21 Perfect Superhero Movie Casting Choices That Nailed Their Characters

8. Christopher Reeve As Superman

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Warner Bros.

Genre-defining, iconic, and faithful to its core, Richard Donner's original Superman films have managed to attain a seat amongst the upper echelons of pop-culture's most favourably remembered classics - a debt largely owed to the late Christopher Reeve and his portrayal of Clark Kent.

Mild-mannered as the Daily Planet reporter, yet charming and confident as the Man of Steel, Reeve managed to conjure up a loveable image of the world's most famous superhero over the course of four (mixed) films. They may all have varied in quality, but the late actor's performance was always faithful to the comics.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.