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15 Worst Superhero Movies That Are Truly 0/10

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Heroes who flopped.

Nazarii Verbitskiy

TV Shows & Movies - June 27th 2026, 11:00 GMT+2

The Return of Captain Invincible — 15. The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
The Return of Captain Invincible somehow convinced Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee to star in a superhero musical parody, and that sentence alone should explain most of the damage. Arkin plays a washed-up hero drinking himself to oblivion in Australia, which sounds interesting until the random song numbers start appearing with no warning and zero payoff. Christopher Lee gets a villain song about schnapps. Nobody involved seems to agree on what kind of movie this is, and that confusion never resolves itself by the end. | © New World Pictures

Son of the Mask — 14. Son of the Mask (2005)
Son of the Mask takes everything strange and loose about the original and cranks it into something genuinely unwatchable. The baby effects look like a fever dream rendered by a computer that had never seen a human face. Jamie Kennedy spends the whole film screaming and contorting while the movie mistakes volume for comedy. Nothing about it works, and it somehow gets worse every time something is supposed to be funny. | © New Line Cinema

Steel — 13. Steel (1997)

Steel somehow convinced Shaquille O'Neal to carry an entire superhero movie on his shoulders. The suit looks like it was built in a high school metal shop, the villain is forgettable, and the whole thing moves like it has somewhere else to be. Shaq tries, genuinely, and that almost makes it sadder. | © Warner Bros.

Supergirl — 12. Supergirl (1984)
Supergirl takes a character with real potential and buries her under a plot about a magic orb and a witch trying to control a landscaper she has a crush on. The villain's plan is genuinely that small, which makes the cosmic stakes feel completely hollow. Helen Slater does her best, but the movie has no idea what kind of story it wants to tell, so it tells all of them badly. A $35 million budget somehow produced something that looks cheaper than the TV movies it was competing with. | © TriStar Pictures

The Amazing Bulk — 11. The Amazing Bulk (2012)
The Amazing Bulk is a superhero movie shot almost entirely against green screen, and not in a way that looks intentional or stylish. Every background looks like a screensaver, every scene looks like it was filmed in someone's garage, and the purple muscle suit on the lead actor looks rented from a Halloween store. The plot involves a scientist turning into a hulking monster, but the real spectacle is watching the production fall apart in real time across every single frame. Nothing about it works, and somehow that makes it impossible to look away. | © Brain Damage Films

Howard the Duck — 10. Howard the Duck (1986)
Howard the Duck arrives on Earth from a planet of anthropomorphic ducks and somehow ends up in an uncomfortable romantic subplot with Lea Thompson. The costume looks like a theme park reject, the tone swings between kids' movie and something far stranger, and nobody on screen seems to know what film they're making. George Lucas produced it, which remains one of the most baffling footnotes in his entire career. | © Universal Pictures

Jonah Hex — 9. Jonah Hex (2010)
Jonah Hex takes one of DC's most interesting characters, a scarred bounty hunter who talks to the dead, and somehow makes him boring. Josh Brolin shows up looking committed, but the script gives him nothing to work with and a runtime so short it barely qualifies as a movie. The supernatural elements feel bolted on, the villain is wasted, and the whole thing collapses before it even gets started. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

The Spirit — 8. The Spirit (2008)
The Spirit had Frank Miller directing his first solo film, and that single fact explains almost everything. The city is drenched in black and white like a bad Sin City knockoff, the villain monologues feel like they were written as a dare, and Samuel L. Jackson shows up in a Nazi uniform at one point for no real reason. Every frame looks like someone learned visual style from a screensaver and then forgot to add a story around it. What should have been pulpy and fun becomes genuinely painful to sit through. | © Lionsgate

Superman IV The Quest for Peace — 7. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace starts with Superman deciding to throw all nuclear weapons into the sun, which sounds bold until the villain response is Nuclear Man, a guy with long fingernails who exists because a kid mailed Clark Kent a letter. The budget had been gutted so badly that the same establishing shot of Metropolis gets reused multiple times in the same film. Christopher Reeve clearly still cared, which somehow makes the whole thing sadder to watch. A legend deserved a better send-off than this. | © Warner Bros.

Elektra — 6. Elektra (2005)
Elektra gets resurrected at the start of the movie, and somehow the film itself never manages the same trick. Jennifer Garner is clearly trying, but the script gives her almost nothing to work with besides slow-motion walks and vague mystical nonsense. The villains are a group called The Hand, which sounds threatening until they show up and do very little that feels dangerous or interesting. A movie that spends this much time being quiet should at least make the silence feel tense. | © 20th Century Fox

Morbius — 5. Morbius (2022)
Morbius somehow managed to turn a vampire antihero into the least interesting thing on screen. Jared Leto plays a dying scientist who cures himself with bat DNA, which sounds wild on paper but lands as flat and joyless as a Monday morning. The plot dissolves into a blur of blue CGI smoke, forgettable villains, and a third act that feels assembled from leftover parts. Sony then made it worse by releasing two post-credits scenes that connected to nothing coherent, leaving the whole thing feeling like an ad for a movie that will never exist. | © Sony Pictures

Madame Web — 4. Madame Web (2024)
Madame Web had one job: make Cassandra Webb feel like someone worth caring about, and it failed at every level. Dakota Johnson delivers her lines like she's reading them for the first time, the CGI looks unfinished, and the villain's motivation makes almost no sense by the end. The now-famous "he was in the Amazon with my mom" dialogue became a meme before the movie even left theaters. Sony somehow spent real money turning one of Marvel's more interesting psychic characters into something people laughed at for the wrong reasons. | © Sony Pictures

Fant4stic — 3. Fant4stic (2015)
Fant4stic arrives with a grim, joyless tone that somehow makes getting superpowers feel like a punishment. The characters barely interact, the team never gels, and the villain appears so late the movie almost forgets it needs one. Fox had been trying to crack the Fantastic Four for years, and this was their most expensive failure at it. The whole thing collapses before the third act even starts. | © 20th Century Fox

Fantastic Four — 2. Fantastic Four (2005)

Fantastic Four somehow turns one of Marvel's most charismatic teams into a group of people who mostly stand around complaining at each other. The tone never decides if it wants to be a kids' movie or a serious superhero story, so it ends up being neither. Doctor Doom, one of comics' greatest villains, gets reduced to a corporate guy with a grudge and a metal suit that looks like a Halloween costume. Four superpowers, zero tension. | © 20th Century Fox

Batman Robin — 1. Batman & Robin (1997)

Batman & Robin somehow turned one of the most beloved superhero franchises into a neon fever dream nobody asked for. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze delivers ice puns every thirty seconds, bat credit cards appear without irony, and the Batsuit has nipples. Joel Schumacher made a movie so aggressively campy it stopped being fun and just became exhausting. It did not kill superhero movies, but it came close enough to scare Hollywood into a decade of second-guessing everything. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

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Not every caped crusader gets a triumphant origin story. For every blockbuster that soared, there's a superhero movie so misguided it makes you wonder how it ever got greenlit. Here are 15 that crashed and burned on the way to the big screen.

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Not every caped crusader gets a triumphant origin story. For every blockbuster that soared, there's a superhero movie so misguided it makes you wonder how it ever got greenlit. Here are 15 that crashed and burned on the way to the big screen.