10 Moments Comic Book Movies Dropped The Ball
9. The Galactus Cloud - Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer
Of all the successes the Marvel Cinematic Universe has enjoyed over the last 12 years, Thanos may well be its biggest achievement. Marvel Studios took one of the greatest villains from the source material, and brought him to life like few others before him.
This kind of cinematic villain has been rare for Marvel, both before and after the inception of the MCU. In 2007, with Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Fox took one of the strongest, and most popular foes Marvel's first family had ever faced, and turned him into one of the most hated comic book movie villains ever put on the big screen.
Galactus is nothing short of iconic on the pages of Marvel comics, and while some creative liberties are to be expected in movie adaptations, it's impossible to work out exactly what possessed the studio to turn the character into a cloud.
The humanoid, gigantic alien, whose need for sustenance at the expense of innocent planets and populations, was replaced with an emotionless, impossible to connect with cloud. This was an insult to the fans of the comics as much as it was the character himself.