New Heroes Season 3 (subtitle: “Villains”) teaser teases unavoidable superhero cliché.

It happens in every franchise: good goes bad. Especially in the ultra-trivialized world of TV and movie superheroes, this happens in the third installment (unless Iron Man II is about alcoholism). Spider-Man 3: Peter Parker turns evil in the black suit. X-Men 3: Jean Grey goes Phoenix. In Superman 3, Superman meets Evil Superman. In Batman Forever, Val Kilmer and Joel Schumacher were little more than evil Michael Keaton and Tim Burton.

Oh, did we mention that all of those movies sucked in comparison to the movie that came before them?

In that sense, this teaser fills us with dread, because Season 2 of Heroes was so lackluster.

On the other hand, it was also abbreviated, so maybe Heroes will treat Villains like they should have treated season two: with care.