> When the Hulk was rebooted, the origin story was run under the opening
> credits, rather than taking up space in the body of the film.
I thought that montage for the Edward Norton Hulk movie was effective
and was sufficient to explain his origin.
And in the Batman movie with Mr. Freeze, they didn't spend much time
on his origins, Batman and Robin watched the video film footage of him
falling into the tank of liquid nitrogen or whatever it was and after
that he was Mr. Freeze. Same with Two Face, they showed him getting
splashed with acid and that was all the origin of him. Now that I
think about it, in the case of Jim Carrey as the Riddler, the Edward
Nygma character was nutty as a fruitcake from the start of the movie,
but there was no single incident that transformed him into the
Riddler, he just started wearing the suit.
In some cases, getting into some detail on the origins of the villain
is a good thing. In the case of Doc Ock in the Spiderman 2 movie, he
was a good guy, but after the accident the arms controlled him, and
the movie handled it well in making him a sympathetic character who
redeemed himself in the conclusion.