That title goes to any of the reality warpers: Jamie Braddock, Scarlet Witch Franklin Richards, etc. If one controls the very fabric of reality, it doesn't matter what matter or energy their opponent controls. The reality warper can just think them out of existence.
Acting is both talent and skill, taught in schools like Julliard and the Royal Academy and Dramatic Arts, on how to convince the audience that the actor is who they are playing. It is not easy. Anyone can stand on a stage and say "A horse, my kingdom for a horse!"
Only a good actor can convince the audience they *are* Richard III.
The cases you list, some actor are just not suited for some roles. Halle Berry was fantastic in Monsters Ball, but she just could not convince anyone she was Storm. Her performance was wooden and felt awkward. You never forgot you were watching Halle Berry trying to play someone she was not suited to play.
In some cases it is crappy writing and direction can throw the performance off. Nic Cage is a great actor, but Ghost Rider was just structured so badly he did not have much story to work with.
@sora_thekey: Do you believe that you are watching the character rather than a person playing the character?
If not, they can't act.
That is what good acting is: Becoming the character to the point the audience forgets (to a certain degree) they are watching something fictional and becomes emotionally invested in the character. If the audience is busy watching the actor's T&A and do not really care about the character they are playing, that is not acting let alone good acting.
Great acting the audenice forgets the actor is there entirely. They won't make the connection between the performance they are watching and previous performances. For instance, you do not watch the Joker in "Dark Night Returns" thinking about that fact that you are watching the guy from "A Knights Tale" or "Ten Things I Hate About You". There are actors that can completely vanish into the roles they play: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Daniel Day Lewis, Meryl Streep, Holly Hunter, Johnny Depp, etc. Those are great actors.
@Calix: *chuckle* I feel ya. Did the exact same thing last week when my cat dumped a glass of juice on my keyboard. Not only was I using dashes, but I was cutting and pasting letters and words to replace the middle row of characters.
Uncanny is the worst title because it is the worst written by a writer who does not know or care about about these characters.
I used to give him the benefit of the doubt, saying that it was a "bad fit". That Fraction does great on single character titles and just can't do team books, but IGN just published an interview with him yesterday in which he was getting major aspects of a characters history just flat out wrong and explains his plot holes with what amounts to "I said so, shut up." and poor characterizations with what amounts to, "I thought it would be cool."
http://comics.ign.com/articles/105/1055811p1.html
As one friend of mine stated after reading it, "This isn't professional writing, this is fanfiction."
Way not true. There was so much restructuring, it would take a page to list it all.
However, the characters were generally well done and the first two films did capture the spirit of the comic books well. They were good X-Men stories, even if they were nothing like what was in the books.
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