12 Greatest Ever Comic Book Movie Anti-Heroes

4. Wolverine

When Hugh Jackman's late replacement Wolverine first appeared in the original X-Men, he was your archetypal moody loner, fighting in bars by night, wandering through the snow looking for himself during the day.

And if there was any more indication of him being a Genuine Bad-Ass needed, he boasted the kind of mutton chops you'd see on only the gnarliest of farmers. He wasn't quite the ridiculously vascular muscle monster he would become (for some reason as he got more cut, he became far less anti-heroic), but what he lacked in definition he made up for with easy charm and disarming snark.

It was precisely that darkness that made Wolverine the biggest player in the original X-Men trilogy, and why the most anti-heroic of his moments - that hilarious, unexpected quip in X-Men: First Class - has proved to be one of the most memorable of the entire genre.