A huge part of the draw to most superhero movies is their action, making it all the more disappointing when they fail to deliver a climactic final fight sequence. From the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the many one-off films featuring DC characters, most comic book movies rely heavily on their fight scenes to draw audiences’ attention. This focus on combat usually results in one final battle against the film’s overarching villain to close out the story, pulling out all the stops for a memorable last battle.
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The best comic book movie final fights are able to balance characterization with smooth editing, believable special effects, and creative uses of powers to maintain an exciting bout. Conversely, the worst finales in superhero movie history can be the result of a lackluster final battle, especially in films featuring otherwise great combat scenes. Both Marvel and DC have committed the sin of a pitifully weak final battle in their movies.
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Suicide Squad’s Final Fight Is Infamously Bad
Suicide Squad
Few superhero movies have as dire a reputation as 2016’s Suicide Squad. While the film had some small crumbs of worthiness, such as the first appearance of Margot Robbies’ Harley Quinn or the popularization of the Suicide Squad as a concept, the film failed in nearly every other regard possible.
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Suicide Squad
PG-13
The Suicide Squad team is made up of villains, captured and kept in a secret prison, and offered reduced sentences if they participate in dangerous missions. In the tradition of continuity within DCEU films, the event comes in the wake of Superman’s death and the seclusion of Batman after the events that occurred in Batman V Superman. Agency head Amanda Waller, played by award-winning actress Viola Davis, is the one striking deals with the inmates of Belle Reve Prison. Heading “Task Force X” is Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag, alongside Will Smith’s Deadshot, Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney’s Captain Boomerang, Jay Hernandez’s El Diablo, Adewale Akinnuoye’s Killer Croc, and Adam Beach’s Slipknot. Karen Fukuhara’s Katana also joins the mission to keep Rick safe from the villains. Jared Leto (Joker) and Ben Affleck (Batman) have smaller roles in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, as does Cara Delevingne’s Enchantress.
Release Date
August 5, 2016
Runtime
123 minutes
Cast
Joel Kinnaman
, Will Smith
, Cara Delevingne
, Jai Courtney
, Jared Leto
, Viola Davis
, Margot Robbie
, Jay Hernandez
, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
, Scott Eastwood
Director
David Ayer
Writers
David Ayer
This certainly includes the final action sequence, which takes place as the ancient witch Enchantress prepares to take over the world via vague magical means. Dancing around awkwardly, Enchantress generates a generic energy spire, gaining almost godly levels of power as the Suicide Squad approach.
This meek two-stage climax is a meek end to an already infamously bad movie, laden with pitiful CGI and rampant overuse of slow-motion cinematography.
Somehow, Harley Quinn is able to distract her long enough to slash her once with Katana’s magical sword, which, followed up with a detonation of explosives courtesy of Deadshot, is apparently enough to slay the witch once and for all. This meek two-stage climax is a meek end to an already infamously bad movie, laden with pitiful CGI and rampant overuse of slow-motion cinematography.
9
Madame Web’s Final Fight Undermines The Potential Of Its Main Cast
Madame Web
A more recent infamously bad superhero movie, Madame Web is easily the worst of Sony’s Spider-Man spin-off movies, a feat which is almost impressive considering the competition. Even if the title may posit Madame Web herself as the main character, the teenage trio of future Spider-Women are presented as a far more interesting prospect that drives the events of the story. It almost goes without saying the film ends on a ridiculous note that not only doesn’t make sense, but undermines the abilities of its protagonists.
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Madame Web
PG-13
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Madame Web is a superhero movie based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Taking place in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, the movie revolves around a clairvoyant woman who can look into different dimensions. Dakota Johnson stars in the lead role, with Sydney Sweeney, Adam Scott, Isabela Merced, and Celeste O’Connor comprising the rest of the cast.
Release Date
February 14, 2024
Runtime
116 Minutes
Cast
Dakota Johnson
, Emma Roberts
, Adam Scott
, Isabela Merced
, Sydney Sweeney
Rather than fulfilling Ezekiel’s destiny to be slain by Julia, Anya and Mattie, the film instead sees him lured into a cartoonishly violent trap in a conveniently-placed fireworks factory by Cassandra. The resulting explosion causes him to be crushed to death by the “P” of a giant Pepsi sign. This marks the first (and hopefully, last) time a supervillain in a movie is killed by product placement.
8
2015’s Fantastic Four Final Fight Manages To Waste Doctor Doom
Fantastic Four
It was bad enough how wasted Doctor Doom was in the original Fox Fantastic Four movie, but the second anticlimactic final battle with him in the 2015 reboot added insult to injury. A concerning amount of runtime has already passed by the time 2015’s Fantastic Four makes its way to a final battle with the titular quartet and Doom, resulting in an alarmingly rushed showdown.
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Fantastic Four
PG-13
Fantastic Four is a 2015 superhero film directed by Josh Trank. It follows four young individuals who gain extraordinary abilities after a quantum experiment goes awry. Miles Teller stars as Reed Richards, Kate Mara as Sue Storm, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm, and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm. The group must harness their new powers to prevent a catastrophic event orchestrated by the villainous Victor Von Doom, played by Toby Kebbell.
Release Date
August 4, 2015
Runtime
100 Minutes
Cast
Miles Teller
, Michael B. Jordan
, Kate Mara
, Jamie Bell
, Toby Kebbell
, Reg E. Cathey
, Tim Blake Nelson
Writers
Jeremy Slater
, Simon Kinberg
, Josh Trank
The two sides come crashing together on a barren planet, with Doom wielding the vague telekinesis he has in place of his traditional mastery of sorcery and technology from the comics.
The fight plays out like something out of a turn-based video game, with both Doom and whatever member of the Four he’s currently battling patiently waiting at a static distance to batter one another with boring attacks.
The Fantastic Four don’t display much team synergy here, and Doom’s powers are somehow even more boring than they were in the 2005 version. The scene mercifully ends with The Thing punching Doom into one of many generic blue beams of alien energy piercing the sky, apparently killing him.
7
Iron Man And War Machine Vs Whiplash Is Underwhelming To Say The Least
Iron Man 2
Widely considered to be among the worst Marvel Cinematic Universe movies ever made, Iron Man 2 earns such a title with some truly arbitrary action scenes. After Ivan Vanko takes over the drones commissioned from him by Justin Hammer, he wreaks havoc on New York City, leading to a final confrontation between himself, Iron Man, and the newly-minted armored hero War Machine. The pair make a last stand against Whiplash and his robots in a botanical garden.
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Iron Man 2
PG-13
The third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man 2, is an action-superhero film that occurs six months after the original film’s events. After outing himself as the heavy metal superhero known as Iron Man, Tony Stark goes to great lengths to avoid demands from the government for his tech. But, unfortunately, the technology Tony used to save his life is beginning to impact his health inversely – just in time for a man named Ivan Vanko to arrive, who creates his version of the Iron Man tech to settle a decades-long score with Howard Stark’s son.
Release Date
May 7, 2010
Runtime
124 minutes
Cast
Robert Downey Jr.
, Mickey Rourke
, Don Cheadle
, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director
Jon Favreau
The initial battle against the waves of automated soldiers starts out interesting, but Iron Man soon demonstrates he was capable of easily destroying them the whole time with a use of his laser gauntlets, which just as effectively cut through the tension. When Whiplash finally appears, his bulky suit is quite lame, and he has zero combat instincts, allowing War Machine to fire a bunker-busting missile at him (even if it does misfire). The zero-stakes fight ends with Iron Man and Rhodey simply firing their repulsors at the same time, an attack which Whiplash practically begs to be hit by.
6
Black Panther Vs Killmonger Looks Like A PS2 Cutscene
Black Panther
For as highly as the original Black Panther is venerated, there’s no denying that the film’s last battle leaves much to be desired. As T’Challa works with his allies to re-take the throne from his cousin, he dodges some terrible-looking CGI animals in a weightless battlefield, eventually cornering his prey in an empty mineshaft of Wakanda’s Vibranium deposit. What follows is a fight sequence that looks like something out of a PlaySation 2 game, with pitiful CGI replacements of the real actors flipping around as if in zero gravity.
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Black Panther
PG-13
Black Panther is the eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and sees the titular hero return after the events of Captain America: Civil War. Set in the fictional nation of Wakanda, Black Panther sees the succession of T’Challa as the nation’s new king. However, when a mysterious soldier with ill intentions arrives with proof of his claim to the throne, the future of Wakanda is thrown into jeopardy.
Release Date
February 16, 2018
Runtime
134 Minutes
Cast
Chadwick Boseman
, Lupita Nyong’o
, Letitia Wright
, Angela Bassett
, Winston Duke
, Michael B. Jordan
, Danai Gurira
, Forest Whitaker
Director
Ryan Coogler
What’s mind-boggling about how bad this last fight is is the fact that director Ryan Coogler can direct a brilliant action scene when he wants to, as demonstrated in the Creed franchise. Even earlier fights in Black Panther are quite grounded and exciting, with M’Baku’s challenge to T’Challa’s rule at the waterfall being a particularly standout sequence. This only makes the egregious special effects and bland choreography of the film’s last battle sting all the more painfully.
5
Batman Vs Bane Proves Combat Was Never Nolan’s Strong Suit
The Dark Knight Rises
There’s a lot to love about Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy, from the stellar performances to Nolan’s vision for a more grounded Batman that nevertheless manages to feel “comic book-y”. Nolan certainly has a flair for high-flying action scenes involving stunts and vehicles, but his one-on-one hand-to-hand combat scenes occasionally fell quite flat.
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The Dark Knight Rises
PG-13
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The Dark Knight Rises is the final chapter in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, with Christian Bale donning the cape and cowl once more to save Gotham City from certain destruction. Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, Batman has left the public eye after taking the fall for the crimes committed by a twisted Harvey Dent. However, he is called back into action when a mysterious villain named Bane arrives to bring disorder to Gotham, forcing him to confront deeper, darker recesses of his past to be able to face a challenge he may not be ready for.
Release Date
July 16, 2012
Runtime
164 Minutes
Cast
Christian Bale
, Tom Hardy
, Anne Hathaway
, Gary Oldman
, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
, Marion Cotillard
, Morgan Freeman
, Michael Caine
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writers
Christopher Nolan
, Jonathan Nolan
, David S. Goyer
, Bob Kane
, Bill Finger
This is more obvious in the final confrontation between Bane and Batman in The Dark Knight Rises than anywhere else. Christian Bale’s fighting style as Batman is quite simplistic and brutish, all overhand slams and backwards strikes with his fists.
Batman ripping off Bane’s mask is at least kind of cool, but what should’ve been the film’s biggest setpiece is instead intensely forgettable.
When Bane fights almost the exact same way, it makes for a lackluster final fight, particularly embedded within the chaos of the street the two duke it out in the midst of. Batman ripping off Bane’s mask is at least kind of cool, but what should’ve been the film’s biggest setpiece is instead intensely forgettable.
4
Wonder Woman Vs Ares Is A Boring CGI Mess
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is another film whose final fight is made worse by the earlier action being far superior. For most of the film, Wonder Woman navigates the World War I setting with some weighty, kinetic fight scenes that see her blocking bullets in real-time, getting hit by grenades, and tearing through entire platoons of soldiers in spectacularly-choreographed shots that look like something out of a painting. All this wonderful action only makes the final CGI slopfest against Ares all the more disappointing.
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Wonder Woman
PG-13
Wonder Woman is directed by Patty Jenkins and introduces Diana, an Amazon princess, who ventures into the world of Man during World War I to combat the forces of evil and strive for peace. This film is a part of the larger DC Extended Universe.
Release Date
June 2, 2017
Runtime
141 Minutes
Cast
Gal Gadot
, Chris Pine
, Connie Nielsen
, Robin Wright
, Danny Huston
, David Thewlis
, Saïd Taghmaoui
, Ewen Bremner
, Eugene Brave Rock
, Lucy Davis
, Elena Anaya
, Lilly Aspell
, Lisa Loven Kongsli
, Ann Wolfe
, Ann Ogbomo
, Emily Carey
, James Cosmo
, Wolf Kahler
, Alexander Mercury
, Martin Bishop
, Flora Nicholson
, Pat Abernethy
, Freddy Elletson
, Sammy Hayman
, Michael Tantrum
, Philippe Spall
, Edward Wolstenholme
, Ian Hughes
, Marko Leht
, Steffan Rhodri
, Andrew Byron
, Dominic Kinnaird
, Rachel Pickup
, Ulli Ackermann
, Frank Allen Forbes
, Peter Stark
, Rainer Bock
, Josh Bromley
, Jennie Eggleton
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When Ares is finally revealed, his actual battle with Wonder Woman is essentially decided in two moves. After flinging himself headlong at Diana along with some debris doesn’t work, Ares gets the brilliant idea of throwing a lightning bolt at the literal daughter of Zeus. Obviously, this backfires, and the entire sequence is painted in muddy strokes with some rushed-looking digital effects that could’ve used another pass or two.
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Superman Vs Nuclear Man Is A Sad End To Reeve’s Career
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Older superhero movies certainly had their fare share of miserable final battles, with none being perhaps as infamous as Superman’s globetrotting duel with Nuclear Man in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Here, Christopher Reeve’s Superman does battle with his evil clone, Mark Pillow’s Nuclear Man, by far the most infamous cinematic Superman villain. The two engage one another in a battle that spans the world, flying at supersonic speeds to various different locations.
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
PG
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace stars Christopher Reeve as the iconic superhero who takes on the global threat of nuclear weapons. Directed by Sidney J. Furie, the film features Gene Hackman reprising his role as Lex Luthor, who creates a new adversary for Superman in an attempt to achieve world domination. The movie examines themes of peace and conflict in the backdrop of Cold War tensions, continuing the legacy of the Superman franchise.
Release Date
July 24, 1987
Runtime
90 minutes
Main Genre
Superhero
Cast
Christopher Reeve
, Gene Hackman
, Jackie Cooper
, Marc McClure
, Jon Cryer
, Margot Kidder
Director
Sidney J. Furie
This set-up should’ve been an exciting one, but the action is made moot by some terrible green-screen effects even by the standards of the film’s time. The fight also features some of Christopher Reeve’s Superman’s most hilariously off-the-wall powers, apparently able to re-build the Great Wall of China with a look alone. Between the uninspired shoving of Superman and Nuclear Man, the jumbled use of clearly unrelated footage, and poor special effects, this final battle was a sad note to end Reeve’s legacy on.
2
Shang-Chi Vs Dweller-In-Darkness Is A Horrendous Downgrade
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Few movies have as big a disparity between their earlier fight scenes and their final battle as Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Shang-Chi proves his title as the MCU’s greatest martial artist with some thrilling and brilliantly-choreographed sequences like the bus fight and the scaffolding fight. Sadly, the film can’t resist an over-the-top CGI fantasy battle against a dragon known as “Dweller-in-Darkness” for its climactic final action setpiece.
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
PG-13
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: This film introduces Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Confronted by his past, he becomes entangled with the mysterious Ten Rings organization, which challenges his identity and abilities. Released in 2021, the movie explores themes of family and legacy.
Release Date
September 1, 2021
Runtime
132 minutes
Main Genre
Superhero
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
, Simu Liu
, Awkwafina
, Ben Kingsley
, Meng’er Zhang
, Fala Chen
, Michelle Yeoh
, Yuen Wah
, Florian Munteanu
, Andy Le
, Paul He
, Jayden Tianyi Zhang
, Elodie Fong
, Arnold Sun
, Stephanie Hsu
, Kunal Dudheker
, Tsai Chin
, Jodi Long
, Dallas Liu
, Ronny Chieng
, Stella Ye
, Fernando Chien
, Michael-Anthony Taylor
, Zach Cherry
, Raymond Ma
Writers
Dave Callaham
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This boring mess of half-baked CGI throws away all the hand-to-hand combat that made the first two-thirds of the film so exciting, instead opting for a giant video game boss battle against a generic dragon, complete with a glowing weak point. The mediocre nature of the fight makers Wenwu’s earlier sacrifice feel all the more pointless and unearned, leaving Shang-Chi and his sister to swing wildly around two dragons long enough for Awkwafina to land a kill shot with her bow and arrow. Shang-Chi deserved better than a hideously dull dragon for his final opponent.
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Catwoman Vs Laurel Is Unambiguously Terrible
Catwoman
Halle Berry’s Catwoman is an infamous enough film as it is, earning the actress an ironic Razzie Award which she famously accepted in-person. As if the terrible dialogue, awful CGI, and bizarre changes to the DC character weren’t bad enough, the movie also ends on an incredibly disappointing final fight between its titular feline anti-hero and the film’s villain…a woman named Laurel. Catwoman and Laurel confront each other at the top of a high-rise building, and a so-bad-it’s-almost-good jumbled fight soon ensues.
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Catwoman
PG-13
A cosmetics industry employee is murdered after discovering a dangerous secret about an anti-ageing product. However, an Egyptian cat saves her, giving her the power of speed and the senses of an agile feline.
Release Date
July 22, 2004
Runtime
104 minutes
Main Genre
Action
Cast
Halle Berry
, Benjamin Bratt
, Sharon Stone
, Lambert Wilson
, Frances Conroy
, Alex Borstein
Director
Pitof
Laurel is revealed to have some superpowers due to her chemical concoctions, giving her an excuse to match Catwoman’s wild kicks and athleticism. The sequence is edited with a dizzying number of cuts-per-second that make the action all but intelligible, and features one of the most cringe-worthy lines in a DC movie ever as Catwoman spouts “Guess what? It’s overtime!“. It’s no wonder Catwoman is so poorly-regarded as a superhero movie.
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