Villains Deserving Better

[Hobgoblin]

I was wondering, what comic book movie villains do you think deserve to have been portrayed better than they have been? We've all been disappointed by the showing some of our favorite bad guys have gotten, so which one really could have be risen from lame to lethal?

For instance, Two Face got shafted in Batman Forever but was redeemed by The Dark Knight. Which of these listed could be treated the same way?

 

[CFE]

Dr. Doom and Mr. Freeze

 

[Spider-Fan]

Villains done poorly on film that deserve better?

Dr. Doom - FF, FF2
Galactus - FF2
Mephisto - Ghost Rider
Lex Luthor - SR

These are a few that quickly come to mind

 

[Wesley Dodds]

DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM

Aaaaaaaaaaaand... DOOM!!!

How is he not on your Poll!?

 

[Hobgoblin]

DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM
DOOM

Aaaaaaaaaaaand... DOOM!!!

How is he not on your Poll!?

I forgot him. I contacted an admin to have him added.

 

[Chewy]

DOOM
FREEZE
BANE

Seriously, the worst ****ing thing about B&R is what they did to Bane. And there were a lot of terrible things about that movie.

 

[The Joker]

Dr Doom and Bane instantly sprang to mind.

By god they were shafted big style.

 

[Symbiotic]

I think Venom and HarryGoblin both deserved better.

 

[Mutagen]

 

[The Chris]

Bane

Mr. Freeze


Does Dark Phoenix count?

Thank god for TDK, for Two-Face was done justice.

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

I totally agree with everyone who said Dr. Doom. Bane would be up there as well.

 

[Octoberist]

Mr. Freeze.

 

[DarKush]

Everybody on your list. Someone already mentioned Dr. Doom, Lex, and Bane. I would add Bullseye (Daredevil), Blackheart (Ghost Rider), Doc Ock (overrated), Dracula (Blade Trinity), Jigsaw (Punisher: War Zone)

Though I enjoyed Norman Osborn. I loved Willem Dafoe's take on him. I would love to see more done with Kingpin in a Spider-Man movie if they don't redo Daredevil, though I wish they would give Michael Clarke Duncan another shot at the role. I thought he had potential, but the story was weak.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

The MAIN one that springs immediatly to mind is The Dark Pheonix, I mean what a way to butcher an amazing story line. Juggernaut wasnt much better either.

Obviously Doom didnt live up to people's expectations either.

 

[3dman27]

vicous vic himself

 

[Hobgoblin]

It was a tough one but I went with Galactus. Many of these bad guys deserve a second shot (I actually didnt mind Kingpin as much, but I know a lot of people did) but they all at least showed up. Yes, Freeze was goofy and so was Doctor Doom, and neither are goofy villains. But they at least showed up and were recognizable as the character. Galactus was a cloud.

 

[Obi-Ron]

 

[JTStarkiller]

Freeze and Luthor.

 

[Milu]

The Lord of Latveria definitely deserves better.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

All of them except for the Green Goblins, and Sandman.

Besides the outfit, I believed William Dafoe (hope I spelled his name right) did a great job as Norman Osborn.

Harry was average, but I think he wasn't bad enough so he would have to be redeemed.

Sandman was lucky that he was the main villain. He's was never that big or important a character in the comics. He was always just a simple crook. Spiderman 3 actually made him a more complex character.

Still didn't make up for mediocrity of Spiderman 3, hence Venom needs to be up there.

But if I had to choose one:

 

[kedrell]

Tough choice since every one on the poll deserves better. Some, like Sandman, never had much going on in the comics in the first place. But most are better than that and all could be done in superior fashion. I'd have to give it a 3-way tie between Venom, Doom, and Galactus.

 

[bryanss3]

For the record Two-Face was done well in TDK but he also wasn't done as the same character. in Spider-Man the GG(Norman) had a stupid costume, but the character was done great.

Galactus for the most part was still the same threat, but he just didn't to be in the movie, just by name.

Sandman was a better character without adding on a family and shooting Uncle Ben. His back story in the comics was done far better during Back In Black but the movie was already filmed when those stories came out.

Freez, Ivy, Riddler: The Batman villains got screwed so did those movies. Those villains faced the consequences of being used in 2 awful movies.

Kingpin was the was just awful and the funny thing is the movie was taken with a serious approach(for the most part) but he acted like a campy 80's cartoon villain.

Harry Osborn GG was another victim of a bad movie, but he still acted well and did still die saving MJ and Peter.

Venom and Eddie Brock were handled awful IMO. first off I thought it was horrible casting nothing against Topher Grace he acted good in his role, but that wasn't Eddie Brock and we certainly didn't get the real Venom. I think Spider-Man 3's destroying Venom wouldn't have been as bad if he didn't die 20 minutes after he's officially there. It would have played out much better if he didn't go after Spider-Man and left him open as the Villain for Spider-Man 4. Spider-Man 3 was cluttered and I think Harry Osborn GG and Sandman could have worked out better without the whole Venom story line. Spidey couldn't take on Sandman anyways in the movie Harry Could have still saved Peter's life some how in the end and non hardcore Spider-Man fans would be excited for Spider-Man 4. instead when I bring up Spidey 4 to non comic friends they go "really...they're making another one"

Mephisto was just treated as a generic interpretation of the devil and not as Mephisto.

And on Clown from Spawn I never read past the first like what 4 or 5 issues of Spawn so I couldn't tell. The Spawn Movie was so bad ass when i was 11 when it came out. Too bad Spawn as a character pretty much sucked.

this is a tough choice but I'd have to say DOOM. The character was a world threat and reduced to just some guy who wanted to sleep with sue storm then reduced to a power hungry manipulator, but he never truly had any power in the movie until he got on a surf board.

 

[Chris Wallace]

You should've had an "other" option: I would say Scarecrow.

 

[Octoberist]

Scarecrow wasn't a tragic case. Underused? Yes. But not like Dr. Doom, Freeze or Galactus where I was like "OMG".

 

[Chris Wallace]

Of those listed, I would say Harry first. Then Freeze, Ivy & Galactus. But I think Scarecrow deserves better than being Ra's Al Ghul's flunky.