Top 10 comic book characters hardest to adapt to the big screen

Well, it happened again. The Fantastic Four have been rebooted and once again they have flopped both commercially and critically. Dozens of think pieces have been written, assumptions made and behind the scenes facts released. It remains to be seen just how far this will all go: there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight to this apparent phenomenon that is Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four and how it completely went off the rails. It’s fascinating really, but it’s not the first time it’s happened.

Hollywood always tries rebooting a beloved comic book property only to see the same or similar results. They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Well, trying to bring these characters to life may just be insanity. So what makes certain comic book characters so hard to get right? Here are the top 10 hardest to adapt, what's come before and what's up next.

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