8. Dougray Scott As Wolverine
Casting a relative nobody as Wolverine worked out quite well in the end, but what really matters is that it was the right nobody. Instead of the TV actor with a handful of film credits to his name, the film-makers eventually had to go for the Oklahoma stage star, and the rest is history. And we should all be thankful that that is how history went, because though Scott is a good actor - good enough to be hand picked by Tom Cruise for Mission Impossible 2 (the gig that ultimately cost him this role) - but he also lacks the theatricality and the charisma to really make Wolverine such an interesting character. It isn't just that he is a gruff, action hero type, it's that there is something under the surface that makes him so compelling - something more relatable, something of the Jean Valjean, dare I say it. The X-Men trilogy without Jackman's Wolverine would be unthinkable - just as Days Of Future Past would be - so for Dougray Scott as Wolverine in the title there, read Anyone Else But Jackman.