Superhero Actors’ Least Heroic Movie Roles

Josh Plainse
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Once an actor plays a superhero in a box office extravaganza worthy of its own franchise, fans tend to associate them with the character for the foreseeable future—the hero. More often than not, though, you'll learn that there are a lot of superhero actors who have played villains before or in between their more recognizable comic book movie outings. Forgetting these actors have played bad guys is a common phenomenon. 

A great actor paints characters in shades of gray; they’re not just good or bad, and certainly not outright heroic... some less so than others. Here are the least heroic roles of well-known superhero actors we forgot weren’t always model citizens onscreen.