is killing gangsters in a bar, with him providing over-watch with a sniper rifle.
- In the film, Hit-Girl and Big Daddy track Kick-Ass to his home by his IP address, which they then re-route to protect him from anyone else doing so. In the comic, they simply follow him home.
- Big Daddy is not an ex-cop in the comics, as he admits to Genovese and Dave shortly before his death. He was an accountant who, much like Dave, fantasized about being a superhero. He made up a fake history of himself and lied that he was an ex-cop with a personal vendetta against John Genovese (Frank D'Amico). He also gets money for himself and Mindy by selling his rare comic books. His comic backstory is touched in the film by his use of comic terminology in the attempted execution scene.
- When Kick-Ass is being tortured, he is not just beaten up like in the film, he has a car battery hooked up to his testicles and is shocked extensively. The mobsters do not broadcast this torture session on the internet, as they do in the film.
- In the comic, Dave never becomes Katie's boyfriend; after he reveals that he was not gay, she calls him a pervert for pretending to be gay and orders her boyfriend to beat Dave. Afterwards, they send him a picture of Katie performing fellatio on her boyfriend. In the film, Katie forgives Dave for pretending that he was gay, realizing that Dave loves her, watches the video feed of his torture and pending murder in helpless horror and she becomes his girlfriend.
- At the end of the comic Red Mist vows revenge against Kick-Ass, sending him an e-mail. In the film he is shown talking to himself, and quotes Jack Nicholson as the Joker, "As a great man once said, 'Wait till they get a load of me'."
- In the comic, Kick-Ass does not use a jetpack outfitted with machine guns during the climactic battle. In fact, he does not kill anyone at all (although he does seriously wound Red Mist's father by shooting him with a gun). Instead, he finds and pummels Red Mist with two large pieces of wood, while Hit-Girl kills everyone else.
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