12. Superman Pulls A Batman - Superman Returns
Spoiler alert: Superman Returns doesn't actually feature too much on this list, and the reasoning is pretty simple. It might be a bad film, but the problems with it stem mostly from the fact that it is arguably the blandest blockbuster ever released, and definitely the dullest comic book movie - it is not so much a stupid film as a criminally boring one, from the story-telling through to the casting. But the biggest issue with Superman Returns that doesn't come under the banner of its lack of excitement factor is the script-writing decision to have Superman go on a working holiday for five years, turning his back on everyone he promised to protect and his fundamental duties to Metropolis and Earth. Sound familiar? In The Dark Knight Rises (which clever people might notice was indeed released AFTER Superman Returns),) Batman basically goes into sleep mode (where his injuries somehow develop) because his girlfriend dies and crime has been utterly and implausibly wiped out by Harvey Dent (apparently organised crime is all that Batman cares about) - at least he had a fairly flimsy reason behind his random abandonment of the people he was charged with protecting. Superman on the other hand simply vanishes, under the pretense of finding surviving Kryptonians. That quest is of course noble - though entirely misguided, given that the planet exploded, and finding any survivors at ground zero is about as stupid an assumption as we've ever seen from a movie hero - but Superman has made assurances in Superman 2 that he will never abandon the people of Earth.