Take a beloved, established intellectual property from a comic book, add in some of Hollywood’s leading artists, technicians and performers, then multiply it by millions of dollars in budget and hundreds of millions of man hours and you should have something profitable, right? Well, as the superhero flops below prove, not so much. For artistic, production or marketing reasons, sometimes studios just miss the mark when they try to make a hero jump from the page to the screen. Given the flash and visibility of their subjects, those misses can become legendary. It’s important to note the definition of a “flop” or “bomb” is fluid in big-budget Hollywood. Sometimes a…

According to box-office returns, there are few types of movies fans enjoy more than a dashing, explosion-filled superhero epic. And if you take a gander at Rotten Tomatoes, it seems Hollywood is actually doing a fairly good job of making them. But not every comic-book inspired adventure is a winner. Matter of fact, sometimes studios get the big-screen adaptations of these beloved characters so wrong that the badness of the resulting films become the stuff of legend. And here are those legends: 10 big-budget superhero films (no direct-to-video flicks or TV movies here) with the worst Rotten Tomatoes ratings, ranked from merely bad to spectacularly, fantastically awful. All in all,…