5. Meteor Man (Meteor Man, 1993)
Jefferson Reed was a mild mannered school teacher before his local neighbourhood became overrun with hoodlums and gangs, in particular the Golden Lords gang. After trying and failing to stick up for a woman who is being attacked (he runs away because he's a damn coward) he is struck down by a glowing green piece of meteorite that transforms him into the hideous costume wearing vigilante known as Meteor Man. Ooh terrifying! Despite looking like he made his costume out of things he found in his local fancy dress shop Meteor Man manages to close down over a dozen crack houses and stops as many robberies before eventually losing his powers and revealing his true identity ... because despite not wearing a mask no one knows who he is. The very idea of Meteor Man was rightfully described as being akin to a badly made sitcom but yet Marvel still decided to commission a limited run of comic books based on the character although it's likely they regretted the decision when the final sales figures were revealed. Robert Townsend's zany creation is widely considered one of the worst comic book movies of all time but the image of the un coolest black superhero has endured for over 2 decades.