Actors/Characters Who Destroyed OR Helped a Franchise — Page 2

For your consideration Dr Grace Holloway :

Before the 1996 Doctor Who television movie there was an unwritten rule that the Doctor never got the horn of Nimon for any of his companions, the nearest things being A) getting engaged by accident when an Aztec Widow made William Hartnell a cup of cocoa and B)when Lalla Ward married Tom Baker for a bit before settling down with internationally famous God botherer/geneticist Dicky Dawkings.

Now it seems every bird that gets near his magic blue box want to fiddle with his sonic screwdriver.

Dr Grace herself was never seen again but what she started led to Rose Tyler played by Billie (because we want Who) Piper (not to be confused with Bonnie Tyler or indeed Bonnie Langford).

The BBC is now contractually obliged to slip a frame of Miss Tyler into every episode of Doctor Who whenever the Doctor is supposed to look a bit sad just to keep the shippers from turning over to the other side.

Let's hope that like her Welsh namesake she gets lost in France or ends up as Cinders in Spain (at the Barcelona Playhouse this Christmas season).

Davnes007 said:

IT TOTALLY BLEW ERICA's MIND. ;)

I think we need to stage an NNRRPB! intervention for Dav.

skyjedi2005 said:

Daniel Craig, ruined james bond.

imho, it was already ruined by the time he came around.   It was ruined by Licensed To Kill, and has never recovered.   

skyjedi2005 said:

Believe it or not Harrison Ford did more to ruin Indiana Jones than Shia.

the person that ruined Indiana Jones was whatever idiot it was  that thought it was good idea to have Indie hide from an atomic blast in a fridge. 

double post, sorry.

skyjedi2005 said:

Hayden Skywalker/Vader.  Destroyed a cinema icon of a villian that stood for more than thirty years and raped the childhoods of millions.

You know, I was going to just make fun of the whole predictable post, but I'd like to highlight this one bit.  I'm sick to death of this phrase.  Comparing Hayden's performance in a MOVIE to rape is just idiotic, not to mention offensive.

I understand it isn't used literally, but frankly, I'm a little sick of it.  I'm especially sick of hearing it from the same guy over and over,lol.

Poochie.  He totally ruined a classic cartoon series.

I don't like using the term myself or referring to Luca$.  The point isn't really clever anymore.  And really, does anyone still need to be convinced that Lucas hasn't totally sold out?  No.

Back on topic:

It is easy to point to characters that can ruin a series, but a bit tougher to find ones that add to the series.  Lando in the first post is a great example of this.  Would Boba Fett be considered in this vein?  Granted, he was totally thrown away in ROTJ, but as far as his appearance in Empire, he really made the franchise even cooler, for a while anyway.

Sluggo said:

I don't like using the term myself or referring to Luca$.  The point isn't really clever anymore.  And really, does anyone still need to be convinced that Lucas hasn't totally sold out?  No.

Sold out to who? George Lucas is the single filmmaker in Hollywood who answers to absolutely no one.  

Patrick Warburton gave a brief spark of life to the last season of Newsradio.

skyjedi2005 said:

Hayden Skywalker/Vader.  Destroyed a cinema icon of a villian that stood for more than thirty years and raped the childhoods of millions.

 

The New Kirk ruined star trek and captain kirk, whats his name pine or something.

Daniel Craig, ruined james bond.

 

Believe it or not Harrison Ford did more to ruin Indiana Jones than Shia.

 

Hugh jackman was horrible in wolverine origins, another part of my childhood ruined.

Man, you really hate every Hollywood film made in the last 20 years, don't you :/

Controversy be damned.

It wasn't his fault, he did a good job while doing it BUT (sharp intake of breath) Bela Lugosi as Dracula.

From then on in some aspect of Lugosi's performance (which is totally different from the book) has made it's way into almost every adaptation of the story.

In the book, Dracula hasn't got an accent (just a strange intonation), starts of old with a thick moustache and becomes younger as he drinks more blood, doesn't wear a cape (he only wears black), doesn't say, "I never drink...vine" and is never charming to the ladies.

Try and think of an adaptation of the story in the book (it doesn't matter how loose) since that hasn't got at least one trait introduced by Bela (other than Jesse Franco's).

ALSO

Alice from the crappy Resident Evil films.

Pretty much ended any chance of the films even resembling the games from the get go.