Best and worst film adaptations of comic characters.

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IMHO, the best = Heath Ledger/Joker, I honestly don't care for Joker as a character but this was easily the best film adaptation of a comic character.

Worst = Ryan Reynolds/Deadpool, honestly I don't think there is a worse version of Deadpool possible. A character that's known for his mouth has no mouth??? Deadpool has claws and laser vision all of a sudden and his body color and look was completely idiotic.

What do you think??

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Best: Iron Man

Worst: Deadpool

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Best: Wolverine

Worst:Deadpool

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Best: Harvey dent/two face (Aaron eckhart)

Worst: The Mandarin

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Best - Gary Oldman/Commissioner Gordon

Worst- Galactus

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Best: Michael Fassbender as Magneto

Worst: Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze

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#7  Edited By czechoslovakia

Best: Oldman as Gordon, Fassy as Magneto

Worst: Halle Berry as Storm, Reynolds as Deadpool, Hathaway as Selina Kyle

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Best: Ledger as Joker, RDJ as Ironman, and Hiddleston as Loki

Worst: Reynolds as Deadpool, Reynolds as Hal Jordan, Reynolds as Hannibal King

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Best: Iron Man

Worst: Rogue

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Best Iron Man

worst Mandarin by so much!!! i was so piss!!!

and about deadpool at leeast at first he had a flawless performer when he was Wade

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#11  Edited By Black_Claw

Best: Nick Fury, Iron Man, Joker (Heath Ledger), Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), James Gordon (Gary Oldman)

Worst: Mary Jane Wattson, Hal Jordan, Catwoman (Halle Berry)

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Best: Heath Ledger - a freshly inventive take on the character and one of the most iconic supervillain portrayals. He really took the role of the Joker and made it his own.

RDJ's Iron Man gets a shoutout though. Even though he had a little more snark than 616 Tony, it's definitely one of the most accessible takes on the character and a large factor in the trilogy's success. Then there's also Ron Perlman as Hellboy, who while was more humorous than his comic counterpart, was still a fun romping bad@ss. Shoutouts to Sir Ian McKellen as Magneto and Patrick Stewart as Professor X too.

Another one that springs to mind is Christopher Reeve - who played the perfect duality of Superman and Clark Kent. I also enjoyed Chris Evans' Captain America, who completely nailed the role of Cap as the good guy with a moral compass. This was a Cap who was infinitely likeable as a lead. I also liked Jackman's Wolverine, no doubt, but the man was too tall! Oh, and Fassbender was superb, as was McAvoy.

Worst: Nicholas Cage as Ghost Rider. I couldn't take the dude seriously at all. It ranged from taking itself too seriously to not taking itself seriously at all. I just...dude was hilarious and totally unfitting for the role. And I'd like to erase the memory of Deadpool from my mind.

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Best: Loki (T. Hiddleston), Magneto (M. Fassbender), Tony Stark (RDJ)

Worst: Catwoman (Halle Berry), Rogue (A. Paquin), Batgirl (A. Silverstone)

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Best: RDJ as Iron Man. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

Honorable Mentions: Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield)

Worst: Batman and Robin cast. All of em. Catwoman (Halle Berry) Elektra (Jennifer Garner)

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Best: Edward Norton and Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Patrick Stewart as Prof. X, Sir Ian Mckellen and Michael Fassbender as Magneto

Worst: Shaquille O'Neal as Steel

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Best: Ledger as Joker, RDJ as Ironman, and Hiddleston as Loki

Worst: Reynolds as Deadpool, Reynolds as Hal Jordan, Reynolds as Hannibal King

lol! mine would be the same as this ^^^... except I would replace Loki (good, but not my favourite) with Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Danny DeVito as Penguin or Mickey Rourke as Marv, all 3 were awesome imo.

I'm getting tired of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine tbh, I think there's plenty of actors who could do a much better job. I also thought Mandarin was terrible.

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Best: RDJ as Iron Man ,Michael Fassbender as Magneto,Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner.

Worst: Halle Berry as Catwoman, Galactus, Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, January Jones as Emma Frost.

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#18  Edited By bob808

Best: RDJ as Iron Man

Worst: Keanu Reeves as John Constantine

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#19  Edited By judasnixon

Worst: Pyslocke in X-Men 3.......

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#20  Edited By Havenless

Best:

Hellboy - Ron Perlman

Dr. Octopus - Alfred Molina

Joker - Heath Ledger

Catwoman - Michelle Pfeiffer

Charles Xavier - Patrick Stewart

Worst:

Cyclops - James Marsden

Jean Grey - Famke Janssen

Angel - Ben Foster

Juggernaut - Vinnie Jones

Rogue - Anna Paquin

I couldn't think up a worst casting call for X-Men characters if I tried. Jean Grey is old enough to be Scott's mother. Angel was just some kid (could you imagine a Fantastic Four movie where Ben Grimm was just some random kid uninvolved in the main plot?). Cyclops would be a decent leader if he ever stopped crying, and man... Anna Paquin was playing an interesting character, but it had no semblance of Rogue.

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Best: Iron Man. I don't like Tony that much in the comics but they couldn't have cast a better actor for him then Robert Downey Jr.

Worst: Julian McMahon as Dr. Doom.

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Best: RDJ as Iron Man

Worst: George Clooney as Batman

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Best: Ledger as Joker, RDJ as Ironman, and Hiddleston as Loki

Worst: Reynolds as Deadpool, Reynolds as Hal Jordan, Reynolds as Hannibal King

LOLOLOLOL^^^^^

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#24  Edited By comicace3

Best: Ledger as Joker, RDJ as Ironman, and Hiddleston as Loki

Worst: Reynolds as Deadpool, Reynolds as Hal Jordan, Reynolds as Hannibal King

LOLOLOLOL^^^^^

Anyways Best: RDJ hands down as iron man, then goes Loki ( Hiddleston), Black widow( Scarlet Johanssen), Heath Ledger (Joker), Eckhart ( Two-face), Christopher Reeves ( Superman), Edward Norton ( Hulk)

Worst: Deadpool THE MERC WITH A MOUTH AIN'T GOT NO MOUTH!

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#25  Edited By Superguy0009e

Best: The entire cast of the Avengers.

Worst: Amazing Spiderman's Peter Parker

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@judasnixon: what the heck? i never knew that was psylocke...that's terrible!

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#28  Edited By theTimeStreamer

best: iron man, wolverine, magneto (old & young)

worst: batman (val kilmer, clooney, bale)

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#29  Edited By Chronus

Best: Iron Man/Tony Stark

Worst: Galactus

Are animated film adaptions included? The best portrayal of any character, both live-action and animated, would easily go to Mark Hamill's voice work for the Joker. The only other character portrayal that can compete with Hamill's performance would be john DiMaggio's voice work for the Joker.

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Worst: Ben Foster as Angel. It should've been someone else to be Angel and forgive me for saying this, but X3 could've been better. It sucked so bad.

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@chronus: man that is such a great animated movie. i could watch it every day.

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I couldn't think up a worst casting call for X-Men characters if I tried. Jean Grey is old enough to be Scott's mother.

???? Famke Janssen was about 30 in the first X-Men film, hardly old. Of course she is going to look older over the course of 7 or 8 years...she is human. Also, Jean Grey is a fictional character with whatever age you imagine her to be, not to mention the fact that in the comics, the senior X-Men are supposedly in their 30's anyways....Basically, I don't understand that comment.

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@veshark: But Nic Cage is the best actor ever? His best scene was him peeing fire as the rider in Ghost Rider 2.

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@veshark: But Nic Cage is the best actor ever? His best scene was him peeing fire as the rider in Ghost Rider 2.

Ah yes, the fire peeing scene. Truly one of the landmark scenes in superhero cinema ;D

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Best is Iron Man and the worst is definitely Mandarin with Deadpool right behind.

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Best: RDJ as Iron Man,Chris Hemsworth as Thor,Keith as Joker and Andrew as Peter

Worst: Hallie Barry as Strom and CatwomanCage as Ghost Rider, and Garner as Elecktra

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#37  Edited By reignmaker

I agree with the OP's choices.

Following Ledger's Joker though, I have to give an honorable mention to Hit Girl in Kick Ass.

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Best hero: Micheal Keaton Batman/ And Tony Start by Robert Downey junior

Best Villain: Heath Ledger Joker

Worst Hero: Steel, seriously that one was horrible

Worst Villain: Bane from Batman and Robin

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#39  Edited By Havenless

@cattlebattle:

Famke Janssen is 10 years older than Jame Marsden. She was 40 when they shot X-2. I was exaggerating a little, but the age difference was blatant.

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@veshark said:

@norrinboltagonprime21 said:

@veshark: But Nic Cage is the best actor ever? His best scene was him peeing fire as the rider in Ghost Rider 2.

Ah yes, the fire peeing scene. Truly one of the landmark scenes in superhero cinema ;D

This post makes me incredibly happy that I skipped the Ghost Rider sequel.

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All good choices.

I would've put RDJ as Iron Man behind Joker, then Tom Hiddleston and Mark Ruffalo and then Garfield.

(spoilers ahead, don't read If you haven't seen IM3)

You guys are talking about Mandarin, well when I saw the movie. There was no Mandarin, he technically did not appear in the movie. Because it was Trevor the actor, and Killian the one manipulating him. Kilian even said he used Mandarin as a symbol to give the world something to hate on.

Mandarin was never even in that movie to begin with. (which actually gives me hope that the real Mandarin might appear somewhere else in the MCU ;))

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Best: Evans cap always and forever.

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Best :

  1. Heath Ledger as Joker.
  2. RDJ as Tony Stark.
  3. Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne.
  4. Alfred Molina as Doc Ock.
  5. Ron Perlman as Hellboy.

Worst :

    1. Arnold as Mr. Freeze.
    2. Anna Paquin as Rogue.
    3. Topher Grace as Venom
    4. Halle Barry as Catwoman.
    5. Reynolds as Hal Jordan.
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#44  Edited By JackKnight

Best (In no order):

  • Heath Ledger as Joker.
  • RDJ as Iron Man.
  • Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.
  • Alfred Molina as Doc Ock.
  • Christopher Reeve as Superman
  • Tom Hardy as Bane.
  • And Michael Fassbender as Magneto.

Worst (In no order):

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze.
  • Sylvester Stallone as Judge Dredd.
  • Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool.
  • Halle Berry as Catwoman
  • But the Worst of all.......... GALACTUS!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't seen Iron Man 3 yet (But I do want to) so I carn't say my opinion on the Mandarin and I've could of added more but I've listed enough.

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Iron man certainly isn't one of y favorite heroes (due to civil war) however I think that Robert Downey jr plays him perfectly.

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@mchotcakes: You could watch it as a joke like I did. When I knew it was a bad movie I didn't watch it seriously and found it hilarious.

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#47  Edited By ULTRAstarkiller

Best Ruffulo/Nortan Hulk

Worst Mandarine

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Best - Heath Ledger as Joker, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Robert Downey Jr. as himself Iron Man.

Worst - Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr.Freeze, Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool (at the end of the film), Halle Berry as Catwoman, and Sylvester Stallone as Judge Dredd

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Worst: Batman, Bane, Mr Freeze, Batgirl from Batman & Robin and Halle Berry's Catwoman come to mind

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BEST: (In no particular order)

  • The entire Avengers cast
  • Joker (Heath Ledger)
  • Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer... Sexy)
  • Alfred (Michael Gough)
  • Magneto and Charles Xavier (Young old)
  • Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone)
  • Spiderman (Andrew Garfield)