Sabretooth

Moving a bit away from the second trilogy, we find Sabretooth. He was the huge dumb beast sent to retrieve Rogue, thus putting the plot of the first movie in motion, with Wolverine at its core. And then came the first Origins movie, where it is revealed that Sabretooth and Wolverine are brothers – and the fact that the villain (who, for some reason, barely speaks in the X-Men movie) doesn’t recognize his brother, as well as the decade-long hatred between them, it is mind boggling.

Furthermore, the character is completely changed. If in the Origins movie he is actually quite talkative and is depicted as being an intelligent person (one who might actually come up with a plan on his own), the X-Men movie reduces him to a mere pawn. And that is all – as said, he is just a huge dumb beast.

I guess this is what happens when you don’t believe that a franchise will pick up, as the X-Men did: you cast someone big as Tyler Mane, without thinking that maybe, at some point, you’d require someone with actual acting chops.