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8 Comic Book Movies That Were Ruined By Terrible Plot Twists

Comic book movies have delivered some amazing plot twists over the decades. There have been surprising villain switcheroos (e.g. Iron Man, Batman Begins, Captain America: The Winter Soldier), shocking deaths (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Dark Knight, Logan) and revelations that turn the hero's story on its head (Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Unbreakable). All of these examples proved to enhance the story and lift the films up to another level in some way.
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6) Enchantress Is The Movie’s Villain

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This one isn’t so much of a plot twist within the film itself, as it becomes clear that Enchantress is the central villain of Suicide Squad fairly early on. However, the marketing for the third entry in the DCEU had led us to believe that Jared Leto’s Joker would be the movie’s big bad and that Enchantress would just be one of the members of Task Force X, as in the comics. Boy, how wrong we were.

The result of this bait-and-switch was one of the worst superhero movie villains ever. In terms of her character, villainous scheme and performance, the Enchantress is undercooked, hokey and laughably bad. Plus, with hardly any screentime, Leto’s Joker came across as a gimmick-laden pencil sketch of Mr. J, leaving Warner Bros. to contemplate alt-Jokers to rehabilitate the character.

At least director David Ayer admitted to his mistake and has gone on record as saying he should have made the Joker the antagonist of the movie. Unfortunately, it’s a little too late for that now, Dave.


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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'