Cinematic Comic Characters Ranked! (Year 2012) Part II
After the explosion of new characters introduced in 2011′s list, this year’s list is a bit more calm. Returning for the last time is Dark Knight Rises, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, and Men in Black 3. We also get a fresh new face for The Amazing Spider-Man and a prequel of sorts in Prometheus. This year also debuts The Avengers, Marvel’s mega blockbuster. Without further ado, here’s #42-21!
*SPOILERS FOR ALL THE HIGHLIGHTED MOVIES ABOVE*
42. Colonel James Darrel Edwards Jr. (Men in Black 3)
At first Colonel Edwards just seemed like a military officer who ended up coming through and helping our agents save the world from a ridiculous alien man. The twist was showed after he ended up dying however, something that was hinted by Griffin the entire time. He's Agent J's dad! Who knew Agent J would be able to reunite with his father even after his death.
41. Erik Selvigg (The Avengers)
We saw at the end of Thor that poor Erik was being possessed by Loki the entire time he was working with SHIELD. So it's no surprise when he helps Loki gain control over the tesseract and then help it create a portal that would allow the invasion of an entire alien army in the middle of New York City. Luckily, even a mind controlled Erik created a way to close the portal, which the Avengers were able to do at the last second.
40. Roarke/Mephistopheles (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance)
The devil is back disguised as another man and ripping off even more people with the promise of something great in return for their souls, and then going back on his promise as soon as he get what he wants. This time he manages to convince a woman to carry his demon child so that he could posses the kid and take over the world. Of course Ghost Rider shows up to stop everything before he really does any damage, just like last time.
39. John Daggert and Philip Stryver (The Dark Knight Rises)
There's always got to be someone working at Wayne Enterprises that wants to take everything from Bruce and take over the company. John Daggert, with the help of his assistant, kinda ends up doing just that by hiring Bane to get Bruce's prints to mess with the company and get Bruce to lose all his fortune. However, he DID hire Bane, who of course betrayed him in favor of starting his new world order and killed him. His assistant, Phillip, doesn't get off the hook. He gets sentenced to exile by Scarecrow and is forced to walk on the frozen waters surrounding Gotham City. They're not too frozen and with one wrong step, Phillip sinks to his death.
38. Peter Foley (The Dark Knight Rises)
After Gordon starts losing popularity with the Mayor, Foley decides he's going to try to take Gordon's job from under him. He does this by doing whatever he can to catch the Batman and also ignores all the warnings Gordon and Blake tried to give him about Bane's army hiding in the sewers. He doesn't listen, and when Bane takes over Gotham he goes in hiding until Gordon calls him out. He participates in the final confrontation against Bane's men, but dies when Talia orders her driver to shoot him down.
37. Fifield and Millburn (Prometheus)
Even though I didn't care for Millburn, I was kinda rooting for Fifield. He's the only one in the entire team that just doesn't like the idea of finding the Engineers at all. He knew better than to mess with things he didn't understand but his mistake was traveling with Millburn, who ends up messing with an cobra-like alien. Of course said alien ends up attacking them but when Fifield tries to cut Millburn loose, the aliens blood burns through his mask. The alien then goes inside Millburn's suit and enters his body through his mouth! The next time we see Millburn he's dead but Fifield ends up showing up as an infected psychopath and ends up killing most of the crew in a blind rage before he's taken down.
36. Peter Weyland (Prometheus)
Weyland is the old rich guy who's company is funding the entire expedition because he wants to secretly join the group and hopefully find a way to stay alive forever. Even though the guy looks like he's seconds from dying, he manages to somehow walk his old ass to the crashed ship to speak with an Engineer, but nothing goes as planned as the Engineer beats him to death as soon as he wakes up.
35. Moreau (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance)
Even though Moreau was the only likable character in this god forsaken movie for me, it just wasn't enough to save it. He pops in every now and then as an ally to Ghost Rider and Danny and he even has the ability to change Ghost Rider into a blue flamed spirit but of course he dies after that so I guess thanks for the assist, Moreau.
34. Chance and Ravel (Prometheus)
The two pilots under Janek and were probably the most loyal members on the crew. They never got out to explore the dangerous new planet they landed on so they pretty much stayed out of harms way until the very end. When Janek must sacrifice himself to crash the ship into the one controlled by the Engineer, Chance and Ravel elect to stay behind and help him.
33. Maria Hill (The Avengers)
Maria Hill is a SHIELD agent that's mostly seen side by side with Nick Fury. Even though it was pretty easy to forget her when she's surrounded by billionaires, super soldiers, and Norse Gods, she does have some pretty cool moments that proves she is not someone to mess with.
32. Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance)
I'm just gonna say it, Nicholas Cage frustrates me as an actor. There have been so many times where he makes me cringe and I feel like I'm the only one who feels that way. Even though his weirdness sorta kinda worked for the first Ghost Rider, it was the complete opposite for this one. It was just so bad. His ridiculous screaming was just the cherry on top to this once-decent character that is now absolute trash.
31. Lucius Fox (The Dark Knight Rises)
Unlike the last two films, Lucius doesn't get to show off some awesome new gadgets for Batman because he's busy running around trying to make sure Bruce's company doesn't end up in the wrong hands. Of course, none of that matters once Bane takes over the city and Lucius is spent mostly as one of the hostages the freed prisoners have recently taken. He plays a big role in trying to stop the reactor core and afterwards takes over the business after Bruce's supposed dead.
30. Griffin (Men in Black 3)
Griffin was fun to watch and he really showed a different side to someone who is clairvoyant. Throughout the entire movie we watch as he sees every single outcome that could happen, some even have drastic differences based on the if Agent J drank chocolate milk or not. Despite all this, he knows that SOMEONE has to die when stopping Boris, something he just can't bring himself to watch. Ending with him in the diner was a bit weird, but this was a weird movie.
29. The Engineers (Prometheus)
From the beginning we knew that the Engineers were a big deal. Not only were they thought to be the creators of the human race, but they were also the creators of the alien virus meant to destroy them. The Engineers tasked with releasing it accidentally set it loose on themselves though and ended up dying out. Except for one. This last Engineer is in a cryo sleep until Weyland's team wake him up. They think he's going to have all the answers, but he ends up just killing most of them. He's only stopped when Shaw releases her overgrown alien baby on him, which is revealed to be a super-sized face hugger. Through this Engineer we see the birth of the first alien as it rips out of his chest, but thank goodness it's on a planet all by itself.
28. Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul (The Dark Knight Rises)
If you read the comics you wouldn't be surprised when its learned that Ra's al Ghul's child isn't actually Bane, but Talia al Ghul. It did take me a little longer to figure out that Talia was, in fact, Miranda Tate, Bruce's business partner that he was trusting with the energy core. I thought her little plan of revenge was a bit much just because it didn't even seem like she had a relationship with Ra's anyway, so why was it a big deal that Batman killed him to protect a city of millions? Unlike the comics she isn't as deadly physically and is really only a good schemer so when her plan went to waste, she died pretty easy.
27. Agent K (Men in Black 3)
Boris the Animal goes back in time to change one thing, and that's Agent K. With him dead there's no one stopping him from having his alien creatures invade Earth. It's also why Agent J goes back in time to help save younger Agent K. This younger version is similar to the agent we know but also a lot different. They're both share their deadpan faces but Agent K actually has no problem opening up to Agent J as opposed to the older version who always changes and/or ignores the subject. With the help of J, his father, and Griffin, Agent K is able to change history back to normal and save the planet.
26. Clint Barton/Hawkeye (The Avengers)
Out of all the Avengers that were featured, Hawkeye was the one that came out with the short stick. For most of the movie he was under Loki's control, and even though he is extremely talented with his bow and arrow, most of the time it felt like he was just a nuisance. Once Black Widow knocked some sense back into him, he joined the other Avengers in fighting off Loki's army. But the problem with being a skilled archer is that eventually you're gonna run out of arrows. Luckily the others were able to defeat Loki before things got really bad for Hawkeye.
25. Meredith Vickers (Prometheus)
So the whole movie I thought Meredith was on board because she had a really twisted evil plan, but her motivation was pretty simple. She wanted the crew to fail so Weyland could finally die and she could take over the company. Knowing that, it makes perfect sense as to why she did not hesitate to burn Holloway, because she wasn't risking anything that would kill her. The entire time she was doing everything she could to save herself. Too bad she just didn't roll to the side before getting crushed by that falling ship.
24. Charlie Holloway (Prometheus)
So Charlie got screwed over because he kept making fun of David, not knowing the robot dude was already plotting on him and gave him the final push to infect his ass. I'm honestly not sure if anything different would've happen if he treated David with a little decency but he didn't and the virus quickly spread. Charlie did have enough time to get it on with Shaw the night before the virus really started kicking in, which ends up spelling bad news for Shaw. When the team tries to help him, Charlie knows whatever it is he's infected with isn't going to stop so he allows Vickers to burn him alive.
23. Agent J (Men in Black 3)
Agent J tackles the biggest mission of his life: going back in time to stop some ridiculous looking alien from killing Agent K. Agent J is a comedian so watching him interact with the past, where Andy Warhol parties were a huge thing and where Agent K was a lot more loose about his personal life was funny to watch, but things got pretty real. He had to deal with an even worse case racial profiling with police and he had to watch how his dad's death came to be. But still, the sweetest thing was him getting to see that the first person to comfort him was Agent K.
22. Janek (Prometheus)
I really liked Janek but like, everyone on the ship liked Janek. Even Vickers liked him and she hated everyone. He was someone that just liked flying his ship in space, he didn't care about meeting his creators or anything like that because he didn't care about the validation. He's a simple man but he still has no problem doing what he needs to do to save Earth. So when Shaw mentions that an Engineer is flying off to destroy his entire planet, he bravely sacrifices himself and crashes his ship into the Engineers.
21. David (Prometheus)
I knew something was up with David. It's just a bad combination to put a robot who is starting to develop curiosity about his own life and whether or not he has meaning mixed with a bunch of crewman who treat him like shit. You know what that equals? Him plotting their demise. Like he really infected Charlie just to see what would happen. Luckily he was taken out of the game early when the lone surviving Engineer ripped his head off, but since he's a robot he didn't die and he convinces Shaw to take him with her when she leaves.
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