Comic book movies seem to be getting better and better. Everything about them is improving; the plots, the action, the special effects, the acting and indeed the dialogue.

However, there’s no doubt that there have been some absolute stinkers and that there are still some bad aspects of some comic book movies even today.

One thing about them that can often be terrible is the aforementioned dialogue. It can be hammy, too light-hearted, too dark or just out of place in the context of a particular story – and some characters are simply dealt a bad hand with the dialogue the’re given and/or the way in which the actors are asked to deliver it (not everyone gets the great lines of Robert Downey, Jr.’s Tony Stark or Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, for example).

In this article, we’ll run through ten characters from comic book movies whose dialogue was so awful that it was practically unbearable (complete with examples that are put into context where necessary).

Howard The Duck (Howard The Duck)

Howard the Duck’s first appearance in a movie wasn’t in the post-credits scene of 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy like you might think. He had actually starred in his own movie back in 1986 – and it was absolutely terrible.

The character was inadvertently being flung to Earth and unable to return to his native planet of Duckworld. The plot was mostly about him trying to find a way home.

One of the main reasons for it being so bad, however, was Howard’s dialogue. It was awful – seriously cheesy. Here are some of his worst lines:

Howard the Duck: “No one laughs at a master of Quack-Fu!”

Howard the Duck: “That’s it, no more Mr. Nice Duck.”

Phil Blumburtt: “Did you find the toolbox?”
Howard the Duck: “Yeah, I know why you want a toolbox – you got a screw loose.”