You only have one chance to make a first impression. This principle certainly holds true for comic book characters as they appear on the silver screen. As The Riddler taught Two-Face midway through Batman Forever, the difference between a good entrance and a great one is, of course, showmanship. Style matters in a genre based on characters who are over or weirdly dressed for fighting or committing crime. The same sense of flare that went into comic book costume design should be applied to a character€™s entrance. After all, both the costume and entrance have similar jobs in setting the tone for a character, a scene, or an entire film for an audience. This list looks back on the best comic book character entrances in the history of the genre. There were, as you can imagine, many to choose from, but this list selects and salutes the 12 very best. In some cases, these scenes mark the first ever cinematic appearances for certain characters. In others, we see remarkable first impressions made on other characters in memorable scenes. These are the characters that define exactly what showmanship looks like, so much so that some of these entrances rank among the very best moments in comic book movie history.
