10 Popular Comics Characters NO ONE Has Done Right

10. Archangel

In his early days, founding X-Men member, Warren Worthington III, aka Angel, was labelled as a Mary Sue. Even though X-Men like Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey and Beast have tons of insecurities, the winged mutant seemed unrealistically perfect, to the point where he came across as boring.

Instead of making Warren's character a little darker, the creative team went to the other extreme and transformed him into the Horseman of Apocalypse, Death. Although he broke free of Apocalypse's influence, Warren, now calling himself Archangel, was left with a demonic look. Since his new appearance was a constant reminder of what Apocalypse put him through, he developed a relentless obsession with the malevolent demagogue.

Annoyingly, this change made Archangel MORE boring since all he talks about is how he's going to destroy the evil mutant. And what did Warren do when Apocalypse was finally killed? He still obsessed about Apocalypse.

This does Angel a disservice since there's a lot of interesting aspects about the character. He's one of the world's richest mutants, led his own superhero squad, dated Psylocke, joined a secret black ops team, and once believed he was a real angel. He shouldn't be identified purely by his relationship with his arch-nemesis.