21 Fictional Villains No Jury Would Convict, According to Lawyers

‘Ursula, that was freedom of contract all day’
21 Fictional Villains No Jury Would Convict, According to Lawyers

Your average blockbuster is fraught with legal dilemmas. Sure, a gang of superheroes have just saved the world, but does that let them off the hook for destroying downtown? Does the heir of an eccentric billionaire really have to submit to their crazy stipulations to inherit their fortune? Surely — surely — there are ramifications for being an accessory to centaurs kidnapping and doing much worse to a woman, no matter how much pink she wears?

And those are just the good guys. The bad guys are out there doing what everyone recognizes as crimes. Sometimes, though, they’re actually the ones that have the best standing from a legal perspective. That’s why user AudibleNod asked r/AskReddit, “Lawyers of Reddit, which fictional villain would you have the easiest time defending?”

ThymelsOnMySide_ . 4y ago Rumpulstiltskin did nothing wrong!
GentlemanOfLeisure27. 4y ago Ursula, that was freedom of contract all day.
Abogada77 . 4y ago I want to defend the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park
atonyatlaw . 4y ago e Edited 4y ago Robbie Rotten. I mean, his crimes mostly just... Aren't.
OldPolishProverb . 4y ago Does Dr. Doom need legal defense? As the ruler of his own country, does diplomatic immunity cover all of his actions?
andthrewaway1 . 4y ago Def Lex Luthor..... 99% of the time uses henchman who won't talk and he can def pay my exorbitant bills.
suxferyu 4y ago Most of the old school scooby doo villains. They didn't really do anything other than scare people off of private property
LynchFan997 . 4 4y ago Norman Bates. Could not be an easier insanity plea. And if I had to go to trial, I could just find one juror who hated his mother.
Upstairs_Cow 4y ago INAL but the bad guy attorney in Bee Movie would have killed that case if any actual lawyering occurred. Не went to court against a bug and an insane woman
epgenius . 4y ago In my jurisdiction, I would say Damien from The Omen. Minimum age for delinquency adjudication is 12 and in the first movie he's 5, so he couldn't be tried for any of his evil doings.
creativeandwonderful . 4y ago Kronk from Emperor's New Groove. Не does technically kidnap Kuzco but I think we could get his sentence way reduced. I think he could charm the jury. Or completely blow up his own case in the stand. It could be a fun surprise!
. 4y ago Otto Octavius, AKA: Doc Ос. The neural interface affected his mind, he couldn't do much about it. It was his gallium armes that harmed people, not him. I'm not actually a lawyer but this would be hard to go up against, right?
nillahoppz . 4y ago Gus Fring, because he would absolutely have his alibis and defense plan schemed down to the most minute detail. All he would need would be an earnest and detail-oriented storyteller, and I can do that.
Notmiefault . 4y ago . Edited 4y ago It's kind of scary how little of what went on in The Truman show would actually be illegal in the real world. There's a few fringe cases - most notably actively preventing Truman from leaving once he realized he was in a fake world and expressed a desire to escape - but pretty much everything up to that point is very legal, and it would be hard to press charges against the director (or anyone else) for the basic premise of raising a child in a reality show without their knowledge.
loligo_pealeii 4y ago The Wicked Witch of the West. She was angry at Dorothy, but then again Dorothy dropped a house on her sister and then grave-robbed the Witch's sister's body (with Glinda's help). The shoes were rightfully the Witch's anyway, presuming she was her sister's only heir and her sister died intestate. All the Witch wanted was for Dorothy to apologize and return the slippers she stole. Everything else that happened was the result of the Witch's reasonable attempts to defend herself and her property against Dorothy's killing, theft, and trespass.
tenehemia 4y ago Yellowjacket from Ant-Man. Не killed one dude, but there's zero evidence of that. All he did was use his own company's research to try to create a new weapon. Maybe not particularly moral, but he didn't do anything wrong until Lang and Pym stole from him and destroyed his entire office building. After that he did some property damage, but Pym even said that the shrinking tech could affect his mind so there's a completely reasonable defense that his behavior was affected beyond what he's aware of. Furthermore, since Pym created the tech and knew full well
Shin-Kami 4y ago Probably Palpatine... Republic law doesn't apply because he can bend it, also as supreme chancellor he probably has immunity. Imperial law doesn't apply either because I assume he is untouchable there. And real world law could also be tricky. All his dirty work was done by his students who are conveniently dead. Good luck proving they did anything on his orders. Being a Sith Lord isn't a crime because freedom of religion. His fight against the jedi was self defence as it was an attack against him with religious motives. Even the killing of Hego Damask would
FredAstairelnSequins 4y ago Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier. I think the Insanity defense (though it's not called that anymore) would actually apply here. Get a group of certified expert psychiatrists and doctors together, get their testimony/depositions. Set a competency hearing. In the event he is deemed competent, use witness testimony and the USSR/Hydra documentation to prove he wasn't in charge of his actions. Boom. Done.
imagine_amusing_name . 4y ago The Joker. Your honor, my client who is CLEARLY suffering from schizophrenic delusions and various other mental issues was punched in the face by a billionaire in a rubber gimp suit. And worse...the Gotham City Police Commissioner ASKED him to do it.
Policyhat 4y ago Define easiest time defending. If you define it as I think they have an easy case to win then probably Gaston since hunting a beast that is a threat to members of your town isn't a crime (remember Beast did lock up Belle's dad and there's no reason to believe that Beast couldn't go evil again during the inevitable divorce).
RettyOrNawN. 4y ago Dr. Doofensmritz. All of his inventions ultimately only end up stealing or damaging the creations of two kids, so he could probably be let out with a theft charge. Really, he's just a lonely, unloved man trying to be seen in the world. Good thing he has his therapy platypus.

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