14 Times Comic Book Movies Completely F*cked Iconic Villains

13. Doctor Doom (Fantastic Four)

In The Comics

Previously ranked the third best ever comic book villain by IGN, Victor Von Doom is comic book villainy royalty - a classic character of the oldest tradition who is as much of a definitive part of the Fantastic Four lore as any of the heroic team.

He's the perfect example of a simple origin spun out successfully: his origin is almost a superhero cliche (dead parents, mystical secret, spiritual education), but he turns to evil when he clashes with Reed Richards, and is scarred by a devastating experiment gone wrong that makes him want to rule the world and destroy the Fantastic Four in vengeance.

Some of his schemes have been silly over the years, but he's pretty much always been the top-billed Fantastic Four baddie. He is their Joker.

On Film

The first Doom portrayal in Fantastic Four was just boring, but the second - in Josh Trank's reboot - was an abomination. And not in a good way.

Not only does he look like someone bejazzled a crash test dummy (why couldn't they just give him an iconic mask to hide behind?), he's written horribly. In 2015, he's driven first by having his girlfriend "stolen" (strike one for feminism), and then by a vague realisation that the world is a bad place. There's no reason to care about him as a villain, because his drives just aren't there.

At least he wasn't an anti-social hacktivist.