10 'What If?' Scenarios That Almost Changed Comic Book Movies Forever

10. Hellboy III Happens

Although both Hellboy movies are well-regarded by both critics and fans, they simply didn't make enough money to justify a third installment. Hellboy made less than $100m worldwide and while The Golden Army showed considerable growth, earning $160.4m at the box office and generating a further $53m from home video sales in the United States alone, the numbers still weren't high enough to make it worth the studio's while.

A well-publicized passion project for Guillermo Del Toro, the previous two movies had shown enough quality to demonstrate that the proposed trilogy-closer could see the Hellboy series go down as one of the best that the comic book genre had ever seen.

As well as ending the franchise on a high note and possibly opening the door for any number of potential BPRD spin-offs, the theoretical success of Hellboy III would have solved the problem of the scheduling conflicts that saw Del Toro drop out of The Hobbit, and may even have given him the clout to finally get At the Mountains of Madness off the ground.