For every good comic book movie made, be it The Dark Knight, V For Vendetta, or Sin City, there are a slough of poor ones that should have never been made. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, and Howard The Duck all come to mind in that particular point. But there are a few comic books that Hollywood has not touched yet, and let us all hope that they never do, for these comics and graphic novels, while having their own virtues, would never translate well to the screen, no matter who was behind the helm, or which actors were chosen.

Lucifer: The spin-off from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series has become a phenomenon on its own. The idea that Lucifer, the Fallen One, ruler of Hell would just get tired of it and come to Earth to run a nightclub without any real malice or ideas of trying to take over the planet was something unique and exciting. But any real movie made from this would fall short of all expectations. Directors would change it so that they could have the classic good-versus-evil thing going on, while no actor would be able to capture the suave, debonair, kind of evil thing that Lucifer has going on. Not to mention that the taboos of religious ideas would be compromised and probably get any and all people involved into some kind of controversial trouble. Hollywood best leave this sleeping dog lie.

Supergirl: Yes, this has been made once before with laughably bad results, but it stands to reason that it needs to be in this list for just that purpose. Just because a movie made once was really bad doesn’t mean it needs to be redone. This isn’t the director’s ninth grade math homework. There’s a phrase about beating a dead horse for a reason, Uwe Boll. A knock-off of Superman for the female demographic is not what the world needs right now. Nor does it need any more scantily clad blonde women trying to prove they are worth just as much as the men. Not only is it formulaic, but it’s also the plot of every other reality show on television.

Batgirl: Despite my love of the DC universe, this one shouldn’t be attempted. The Batgirl persona was created for the same reason the Supergirl persona was created, and that was so that the comic book makers could not only give teenage boys something to oogle, but to get that slippery female demographic to spend more money. Basically it’d be Batman…with a chest. When all is said and done, a Batgirl movie would never be as interesting as one about Barbara Gordon’s other alter ego, Oracle.

Fables: While the idea of seeing fairy tale folk come to life and fight a war so they can come live in the real world seems interesting, there are far too many things that could go wrong here to ever make it a good movie. From casting problems, to fiddling with the original concept, it could go from over-blown special effects nightmare to a Disney-fied homogenized version of its former self, complete with frontal lobotomy. While I’d love to see Snow White take revenge on the seven dwarfs and leave her husband because he turns out to be not so charming, I don’t think Hollywood has the cojones to put this one together the way it should.

Of course, there are so many others that need to be looked at, scrutinized, and then put away safely in the cupboard, never to be opened again, but I doubt Hollywood will just stop at remaking The Incredible Hulk another seventeen times. Hopefully, they will let these slide, and the movie-going public will just have to deal with another three remakes of The Incredible Hulk before Uwe Boll just gives up.