12 Dumbest Comic Book Movie Characters

6. Lenny Luthor - Superman IV: The Quest For Peace

How do you make an effective screen villain like Gene Hackman€™s Lex Luthor rubbish? Well, one option is to give him an incredibly unintelligent nephew for a sidekick. That€™s what happened in Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. At one stage Lex even says €œlet€™s keep your IQ a family secret.€ If only they had.

Instead, we get sporadic €˜comedy€™ moments throughout the film where Lenny Luthor €“ played as utterly brainless by Jon Cryer €“ chips in with awful dialogue like €˜you can make a toupee that flies!€™ just to lower the tone.

Stupidest moment: €œYeah, you€™re just an experiment, freako!€ he tells the newly-created Nuclear Man, landing himself in big trouble with the awful super villain, who promptly picks him up and threatens him.

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