10 More Great Actors Who Played The Worst Versions Of Characters

1. Michael B. Jordan - The Human Torch

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Now to be clear, we're not going to count Jay Underwood's performance from 1994's unreleased - though available in bootleg form - Fantastic Four film, leaving only Chris Evans and Michael B. Jordan to duke it out for Best of Show.

And while the mid-2000s Fantastic Four films weren't particularly good, Evans was nevertheless perfectly cast as the wise-cracking a**hole rendition of Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch.

All the same, there was good reason to be excited when Michael B. Jordan was cast to play the part in Josh Trank's 2015 reboot, only for the famously bungled production to give Jordan almost nothing worthwhile to do whatsoever.

For an actor with as much charisma and screen presence as Jordan to basically fade into the periphery and feel like a mere piece of furniture is ridiculous to even consider, and yet, it happened. 

He gave a flat performance because that's all the script had for him, in turn leaving audiences craving the peppy, animated stylings of Evans' prior work as the character.

 
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