10 Most Excrutiatingly Annoying Comic Book Movie Characters

4. Jason White (Superman Returns)

Bryan Singer's take on Superman was nothing if not unique, for while it boasted a familiar villain in Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor, it went in a wildly different direction characterisation-wise, turning Superman into a "deadbeat dad" who returns from a five year mission to find Krypton, only to realise that his former flame Lois Lane has since given birth to a son. Though Lois conceals Jason's true parentage by pretending that he's the son of her fiancee, Perry White's son Richard (James Marsden), we know who the baby daddy is for sure when he ends up killing one of Luthor's cronies by crushing him to death with a grand piano. Though I admire Singer's bravery in tackling such a potentially goofy idea, and the kid who played Jason was far from horrible, all this subplot did was severely weigh down an already pretty bloated movie, leaving even less time for awesome action sequences. Aside from the referential "the son becomes the father, and the father becomes the son" speech at the end of the movie, the relationship just didn't have enough emotional resonance to be worthwhile. By adding Jason White into the fray, we got the mopiest, least exciting Superman movie to date.