4. Edward Norton As Dr. Bruce Banner In The Incredible Hulk (2008)
A very strange trend in comics is having a very brilliant scientist perform extremely dangerous and life threatening experiments on themselves. The most famous of which is Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton). After he was somehow unable to find a test subject on a college campus, he went ahead and exposed himself to gamma radiation becoming an unstoppable green monster in the process. After the horrible incident, Banner realizes that the United States government, led by Thunderbolt Ross, doesnt want to help him get rid of the monster inside him; they want to make the accident into a weapon. Banner goes on the lamb and eludes the government for years. He ends up working at a factory in Brazil. During his time in hiding, Banner tries to find someone who could cure him and get rid of the hulking monster living inside him. The government eventually finds him after Stan Lee consumes some of Banners gamma infused blood in a cheap Brazilian drink. Ross sends a team to the factory where they make the bloody drink and try to capture Banner. He ends up turning into the Hulk, takes out the team, and escapes yet again.
Why is he a terrible employee? Banner accidentally turned himself into an unstoppable killing machine, and he is shocked that the United States government wants to turn his happy accident into a full fledged gamma powered army? Ross and the United States government have every right to Banners research, experiments, and everything else involving gamma radiation because THEY ARE THE ONES WHO PAID FOR IT! Banner was better off letting the government take what they needed and then get the best scientists in the world to try and remove the Hulk from him. His method made him a fugitive, lost him his girlfriend, and forced him into hiding. Banner is a government employee, so he should have known that any great discovery he made was going to be taken by Ross and used for war since. HE IS A GENERAL FOR THE UNITED STATES ARMY! Banner is terrible employee because he completely overreacted when the people funding his research wanted his finished product.