10 Obscure Comic Book Titles That Deserve To Be Movies

9. T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents - Len Brown, Larry Ivie, Nick Spencer, Et Al

Another property that has been bought and sold over and over for undisclosed sums of money, this one breaks the patterns by having a United Nations-funded 'super-team' based entirely on gadgets that will eventually kill their users... and true to the cynicism of the times (this was originally published in the 1960s) the team's handlers care more about the devices than the people using them. The eventually-lethal gadgets were created by a scientist killed before the inception of the team, and with no time to reverse-engineer the items, the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agents found themselves in a battle against the Subterraneans; an evil race living unsurprisingly, under the surface. With the shifting personal alliances and the clever espionage threads in the later battles between the team and S.P.I.D.E.R., the sheer mortality of the characters distinguishes them from other major titles and adds power to the characters' actions. While a straight adaptation would be fantastic, allowing for some "re-imagination" would leave the audience unsure who might survive any particular film, which would fit the comic's original agenda, given how many of the main characters were quickly killed off. From a casting standpoint, you could use anybody in the roles, since a film could follow an entirely new crew of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agents, set long after the originals died off. Now, admittedly, that's less true of No-Man, but his is just a consciousness uploaded into a series of any number of robots, so again, any actor.