10 Embarrassing Comic Book Movies That Ruined Beloved Characters

10. Superman - Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987)

Superman IV: The Quest For Peace has a reputation of being, simply put, not that good. If Superman III (1983) is a simple misstep, then Superman IV is a disastrous pratfall that somehow seems to last for 93 minutes. The most bitter aspect of this whole experience is that it killed the Superman franchise for quite some time.

Now, I'm not saying that Christopher Reeves is a bad Superman; he isn't, and there are two Superman movies that back this up. The decline of Superman's cinematic popularity is not his fault; he's still flying around and wearing his underwear outside of his tights as usual, but it's everything around him that brings Superman down as well. With a laughable premise and villain, The Quest For Peace managed to destroy Superman faster than any chunk of Kryptonite ever could.

It would be 19 years before Superman came back to the silver screen in Superman Returns (2006) but then you could also argue that that movie never did much to help the situation either...