7 Movie Villains Who Didnt Deserve To Die

7 Movie Villains Who Didn’t Deserve To Die

Not every movie villain’s death is celebrated, and several movie villains didn’t deserve to die.

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A common way to end a film is with the death of its villain. Given that most villains are evil figures who oppose the protagonists and cause the films’ problems, this is typically a celebratory moment. The world is rid of evil, the heroes are triumphant, and some measure of justice is paid out.

However, not all villain deaths are happy affairs. Some villains carry the audience’s sympathy right up until their final moments. Whether they have little choice in their wicked deeds, understandable motivations, or if their demise is simply a tragic moment, the deaths of some villains leave the audience mourning.

7 Cato Is Ultimately Nothing But Another Pawn (The Hunger Ganes)

The biggest and most obvious threat of The Hunger Games is the tribute Cato. A well-trained ‘Career’, he volunteers for the Hunger Games and quickly proves himself one of the most dangerous people in the area. Strong, vicious, and more than a little sadistic, Cato spends much of the movie trying to hunt down Katniss and Peeta and kill them.

When Cato finally confronts Katniss and Peeta atop the Cornucopia, he has Peeta in a chokehold. However, Cato breaks down. Cato realizes that he’s just another tool of the Capitol, the same as Katniss and Peeta, and that he’s a hollow shell who only really knows how to kill. His death isn’t pleasant, as he’s torn apart by mutated dogs until Katniss puts him out of his misery. Although Cato is far from a good person, his death holds plenty of poignancy.

6 Otto Octavius Has Little Control Of His Villainy (Spider-Man)

The villains in the Spider-Man films often have their sympathetic or pitiable aspects, but few more than Otto Octavius. A brilliant scientist who wants nothing more than to help the world with nuclear fusion, an experiment gone wrong leaves him grieving, injured, and helpless to resist the artificial intelligence controlling his robotic arms.

Ultimately, Otto’s villainy is mainly driven by something else using his body as a vehicle. As a person, he has plenty of sympathetic moments over the course of the film. His death is a heroic sacrifice, as he kills himself to put a stop to his fusion reactor once it threatens the city and refuses to die a monster.

5 James Norrington Is A Villain With Admirable Traits (Pirates Of The Caribbean)

Commodore James Norrington is one of the most complex characters in the Pirates Of The Caribbean film series, and would likely qualify as the hero in many other series. He serves as an antagonist to the main characters. Several times, Norrington prioritizes his ambition over everything else, leading to him joining in with Lord Beckett and Davy Jones by the time of At World’s End.

Norrington meets his end in At World’s End after an entire trilogy of antagonism and uneasy alliances with the main characters. Despite his antagonistic nature, he proves himself to be a good and noble man when he dies freeing the main characters from Davy Jones. Even Elizabeth, who has had a tumultuous history with him throughout the films, mourns his death.

4 Mal Cobb Didn’t Choose To Be Evil (Inception)

In both the real world and in dreams, the closest thing Inception has to an outright villain is Mal Cobb. It’s because of an elaborate plot on her part that protagonist Cobb is a fugitive from the law and can’t see his children. In the dreams of the protagonists, she is a constant thorn in their side.

However, Mal’s turn to evil is no fault of her own. Characters like Arthur remember her as a warm and lovely figure. It’s only once Cobb changed her permanently through inception that she framed him for her murder in the real world. Her ruthless and monstrous persona in dreams is more a result of Cobb’s guilt than anything to do with her. Ariadne killing Mal’s projection is a necessary action, but Inception never treats it as a heroic or triumphant moment.

3 Starro Was Once Peaceful (The Suicide Squad)

The main villain of The Suicide Squad turns out to be Starro in the film’s third act as the alien breaks free of its captivity and begins to attack the island of Corto Maltese. As an enormous monstrosity that takes control of people’s minds, it’s a clear threat. In many films, killing it would be nothing more than an act of heroism.

However, Starro has a good reason for being so vicious. It is escaping from decades of being imprisoned and experimented on by the US government, amounting to an extended bout of torture. As Starro dies, it laments this, saying that it was happy simply floating among the stars until it was brought to Earth.

2 Roy Batty Simply Wants To Live (Blade Runner)

The plot of Blade Runner is an extended cat-and-mouse game between the protagonist Rick Deckard and the gang of fugitive Replicants he is ordered to hunt down. Batty is the leader of this group and the final fight that Deckard must face after he’s picked his way through the rest of the gang one by one.

Neither side is wholly sympathetic, and Batty has plenty of blood on his hands, but his motivation is very sympathetic: he wants to live longer than the handful of years Replicants are given. His very last act is saving Deckard’s life, and his dying words – the famous ‘Tears in Rain’ speech – are a heart-wrenching testament to how much is lost with Batty’s death. Ultimately, his death is the most poignant moment in the entire film, and one of its most-discussed scenes.

1 Killmonger’s Methods Are Monstrous, But His Aims Sympathetic (Black Panther)

One of the most heavily-discussed villains of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is Erik Killmonger of Black Panther. The son of a Wakandan and left orphaned by the politics of his homeland, Killmonger returns to Wakanda years later to claim the throne. Beyond wanting mere revenge, however, he also wants to arm oppressed people of African descent with Wakandan weaponry so they can fight to improve their lives.

T’Challa fights Killmonger because he knows that a race war will kill millions, but he can’t bring himself to outright disagree with his enemy’s reasons. After mortally wounding Killmonger, T’Challa even offers to heal him. When Killmonger dies, he ends Wakanda’s isolation to try and bring about change through more peaceful, diplomatic means.

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