11 Most Intense Performances In Comic Book Movies

2. Hugh Jackman - Wolverine (Logan)

Few would have expected Hugh Jackman to own Wolverine quite the way he has these last two decades, but with nine appearances as the character under his belt, there wasn't a dry eye in the theatre when he chose to depart in last year's Logan.

Logan was a role Jackman took to almost immediately, and without him, it's fair to say that the character would lack the iconic status he currently enjoys. There are a bunch of factors for that, with X-Men releasing at a time when the comic book movie genre was first emerging as a force at the box office, but Jackman's performance is a key one.

He just plain got the character, and took things to a whole other level in last year's Logan, where he portrayed the former X-Man in his lonely, final years. James Mangold's film made for a storytelling masterclass as a result, and with Jackman bowing out of the character in the film's closing moments, having experienced a whole lot on the way, no one could possibly say he did so poorly.

The film's beautifully haunting, and while Jackman had always managed to embody the character convincingly, this was a performance unequaled by his comic book contemporaries.