12 Insane Early Movie Roles By MCU Actors

Much of the more out-there weirdness of Def By Temptation can be put down to it being a product of provocative trash merchants Troma Entertainment. It was also Troma that first gave a young James Gunn his bad taste big break years before Marvel came calling for Guardians Of The Galaxy.

Gunn's first screenplay for Troma was the schlocky gross-out studio's unique take on England's greatest literary icon and he brought along for the ride his actor brother Sean (these days best known as Guardians' Ravager second-in-command Kraglin, as well as the on-set performance capture actor for Rocket Raccoon and, briefly, Thanos).

The Gunn-scripted Tromeo And Juliet came out in 1996, the same year as the Baz Luhrmann-Leonardo DiCaprio version of the same play (in which Sean Gunn's character was played by Scream's Jamie Kennedy).

Like the Luhrmann film, Troma's take on the Bard's tale of star-crossed lovers updates the story to modern America. Unlike in Luhrmann's version, Juliet is locked in a plastic cage for having too much lesbian sex with her nurse and then electrocutes her father with a computer monitor.

Oddly, Tromeo... actually follows the plot beats of the play pretty closely, just with the addition of details like Tromeo's father having signed away his porn empire to cover up the fact that Tromeo is actually the son of Juliet's father. Also, instead of mutual suicide, the surprise siblings decide to move to the suburbs and live in incestuous bliss and have a bunch of deformed kids.

Fans of Titus Andronicus, if any, know that incest, mutilation and Shakespeare aren't actually such strange bedfellows, but the Gunn brothers' take on Romeo And Juliet is definitely one of the more bizarre versions of that particular story.