10 Most Outrageous Superhero Movies Of All Time

8. Neutron The Atomic Superman Vs The Death Robots

The Toxic Avenger
Estudios Americas

Latvian-born Wolf Ruvinskis is the hero in this no-budget Mexican wrestling picture, playing a masked crime fighter who’s basically a knock-off of El Santo, the country’s most popular luchador.

His opponent is Dr Caronte, a supervillain in the Nicolas Cage mould, which means that he has three settings: twitchy, over the top and MWAHAHAHA!!! When the pair last met, in Neutron And The Black Mask, the crime fighter put the kibosh on his scheme to build a bomb, so this time the doc isn’t taking any chances and creates a robot army to help him take over the world.

The doc’s evil masterplan involves stealing the brains of three scientists (literally – he keeps them in jars) and using their stored knowledge to create another super-powerful bomb, although given that he wears a white mask, employs a dwarf assistant and is given to camp theatrics, he shouldn’t prove too hard to track down and defeat.

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'