In a world where superheroes are no longer just masked vigilantes, being a superhero has become an official job. The government steps in, hiring him to save the city and handle threats no one else can.

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Just as a meteorite lands in a town called Peckham in the United Kingdom, it is discovered that a man was sitting in its direct path. After several news stations start reporting what happened, it is revealed that the man who was hit by the meteorite is a socially awkward postman named Bob. After he’s taken to the hospital, Bob escapes from there and is later seen flying around Peckham.

As everyone still seems confused about what’s happening, Bob’s new abilities are quickly linked to the meteorite that hit him. While the UK government is still trying to find Bob, he crashes into a tall building and causes serious damage worth millions of pounds. Instead of running away, Bob apologizes and surrenders to the cops so he can be taken into custody.

Following this, the Ministry of Defence, MOD, keeps Bob in a secluded area, where they start testing his powers and teaching him to control them. Things work out quite well for Bob, and he’s eventually able to control his powers. After months of training, the UK government unveils Bob to the public as a hero named Superbob.

It is then announced that Bob will work for the UK government and MOD as a superhero who will help fight crime and save people in case of emergencies. Six years after his unveiling, Bob’s boss at the MOD, Theresa, hires a camera crew to shoot a documentary on Bob to show the public that he’s just a normal person who happens to have powers. During the first part of the documentary, which involves an interview with her, Theresa introduces herself as the head of the emergency response and disaster unit at the MOD.

However, she tells the head of the camera crew, John, not to use any of what she just said in the documentary. John then asks if she can talk about her role, but she says she can’t. John sounds confused by this, but he asks if she can at least talk about why she wants to do the documentary.

Theresa then mentions that she feels the public doesn’t know Bob well enough, and that she thinks it’s the duty of the MOD to enlighten the public and let them know that he’s just a regular guy who can fly. Following this, John and his crew head to Bob’s house. Before he opens the door, they hear him arguing about the bills he just received for two gas companies.

As he finally opens the door, Bob looks shocked to see the camera crew, but John introduces himself and says that they’re the ones Theresa hired to film his documentary. Bob seems to have forgotten about it, but he closes the door and opens it again so they can retake the moment they got to his house. He also tries to change his voice, but John tells him not to do that because it’s unnecessary.

He eventually changes his clothes and opens the door again, but this time, his cleaner, Dorris, enters the house. As Bob then tells John that Dorris is his cleaner, she asks if he has done his sheets yet. Bob looks embarrassed to answer the question with all the cameras around, but he says he hasn’t. Dorris then asks why there are cameras outside his house, and Bob says they’re trying to shoot a documentary to show everyone that he’s normal. Dorris laughs as she hears this because she doesn’t think he’s normal, but Bob doesn’t say anything.

Shortly after, Bob brings John and his crew into his house, and he’s asked to introduce himself. Bob then says his name and mentions that he’s a civil servant. John asks if he doesn’t call himself a superhero, and he says he doesn’t. He adds that saving people is a job for him, and only members of the public can call him a superhero. He also says he’s just a regular civil servant who does shifts like everyone else.

John then asks what it’s like to save people, and Bob takes him through a scenario of how he gets people to sign a number of forms after he saves them. In this segment, one of the people he has saved in the past is interviewed, and he says that even though he’s grateful for what Bob did for him, he finds the superhero to be weird. He also mentions that he was forced to sign a form just after he had been saved.

When Theresa is asked about this, she says that the MOD likes order, and that the form is important because it helps keep a record of things that happened. She also defends the one time that Bob forced a baby to sign a form just after he saved her. Bob is then asked if he enjoys his job, but he interrupts the session and asks John for the name of the gas company he uses.

John asks why he wants to know, and he says he thinks he already signed up with two different companies. John then mentions another company, and Bob says he actually had a chance to choose them, but he decides against it. John looks confused as to why he’s bringing this up, but he ignores this and asks if Bob has a girlfriend.

Bob laughs and says he doesn’t, and as John asks why, he says he’s always busy. Just then, Bob takes the camera crew around Peckham to show them how he spends his day off. Even though Bob seems to be quite friendly to the people around, they don’t seem to like him.

Bob doesn’t seem to care about this, and he takes John and his crew to a church where he performs in a choir. Interestingly, Bob is the only one who sings off-key, and after the other choir members get tired of him, they end the session so he can leave. As he heads out of the church, Bob sounds excited and talks about how the choir practice was really good that they had to close early.

He also says he likes spending time with them because it’s a good way to connect with the community. Almost immediately, the choir starts singing again, and Bob realizes that they actually pretended to close early so he could leave. He looks disappointed by this, and he heads home with John and his crew.

When he gets there, he starts decorating something with leaves and says it’s a project for someone special. As he says that it’s one of the many ways he spends his day off, he gets a call from his mom, Pat. Interestingly, Pat calls him a different name, and even though Bob corrects her, she says she doesn’t know him. Bob then explains to John that his mom has dementia, so she forgets things from time to time. After the call ends, John asks if there’s a downside to being a superhero, and Bob says it sometimes gets lonely.

As he’s about to elaborate on what he means, his security, Barry, walks in and tells Bob to help him open a bottle of jam. After Bob does this, he says sorry to John for the interruption and mentions that Barry often needs help with opening things because he has big fingers. John then asks who Barry is, and as Bob says he’s his security guy, he sounds confused. Bob says it’s a union thing, and that Barry looks after the house. John still finds it weird because the superhero is invulnerable, but Bob says it’s just a union thing, and it doesn’t really matter.

John then tells him to continue what he was saying about being lonely, and Bob says he has just always wished to have someone to come home to. He says he’s finally making a change after so many years because he has a date later that day with a lady named June, who works at the library. As John then asks Bob about June, he talks about how they first bonded over her favorite book, which he calls House of Leaves.

After she got him to take the book, Bob lied that he read it even though he didn’t quite understand the unusual page format. Bob then shows John the library where June works. After a while, June is interviewed for the documentary, and she tells John about how Bob always comes to the library on Tuesdays, which happens to be his off day at work.

She also talks about how he liked her favorite book and even spent time talking to her at her desk. June liked this because she was attracted to him, and after thinking about whether Bob would ever ask her out, she eventually decided to do it herself. When Bob is asked about it, he says he couldn’t believe it, but that he’s excited for the date.

Just as he continues talking about June, a lady named Maureen calls him to stand in line for her at a parcel collection office while she goes to the butcher’s shop before he closes. Bob initially pretends not to know her, but she eventually convinces him to help her. After waiting for a while, Maureen returns from the butcher’s shop, and Bob gets a text from Theresa, who offers to take him shopping for the clothes he’ll wear to his date.

Bob says he doesn’t get why she thinks he can’t shop for clothes, and that he’ll do it by himself if he needs to. Shortly after, Bob realizes that he doesn’t have any good clothes, so he begs Dorris to take him shopping. After they leave the house, Dorris bumps into one of her old boyfriends, who says he wants them to be back together.

Dorris doesn’t sound interested, and as she walks away with Bob, someone greets him and asks if it’s his off day. Bob says it is, but the woman insults him and calls him lazy. Bob looks confused, and as he wonders why the woman insulted him, Dorris tells him not to listen to her. After they get to the first clothing store, John interviews Dorris and asks her a few questions about Bob and how she met him. Dorris then mentions that she actually works at the care home Pat stays in, and it’s how she met Bob and agreed to be his cleaner.

Dorris also says she came to the UK to make enough money to build a nursery in Colombia, but after six years, she has barely saved any money. Unfortunately, the first store doesn’t have good clothes for Bob, so he and Dorris leave there. As they head to the next place, Bob says he plans to fly June to a beautiful monastery in Tibet for their first date.

Dorris thinks it’s too much, and that June might think he’s crazy. He then asks what to do, and Dorris suggests going to a nice restaurant in Peckham. She also advises him not to ask her silly questions, like the name of the company that supplies her gas.

As they get to the next store, Dorris tells Bob that if things go well on his first date with June, then he can fly her wherever he wants. While they’re talking, Bob’s phone rings, and he sees that it’s Theresa. Dorris then tells him to make sure his phone is turned off during the date because women don’t like men who always answer their phones on dates. Even though she also suggests ignoring Theresa, Bob answers the call, and his boss tells him to come to work immediately for an emergency. Bob says it’s his day off and that he has a date, but Theresa tells him to be in her office immediately.

After the call ends, Bob tells Dorris that he needs to leave, but she sounds surprised because it’s his day off. She also asks what will happen to his date, and he says he’ll be quick with what he wants to do at the MOD so that he won’t miss it. He adds that if he can’t eventually make it, he’ll postpone the date. Dorris sounds pissed to hear this, and she asks why he can’t just say no to Theresa and the MOD. Bob says it’s not easy, but Dorris disagrees and tells him that he needs to start prioritizing himself instead of always answering the Ministry of Defence’s call.

Bob says it’s not easy, and that she would know that because she’s the one who always ends up in multiple relationships because she can’t say no. Dorris finds this offensive, and even though Bob apologizes, she still looks pissed and says he can go. Shortly after, Bob arrives at the MOD headquarters, and Theresa says he’s there to shake hands with an American Senator named Jackson.

Bob sounds confused, and Theresa explains that she needs to show that he’s not dangerous. Bob says he’s not dangerous, but Theresa mentions that America is trying to paint a false narrative because they’re still pissed that he belongs to the United Kingdom. Theresa then tells John, off the record, that a while ago, the United States tried to get Bob to work for them, but he rejected them.

Since that time, they’ve started a smear campaign to try to make the public believe that Bob is dangerous. While in a meeting to decide the best strategy for Bob to handle his photo op with Jackson, the superhero asks Theresa if he has to do it on his day off. Theresa says it’s important because Jackson and some other leaders are around for a weapons summit later that night.

Bob then asks about his date, but Theresa tells him to postpone it. Bob doesn’t seem pleased with this, and he says that Dorris wants him to say no more often. Theresa gets pissed because he keeps interrupting the meeting, and she says that nothing Dorris says concerns her. After the meeting, Bob goes outside and calls June to postpone the date. Surprisingly, she takes the news better than he expected, and he says it’s not okay for him to just call off their date.

He then tells her to forget what he said because he’ll make sure they have their date that day. Following this, Bob returns to the meeting room and tells Theresa that he’s not doing the photo op because he has a date. Theresa and everyone in the room are shocked, but Bob just walks away. He then calls Dorris to inform her that he just followed her advice and said no to Theresa. He also says he’s already on his way to the restaurant to meet June.

As he gets there, Bob waits for a long time, but June doesn’t show up. While thinking about what to do, Dorris suddenly enters the store and asks why his phone has been off. Bob says he only turned it off because she complained about it earlier, and as he wonders what Dorris is even doing at the restaurant, she says that she came to get him because his mom fell and hurt herself at the care home.

Bob immediately heads over there, and after ensuring that his mom is okay, he sits with her to drink some tea. Just then, Pat mentions that she would be very happy if Bob found a girl and got married to her. Bob doesn’t sound interested in this, and Pat says she might as well kill herself because her son won’t do what she wants.

Bob doesn’t take her threat seriously, but as she picks up a bottle of pills and tries to take some of them, he quickly stops her. Pat refuses to give up the pills, but as Bob says he found a girl, she lets him take it from her hand. As Pat then asks who it is, Dorris walks past the front door, and Bob says it’s her. Pat looks extremely happy about this, and she says she can’t believe Bob really likes her favorite girl in the world. As Dorris enters the room, she looks confused as to what’s happening, but Pat keeps saying she’s happy for them, and that she really likes her son’s choice.

Dorris still doesn’t understand what’s happening, so Bob tells her to meet him outside the room so they can talk. He then tells her what he told Pat, and Dorris asks why he would do that. Bob says he didn’t think she’d like it, but that he now wants Dorris to pretend to be his girlfriend. Dorris says she can’t do it because it’s wrong to deceive Pat, but Bob says he has never seen his mother as excited as she was when he told her the news. Since the plan is to make Pat happy, Dorris agrees to play along and act like Bob’s girlfriend.

Shortly after, at a celebration for an old couple at the care home, Dorris gets Bob to give a speech. During the speech, Bob says a couple of things that don’t make sense, and everyone just keeps looking at him strangely. Dorris seems to enjoy seeing him trying to give a speech about love, and Pat also watches her. Shortly after, Bob ends his speech, and everyone claps for him even though he didn’t quite say much. Elsewhere, Jackson is brought in for a live interview at a news station.

The reporter asks what he’s planning to achieve at the weapons summit later that night, and Jackson says he wants to put an end to Britain’s monopoly on a highly dangerous weapon. The reporter sounds confused and asks if he thinks Bob is a weapon. Jackson then mentions that he was supposed to meet Bob earlier in the day, but he failed to show up.

He adds that Bob is a weapon that Britain has no control over because, at the moment, no one can say where he is. Meanwhile, Pat gets Bob and Dorris to dance together at the party. Bob then sees Dorris’ ex-boyfriend, Javier, staring at them, so he asks Dorris if it’s okay for her to still pretend to be his girlfriend.

Dorris says she’s no longer with Javier, and that she can do whatever she wants. Bob then says sorry for what he said earlier at the clothing store. He adds that he’s just jealous because he sometimes wishes he could be like her. Dorris doesn’t say anything about this, and they both continue their dance until they start floating in the air. No one really pays attention to them, but as Bob brings them back down, he gets a call from June, so he leaves the room to answer it.

Bob then asks why June didn’t show up at the restaurant, and she says that something came up. Since he still wants to meet her, he asks if she would like to come to his house to see something he made for her. June likes this idea, so she agrees to visit him at dinnertime.

Elsewhere, Theresa joins the news show and mentions that the MOD still controls Bob. Jackson doesn’t believe this, and he asks where Bob was earlier in the day. Theresa says he was resting, but Jackson believes Bob has a grudge against America. Theresa denies this and mentions that Bob is a kind man who doesn’t hate anyone. She adds that he likes Americans and everything about them.

Meanwhile, Dorris and Bob leave the care home together, but they remain silent on their way home. Suddenly, Bob hears about an accident involving multiple cars, so he tells Dorris that he needs to go there. Dorris says it’s not a problem, and he flies away to the scene immediately.

Back at the news show, Theresa continues to defend the MOD by saying that she has control over all of Bob’s movements. Suddenly, the reporter mentions that he has just heard that Bob is at the scene of an accident that happened a few minutes ago. Theresa is shocked to hear this, and as the reporter asks if Bob is in violation of his UN-sanctioned Tuesday day off, she just walks away and leaves the set.

While Bob is trying to help people at the accident scene, Theresa shows up and tells him to leave because he’s not supposed to be there. She also tells him not to disobey her or the government, but as Bob hears a dying lady calling for help, he goes into her car and comforts her since she can’t be saved. After she dies, Bob looks disappointed and walks out of the car.

He then stares at Theresa for a while before he flies away. When he gets home, Bob stays outside because he’s not with his key, but Dorris soon shows up and opens the door for him. She also helps him clean up the dirt on his body. As she’s then talking about something that happened at the care home, Bob interrupts her and says that the day has been really tough for him. Dorris feels sad to hear this, and she sits down next to him and holds his hand.

Shortly after, they hear someone knocking on the door, and as Dorris wonders who it is, Bob says it’s likely June because he told her to come for dinner. Dorris looks disappointed because she already likes Bob, but she still tells him to change his clothes quickly so he can be ready to see June. While he does this, Dorris opens the door for June and welcomes her in. Bob then shows up, and June looks happy to see him. As they hold each other, Dorris immediately picks up her things and heads for the door.

Unfortunately, she bangs it against her head while rushing to go out, but she doesn’t bother to wait to get it checked because she doesn’t want to interrupt their date. Following this, Bob takes June to his office to show her what he made for her. As he opens it, June looks disgusted and wonders why he made something for her with leaves.

Bob says it’s a house of leaves, and it’s a reference to her favorite book. June looks confused and says that her favorite book is House of Cards. Bob realizes that he got it wrong, but June still appreciates his effort in making her something.

After they’re done with dinner, June gets really drunk, and as Bob is about to get her some water, he sees a note from Dorris telling him that he’s with British Gas, and not the other companies trying to extort him. This makes Bob happy, and he realizes that he likes her and would rather be with her than anyone else. Bob then tells June that he likes someone else, and she looks quite confused.

As he tries to explain himself, someone knocks on the door, and when he comes in, it turns out to be someone from the MOD who has come to get Bob dressed because he’s needed at the office. June seems to know who he is, and she pretends to be in a relationship with Bob by calling him her darling. Bob doesn’t get this, but June and the man get him dressed in a weird costume.

Shortly after, they leave for the MOD, and June tells Bob that Theresa called her earlier in the day to ensure she didn’t go for their lunch date. As they get to the MOD headquarters, Bob sounds pissed at Theresa for doing something like that, but she says it was for the greater good because his no-show earlier in the day caused a lot of mess for her. Bob still doesn’t seem pleased by what she did, but Theresa says he should be more concerned about saving the world.

As she then takes him to meet the delegates from the countries who came for the weapons summit, Bob tells Theresa that he wants to be with Dorris, but she says he can’t because she’s Colombian cleaner. Bob doesn’t get this, but Theresa says he can be with June because she’s an American. Bob says he doesn’t want to be with her, but Theresa tells him that sometimes being a hero is about making sacrifices.

She then asks if he knows what Dorris really wants. As he thinks about it, Theresa says she already knows it’s a nursery. Bob looks shocked to hear this, and as he wonders what’s really going on, Theresa introduces him to Jackson while June stays beside him as his girlfriend. Bob looks shocked by this and realizes that everything the MOD has done is just to please Jackson and get him the handshake he missed earlier. After Bob shakes Jackson, he asks if it was worth it, but Theresa doesn’t say anything.

Jackson then commends Bob for getting himself an American girlfriend. He adds that it’s good they were able to get rid of the Colombian situation. Bob doesn’t get what he’s talking about, but Jackson mentions that they already bought Dorris a nursery and gave her first-class tickets to Bogota. Bob cannot believe this, and as he realizes that it was all to get a handshake, he squeezes Jackson’s hand. Theresa tells him to leave the Senator, but Bob looks quite pissed because they ruined his day off just to please Jackson.

After he eventually leaves Jackson’s hand, Bob breaks the ceiling and flies out to look for Dorris. All the delegates in the room are shocked, and several news stations start reporting what happened. As it suggests that the MOD can’t control Bob, Theresa quickly speaks on the news and tells everyone to remain calm because the UK government still controls Bob.

Meanwhile, Bob heads to different airports to see if he can find Dorris, but she’s nowhere to be found. He then realizes that she’s likely at the nursing home, so he starts practicing what he’ll say to her when he finally meets her. Shortly after, Bob goes to the nursing home, and as he’s seen on the cameras around the place, the cops immediately head over there to arrest him.

Before they can, though, the people of Peckham, including the choir members, block the entrance to the nursing home to prevent Bob from being taken away because they actually love him and what he does for them. On the inside, Bob tells Dorris that he’s there to see her, and as she asks what all the mess he caused is about, he says he did it for her. Dorris doesn’t get this, and as she tells him not to bring her into his mess, he tells her to shut up so that he can tell her what he came to say.

Before he can, Javier shows up and mentions that he has already confessed his love to Dorris, and that when he heard she was leaving for Colombia, he couldn’t just let her leave without saying how he felt. Surprisingly, Dorris has already agreed to get back together with Javier, and Bob realizes that he made a mistake coming to see her. As he’s about to head out, Dorris asks what he came to tell her, and he says he wanted to thank her for everything and also confess his love to her.

Dorris feels the same way, but Bob says she still needs to go to Colombia to help the children there. Dorris asks if he really wants that, and he says he does. However, he adds that he can come with her if she wants. Dorris sounds surprised, and she asks what the MOD would say, but Bob says he doesn’t care anymore. Javier still tries to get Dorris to come with him, but Bob squeezes his hand, so he’ll leave her alone.

Following this, Bob takes Dorris out of the nursing home, but a cop immediately shoots him. Luckily, Bob is bulletproof, but he sounds quite pissed about what happened, so the cop apologizes. Bob then announces that he’ll now be a freelancer who will help people whenever they’re in trouble. He adds that he’s no longer a property of the U.K. government, and that anyone can call him for him if they need him. Bob then calls out his phone number and says he’ll answer only important calls for help.

He also announces that there’s now someone special in his life, and he’d like to try to make her happy. Theresa is at the scene, and she doesn’t look happy with his announcement, but Bob doesn’t care. After his speech, he flies away from the nursing home with Dorris.

A while later, Theresa gets posted to Afghanistan for failing to control Bob, but she seems to be okay with it. Bob and Dorris are also now in Colombia, running the nursery together. As John concludes the documentary, Bob gets a call from someone who needs help, so he leaves immediately. Barry then brings a bottle of jam for Dorris to open, and it turns out that he also followed them to Colombia.

After years of being restricted by the Ministry of Defence, Bob finally got his freedom and decided to do things on his own terms. While he initially had trouble standing up for himself, he eventually learned that he could say no whenever he wasn’t comfortable with decisions made for him at work.

Over time, he also earned the respect of the people in his community who now saw him as a true hero. While it might sometimes be difficult, knowing when to say no and standing for what you believe in can lead to meaningful change and earn you the respect of others.

Superbob 2015 .