10 Major Concept Changes That Almost Happened In Comic Book Movies

Some comic book movie characters were almost portrayed very differently on the big screen.

Doctor Doom Woman2 Comic book movies have seen a lot of character concepts dramatically changed from those in the comics - often resulting in anger from fans of the original material. Galactus was depicted as a giant cloud in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, as was Parallax in Green Lantern, while the Juggernaut was depicted as a mutant in X-Men: The Last Stand and the Phoenix was presented as a mere alter-ego of Jean Grey in the same movie, the Mandarin was completely re-imagined as a fictional concept to act as a decoy for Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3 and Blackheart was less monstrous demon and more emo teenager in Ghost Rider, just for a few examples. However, the final versions of comic book movie characters, in a lot of cases, could have been very different had some of the pre-production ideas come in to fruition. That's right, not all characters in comic book movies - or any movies for that matter - were originally cut and dry ideas in terms of their presentation and it's those instances from comic book movies that we're going to be taking a look at in this article. Here are ten major concept changes that almost happened in comic book movies...
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