I want to preface this by saying that I am an artist who is self taught in Photoshop, and because of this, i am hyper aware of advertising that may have been photoshopped. I may be right in my assumptions or I may be wrong, i just like to explore things like this.


~DISCLAIMER~
(I have nothing to do with Kick Ass the movie or comic.)

So for those of you who have seen “Kick Ass”,  you know that Hit Girl is undoubtedly the surprise star of the film. I was looking at this bus stop poster of her a while back admiring the design of it.

The way the yellow letters pop out against the black of the background is very reminiscent of “TheWatchmen“.
The way the spray paint behind her gives the whole thing a young, urban, violent look.
then i noticed her left hand:

At first, it looks like she is making a fist, a perfect choice for a girl super hero. But then i got to thinking,
it looked off a bit because of the thumb, almost as if she is grabbing something.
it seems as if she was holding something at some point.

most likely it would have been a sharp, pointy weapon. But perhaps at the last moment, someone at the design studio decided that it was too distracting from the rest of the poster of maybe it would’ve come across as too violent.

I was intrigued, so i thought I would make 2 mock-ups of what the early poster might have looked like.
In the first one, she might have been holding another knife:

Another possibility might have been that she was holding her double bladed staff, which seems more likely because she actually uses it in the film:

just a thought…

~Carlos