10 Popular Comics Characters Imported From Other Media

10. Otis Berg

First appearance: Richard Donner's Superman movie and its sequel needed an identifiable henchman to do the villainous Lex Luthor's bidding (or at least listen to his latest schemes to take down the Man of Steel), and so invented the role of bumbling idiot Otis, played by Ned Beatty (these days promoted from henchman to main villain duty in Toy Story 3).

In comics: Smallville's comic book continuation gave Lex an overweight and slightly useless personal assistant for its Season 11 in 2012. Deciding that the role was essentially the same as Beatty's in the film, the writers decided to call the character Otis (now with the surname Berg). Meanwhile, the version of Lex on cartoon Young Justice also had an Otis that ran his security (and spoke in a fashion similar to Beatty in the film) who would also appear in that show's spin-off comics in 2012.

It took until DC's latest big reboot, the New 52, for Otis to make his way into the main DC continuity, however. In 2013's Forever Evil, the first big New 52 crossover story, a LexCorp security guard named Otis appears briefly, only for Lex to have him killed.

And back again?: Otis hasn't gone back to appearing on screen since his 2013 debut in the main DC canon, but it would not be at all surprising for this to be the name screenwriters reach for if they're going to give Jesse Eisenberg's Lex a named useless minion.