9 Iconic Comic Book Storylines That Sucked In Movies

3. Volume One - The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman

Alan Moore has famously disowned every movie version of his work, including Watchmen, V For Vendetta and From Hell. The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman – or LXG as the cool kids called it – took Moore’s dark adventure story and made a generic, sub-par summer blockbuster out of it.

The comic is R-rated from start to finish, something that’s immediately jettisoned from the movie. Mina Harker is demoted from the leader of the group in favour of Sean Connery's Allan Quatermain, and she’s turned into a vampire to boot. Any character nuance like Quatermain's drug addiction is scrubbed out, and the villain is given not one, but two shock reveals involving his real identity. It even pointlessly adds an American character to group in the form of Huck Finn, just to appeal to US audiences.

It devolves into a tedious Bond wannabe in the climax, and any fans of Moore’s comic would struggle to recognise it’s meant to be based on his comic. In this case, it’s probably for the best he vowed to never watch movies based on his work.