4. Abar - Abar, The First Black Superman (1977)
The beauty of the blaxploitation genre was in its willingness to try just about anything, but that doesn't necessarily mean the results were always good. In fact, they rarely ever were. I mean, sure, on paper, Abar, The First Black Superman sounds like the kind of filmic venture that dreams are made of - unfortunately, with a title like that, your expectations have already been raised to impossible levels. The plot here concerns a black scientist and his family who move into a "nice" neighborhood filled with white folks. But it turns out the white folks are all racist (every last one), and it's up to our eponymous hero, Abar, a tough bodyguard imbued with superpowers via a special elixir, to show them who's boss. Abar, The First Black Superman is absolutely terrible, but remains watchable in that "I can't believe this is happening" kind of way - his "powers" have to be seen to be believed. Despite his awfulness, though, Abar is still somehow a more interesting character than Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye. Go figure.