10 Iconic Characters Without A Single Great Movie

7. Percy Jackson

There may have only been two Percy Jackson movies so far, but there's a big reason he qualifies alongside the other iconic characters here: he was designed to be the next Harry Potter.

Fox bought the rights to Rick Riordan's books as their assault on the lucrative teenage and young adult market that Potter was already catering to and which was exploding with the likes of Twilight and the Divergent and Maze Runner books. Sadly, they ignored Riordan's advice about the changes they planned to make to the books and ploughed ahead anyway and the result was two underwhelming movies that fudged the character's potential massively.

Jackson has more books out there and there's definitely potential in them for him to get another film series, but given how obviously he was set up to be the next big family movie hero, the initial failures are even more disappointing.