10 Iconic Characters Without A Single Great Movie

It's incredible how many truly great characters end up given messy Hollywood treatments. If it wasn't for Disney's animated classic, for instance, there'd be no great Hercules movie and there hasn't been a really great Robin Hood or King Arthur movie for decades. The same goes for Billy the Kid and even characters as iconic as Superman have recently laboured through inferior movies.

You'd think that film-makers would be able to pull something good out of their hats when given such brilliant material to work with, but it's just not the case at all.

Arguably one of the most egregious is easily one of the most famous characters ever created...

10. Mickey Mouse

Sure, Mickey Mouse has been in a couple of okay movies, but Walt Disney's most famous character has never had his own really tentpole movie in his entire 90 year history. There have been good shorts, of course, and the Christmas animated movies have their cult appeal, but Mickey has never even been given the chance to star in a bad movie let alone a great one.

With animated characters like Pikachu and Sonic getting their own movies, it's surely only a matter of time before someone realises that there's more to Mickey than as a corporate mascot. It should have already happened in fact, after Frozen relaunched Mickey into cinemas with the short Get A Horse, but so far nothing.

Hopefully, the spate of live-action Disney films might allow for a Christopher Robin/Roger Rabbit style live-action/animation mix giving him the opportunity he deserves.