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5. Brandon Routh
(Superman, Superman Returns/Todd Ingram, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World/Dylan Dog, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night/The Atom, CW-Verse)
I love Brandon Routh. Guy is an immensely fun actor. Super underrated.
Routh's biggest role of note was as Superman in the underrated but not THAT underrated Superman Returns. It's a good movie with the best Lex Luthor casting of all time, and Routh is a good match. Seriously, great Superman performance that captured the quiet heroism very well.
On the villainous side, Routh also played the most memorable of Ramona Flowers's evil exes as the telekinetic vegan Todd Ingram in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. That movie was rad as hell, and Routh nailed the goofy tone with a hilarious performance.
However, the Italian horror comic-based Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, with Routh as the titular paranormal detective, was an unfortunate misstep that disappointed fans and non-fans alike. Not a great movie, and in fact, one of the most forgettable.
But of late he's stepped up into the role of the Atom in the DC CW-verse, first on Arrow and then in Legends of Tomorrow. Having only seen him in his Flash appearances (I'm not an Arrow fan, and haven't gotten to LoT yet), I'd say he makes a fantastic Atom, even though he starts off a little too Iron Man-y.
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4. Ryan Reynolds
(Deadpool, Deadpool and X-Men Origins: Wolverine/Green Lantern, Green Lantern/Nick Walker, R.I.P.D./Hannibal King, Blade: Trinity)
Thank God for Wade Wilson. I love Ryan Reynolds, but he has the worst luck with comic book adaptations.
2011's Green Lantern almost shuttered the DCEU in its infancy and killed off any Warner executive's desire to make a fun movie. It was also awful. And while he did his best, Reynolds was the wrong choice for Hal Jordan, and no CGI costume was gonna save him.
He also co-starred in the graphic novel-based R.I.P.D., another critical flop and box office bomb that you probably don't even remember existed. He played Nick Walker, a dead NYPD officer who becomes a ghost cop with his cowboy ghost cop partner.
Reynolds also popped up in the least-liked Blade movie, Blade Trinity, as vampire hunter Hannibal King. Even his first turn as Deadpool was in the dreadful X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a movie that, to quote my girlfriend, "Nobody asked for, but everybody got."
But all was redeemed by 2016's Deadpool, a movie that was awesome and let Reynolds finally have some fun in the performance he always deserved to give.
