Mike Myers as both Wayne and Austin Powers. He has a way of doing corny characters with soul, and that's quite rare.
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Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.
Robert Englund as Freddie Kruger.
Henry Cavill as Superman for me. Alan Ritchson as Reacher.
But
Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams in the 'Evil Dead' movies.
I fucking dare you to try to remake that with another actor.
Some great runner-ups mentioned here. Of course the answer is Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who also had one of the best character entrances ever.
Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka.
Matthew Mcconaughey as Rust in True Detective S1. I'm desperately longing for a show that can live up to S1 with a character similar or better than Rust
Every character in that season was perfect. Even the very minor roles played by unknowns were all knocked right out of the park. The stars really aligned for that first season, and I am very much okay with that being a rare thing.
David Spade as Joe Dirt
Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in The Downfall
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal
I thought the same,then i watched Mads Mikkelson in the tv series Hannibal and think he played the role even better.
David Tennant as Doctor Who
The fact that Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn isn't on this list makes me sad.
I used to think no one but Jim Carrey could do Ace Ventura, but I've seen plenty of impersonations of the character now that Carrey actually wouldn't be needed.
I used to think nobody could replace Mark Hamil's Joker voice until the devs of the Arkham games debuted his replacement for one of them and he fucking nails it to the point if I didn't know he was replaced, I would just assume it was still Hamil.
I can no longer hold the idea that an actor is irreplaceable simply because a good actor can imitate other actors.
Heath Ledger as the Joker.
Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.
Robin Williams as the Genie.
Carl Urban - Dredd
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. With the sole exception of his height, (comic book Wolverine is very short, and Jackman is not) it’s like the character walked out of the comics and onto the movie screen.
Hard disagree. Hugh is too tall and too pretty. He's done a fine job with the character but I am extremely excited for a new short-king wolverine. It's time to move on.
The like, 2 seconds in Deadpool where they had Cavill as wolverine made me wonder if he could legitimately do it
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
One of the things about his performance is that the role has also been played by more than a dozen other actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Peter Ustinov, Albert Finney, John Malkovich an Ian Holm. Yet he made the character indelibly his own.
Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in the new Wicked (part 1)
Alan Rickman as Severus Snape
AND as the Sheriff of Nottingham!
Why a spoon cousin, why not an axe? It's dull you twit.
I always remembered that bit, I rarely heard anyone but my dad call someone a twit.
Ewan McGregor - Obi Wan Kenobi
Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg
The entire cast of Princess Bride.
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.
But why is all the rum gone?
Danny DeVito.
I dunno, he and Arnold Schwarzenegger are pretty much indistinguishable
For which role?
All of them. The penguin and IASIP especially.
Barbie
Yes.
Bryan Cranston as Walter White
Ian Mckellen, as either Gandalf or Magneto.
Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman.
Runners up, R to L:
No one will ever play Wilson so well.