# which Marvel comic character's story would make the best movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 23, 1999, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108 "1999-11-23T23:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108/41 "1999-12-03T01:32:00Z")
I just remembered the Fox “network” pilot for “Generation X”. I wonder which demographic they were shooting for. Jubilee, Skin, Monet St. Croix, Mondo (got to be the first Samoan superhero), Banshee and the White Queen. Even had Matt “Max Headroom” Fruer himself as the main baddie. It sucked. But most of their mutant powers are really lame and not conducive to neato special effects. * * * Back off, man. I’m a scientist. ---
**Author:** ![Abe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Abe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108/42 "1999-12-03T10:23:00Z")
Spiderman is probably the superhero they have made the most computer games about, so he certainly does have appeal. The Spiderman comics were certainly wonderful. No other superhero keeps up such an amusing running commentary while he is turning 185 somersaults and dodging bullets. The added advantage of a spider man movie is, of course, Mary Jane Parker-Watson. Don’t forget the inexplicable spider-sense. Dr. Doom is a fascinating character, also because he is evil. Check out his web page at [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/5539/doom.html](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/5539/doom.html) I’m so sick of “the good guys always win and are simplistic morons” movies. Likewise, the Sub-mariner would make a great film, because Namor is a psycho. Longshot had a great mini series that would make an awesome and surreal movie. The Silver Surfer is definitely a candidate. But how about the lesser known characters? Black Bolt? The guy whose voice can level cities? He won’t speak for the whole movie, so he can team up with Spiderman quite easily. Gargoyle. He was really cool. The Vision and the Scarlet Witch. There’s a team. ## Cloak and Dagger. An opportunity for some wonderful images and sweeping camera angles. Abe IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. –Ambrose Bierce ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108/43 "1999-12-03T16:48:00Z")
Howard the Duck! Aw, forget about it… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108/44 "1999-12-04T01:41:00Z")
How about _Mystery Men?_ ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108/45 "1999-12-09T04:16:00Z")
wolverine and psylocke are my personal faves. they get my votes. oh and apocolypse, he scares the poopy out of me in comics and as a cartoon character, he would be a great movie villian. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108/46 "1999-12-09T04:39:00Z")
All right, that’s it. I’m hereby formally voting that they should make a _NORMALMAN_ movie! Sergeant Fluffy lives! ---
**Author:** ![spankboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@spankboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankboy)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 1999, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108/47 "1999-12-26T14:03:00Z")
Watchmen. Oh yeah. That would be cool. Was anyone else disappointed when they found out Glenn Danzig wasn’t going to play Wolverine? Hmm…short, buff, psycho…seems like a perfect fit. I think a Green Lantern movie would be cool if they focussed on the period after he went nuts and started killing all the other Green Lanterns, almost destroying the Green Lantern corps. Movie ideas: Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. SGT. Rock FF vs. Galactus Alpha Flight Lobo Milk and Cheese * * * From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee- ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 1999, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108/48 "1999-12-29T22:19:00Z")
Obnoxio the Clown. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2000, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108/49 "2000-01-01T15:22:00Z")
I still think it should be Illyana…did y’all see the issue where she came back to earth as an angel to save Wolverine after Magneto ripped the adamantium out of him? Kinda cool. -David [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-marvel-comic-characters-story-would-make-the-best-movie/17108.md?page=2)