10 Comic Book Characters Who've Never Had A Decent Movie
6. Steel
NBA basketball superstar Shaquille O’Neal plays the world’s first 7ft 1 in African-American crime fighter in this low budget screen outing for the DC Comics character, and if Batman & Robin (released the same summer) was Warner Bros’ “A” picture, then Steel was their cheaper, less prestigious “B” movie equivalent.
Even though Shaq wears a costume that makes him look like the offspring of Robocop and Daredevil, figuring out his secret identity shouldn’t be too difficult, but guess what? His friends never recognise him, even though they spend the whole movie joking about his height and calling him “big boy.”
Worse, Shaq doesn’t exactly go to great lengths to conceal his identity from the public. When civilians witness him kicking ass, he throws them a friendly wave and says, “Y’all have a good evening now.” If the police asked them for a description, all they’d have to say is “he looked like the guy who played the genie in Shazam!” There’d be cops breaking down Shaq’s door moments later.