Relatable bad guys have long been fashionable. As the public refused to settle for the Manichean dichotomy of “good” and “evil”, movie The bad guys have become much richer and more balanced characters. The result is not that all the bad guys are worth defending – many are always bad for good – but that many bad guys are, above all, interesting.
Avenging personal betrayals to serve her with protruding social criticisms, the “bad guys” in the films, comics and fans’ favorite video games are sometimes on the right – or, at least, to something that adds depth beyond the simple promulgation. But, despite their methods, many bad guys are known to be from time to time.
Updated on April 20, 2025 by Andrea Sandoval. The nasty captivating make some of the most convincing films and television programs. Having a bad guy who is not mistaken is a shortcut to create one whose fans will feel in conflict and therefore interested. This list is updated to include more bad guys who were actually right and reflect the current CBR style guide.
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Mojo Jojo of PowerPuff girls had the right to be angry
Mojo Jojo was expressed by Roger L. Jackson in The Powerpuff Girls
Mojo Jojo is the emblematic main antagonist of Powerpuff girls. It is a very intelligent chimpanzee who wants to govern the world. However, Mojo Jojo has a vendetta against the uranium professor and his perfect superhero daughters because he feels that the teacher abandoned him. In the episode “Mr. Mojo’s Rising”, the public learns about the past of this villain.
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He worked as a teacher’s laboratory assistant when he was a young chimpanzee. He was very chaotic, constantly breaking things in the laboratory, leading to the accident that gave birth to the PowerPuff girls and his superior intelligence. Even if Mojo Jojo was not a good assistant, he was the responsibility of Professor Uranium. The scientist had just abandoned a super-denie chimpanzee in the world without thinking about how he would affect the creature. As Mojo Jojo says, “the evil geniuses are made, not born.” In the film, Mojo Jojo also makes a big point on the resentment of the human race to abuse and reject the chimpanzees.
Powerpuff girls
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Craig McCracken
- First TV show
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Powerpuff girls
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Mufasa was not the best scar brother in the king of the lion
Scar was expressed by Jeremy Irons in The Lion King and by Kelvin Harrison Jr. in Mufasa: The Lion King
While Scar is one of the most irremediable Disney bad guys, arguing his motivations is difficult. Yes, his methods were false, but Scar had a lot of reasons to be stiff. In the world of The Lion KingThe scar must probably had to live in the shadow of Mufasa, without mating and getting the least food. The birth of Simba could only signify even more humiliation and a lower chance of survival for the lion, which leads him to kill his brother and take control of pride.
Scar has become an even more complex villain in the recent film MUFASA: the king of the lion, This proves that the relationship between Scar and Mufasa has always had its ups and downs. After Mufasa loses his family, Scar (formerly named Taka at the time) Saved it from being eaten by crocodiles. He also helps her get a place in his family and even sacrifices his honor by letting him win a race so that his father accepts it. However, motivated by jealousy, he established a trap for Mufasa when Mufasa and Sabari (the lioness he loved) falls in love. Soon, Taka regrets it and helps her brother in the fight, obtaining the scar which would name him forever. MUFASA never really forgives him, rejoining the scar and subtly pushes him out of the community.
The Lion King
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July 19, 2019
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118 minutes
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Jon Favreau
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Smallville Lex Luthor had reasons to be afraid of Kryptonians
Michael Rosenbaum plays Lex Luthor in Smallville and Jon Cryer plays the same character in Supergirl
The CW Lex Luthor Smallville Starts like a friendly friend in the life of Clark Kent. Clark saves Lex’s life when he crushes his car, which confuses Lex but also gains a great appreciation of Clark. It seems that Lex wanted to really do good in the world with his father’s money, but his need for power, his jealousy of Clark and his childhood trauma consumed Lex’s identity.
When Lex was a child, he was almost dead thanks to the Clark spacecraft. His hair burned and he could never push him away. Likewise, his peers intimidated him and his father considered him weak. When Lex learns that Clark is Superman, he feels naturally betrayed. Unfortunately, Lex had the resources and intelligence to become the greatest enemy of Superman, and their battle has reached its ultimate point. Although Lex’s morality is quite chaotic and diabolical, it has a point to suspect the powers of Superman. After all, Clark can easily destroy cities. Supergirl Lex, for example, argues that it is important to keep kryptonite in case a super is bad, and he is right. Supers, for example, can become violent when exposed to red kryptonitis, and kryptonite is the only way to stop these powerful beings.
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Poison Ivy has great respect for the environment
Lake Bell expresses Poison Ivy at Harley Quinn
THE Harley Quinn The animated series has transformed some of DC’s most emblematic bad guys into sympathetic characters for the public. Most Batman’s antagonists are extremely chaotic, but Poison Ivy in the future of the world in mind when it kills people. Because of its links with plants, Poison Ivy cares about nature a lot and wants to make the world a sanctuary for all kinds of living vegetation.
Ivy is considered an eco -rooting, causing great acts of violence to protect the planet. His methods can cause a lot of trouble, but it is difficult to argue the respect of Poison Ivy for nature. The Supervillain tries to protect the world from destructive trends of humans, and few bad guys have ever been so good at the same time.
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Edgar of the Aristocats had a deserved resentment against his employer
Roddy Maude-Roxby expresses Edgar in Aristocats
Edgar of ARISTOCATS is easy to hate because he tries to kill the most adorable kittens in the world. Honestly, it is even difficult to believe that this film is for children. However, at the same time, Edgar has a very convincing argument. He worked all his life for Madame Bonfamille, and she decides to give all her money to her cats.
It is logical that Madame Bonfamille wants her cats to be taken care of after her death, but to give all her money to animals that will not appreciate this seems ungrateful enough. To worsen things, she doesn’t even think about her butler’s future, a man who has probably devoted her life to taking care of herself and is older himself. These circumstances do not make Edgar less greedy or badly, but we can see where the resentment comes from.
ARISTOCATS
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December 24, 1970
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78 minutes
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WOLFGANG REITHERMAN
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Count Dooku was right about the jedi corruption
Count Dooku is played by Christopher Lee
Count Dooku is a powerful Jedi fallen who rebelled against order after the death of his former apprentice, Qui-Gon Jinn. Dooku finally united his forces with Dark Sidious and helped him cause the fall of the Jedi order by orchestrating the start of the wars of clones.
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While as Sith Count Dooku has done a lot of terrible thingsThe ultimate reason for his rebellion against the Jedi was right. Dooku was right in his conviction that the Jedi had lost their way, even if his way of doing it was bad. Jedi tales Underlines this fact, tracing the events of the fall of Dooku in a way that makes almost impossible to disagree with your opinions on the Jedi just before their fall.
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Chef Skinner knew that rats do not belong to the kitchen
The Skinner chief is played by Ian Holm
Chef Skinner is the chief chief of the high-end French restaurant of Gusteau in the film Ratatouille. Throughout the film, Skinner tries to thwart Alfredo Linguini, believing that there is something suspect in his sudden cooking skills. When he learns that AS Up Linguini la Manche is actually a rat, Skinner does everything he can to expel them from his kitchen.
Although it is not a particularly sympathetic individual, the Skinner chef was justified to try to clean his cuisine of any vermin that could have entered. After all, no matter how much a Remy chef could have been, he is always a rodent in a kitchen, something that violates a certain number of health codes. Skinner was absolutely right to get out of the kitchen rats, but is described as a bad guy anyway.
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Marlene could have saved the world
Marlene is played by Merle Dandridge
The last of us Presents the public to Marlene, a leader of the radical group known as Fireflies. During the first season of the series, Marlene employs Joel to take a young girl named Ellie in a secret Firefly base, where they can use her blood to find a remedy for the zombie virus that destroyed the world.
The major revelation in the last of us is that Marlene’s plan is to kill Ellie to find the remedy, inciting Joel to massacre the fireflies and to save Ellie, in the process, killing Marlene. While Ellie’s death would have been a tragedy, Marlene could most likely have saved the world through this single sacrifice, thus ending the Apocalypse and keeping countless other people alive.
The last of us
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January 15, 2023
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Hbo
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Craig Mazin
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Craig Mazin, Peter Hoar, Jeremy Webb, Ali Abbasi, Mark Mylod, Stephen Williams, Jasmila žbanić, Liza Johnson, Nina Lopez-Corrado
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Neil Druckmann, Craig Mazin
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Bella Ramsey
Ellie Williams
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Agatha Harkness was right on the scarlet witch
Agatha Harkness is played by Kathryn Hahn
Wandavision Present Agatha Harkness of Kathryn Hahn, a secular witch who is in love with the scarlet witch with cosmic propulsion. Recognizing that Wanda Maximoff was capable of so terrible things as destroying the whole multiverse, Agatha sought to siphon the power of the scarlet witch for herself. In the end, she is defeated and has her memories erased by the hero even that she sought to destroy.
While AGATHA may have had selfish motivations, she was finally right about the danger that the scarlet witch posed in the multiverse. During events of Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madnessWanda Maximoff makes a violent unleashing which ends almost with the total destruction of the entire multiverse. Now, with Agatha Hark’s next spin-off series on the way, the wicked witch can be justified after all.
Wandavision
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2021 – 2020
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Jac Schaeffer
- Directors
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Matt Shakman
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Jac Schaeffer
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Prometheus has proven the hypocrisy of Green Arrow
Josh Segarra plays Prometheus
Prometheus is the main villain of ArrowThe fifth season, which has a personal vendetta against Oliver Queen, alias the Green Arrow. Secretly, the city district prosecutor, Adrian Chase, Prometheus wants to take revenge on Oliver Queen For the murder of his father during the first years of the crusade of the arrow.
Prometheus was a composure killer – but was Oliver Queen when he started. In a dramatic confrontation between the two, Chase asks Oliver to admit that he liked to kill bad guys, proving once and for all that he was not the hero whom he always claimed to be. Prometheus failed in his hope of completely breaking the green arrow, but he managed to prove that her crusade was less clear than she had seemed.
Arrow
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2013 – 2019
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Andrew Kreisberg
- Directors
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James Bamford, John Behring, Glen Winter, Michael Schultz, Wendey Stanzler, Laura Belsey, Gregory Smith, Guy Norman Bee, Nick Copus, Jesse Warn, Gordon Verheul, Antonio Negret Miele, Ben Hernandez Bray, Mairzee Almas, Alexandra La Rocan,
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Oscar Balderrama, Sarah Tarkoff, Speed Weed, Keto Shimizu, Rebecca Bellotto, Drew Z. Greenberg, Jill Blankenship, Deric A. Hughes, Benjamin Raab, Erik Oleson, Lana Cho, Tonya Kong, Moira Kirland, Rebecca Rosenberg, Bryan Q. Bemazerfer, Nolan Dunbar, Gabrielle Stanton, Elisa Delson, Marv Wolfman
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Stephen Amell
Oliver Queen / Green Arrow
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David Ramsey
John Diggle / Spartan
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Thanos actually wanted to save the universe
Thanos is played by Josh Brolin
Thanos, portrayed by Josh Brolin, was the ultimate villain in the infinite infinity of the Marvel cinematographic universe. Over several years, the crazy Titan sought to collect the six stones endlessly, which would allow him to end overcrowding. The only problem, of course, was that this plan concerned him by wiping half of any life in the galaxy.
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It was not long after his battle with the most powerful heroes of the earth Avengers: War Infinity That viewers began to wonder if Thanos were right throughout. While his methods were brutal, he finally wanted to save the universe. In addition, given the important theory according to which Thanos in fact tried to protect the universe of celestials, it is difficult to call the character a real villain.
Avengers Infinity War
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April 27, 2018
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2 hours 29 minutes
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Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Casting
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Walter and Maia Simmons were right to build mecomodzilla
Walter Simmons is played by Demián Bichir and Maia Simmons is played by Eiza González
While Godzilla against Kong Focus on the battle between the two eponymous titans, the film also presents two human bad guys: Walter and Maia Simmons. The father-daughter duo conspired to build their own mechanical titan, Mechagodzilla, who would serve as a protector of humanity against the ever-increasing threat of titans like Godzilla and King Kong.
Godzilla is a mastered Titan capable of leveling all cities in the world. Since his beginnings, the “king of monsters” and his compatriots Titans have caused unrivaled destruction, leaving the humans without defense against such big enemies. With more and more titans appearing, humans with their own Mecomode are actually a fairly good idea.
Godzilla against Kong
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March 31, 2021
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Adam Wingard
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Eric Pearson, Max Borenstein
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Godzilla against Kong 2
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Starro was the victim of suicide squad
“I was happy – floating, fixing the stars.”
The suicide team Follows the team holding bad guys and reformed anti-heroes while infiltrating the island nation of Corto Maltese on a secret mission which they do not even understand fully. Finally, it is revealed that Starro, a foreigner being with the power to control the spirits, is held in captivity. When released, Starro makes a bloody outburst that ends with his own death.
While Starro has left unprecedented destruction in his wake, he is in fact the victim of The suicide team. The foreigner never asked to be captured and held his captive on earth, and he had never constituted a threat to the planet before his imprisonment. Instead, he was torn from his joyful life from floating in space and looking at the stars, undergoing inhuman and ultimately killed experiences.
The suicide team
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August 5, 2021
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2 hours 12 minutes
Casting
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Dark Maul almost saved the Galaxy of Palpatine
Dark Maul is expressed by Sam Witwer
Dark Maul has always been perceived as a villain according to his start Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. However, the seventh season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Boula the waters of the character’s morality as he manipulated the events to win an audience with the former Jedi, Ahsoka Tano.
In the final arc of the show, Maul reveals that he had a vision of the fall of Anakin Skywalker on the dark side and the subsequent boom of the emperor. He tries to convince Ahsoka to join him and prevent his vision from happening, but she doesn’t believe it. If she had listened, Ahsoka and Maul may have saved the Galaxy of the Palpatine intrigue.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
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2008-2020-00-00
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Cartoon Network, Netflix, Disney +
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Dave Filoni
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Brian Kalin O’Connell, Steward Lee, Giancarlo Volpe, Bosco Ng, Danny Keller, Rob Coleman, Justin Ridge, Nathaniel Villanueva, Saul Ruiz, Jesse Yeh, Duwayne Dunham, Atshi Takechi, Robert Dalva, Walter Much
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Katie Lucas, Christian Taylor, Brent V. Friedman, Matt Michnovetz, Drew Z. Greenberg, Steven Melching, Chris Collins, Charles Murray, Eoghan Mahony, Bonnie Mark, Craig W. Van Sickle Julie Siege, Jonathan W. Rinzler, Ben Edlund, Douglas Petrie, Kevin D. Campbell Kevin Rubio
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Matt Lanter
Narrator / Yoda / Medical Droid / Yularen / Kraken (Voice)
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Matt Lanter
Anakin Skywalker (voice)
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Chuck McGill was absolutely right about his brother
Michael McKean plays Chuck McGill
Chuck McGill is Jimmy McGill’s older brother in the Break the bad prequel, Better call Saul. A lawyer accomplished with his own cabinet, Chuck is described as a pompous and authoritarian brother who does not want Jimmy to succeed in his own legal career. On several occasions, Chuck deliberately sabots Jimmy to prevent him from becoming a successful lawyer.
While the public is supposed to root Jimmy, Chuck’s reasons to sabotage his brother are actually quite fair. Knowing Jimmy’s propensity to innocent people, Chuck knows that his brother will eventually use his position as a lawyer for selfish gain. And, given the events of Break the badChuck was absolutely right.
Better call Saul
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2015-2022-00-00
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Peter Gould
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Vince Gilligan, Thomas Schnauz, Peter Gould, Michael Morris, Adam Bernstein, Colin Bucksey, John Shiban, Michelle Maclaren, Melissa Bernstein, Larysa Kondacki, Terry McDonough, Gordon Smith, Minkie Spiro, Jim McKay, Daniel Sackheim. Stanton, Norberto Barba, Daniel Sackheim, and Stanton, Stanton, Norbert Scott Winant, Michael Slovis, Keith Gordon, Deborah Chow, Giancarlo Esposito, Bronwen Hughes
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Ann Cherkis, Marion Dayre, Ariel Levine, Jonathan Glatzer
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Bob odenkirk
Self-songwriter
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Bob odenkirk
Jimmy McGill
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Killmonger was right on Wakanda’s isolationism
Killmonger is played by Michael B. Jordan
Part of what did Black panther A huge blow, and an absolute shoo in for the popular film Oscar, was the absolutely fascinating performance of Michael B. Jordan as an antagonist of the film, Killmonger. Denied his birth right and rejected by his isolated kingdom, Killmonger estimated that it was bad that such an advanced civilization was hidden while acts of inhuman cruelty existed in the world and promoted the idea of an armed Pan -African uprising.
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Although his methods are excessive, taking an innocent life and guided more by fury than compassion, his announced reason has not only resonated with the public, but ultimately T’Challa himself. In the end, T’Challa recognized the importance of reaching out to the world and the African diaspora, although by diplomatic rather than militarists.
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Doctor Doom just wanted his mother to come back
Doctor Doom was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Part of the charm of Doctor Doom is that, as it was the intention of the creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, in all his wickedness, there was always an air of justice and nobility. The public did not expect to believe that Doom was in fact the tyrannical Savior that the world needed, but that Doom himself still considered his attempts at world domination as altruism.
Undeniably, however, Doom was not only sympathetic but downright heroic in the graphic novel often forgotten, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment. In history, written by Roger Stern, with the art of Mike Mignola, Mark Badger and Jim Novak, the readers follow Doom, who joined Doctor Strange, in a trip to hell himself to fight Mephisto for the soul of the dead mother of Doom. It is a powerful pattern for any character and who immediately obtains sympathy.
Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment
Doctor Doom and Doctor Strange enter the field of Mephisto in a total effort to release the soul of Doctor Doom’s mother! But what price should be paid before Mephisto publishes it? And will Doctor Doom be sacrificing?
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Penciller Mike Mignola, Inker Mark Badger
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Mike Mignola
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Roy Batty really hurt
Roy Batty is played by Rutger Hauer
THE Oscar Blade Runner 2049 had suggested that it was equaled or even exceeded the original, but an element fell flat: Niander Wallace, the mustache of Jared Leto, could not hold a candle at the antagonist of the original film, Roy Batty. Batty’s tremendous antagonism is a major reason Blade runner is considered one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.
Batty is undoubtedly the most relatable villain in contemporary science fiction. His fate is an analog of man’s own struggle with mortality, his destructive path to face his creator and demand more time for the own struggles of humanity against the finality of death. In the end, Deckard cannot see Batty as an enemy, but as a sympathetic and sensitive Android, in pain, desperate to find meaning in his unnecessarily brief existence.
Blade runner
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June 25, 1982
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117 minutes
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Ridley Scott
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Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, Philip K. Dick, Roland Kibbee
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Ozymandias united the world through tragedy
Ozymandias was played by Matthew Goode in 2009 Guards Adaptation
Fans will often evoke the ozymandias “I did it thirty -five minutes ago” in any conversation on the drops of ultimate mean micro nasty – and rightly so. For all the greats of the grandeur of Ozymandias and as a monologue on uniting the world, it not only does, but it works.
Ozymandias plan in the Guards The series of Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins, Len Wein and Barbara Kesel, involve fueling an extraterrestrial attack against New York in order to unize the world against a perceived external threat (unless you count the film by changing it for Doctor Manhattan, but the least said on this subject, the best). Judging by the epilogue, he actually succeeds. While the methods of Ozymandias were extreme and more than a little cataclysmic, they served a goal.
Guards
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March 4, 2009
- Execution time
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163 minutes
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Zack Snyder
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Alex Tse, David Hayter
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The syndrome was right on superheroes
The syndrome is expressed by Jason Lee
In IndestructiblesSyndrome, alias Buddy Pine, is a well -intentioned person – at first. His anger has just not had the same opportunities as Mr. Incredible. In particular, Buddy has no powers, which makes him difficult to provide the same heroic help as the incredible head of the family.
Despite Buddy displaying an incredible skill to invent, his dreams are interrupted. Consequently, he turns to a life of wickedness. In the end, however, the syndrome is right: allowing such uncontrolled power to be exercised by only those genetically gifted, it is a quick path to chaos.
Indestructibles
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October 27, 2004
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115 minutes
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Brad
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Brad
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John Lasseter
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Craig T. Nelson
Bob Parr / M. Incredible (voice)
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Holler hunter
Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
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Sarah Vowell
Violet Parr (voice)
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Spencer Fox
Dashiell ‘dash’ parr (voice)
