Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), an ordinary teenager, becomes a real-life superhero in New York City, despite having no superpowers.
During his first attempt to fight crime, Dave is severely beaten, stabbed, and hit by a car, leaving him with permanent nerve damage and an enhanced capacity to endure pain. Surgical implants required to repair multiple skeletal fractures give him resistance to further bone-crushing injuries. He conceals the truth about the incident, claiming to have been mugged, which leads to rumors that he is gay. His longtime crush, Katie Deauxma (Lyndsy Fonseca) – who previously ignored him – is suddenly interested in befriending him because of the rumors, and he chooses to play along in an effort to spend time with her.
On a subsequent crime-fighting escapade a bystander records the event, during which Dave is heard calling himself "Kick-Ass". The video becomes an Internet phenomenon, and Dave sets up a MySpace account so people can contact Kick-Ass for help. Katie tells Dave that she is being harassed by a drug dealer named Rasul. Kick-Ass tracks down the drug dealer to warn him off, but is subdued by the dealer's henchmen, who appear intent on killing him. He is rescued by 11-year old vigilante Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz), who kills his attackers then leaves with her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage). They inform him that they believe he has potential, but that he needs to be more careful. They give him a method to contact them when needed.
Big Daddy is Damon Macready, a good cop who was framed as a drug dealer by local crime boss Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong). While Damon was in prison, his wife died giving birth to their daughter, Mindy. On his release, Damon reclaimed Mindy from her legal guardian (Damon's former partner, New York Police Department Sergeant Marcus Williams) and trained her to fight crime as "Hit-Girl", while he assumed the costumed identity "Big Daddy". Williams disagrees with Macready's methods, but chooses not to intervene.
Believing Kick-Ass to be responsible for damage done to his organization, D'Amico orders his men to find and eliminate him. His son, Chris (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), suggests a different approach. Chris assumes the costumed identity "Red Mist" to befriend Kick-Ass and lure him into a trap. The trap is undone by Big Daddy, who independently kills D'Amico's men and sets the building on fire before Red Mist and Kick-Ass arrive. Following his escape from the warehouse fire, Dave determines to quit being Kick-Ass. He confesses the truth to Katie, and she forgives him and becomes his girlfriend.
A week later, Dave finds a series of urgent messages from Red Mist, requesting they meet. Telling Katie that he has to make one last appearance as Kick-Ass before retiring the identity, Dave agrees to meet Red Mist. The meeting is a ruse designed to get Kick-Ass to identify Big Daddy as the perpetrator of the warehouse massacre. Kick-Ass inadvertently leads D'Amico's men to one of the Macreadys' safe houses, where Kick-Ass and Big Daddy are captured and Hit-Girl is apparently killed. D'Amico intends to have his thugs torture and execute his captives in a live Internet broadcast viewed by millions, including Katie and Marcus, who are both powerless to intervene. Hit-Girl, who survived the shooting, arrives and kills all the gangsters; during the struggle one thug sets Big Daddy on fire. He and Hit-Girl say a tearful farewell before he succumbs to his injuries. Kick-Ass tries to convince Hit-Girl to quit her dangerous lifestyle, but she plans to finish what her father started, and Kick-Ass reluctantly agrees to help.
In the assault on D'Amico's headquarters, Hit-Girl kills most of the henchmen but runs out of ammunition and is pinned in the penthouse kitchen under fire. Kick-Ass arrives in the nick of time on a jet pack fitted with gatling guns, and kills the remaining thugs. Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl then take on D'Amico and his son. Kick-Ass fights Red Mist but they manage to knock each other out. Hit-Girl fights D'Amico, but she is eventually overpowered. As D'Amico is about to finish off Hit-Girl, Kick-Ass comes to the rescue armed with the rocket launcher, blasting D'Amico out of the window where he explodes in mid-air. Red Mist revives in time to see Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl leaving on the jet pack, and is powerless to stop them.
Mindy and Dave retire from crime fighting to live a more normal life. Mindy returns to live with Marcus, and enrolls at Dave's school. Dave explains that although he is done with crime fighting, a new "generation" of superheroes have been inspired by his endeavor, and the city is safer as a result. Red Mist is shown donning a new mask as he quotes Jack Nicholson as the Joker, "As a great man once said, 'Wait till they get a load of me'."[6]
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