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- Rowdy Roddy Piper – They Live. Despite being nearly 30 years old, the satirical bite They Live hasn’t waned a bit. If anything, with social mobility seeming less possible all the time, it’s maybe even timelier.
- The Rock – Pain And Gain. In twenty years time, in some quarters at least, Pain And Gain will be an acknowledged classic. It’s just that it’s a Michael Bay film, and everyone (quite rightly) can’t quite appreciate yet that Michael Bay has made something good.
- Batista – Guardians Of The Galaxy. Let’s put this in perspective. At this year’s Royale Rumble, Batista returned to the WWE after four years to win a title shot at Wrestlemania.
- The Rock – Be Cool. The belated sequel to Get Shorty, which attempts to skewer the music industry like the original did Hollywood, is generally a pretty wretched film.
- Philip Sledge
- Rocky III (1982) Rocky III was bigger and badder than the previous two installments in Sylvester Stallone’s all-time great boxing movie franchise, and some of that is thanks to Hulk Hogan’s brief yet iconic performance as Thunder Lips, the wrestler Rocky Balboa (Stallone) faces in an exhibition match early on.
- The Princess Bride (1987) Andre the Giant was one one of the most legendary wrestlers to ever step into the ring, but there are some out there who probably know the “Eighth Wonder of the World” from his work in Ron Reiner’s 1987 fantasy comedy, The Princess Bride.
- Spider-Man (2002) You can’t tell Peter Parker’s origin story without including Bone Saw McGraw, and luckily fans didn’t have to live in that reality in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies, as the first entry in the franchise saw the late Macho Man Randy Savage take on the role of the over-the-top and notorious wrestler.
- The Longest Yard (2005) There are movies with one or maybe two wrestlers, but the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard starring Adam Sandler featured some of the WWE superstars of that era with the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, Bill Goldberg, and the Great Khali on both sides of the inmates vs. guards football game.
- Lex Luger
- Z Gangsta and Ultimate Solution
- Triple H
- Kevin Nash
- Randy Savage
- Edge
- Cody Rhodes
- The Rock
- John Cena
- Batista
13 years before Smallville hit the small screens, there was another show chronicling the teenage years of Clark Kent simply called Superboy. In the season 3 episode called Mindscape, perhaps inspired by the famous Alan Moore Superman story “For The Man Who Has Everything” a parasite affixes itself to the lad of steel, causing him to have vivid nigh...
Tommy “Tiny” Lister Jrand Robert “Jeep” Swensonwere never the greatest ring technicians. Both were hired for their impressive physiques. Lister was used by WWE to reprise his role as Zeus and to feud with Hogan and help promote the character’s villainous turn in Hulk’s 1989 movie vehicle No Holds Barred, and Swenson joined WCW in 1987 under the gui...
After The Rock’s role as The Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns was successful enough to give the character his own spinoff film, despite minimal screen time and a horrific CGI final form, It was Triple H’sturn to try and make a run in Hollywood. Also starring in a sequel to a popular franchise, Blade Trinity, Hunter played a vampire called Jarko G...
It is a well-known fact that Nashplayed Super Shredder in the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. But do the Turtles count as superheroes? Do their ninjitsu skills and ability to pop their head in their half-shells count as a superpower? To avoid this debate Big Sexy is being included on this list for his role as The Russian in 2004’s Punish...
Spider-Man is no stranger to the world of pro wrestling, with the likes of Brad Armstrong, Rey Mysterio, Lio Rush and many more giving a nod to the webhead in various costumed tributes. Let us not forget in most telling’s of Spider-Man’s origin, his costume is inspired by Pro Wrestling one way or another. In the 2002 movie, it’s the career he picks...
Remember that time when Edgewas forced into retirement, cut his hair and decided to be an actor for a bit? Well during that time he had a guest role on The Flash. Copeland would play Al Rothstein, who was killed by an evil alternate universe Al Rothstein (also played by Edge) who takes his place as DC baddie Atom Smasher, who can grow up to 15 feet...
Another WWE superstar who made his way to the CW-verse is Cody Rhodes. Cody appeared in Arrow as Derek Sampson, an evil drug dealer who supplies a narcotic called Stardust (see what they did there?). After falling into a vat of the stuff (like all good DC villains do) he is resurrected with super strength and an inability to feel pain. Unlike Edge,...
This might be a cheeky one to include in the list as at the time of writing The Rockhas still yet to appear in a live-action superhero role, which is crazy to think looking at the scope of the Hollywood career The Great One has forged for himself. However, it has now been FIFTEEN YEARS since Dwayne Johnson announced his interest in the character Bl...
Peacemaker is quite an obscure DC character, and probably wasn’t on the top of anyone’s list for live-action adaptations, but for the last couple of years, Cenahas made the hypocritical anti-hero a household name. Wanting nothing more for the world than peace, and not caring how much violence and killing he has to do to achieve that, Peacemaker mad...
Of course, Peacemaker’s success isn’t all down to Cena. Director and writer James Gunn has a talent for making obscure comic characters more popular than they have ever been, a skill he showed off with 2014’s Guardians Of The Galaxy. Dave Bautistastarted his transition from the ring to screen through a series of bit parts and cameos before landing ...
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- Black Adam (2022) - Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Coming later this year, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is finally ready to show off his version of the anti-villain Black Adam.
- Superboy (1990) - Lex Luger. A rather short-lived but interesting role, Lex Luger was cast to play an evil doppelganger of the title hero in a dream sequence.
- X-Men (2000) - Tyler Mane. X-Men was among the first wave of the modern comic movie boom. It was incredibly well received, and along with Blade, gave studios the confidence to make cinematic superhero movies again.
- Smallville (2001) - Kane. Continuing the trend of wrestlers appearing in young Superman stories, Kane plays the alien Titan. A musclebound fighter dedicated to nothing but battle, he is one of the toughest bruisers that Clark faces in his early years.
From The Rock to John Cena to John Morrison, this is every WWE wrestler who has appeared in DC superhero movies.
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Aug 9, 2019 · To make one of the most obvious and overplayed comparisons in the world: pro wrestlers are just like superheroes – colorful, bright spandex-clad heroes and villains who battle over the fate of...
