10 Terrible Castings That Doomed Comic Book Movies

10. Shaquille O'Neal As Steel - Steel

This one is at the bottom because Steel has a lot more problems with it besides the casting of its central character, but casting Shaquille O'Neal definitely didn't help matters.

Shaq is an icon, but he definitely was never the best actor in the world. And Steel is one of the biggest examples of his weaknesses as a performer.

As a character, John Henry Irons is a brilliant but easygoing scientist who looks up to Superman so much that he eventually crafts his own iron man-like suit from scratch to fight crime with.

But in the hands of Shaq, pretty much all of that charisma and charm that Irons is supposed to embody is lost in the void that is his monotone performance.

Even at his prime in the mid-90s when this came out, Shaq was just a fundamentally bad pick for this character, and hopefully DC learns their lesson on this front whenever they finally get around to giving Steel another shot. As much of a pipe dream as that prospect might be.