Green Lantern

Skippable, and it is the film that delayed DC's shared universe by several years. It was built as the start of one, with a post-credits scene setting up a sequel and a corps of characters to spin off, and its reception was poor enough that the studio reset and started again with Man of Steel two years later.

The central fault is that it cannot decide what it is. A premise about a ring that renders whatever its wearer imagines is an invitation to visual invention, and the film spends it on a racetrack, a helicopter made of toy cars, and a villain who is a cloud. The alien corps, which is the appealing part, appears in two sequences and is then left behind for a plot about a scientist in a laboratory.

The costume was rendered digitally over the actor, which was unusual and became the film's shorthand for an unfinished production: it does not sit on the body and the eyes never match. The effects work was reportedly being completed to the last available day.

Ryan Reynolds has mocked it continually since, including in later films for another studio, which is now the main thing anyone remembers about it. The character has been rebooted twice since on television and in the new DCU.