9 Movie Sequels That Made You Hate Characters You Once Loved

9. Marion Ravenwood - Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

Oh, Marion. Once regarded as the best female character in the Indiana Jones franchise, you were totally ruined by a middling, cringeworthy turn in a movie that never needed to exist in the first place - one so awkward and ill-judged that you made Temple Of Doom's Willie Scott look good.

We're talking, of course, about Marion unexpectedly coming back into Indy's life in the alien-centric disaster that was Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. Here, the once gutsy, badass heroine of Raiders of the Lost Ark - the only female character in the Indy series who didn't turn out to be a shrieking mess or a Nazi collaborator - made a late-life appearance as a demented "momsy" type.

Granted, Marion was the only woman ever deserving of Indy's affection, so it made sense to bring her back, but her role in Kingdom paints her as a bickering old biddy, totally out of her element. It wasn't just that Spielberg and Lucas forgot what originally made Marion great, either; Karen Allen forgot how to act in the years between Raiders and Kingdom, and it ain't pretty to watch her trying.

Way to spoil one of cinema's great heroines in one fell swoop, guys.