10 Awesome Superhero Villains Utterly Wasted In Their Movie Adaptation

6. Abomination - The Incredible Hulk

Ab The Incredible Hulk is a very odd film. It rebooted the character from Hulk, but kept the same origin as in Ang Lee€™s version. And at the same time it€™s also part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but has a completely different Banner (in both actor and personality). It€™ll probably remain part of the MCU canon just to bolster it€™s numbers, but several elements of it feel out place; the pulse rate element of the transformation has never been mentioned again and the obligatory next villain tease (Mr Blue was meant to become The Leader) is going nowhere. Hulk doesn't have a resounding rogues' gallery, hence Eric Bana going up against only the military, but what he does have was given a disservice here. Tim Roth€™s Emil Blonsky is set up as your typical muscly, agile super soldier who transforms, through greed I guess, into Abomination. In the comics a thinking, more violent version of our favourite angry man here he€™s a video game boss Hulk has to fight simply because every superhero movie needs a big final battle. Thanks to that obligation the normally interesting character becomes a mixture of villain clichés and played a big part in one of The Avenger€™s most well known heroes sitting out any non-group events for the foreseeable future.
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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.