9 Famous Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along
Being a movie villain is not easy. Nobody respects your work, everyone loves your sworn enemy, and cheers if he straight up murders your ass.
Of course, the villains deserve it, right? Well, actually Hollywood is littered with supposedly evil characters that, when you take a step back and ignore the cackling laughter and yellow teeth, were clearly the ones getting screwed over. Here are the so called bad guys who got the rawest deals of all:
#9.
Edward Rooney (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
The "villain":
Mr. Rooney was the mean old Dean of Students who spent the entire movie trying to prove that Ferris was skipping school while pretending to be sick. What a mistrustful tight-ass. Why the hell does he care so much if one student takes a day off?
Above: The eyes of an educator.
Hold on a minute there:
Let's get the obvious out of the way: this is his goddamned job. He is the Dean of Students, not the Dean of Not Giving A Damn. People are always all up the public schools system's digestive tract for not taking a more active interest in their students and that's exactly what Mr. Rooney was doing. It doesn't matter if, on a personal level, he's a dick or not -- he is literally paid with your tax money to make sure kids aren't doing exactly what Ferris did. The kid can go to a museum and drive a sports car on the weekend. During the week, he and the other kids are Rooney's responsibility so they can, you know, get an education.
The movie glosses over the fact that Ferris couldn't read
And you know what? He was right all along. Ferris was skipping school. Worse yet, he lied to his parents and friends about being sick and pretty much got the whole town involved in the farce. He lied, he stole, and he caused millions in property damage by destroying Cameron's dad's beautiful car. That's not adorable, that's just being an egocentric cock. It wouldn't have been a satisfying movie ending to see Rooney expose Bueller for his douchebaggery, but it would have been by far the more just outcome. What happens instead is that Rooney loses his wallet and almost has his nipples ripped off by a Rottweiler.
And we're asked to sit back and say, "serves him right for caring about the future of our country!"
Suddenly the recession makes sense.
#8.
Mutant Registration Side (X-Men)
The "villain":
Headed by Senator Robert Kelly in the first X-Men movie, the Mutant Registration Side are the speciecist.. spesist... racist ... the jerks who demand a legislative bill forcing every super-powered individual in the country to register with the government. Just like the Jews in Nazi Germany!
The Night of Broken Glasses would end differently.
Hold on a minute there:
The Nazi analogy would probably work a lot better if real-life Jews could shoot boiling acid out of their assholes or level entire cities by blinking, which our Jewish friends assure us only Mossad agents can do. The X-Men mutants on the other hand actually can conjure up hurricanes, stop time, and completely alter a person's mind until he really believes that Flavor Flav is a reasonable and intelligent media personality. It seems perfectly understandable that some folks might want to keep tabs on such individuals.
If they require licenses for concealed handguns, they should probably keep this guy on file too.
And what happens when he can't? As a human in the X-Men movies you constantly have to be on the lookout not only for the evil mutants who want to kill you, but also for the supposed "good guys" who are often in the process of accidentally killing you. In X-Men, Cyclops loses his protective goggles in a crowded train station and just starts straight fire-blasting with his Murder Vision uncontrollably, unable to handle his powers or discern between bad guys and random kids who happen to be in the same building. And he's the good guy! In X2, every human on the planet almost had their brains melted simultaneously by a mutant.
Obviously there is a thin line between cautious concern and downright mutant-prejudice but cut the civilians of the X-Men universe some slack. They live in constant fear, not knowing if the guy they just cut off on the freeway can explode their dick with his mind.
Let's just say you don't want a handjob from Gambit.
#7.
The Hyenas (The Lion King)
The "villain":
In one of Disney's finest rip-offs to date, The Lion King hyenas were the mangy lowlifes who tried to kill Simba, assisted in the assassination of Mufasa and utterly destroyed the Pride Lands after helping Scar take over as king. Jesus, what is those assholes' problem?
Hyenas, chief douchebags of the Serengeti.
Hold on a minute there:
They want something to eat. That's their problem, and it's only a problem because Mufasa banished them from the Pride Land and forced them to live in an elephant graveyard, which is no place to raise a child, hyena or otherwise. We never know why they were banished to the Pride Slums, leaving us to assume Mufasa's unedited explaination of the Circle of Life went something like this:
Mufasa: Everything you see exists together, in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance, and respect all the creatures-- from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Simba: But Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become grass. And the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
Simba: Wow... Say, Dad, where do the hyenas fit into the great Circle of Life?
Mufasa: Ugh, the hyenas. No, f#@k those guys.
Simba: Yeah, that's fair.
That's the only way to explain how Scar got an entire army of these animals behind him with such dissident slogans as "Stick with me, and you will never go hungry again!" Scar wasn't promising them unlimited power, just the ability to eat and function as members of society. The hyenas were pissed because the oppressive lion regime had reduced them to second-class citizens, hoarding all the pie for themselves.
Hooray for racism!
No wonder they followed Mufasa's brother. What Scar offered the hyenas was a revolution of the common man. He was more or less their four-legged Lenin.
Ah, lord of the rings. Where a group of pure white supermen beat off the hordes of Arabs, Black people, and deformed types just because they belong to a certain race.
Replyseriously screw Tolkien.
Yep. Just because they belong to a certain race. Of course, in this case, "a certain race" means "bunch of people from different nations invading their lands and slaughtering innocents while serving a guy who is the embodiment of evil, alongside creatures that have been twisted into hating basically everything (including themselves)".
But you know... can't let details get in the way of ridiculous political statements, can we?
i read somewhere that Sauron slept for 2 thousand years then commited genocide on the elves after started a war before his hibernation and then making the rings that would tear their world apart if it got in the wrong hands
Replyso yeah he did nother but stop an invading army and use minorities to his advantage
Holy s**t, is that Dr. Cox as one of Hummel's henchmen?
Reply"In the end, Hummel never hurt one innocent person"
ReplyUm, his team wiped out the Navy SEAL unit in the showerroom, remember? Fellow US servicemen carrying out a mission. Sure, the movie says they were startled, but the courts don't take that crap in ordinary felony-murder cases. A team of superduper special Marines better know when not to pull the trigger.
(Also, kidnapping a bunch of civilians in a prison which no longer has running water is kinda harmful, too.)
innocent, look it up.
I'd add Colonel what's his name from Avatar to the list. Yeah he comes off as a total dick. but the guy was hired to keep the humans alive against these 12 foot savages with poisons that can kill you in under 2 minutes etc. And he pulled strings to get the ungrateful back stabbing marine a very expensive surgery to get his legs back. And let the SOB go through with some lame 'tree hugging' voodoo nonsense and have a second chance at talking out a solution after the guy damaged military property etc.
ReplyTo be fair his response to finding out that Jake;
1) Broke 4 cameras on a tree clearing tank and
2) Got attached to the natives
was to MURDER HIM AND EVERYONE ON THAT HELICOPTOR THAT'S TRYING TO ESCAPE while letting all his collegues almost get poisoned to death when he opened that door.
It killed me that Anhauser refused to give his mother a ticket onto the Ark because they needed "people who could contribute" yet filled them with a bunch of useless rich f*cks who probably couldn't change a flat tire. The Chinese workers would have been a lot more practical, since they would actually have known what to do when they found land.
ReplyIf you think about it, 2012 would almost certainly have a downer ending if it had kept going. You've got a bunch of idiot, useless rich people, some computer geeks, and comparatively few military personnel. They'd be lucky if half of them survived the first year.
Somebody should write another article about video game villains that were right all around. It would probably be pretty short, though, because most video game's idea of deep characters is "HE IS A GIANT f*****g TURTLE WITH SPIKES!!! KILL IT! KILL IT!"
ReplyDorothy doesn't take the shoes. Glinda shows up, gives them to her, and orders her to never give them to the Witch of the West, and implies to Dorothy that the witch is evil.
Replywhich makes her guilty for receiving stolen property...bwahaaaaa
Wasn't she incapable of taking them off her feet, though? It wasn't like she voluntarily put them on, and once Glinda had given them to her, she was stuck with them. I doubt a jury out there would convict poor Dorothy, since she essentially got turned into a living pawn.
Everyone in Lord of the Rings was White and the Orcs were colored. If this isn't a clear case of White supremacist fantasy I don't know what is.
ReplyWhat part of enslaving the munchkins and the winkies is "minding their own business?"
ReplyThat was the witch of the east, not the west.
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.
Reply-Some machine
Yea, if you just watched Lord of The Rings, you wouldn't understand his motives, but if you read the books and read the Silmarillion, it clearly depicts that he doesn't give a crap about the orcs or any of the other races. The orcs were just twisted and ruined elves after all, so they weren't even their own race exactly. Morgoth wanted to take Illuvatar's place as God and Sauron was his servant.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesSo? We should have to do homework to enjoy a movie? The bookverse and movieverse are two very different things and you shouldn't HAVE to read the book to understand the motives of the characters- they should be clear.
Because 3 movies that are each 3+ hours long aren't enough, right?
Dead_Person: You don't have to do anything to enjoy a movie. If you want to discuss the underlying motives of characters in the movie though, it's handy to have read the books where those motives are explained.
Technically, since the article is about famous MOVIE villains, it is fair for the author to criticize movie-Sauron. But when the movie is an adaptation of one of the most beloved stories in modern literature, and when the movie makes (almost) every effort to be as faithful and true to the book as is possible within the medium--no, Bombadil or the Scouring of the Shire would not have worked in the movies--then criticisms leveled at the movie's STORY inevitably bleed over into criticisms of the book. For the LotR movies, the "movieverse" is trying to be identical to the "bookverse," and most of its failures to achieve that are due to budget, time, and medium constraints.
So, while it is *technically* possible to criticize Jackson's Sauron separately from Tolkien's Sauron . . . in practice, that doesn't fly very well.
Sauron's empire was funded largely by slave labor and he was an incredibly cruel spirit-person; "the Cruel" was one of his nicknames in the old days when he was fighting the elves- when he was the chief lieutenant of Morgoth, who tried to destroy God (in a fictional world where God definitely exists, and Morgoth has met him) and bring the world into chaotic darkness.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesSauron was absolutely a villian, who used orcs and humans like toys and repeatedly sold his temporary allies out when it suited him. His major goal, after the exile of Morgoth, was to conquer all of Middle-Earth and be worshipped as a god- there was no "revolution" for the masses.
The saying goes, "one man's terrorist is another's revolutionary/freedom fighter". As bad as Sauron was, if he even elevated the orcs' position in the world by a minute fraction, they might perceive it to be better than what they had.
Not really though. They went from hated gribblies living under ground to hated, unpaid gribblies living above ground driven to battle under pain of death and fueled by their own curse of hatred and domination. If anything, Sauron was just a taskmaster with a whip leading them on to die in droves for his own gains.
Exactly. Neither Sauron nor his generals ever cared about how many Orcs died. Angmar let them run directly into the fire arcs of Minas Tirith just to test their range. He smashed Orcs while advancing to the gate. What if they would have won the war? Do you really think the orcs would have become a ruling species or something like that? They were nothing more than a tool to him and once they have done their work, they are disposable.
Not to mention it's repeatedly mentioned that they only serve him out of fear of what he'd do to them otherwise.
Animatrix is just a bunch of propaganda. Lies invented by the robogovernment to discredit the revolutionary hero John Connor
ReplyThe article claims that racism born out of superfluous differences drives the free peoples of Middle Earth to shun the orcs, then cracks a joke about their habit of eating manflesh. An insaitable hunger for all their neighbors is an extremely compelling reason to keep them away from society.
Reply"What Scar offered the hyenas was a revolution of the common man. He was more or less their four-legged Lenin."
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesAnd, in reality, he was only lying to them so they'd be his brainwashed puppets willing to commit murder and enforce oppression in the name of his beliefs and final goal of Absolute Power.
So, yeah, just like Lenin.
Yes, because communism is evil, and Lenin just did things for evil. And there was no ideal in its revolution, only evil for the sake of being evil.
Does really people in the U.S. has so caricatured vision of the whole background of the USSR?
More like Stalin.
Oh, come now. Lenin was a moderate among his commie peers (as compared to say, Trotsky advocating swift, violent revolution), but he wasn't above justifying "disposing" of the bourgeoisie when it served the Party's purpose.
Lenin fit the bill of the ruthless, revolution-at-all-costs sort of leader rather than a pursuer of absolute power. The latter better describes Stalin. That said, both of them were elitists in their own right and had a blatant disregard for human life.
Lord of the rings is a group of people trying to establish a tyrannical absolute monarchy against another tyrannical absolute monarchy
ReplyForgive me if I see little difference in factions
No, sir, I do not forgive you. Sauron wants to dominate the whole world with cruel terror. He didn't even recruit the Orcs, his will made them do his bidding.
The Men, Elves, Dwarves, and Hobbits just want to be left the f**k alone. Sure, there is some hatred and distrust amongst them, but it's not like any of the individual Man Kingdoms want to conquer and rule all other. Middle-earth was even created specifically for all of them to live in.
I always got the one about the Lion King - I wonder(ed) whether or not it was intended a lesson on how the marginalized in a society could be easily exploited by those wishing regime change. Yes, I work in a university, and yes, I think too much.
ReplyThey already wrote the Wicked Witch of the West's perspective, it was called Wicked. And she was completely mad by the time "The Wizard of Oz" takes place and it was awesome.
Reply Hide All See All 3 Repliesshe mad bro
To be fair, Wicked was written by a completely different author and does have a few glaring contradictions. It's still a great book though.
I know! And they made a musical. Bloody brilliant.
Luckily birger1987 saved me the effort of writing a wall of text myself. I can say I fully agree there. Furthermore i want to take a closer look at another one of your not-villain villains:
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesCaptain Skroeder from Short Circuit. So a military higher-up who is responsible for a bunch of highly evolved war machines without conciousness and being desingned to kill stuff looses one of his weapons. This weapon gets the chance to reflect about himself changing his view on violence, war and killing. And you seriously root for the military guy? Are you American? Sorry for the bad prejudice-joke, but come on!? The statement of the entire movie clearly aims towards peace and getting rid of this mad weapon industry, therefore Captain Skroeder as a personification of this ruthless machinery is OF COURSE THE VILLAIN. (childhood memories will NOT be taken away from me)
Sauron? Not even relying on the books he created something so evil, that wearing it drains life out of you, making you mistrust your best friend and tempting stronger beings to become exactly what Sauron already is: an evil overlord. (see galadriel). Oh the poor orks following their Lenin? Nope. They follow him out of fear and greed. He also destroys the environment with his huge machines and his big ass vulcano. He sents his 9 enslaved half-undead former human kings after Frodo. But yeah - i see no sign of him being evil at all!
- Actually i am on a roll so i'm going to do all:
Matrix - asides from the fact you actually watched that much of matrix which makes you very suspicious in my oppinion, it is never ok to take away freedom from a whole species, nation, religious group and its even worse not to tell them about. Or acta/sopa cool with you because people do a lot of s**t in the internet?
Carl Anheuser? Oh yes he is such a responsible person for saving all the rich bastards who simply bought their way into being saved because capitalism showed its most ugly face in this movie. Its more likely that he just wanted to save HIS OWN ASS, as if he would truly be a philantrop he would give some friggin child with an IQ that goes through the roof his space on the ship. As far as i remember he was just to greedy to pay for his mother to get onboard.
Edward Rooney: Only saw this movie briefly so: If you look at the message it want to tell the audience: Chill out and pull that stick out of your ass from time to time. Its pretty clear why he is the villain. But being so invested in this whole matter only proves, that he never had "fun" in his life, being jealous and not happy with his life at all. He tries to get rid of his frustration by pursuing one pupil that skips school one day like a bloud hound. He does never show any sign of being worried or such about his student. That makes him a sad and angry man - which could be pitied but is not reason enough to concentrate his anger about his crappy life on a child.
Now X-Men: Again taking freedom away from people is not a good thing to do. It never was. X-Men is a bit problematic but well: They could consider finding a solution where the "good" mutants assure that the bad ones won't run amok, which would be resulting in far far less mutants feeling procecuted and loathed, therefore not trying to free themselfes by enslaving mankind. He is a ignorant politician who without properly informing himself about the topic uses people's fears to stay governing. Oh that looks like a villain to me - as well!
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel is actually the only one i give you. But I think him being more of a freedom fighter and not-such-a-bad-guy-after-all is one of the story twists, or do I remember it wrong?
Sorry, but even though I believe you took your time and were kind a proud of your idea you just named shallow arguements, and took single actions out of context.
And sorry for the million typos i surely have, because i am writing on a very crappy laptop keyboard.
uh-oh, somebody's feewings got huwt. do you need a band-aid wittle guy? want me to kiss it better?
it's COMEDY dumbass, obviously these guys are villains, but it's fun to think about it another way. jesus.
U m***********g idiot troll
"Thank you for saving me from writing a huge wall of text! Here's a huge wall of text!"
This would be one for the Trollers' Hall of Shame if it wasn't prefaced with "thank you for saving me the wall of text."
Nice try, though.
not all the "bad" mutants were always evil pyro was going to be part of the x-men then magneto promised teaching him full control of his powers that he become evil before that he was just an a*****e