10 Great Movie Characters Who Were Totally Butchered By Sequels

7. Sam Gerard - U.S. Marshals

US Marshals Sam Gerard, or - as he's better known - "Tommy Lee Jones' character in The Fugitive," was inarguably the best thing about the movie, and that includes all the scenes where Harrison Ford is running around with a massive beard (those are good, too). When The Fugitive did well at the box office, then, making a whopping $300 million at the box office, it only seemed logical (Hollywood logical, that is) that somebody make a sequel. With Ford's character's named cleared, there was no real place to take that character - but what about Jones' character, whose profession as a U.S. Marshal practically dared filmmakers to write a follow-up? The result was... well, U.S. Marshals. But whereas in the first movie in this unlikely franchise showed Gerard as brash and intelligent, not at all a man who should be dodging explosions, this movie transformed him into a fully-fledged action hero, to the point where the two versions of Gerard seems like different characters entirely. What wasted potential.
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