10 Most Forgettable DC Movie Characters Of All Time

The many films that take place in the DC Universe are full of memorable heroes, villains, and everything in between, but not every character introduced is fated to leave a lasting impression on audiences. Superhero movies like the films of the DCEU and beyond succeed or fail based on the strength of their varied characters, which is the primary draw to the comic book movie genre in the first place. While the franchise has led to many unforgettable roles and performances over the years, not every credit in a DC movie is always destined to stand out.

There are many factors at play that can result in a given superhero movie role drowning in cinematic history. DC movies tend to feature ensemble casts that often don’t have the time to meaningfully expand on every single name they introduce, making it impossible for at least one character competing for attention to fall by the wayside. Love interests and villains can also be difficult for any superhero movie to get right, with multiple half-baked and forgettable characters in these archetypes littering DC’s cinematic future and history.

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Katana

Suicide Squad

Perhaps one of the most infamous DC movies ever released, it’s no wonder that 2016’s Suicide Squad is littered with boring and forgettable characters. As an ensemble film by nature, the tale of villains forced into heroism by government intervention is an exciting one that sadly isn’t able to juggle its many ideas succinctly. Features like Katana end up being painfully forgettable thanks to their rushed introduction and minimal impact on the story.

Katana is hastily introduced to the rest of the Suicide Squad by Rick Flagg in one of the DCEU’s most infamously bad lines, “This is Katana, she’s got my back. I would avoid not getting killed by her; Her sword traps the souls of its victims.” This hilarious over-exposition is Katana’s biggest presence in the entire film, as Karen Fukuhara was sorely edited out of the film’s theatrical release. Katana doesn’t even get to use her namesake weapon to kill the big bad – That honor has to fall to Harley Quinn, somehow.

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Slipknot

Suicide Squad

It says a lot that 2016’s Suicide Squad features not only one, but two of the most forgettable costumed characters ever conceived for a DC movie. While Katana at least has the infamy of her rushed first appearance and notoriety from the following success of Karen Fukuhara in The Boys, Slipknot doesn’t even leave an ironic impression despite being treated just as poorly. Not assembling with the rest of the squad, the rope-themed villain Slipknot abruptly spawns in shortly before they’re sent out.

Introduced as “the man who can climb anything“, Slipknot solely existed so that Suicide Squad had someone to actually detonate the implanted bomb on, which happens when he wordlessly attempts to escape the second the Squad steps foot in the field. Thanks to his utter lack of presence in the trailers, this fate was a blaringly obvious one, and the character has literally nothing to do outside of his death. As a result, Slipknot is easily the most forgettable role in the entire film.

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Ross Webster

Superman III

One of the easiest ways for a comic book movie character to be forgettable is to be altogether too similar to another, far more popular character. Enter Ross Webster, the main villain of Superman III, one of the worse Christopher Reeve Superman films, which doesn’t even have the same levels of ridiculous ironic enjoyment as Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. As another villainous CEO who squares off against Superman, Ross Webster stands deep in the shadow of Gene Hackman’s Lex Luthor, doing essentially the same bit but slightly worse.

Not only is he derivative of a far more popular villain, but his harebrained scheme is hard to parse. Webster is also outshone in his own movie by Richard Pryor’s Gus Gorman and Christopher Reeve’s own evil version of Superman in the same film. As a result, Ross Webster is among the most forgettable of Superman’s movie rogue’s gallery.

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Laurel Hedare

Catwoman

Another infamously bad movie in DC’s retinue of films, Halle Berry’s Catwoman is memorable for all the wrong reasons. For all the cartoonish silliness, rubbery CGI, endless cat puns, and bizarre sexually-charged basketball action sequences, the film’s villain is an utter letdown compared to the depravity of the rest of the script. Laruel Hedare is a model and beauty industry magnate who plots a devious scheme framing Catwoman for murder when her husband replaces her romantically and professionally with a younger woman.

Laurel is dimly memorable as a typical corporate villain with a convoluted plan, but it’s even more difficult to remember that she actually has powers. Supposedly, the use of her Beau-Line skin products gave her a super-durable skin described to be as strong as marble, but Catwoman’s clawed gloves are still able to leave a nasty mark. Evidently, this ends up being a big enough knock to Laurel’s self-esteem to cause her to take her own life.

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Victor Zsasz

Batman Begins

Victor Zsasz is a great Batman villain that has been sadly failed by DC movies twice now, a dangerous serial killer that keeps track of his victims by scarring himself with a new tally mark for each life he claims. This idea is perfect for a grounded Gotham City antagonist, but Birds of Prey utterly fumbles his inclusion. Yet somehow, his DCEU depiction is still more faithful and easier to recall than his appearance in Chistopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy.

In Batman Begins, Victor Zsasz is one of Carmine Falcone’s assassins who are declared clinically insane by Dr. Jonathan Crane, a.k.a. Scarecrow. While this might have been a flimsy way of evading the legal system in the case of Falcone’s other killers, it very well may be true for Zsasz, who seems to enjoy his work a little too much. However, Zsasz has no tally marks, no fear factor, and no impression to make in Batman Begins beyond being a generic bald thug who threatens Rachel Dawes.

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Renee Montoya

Birds of Prey

While Birds of Prey may have handled Victor Zsasz a tad better than Batman Begins, that’s not to say the film wasn’t full of its own coterie of forgettable side characters. Despite the film’s name implying a true ensemble cast, most of the Birds of Prey are sidelined in favor of a bigger spotlight for Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, making the full title, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), far more accurate. Renee Montoya is easily the most overshadowed of Harley’s supporting cast.

Like Harley Quinn herself, Renee Montoya actually debuted in Batman: The Animated Series rather than a comic book. While Montoya is quite fleshed out in the show, Birds of Prey makes her into as generic and tropey of a character as they come – An alcoholic, cynical female detective with a hard personality. Monotya could easily be cut out of Birds of Prey without changing much, making her a DC movie character with a decidedly small footprint.

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Batgirl

Batman & Robin

It says a lot that Batgirl isn’t even allowed to share marquee space with her partners in crimefighting in the abysmally bad Batman & Robin. The strange, campy end to the original Batman quadrilogy focuses on the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder for the majority of its runtime, inexplicably throwing in Batgirl at the last second with little rhyme or reason. Rather than being Commissioner Gordon’s daughter, Barbara Gordon, Batgirl is introduced as Alfred’s niece, Barbara Wilson.

Despite having no training or experience to speak of, Barbara is told to squeeze into a Bat-suit by her beloved uncle and start fighting crime, a command she inexplicably obeys. Batgirl doesn’t do much besides act as a member of the opposite sex for Dick Grayson to ogle and make jokes about men, having little personality beyond being a woman. It’s a travesty that the cancelation of the Batgirl solo movie has left this forgettable hero as Batgirl’s only live-action representation in movies.

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Mongal

The Suicide Squad

Overall, James Gunn did a far better job in The Suicide Squad balancing a roster of wacky villains fated to die than the DCEU’s first take on the concept. Even though James Gunn wipes an entire squadron of villains in the opening moments of the film, most of them receive at least one solid joke or moment of focus to show off their personality in the brief amount of screentime they have. Sadly, at least one member of the team, Mongal, still got the short end of the stick.

Despite being one of the most powerful and interesting members of the Squad on-paper, the alien warrior Mongal is given next to nothing to do. She doesn’t partake in the rest of the Suicide Squad’s banter, and rushes into battle recklessly with her twin arm blades before getting herself and a teammate killed. For as well as Gunn is able to balance such a large cast, Mongal’s existence is difficult to remember at all.

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Lilah Black

Jonah Hex

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Considering that Jonah Hex is one of the most widely-forgotten DC movies as a whole, it’s no wonder that the cast features a few technically DC-affiliated characters that have gone utterly forgotten in the annals of movie history. The unconventional Western has a cast that mostly leaves at least some kind of impression for the rare few that have seen it, including Josh Brolin’s scarred gunslinger, not to mention John Malkovich and Michael Fassbender’s fun villains. The same can’t be said for Megan Fox as Lilah Black.

Lilah Black is a prostitute who serves as Jonah Hex’s love interest and confidant. Though the film makes an attempt to portray her as a gun-wielding femme fatale, she mostly exists to be kidnapped, driving the plot forward as a living MacGuffin. Megan Fox was widely criticized for her sleepwalk performance in the film, contributing to the obscurity of a forgettable character in an already seldom-seen film.

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Mary Bromfield

Shazam!

The tail end of Shazam! and the majority of Shazam! Fury of the Gods introduced the concept of the “Shazamily”, Billy Batson’s foster siblings all getting a portion of Shazam’s power by splitting the wizard’s staff in multiple pieces. With a whopping six siblings to keep track of, it’s no wonder that one of them is fated to fall by the wayside as a forgettable DC movie character. The honor falls to Mary Bromfield, the group’s eldest sibling.

As the “den mother” of her adoptive siblings and the oldest child in the Vasquez household, Mary is by far the least involved. She has a far more subdued and practical personality, somehow seeming almost unenthused by the idea of being able to turn into a superpowered adult. Her Shazam-powered form doesn’t have a flashy, distinct enhanced power like some of her siblings do, other than increasing her already high intelligence, resulting in an uninteresting and hard to recall member of the crowded DC movie’s roster.

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