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Whether they phoned in a one-shot performance for a paycheck, like Jeff Goldblum or Hugo Weaving, or appeared in multiple movies/franchises like Natalie Portman or Idris Elba.

Jared Leto played one of the most famous comic book characters ever, a role that the previous actor had.won an Oscar for. He then played the lead character in a movie that was meant to spin off its own franchise.

His version of the Joker, a hissing, sucking freak with a scene of him trying to pimp out his girlfriend and cuckold himself, was so alienating and personally off-putting that he was essentially fired and stricken from the canon. In a later movie where Harley Quinn breaks up with this version of the Joker, he wasn't shown on screen and the Joker character doesn't factor into the plot of that movie at all aside from the break-up. His only other appearance was as a glorified cameo and sequel hook for a franchise that isn't getting another entry, as if Zack Snyder was going "fuck you, my Joker is awesome! Look at him in the post-apocalypse working with Batman, imagine how high the stakes must be!!" He fucked up the Joker right as superhero movies were reaching their peak in popularity.

Then years later, he stars in Morbius as a scientist who becomes a vampire. The movie is box office poison to such a degree that the only recognition it got was people making fun of it. Then the studio released it in theatres again to capitalise on the meme momentum, and it flopped again because people didn't even want to see it as a joke.

Jared Leto played the most unappealing version of the Joker in live-action history, and then he headed a multi-million dollar franchise movie that only just made its money back and became a global laughingstock.

Terrence Howard might have gotten fucked out of future MCU movies over money, but his role was well-liked enough before he went off the deep end and tried to convince the world that the number 0 didn't exist. People might prefer Don Cheadle, but I don't see Terrence Howard being actively hated. Jared Leto got two chances to portray some of the biggest comic book characters in the world - Morbius only counting because it was a big budget movie that Leto was headlining as the main character, that Sony was explicitly positioning as a breakout title in a Spider-Man-less Spider-Man franchise - and both times, the roles were cringeworthy, widely mocked flops that negatively impacted the movies he was in to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.

Seriously, name an actor in a superhero movie who's flopped harder than Jared Leto.