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Michael Keaton
Before the superbly loony visualist Tim Burton discovered Johnny Depp, his quirky leading man of choice used to be this man, stretched to the hilt in 1988's Beetlejuice.
Though by any means a queer choice for the role, that in itself is probably a fact that led Burton to cast him in the part -- going against convention and getting hold of an actor described as queer.
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So Michael came on the scene in the madly gothic 1989 Batman, and Gotham City has never been more correct, not even in Frank Miller's comics.
Keaton was interesting, brooding and melancholy. But severely lacked box-office clout. Also, with Jack Nicholson as the Joker and, later, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, we realised this was a superhero tremendously hard to actually like.
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