15 Worst Superhero Movie Costumes Ever

12. The Thing (Fantastic Four 2005)

Fantastic Four Thing
Fox

To be totally fair to the 2005 Fantastic Four movie, it was a shamelessly silly film through and through, but Ben Grimm's (Michael Chiklis) transformation into hulking rock monster The Thing was still supposed to look relatively believable.

While this technically isn't a costume for the character - it's his skin, after all - it makes the list because it involved such a drastic transformation for Chiklis. Though he certainly gave an amusingly gruff performance in the role, it was always painfully obvious we were just watching a guy in a rubber suit.

The "rocks" that comprise his body don't have the expected tactile quality to them and just look very blatantly fake. As crappy as Josh Trank's 2015 reboot was, at least the CGI Thing looked more grotesque and, you know, actually made of rocks.

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