10 Villains DC Movies Got Completely Wrong

10. Lex Luthor (Batman V Superman)

Lex Luthor's plan to unleash Doomsday on Metropolis in Batman v Superman's final act was patently ridiculous, and was only ever going to result in him winding up in jail or going down with the stricken city.

Muddled motivation and plotholes big enough to fly a Kryptonian spacecraft through aren't the only reasons Jesse Eisenberg's take on the villain didn't work. This was a reinterpretation of an iconic character, but the vision underpinning it was uninspired.

Luthor, who is supposed to be cold, calculating and dignified in his evil genius, came across like an oddball mash-up of Mark Zuckerberg and Heath Ledger's Joker, and was ultimately none of those things.

No doubt Zack Snyder tried something different with the villain because there had already been two big-screen versions of him by this point, but there are so many aspects of traditional Luthor that this incarnation needed. More masculinity and less twitchy weirdness would have been a good start.

Presumably Warner is well aware of the negativity surrounding Eisenberg's portrayal, hence why they benched his character for most of Justice League.