Following Kick-Ass' heroics, other citizens are inspired to become masked crusaders. But Red Mist leads his own group of evil supervillains to get revenge, kill Kick-Ass and destroy everything he stands for. Kick-Ass, a superhero in high school, is forced to join new heroes and old allies in order to fight his old nemesis, Red Mist, when he forms a team of supervillains to get revenge against him. Kick-Ass 2 is a 2013 black comedy superhero film written and directed by Jeff Wadlow, based on the Marvel Comics graphic novels.