Top 10 Movie Villains Who Were Just Misunderstood
These are the "baddies" from film that, when we look back at it, were just doing what they were made to do, couldn't help doing it, didn't know better, etc.
Davy Jones is a fictional villain character in the Pirates of the Caribbean feature film series, who first appears in the second film, Dead Man's Chest and returns in the series' third installment, At World's End.
Jason Voorhees is a character from the Friday the 13th series. He first appeared in Friday the 13th as the young son of camp cook-turned-murderer, Mrs. Voorhees. Though a killer with the highest body count in the history of horror, he's not all bad. He drowned as a child and when his mother tried to take revenge by killing the counselors, she met her own demise when a surviving counselor decapitated her. His whole motivation is to avenge his mother's death. He was a good boy who loved his mother.
Leatherface is a character in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror-film series and its spin-offs. He wears masks made of human skin and engages in murder and cannibalism, alongside his inbred family.
HAL 9000 is a fictional character in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. First appearing in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL is a sentient computer that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.
Lord Voldemort is a fictional character and the central main antagonist in J. K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels. Voldemort first appeared in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was released in 1997.
Darth Vader is a Star Wars character and the main antagonist of the first three original Star Wars films and the main protagonist of the Star Wars prequel trilogy under his original name Anakin Skywalker. He had been trained as a Jedi but defected to the Sith lord and Galactic Chancellor Palpatine. ...read more.
Sid Phillips is a fictional character in the Toy Story franchise. He serves as the primary antagonist of the original Toy Story film. Sid isn't the villain we perceived him to be. Sid was clearly neglected and wasn't all bad because:
1.) He was lonely with no friends that we know of.
2.) Had an overactive imagination.
3.) He obviously didn't have the best home life.
4.) Since he had no way of knowing that toys were sentient and can feel pain, he can't be a true villain.
While Sid was a brat, he was a product of his environment. But he does learn a lesson and changes greatly as he got older.
He wasn't always a killer ghost. He was tortured and stung by bees to death. And he had his hand sawn off. Plus, Candyman is an insulting nickname he was given by his killers.
In Goosebumps he wanted revenge on R.L. Stine for imprisoning him in a manuscript. In Goosebumps 2 he just wanted a family. It's when he's rejected by a human family that he creates his own family by bringing the other Goosebumps monsters and all of Halloween to life.
Dr. Evil is a fictional character, played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers film series. He is the antagonist of the movies, and Austin Powers' nemesis. He was raised to be evil, but he turns good by the end of Goldmember.
He was bullied and only had one friend. But he didn't change and turn bad and obsessed until he bought a haunted car named "Christine". The car somehow took control of him and his personality.
Wild animals, including tigers, get killed and their habitats destroyed by humans all the time. It's understandable that he wants a human boy dead.
Shere Kahn's got a point. Humans can be extremely dangerous.
Frankenstein's Monster often referred to as "Frankenstein" is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein as a monster brought to life by his creator Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster would later become a pop culture icon featured in various media with his most iconic portrayal by Boris Karloff in the 1931 film Frankenstein. He just wanted a friend.
Her son drowned as child because the other kids at Camp Crystal Lake pushed him off the dock and the counselors were having sex instead of watching the kids. She wasn't really bad. She was just a heartbroken mother who loved her son.
Fat Bastard is a fictional character in the second and third films of the Austin Powers series. A morbidly obese henchman hailing from Scotland, Fat Bastard serves Dr. Evil.
Captain James Hook is a fictional character, the antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy.
She was bullied and humiliated. Enough said.
I can't blame her. She was just pushed too far.
The Sandman first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #4 (Sept. 1963), created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko as an adversary of Spider-Man. The character returned in The Amazing Spider-Man #18 and #19, and was soon depicted in other comics, such as The Incredible Hulk and The Fantastic Four. ...read more.
Felonius Gru is the main character of Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, and Despicable Me 3, alongside Mel and a minor character in Minions.