11 Comic Book Characters Who Shouldn't Have Had A Movie (And The Alternatives Who Should)

5. The Green Hornet

There was a time and a place for the Green Hornet - and 2011 wasn't it. A traditional-style character who originated in the 1930s on a radio show and flourished in a 1960s television series was never going to be taken seriously in the new millennium. And although the film was never portrayed as anything other than a comedy, Seth Rogen was horrendously miscast and nobody was ever going to take it seriously as a piece of performance art. That said, with a cast that included the likes of Rogen, Christophe Waltz and Cameron Diaz, it was always going to draw some crowds and it did okay at the box office - making up for the $120 million budget with $228 million in takings. Critics hated it, calling it unfunny, boring and disappointing - and they weren't wrong. Basically, the Green Hornet was of a certain era and aimed at people from a certain era - that era and those people weren't in the year 2011. Alternative movie that should have been made: Shock Gibson. Another hero who appeared in Harvey Comics (like Green Hornet himself), Shock Gibson is scientist Robert Charles Gibson. He perfects a formula that allows people to directly store, generate and control electricity and tests the formula on himself. The formula increases his strength, gives him the power to fire bolts of lightning and grants him flight capabilities. He then goes on to fight in World War II (a concept that we know works from seeing Doctor Manhattan fighting in Vietnam in Watchmen). It would have been a really interesting movie, about which people wouldn't have had any pre-conceived ideas of the titular character being dated.