12 Movie Franchises That Ruined Their Iconic Character

4. Resident Evil (Nemesis)

Nemesis is without question the most beloved antagonist from the Resident Evil video game franchise, so fans were hugely excited to see the hulking brute appear in 2004's second Resident Evil movie, Apocalypse.

Even though schlock merchant Paul W.S. Anderson didn't direct the sequel, his grubby mitts were still all over it as writer-producer, and it once again bolstered his baffling disdain for faithfully representing the source material.

While changing Nemesis' origins to make him the result of experimentation performed on Matt Addison (Eric Mabius) wasn't an issue, the fact he appears here as a garish, low-budget hybrid of plastic suit and appalling CGI renders him laughable from the very first second he appears on screen.

The true crime, though, is having Nemesis be defeated by Alice (Milla Jovovich) in a fistfight, before having the antagonist pull a face-turn and save Alice's life before being killed by a crashing helicopter.

Considering Nemesis was an unstoppable Terminator-on-steroids in the third video game, to see him depicted here as a cheap-looking chump was heartbreaking for millions of fans.

Quite ironic it is that despite Apocalypse including more elements from the games, it somehow ended up less faithful and a straight-up worse movie than the original.