15 Perfect Superhero Casting Choices Wasted On Terrible Comic Book Movies

12. Lana Condor As Jubilee - X-Men: Apocalypse

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Jubilee may have been a fan-favourite X-Man, but it took Fox's X-Men films until 2016 to actually give the character a speaking role, and even that amounted to nothing.

The character was first made famous in the fondly remembered nineties X-Men cartoon, and served mainly as a conduit for younger viewers to project themselves onto Xavier's team. She had a father-daughter type relationship with Wolverine (which they weirdly gave to Rogue in the first X-Men film), an iconic look, and a set of powers that, while not immediately impressive, did the business when called upon.

Naturally, when the role was recast for X-Men: Apocalypse with Lana Condor, fans got really excited. The film would be set in the eighties and though Jubilee is more synonymous with the following decade, it seemed as though Fox were paying attention by introducing fan-favourite characters to a more colourful X-Men lineup.

By the time the film came out, however, Condor was barely even in it. She appears in Apocalypse for just a single minute, wasting the potential of an obviously brilliant casting before reverting back to the drab tedium of the franchise's earlier entries. Condor isn't even going to appear in Dark Phoenix, and it's doubtful she'll ever get to take on the role again.

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