Superhero movies are extremely popular, and with good reason. The action, the stories, and the vast array of characters within them make them extremely easy and enjoyable watch – but they do have their downsides as well.

One of those downsides is the almost inevitable inclusion of characters who are there solely for comic relief – and that’s something that can get annoying really quickly, because it often feels so unnecessary.

In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the most annoying comic relief characters in superhero movie history. Here are ten of the worst….

Gus Gorman (Superman III)

Superman III signified the beginning of the downturn in quality for the Christopher Reeve-starring Superman franchise – and that was in no small part thanks to the casting of the late comedian Richard Pryor as computer hacker Gus Gorman.

Gorman was completely out of place in a franchise that had, up to that point, been a quality superhero adventure, and completely changed its tone for the worse.

An employee of the film’s main villain, Ross Webster, Gorman was a competent hacker, but otherwise a bumbling idiot. He concocted a scheme that Superman had to stop, but then ended up assisting Superman by destroying a nefarious supercomputer that he had to create.