Looking at standout roles, unforgettable performances, and behind-the-scenes drama of famous and forgotten actors.

Casting Calls

Comedians

Worlds, stories, and characters are conceived on the page. Whether it be in a novel, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/comic-book-characters-we-want-to-see-on-film/ranker-comics" target="_blank">comic book</a>, or script, an infinite number of idiosyncratic features have been&nbsp;overcome by&nbsp;actors that redefined their characters.&nbsp;Sometimes roles are written for specific actors, but most of the time, filmmakers search the globe for that special someone. Most characters in entertainment transform to some degree once actors bring&nbsp;them to life (or impose&nbsp;their large personalities upon them). Great performers are respected for redefining characters.

Some roles are rewritten when the actor is cast or changed throughout filming, with the actor taking it in a different direction than anticipated. The role doesn&#39;t become fully realized until experimentation and improvisation take&nbsp;hold. This isn&#39;t just a matter of changing a few lines here and there; it&#39;s a holistic change to the entire vision or persona. Think of the infamous behind-the-scenes confusion when Johnny Depp unveiled his take on Jack Sparrow, or Robin Williams making Aladdin&rsquo;s genie inseparable from his talent. These are some of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-movie-characters-of-all-time" target="_blank">the best&nbsp;movie characters</a>&nbsp;that completely changed when a specific actor was cast to play them. Remember to vote up your favorites.

12 Movie Roles That Completely Changed When A Specific Actor Was Cast

General

Josh Plainse

Some guys just want to watch the world burn.

Villains and Bad Guys

Unforgettable Film Characters

John "Jigsaw" Kramer wants to know how far you'll push yourself just to stay alive. Like, will you cut yourself open? Take out someone else? Watch an entire Saw movie? Or 8 of them?

I Want to Play a Game

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It seems <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-popular-movie-villain-year-you-were-born/mike-mcgranaghan" target="_blank">every year</a>, new iconic villains are coming out of the woodwork. While some of us tend to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/movie-villains-who-wore-out-their-welcome/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">despise movie villains</a>, plenty of movie-goers&nbsp;favor some of these antagonists. Whether that&#39;s due to a cool accent, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/over-the-top-comic-book-movie-performances/tyler-mitchell" target="_blank">an over-the-top performance</a>, or an intimidating disposition, some villains just stand out - and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-who-got-big-after-playing-bad-guys/orrin-grey" target="_blank">redefine the actors playing them</a>.&nbsp;For instance, who doesn&#39;t have some type of fondness for Hannibal Lecter? How about the evil Darth Vader for that matter?&nbsp;Who are the greatest villains of all time? These movie bad guys are the scourge of the movie universe - and that&#39;s to say nothing of their <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/which-henchman-would-win-in-a-battle/matthew-ludwinski" target="_blank">loyal, powerful henchmen</a> - and you can now vote on the meanest villain ever to appear on film.

These are the greatest, most vile movie characters <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-hateable-villains-in-comedy-movies/elle-tharp" target="_blank">we love to hate</a>&nbsp;(or even <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/funny-villains-in-serious-movies/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">laugh at</a>) ranked by the wisdom of the crowd, which makes this ranking an accurate, real-time reflection of the crowd&#39;s collective opinion.

Loki

The Greatest Movie Villains Of All Time

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Best Movie Villains of All Time | List of Top Film Bad Guys

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Just because someone is fictional, deceased, or an entire universe doesn't stop Ranker from tossing them into Battle Royale-type tournaments against their worthiest foes.

Choose Your Fighter

Villains

Machete-wielding maniacs, dream demons with a sophomoric sense of humor, and mythical creatures with a bone to pick - horror movies offer some of the most enthralling and terrifying villains in cinema. They&rsquo;re all scary as hell - but which horror villain would win a fight?&nbsp;

We&rsquo;ve seen Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees go toe to toe without deciding who&rsquo;s the stronger horror monster, but this time there&rsquo;s no sequel, and no box office at stake - just the worst of the worst duking it out for horror movie supremacy.

To determine who is the toughest horror movie villain, we&rsquo;re looking at a specific set of criteria: What&rsquo;s their signature weapon, and do they have a particular strength? What are their weak points? And the most important thing for a classic horror villain to have - a good catchphrase. We can&rsquo;t tell you who&rsquo;s going to be the last baddie standing - it&rsquo;s up to you to figure out who&rsquo;s the strongest movie monster.

Which Horror Movie Villain Would Win In An All-Out Deathmatch?

Which Horror Movie Villain Would Win In A Fight?

Jacob Shelton

Lists about the wizarding world that captured the imaginations of children and adults alike and forever changed the way we view owls, brooms, and round eyeglasses.

The Universe of Harry Potter

Fantasy

The top Harry Potter characters come from a rich universe crafted on the page and adapted to the screen, giving us some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-film-adaptations-of-young-adult-novels/randolph">best movie adaptations from books</a> of all time. Since the Harry Potter universe is one where there are 75 (75!) main characters in the Harry Potter movies and books, there&#39;s little surprise that they are some of the most beloved (and hated) characters of all time.

That said, the question in front of us is &quot;who are the best Harry Potter characters?&quot; and it is a tough one to answer. Do you go for the obvious and choose Harry the hero, or pay respect to Voldemort, one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-movie-villains-of-all-time">best movie villains of all time</a>? Do you go for brains with Hermione or charm with George &amp; Fred? These are the questions we&#39;re confronted with when attempting to name the greatest Harry Potter characters ever.

Since both the Harry Potter books and movies can be taken into account, it&#39;s up to you to decide if you want to vote for the popular Harry Potter characters as you imagined them or as they were portrayed on screen. Since the books are among the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-selling-book-series-of-all-time/jeff419">best selling series of all time</a>, there&#39;s a good chance you&#39;ve read them and can compare notes with the movies. Your choice is yours, though; nobody&#39;s breaking out the Imperius curse so cast your vote for your favorite characters and make vote down the ones you don&#39;t like. And if there&#39;s a supporting Harry Potter character you feel belongs on the list, make sure to add them to this list of the top <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/luckiest-harry-potter-characters/renata-carmen" target="_blank">Harry Potter characters.</a> Of course, if you&#39;re forgetting some of the names or need pictures to jog your memory, you can use the list as a reference.

Hermione Granger

The Greatest Harry Potter Characters, Ranked

Best Harry Potter Characters | List of Favorite Characters in the HP Universe

This list of the most tragic and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/saddest-deaths-ever/mwahahahaha?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">saddest deaths</a> in kids movies will have you tearing up in no time. These traumatizing movie deaths made a whole generation of children sob and spend their adulthoods trying to sort through their feelings.The fact that these movies were aimed at children or teens did not spare the lives of these poor characters: Mufasa, Artax, Littlefoot's Mother, R.I.P.As a kid, you rarely saw it coming. Even watching some of these movies as adults can still cause grown men to cry. They truly are some of <a href="/crowdranked-list/top-tearjerker-movies-that-make-men-cry">the top tearjerker movies</a>. Who could ever forget poor Simba's face when he realized that Mufasa died? Or the sad scene in My Girl when a young Anna Chlumsky (Vada) cried over the coffin of her <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/celebrity-bffs/celeb-stalker?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best friend</a>, Thomas? The characters on this list can bring you back to these sad scenes in <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-childrens-and-kids-movies-on-netflix-instant/polkadotking">kid's movies</a>. There are many sad Disney movies, both cartoon and live action. The saddest scenes in children's movies were either caused by the death of characters that you, as the audience, had grown to love (like Dumbledore) or that other people in the movie loved. For example, the death of Ellie Fredricksen in Up is one of the saddest movie deaths--not necessarily because people cared about Ellie (she was only briefly in the beginning of the movie) but because people could see how much Carl loved her. The deaths of these characters made for sad family movies that were loved by kids and adults alike.

Little Foot's Mom

The Saddest Deaths in Kids Movies

Saddest Deaths in Kids Movies | Sad Family Films: Spoilers

Samantha Dillinger

Are you a Marvel fanatic? Vote on these lists of the best, funniest, dumbest, most underrated, etc. characters in the MCU to have your voice heard.

MCU Character Power Rankings

Marvel Comics

The Marvel Cinematic Universe may have its share of awesome heroes, but for every great hero, there&rsquo;s an equally awesome villain. Iron Man has the Iron Monger, the Hulk has Abomination, and Ant-Man has Ghost... and Yellow Jacket... and Sonny Burch.

This <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/mcu-villain-motivations/tyler-mitchell?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">list of MCU villains</a> includes all the greats, as well as a few lesser-known foes. Villains like Whiplash and Erik Killmonger may have been memorable in part due to their charisma, but what about other evil characters like Proxima&nbsp;Midnight and Ebony Maw? We also can&#39;t forget Ego and Thanos, who are two of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-powerful-comic-book-characters-ranked/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">most powerful characters</a> in Marvel history.&nbsp;Which MCU villain is your favorite?&nbsp;

Vote up the best and most <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-ruthless-marvel-characters/eric-vega" target="_blank">ruthless villains in the MCU</a> so we can all see which evildoers top the list.&nbsp;

The Best Villains In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

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The internet is rife with breakdowns of all the many battles of the Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far, but even the sprawling action of Avengers: Endgame didn&rsquo;t fully answer the question on everyone&rsquo;s mind as they smash action figures together in the playground - which MCU character would win in an all-out fight for cinematic supremacy? It&rsquo;s a query that has a lot of layers to it, and it&rsquo;s not quite as simple as determining who is truly the &ldquo;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/strongest-mcu-characters/math-erao" target="_blank">strongest Avenger</a>,&rdquo; though strength obviously has a good deal to do with it.

A good rule of thumb in comic books is that any character can beat any other character at any given moment, provided the fight is occurring in said character&rsquo;s own title. In other words, even Hawkeye can take down anyone he wants - so long as he does so in a Hawkeye comic. It&rsquo;s a little more complicated than that when it comes to the movies, but it&rsquo;s a good testament to just how resourceful superheroes can be - and why it&rsquo;s not wise to count any of them out in a battle royale.

Which MCU Hero Would Win In An All-Out Battle?

Fictional Character

Stephan Roget

Looking through our fingers and ranking the best, scariest, dumbest, etc. characters in classic, creative, and totally forgettable horror movies.

Night Terrors

Horror movie villains are something of an anomaly in the film world; more often than not, the less you know about them, the more frightening they are. Unlike characters in any other genre of film, they operate on pure dream logic, and &ndash; because of that &ndash; the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-film-villain-protagonists/louis-patterson" target="_blank">best film villain protagonists</a> don&rsquo;t require a raison d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre beyond terrorizing the other characters. Unfortunately, thanks to the sequelization of literally every modern horror film, every terrifying horror villain has received some kind of terrible&nbsp;backstory.

In most instances, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/dumbest-horror-villain-origin-stories/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">characters ruined by backstory</a> are given three or more films before a writer doles out an <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-10-lamest-super-hero-origins/ihateeverything">unnecessary backstory</a> for a creature that&rsquo;s meant to exist as a pure metaphor, but some horror writers don&rsquo;t even wait for a sequel to wreck a perfectly fine film and provide a sad-sack story for the creature handing out ironic punishments to teens in the original property.

Continue reading to explore the worst origins of some of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/horror-movies-likable-villains/jacob-shelton">your favorite characters</a>.

Horror Villains Who Are Ruined By Having Backstories

18 Horror Villains Who Are Ruined By Having Backstories

From popping the question to saying "I do!" and all the fun, funny stuff that happens in between.

Everything Wedding

A look at real and fictional wedding dresses worn by characters, cartoons, celebrities, and even royalty all around the world.

White Weddings

Fashion

We&#39;re all suckers for a big Hollywood movie ending: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back, boy gets girl. And then, most importantly: girl gets dress! A match made in true movie heaven! It&#39;s perfection!

Some of the best film wedding dresses are truly the stuff of dreams: the dreams of directors and costume designers, and sometimes the nightmares of the actresses who have to figure out how to go to the bathroom during filming breaks.&nbsp;

It didn&#39;t take us long to come up with this list of the best bridal gowns in movies. Most of our favorite wedding movies feature a stunningly gorgeous wedding gown. From romantic comedies to dark dramas with <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-goth-wedding-dresses/samantha-dillinger" target="_blank">goth wedding gowns</a>,&nbsp;the we&#39;d wear every single one of the wedding dresses in these movies. Classic gowns, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-nerdy-wedding-dresses/dani-porter" target="_blank">nerdy gowns</a>, or modern dresses, we don&#39;t care! They&#39;re all gorgeous. Movies prove that you don&#39;t have to be traditional on your wedding day. You can even marry an Ogre instead of Prince Charming. (Not that there&#39;s anything wrong with Prince Charming!)&nbsp;

We&#39;ve been falling in love with wedding dresses in movies since we were little girls watching Cinderella (don&#39;t worry, it&#39;s on the list). Hollywood has shown us that we really can have the wedding gown of our dreams. Now it&#39;s time for you to decide: which&nbsp;of these best <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-wedding-movies/all-genre-movies-lists" target="_blank">movie wedding</a> dresses takes the cake?

Michelle's Dress In 'American Wedding'

The Most Gorgeous Movie Wedding Dresses, Ranked

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Best Movie Wedding Dresses | Wedding Gowns in Films

Jessica Lawshe

If you&#39;re a fan of scary movies, this is your opportunity to vote for the best final <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/15-sexiest-monsters-in-horror-movie-history/pt_tesla?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">girls in horror movies</a>. A &quot;final girl&quot; is a female character who manages to survive the wrath of the killer -&nbsp;human or otherwise -&nbsp;when most, if not&nbsp;all, of the other characters have been&nbsp;wiped out. Although the term originated in the 1990s, final girls were around for decades before that, such as Laurie Strode in 1978&#39;s Halloween,&nbsp;Sally Hardesty in 1974&#39;s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Lila Crane in 1960&#39;s Psycho.&nbsp;

Horror movie survivors of this type are most commonly found in slasher flicks. The Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween franchises commonly make use of the final girls trope.&nbsp;Traditionally, these characters tend&nbsp;to be the purest and most&nbsp;virtuous of the group or cast of characters. That&#39;s because, for reasons known only to the filmmakers themselves, the abundance of&nbsp;&#39;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-80s-slasher-movies/ranker-film?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">80s slasher movies</a>&nbsp;usually had&nbsp;the villain&nbsp;target teens who were amorous with each other. Friday the 13th,&nbsp;in particular, was notorious for that.&nbsp;

The threats final girls face are not always psychos wielding knives, machetes, or hooks. They can survive interstellar creatures, as Ellen Ripley does in Alien.&nbsp;What counts is that the final girl gets through the ordeal, leaving her to tell the tale of what happened.

Vote up your favorite final girl horror characters from the list below.

The Best Final Girls From Horror Movie History

The 50+ Best Horror Movie Final Girls Of All-Time, Ranked By Fans

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A list of the best&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/funniest-bond-girl-names/greg?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Bond girls</a>,&nbsp;voted on by fans of&nbsp;James Bond films and&nbsp;admirers of fine women everywhere.&nbsp;Over 90 women have held the title of Bond girl over the years, and this list ranks the best. Yes, here you&#39;ll find all the hot James Bond girls who&#39;ve sizzled on the silver screen to date. Who is your favorite 007 beauty? There are so many glamorous&nbsp;Bond girl roles and it all started with Ursula Andress in Dr. No.&nbsp;Whether you prefer the exotic girlfriends, salacious&nbsp;secret agents, or villainous vixens from the films, they are dangerous, sophisticated, responsible for some of the more steamy scenes in 007 movies.&nbsp;

Do you consider these women lucky to have portrayed <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-love-interest-in-an-adam-sandler-movie/carlybobarly?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the love interest</a>&nbsp;of James Bond? Or is it the other way round? These may not be pics of nude&nbsp;Bond girls, but even though these aren&#39;t naked Bond femme fatales these are still some of the best&nbsp;pics you can find on the net. So without further delay, here are the&nbsp;best&nbsp;Bond Girls of all-time, voted by you. If you like this list, check out our&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/funniest-bond-girl-names/greg" target="_blank">Funniest Bond Girl Names</a>&nbsp;too!

Plenty O'Toole

The Most Attractive Bond Girls, Ranked

James Bond Girls List | Stunning Ladies from Bond Movies

Julian Jefferson

&quot;Demons to some, angels to others.&quot; That&#39;s one of the ways we&#39;re introduced to the Cenobites in Hellraiser, horror author and director Clive Barker&#39;s most enduring contribution to the visual lexicon of horror cinema. These &quot;explorers in the further regions of experience&quot; come when you solve a puzzle box called the Lament Configuration, and usually they drag you off to join them in a labyrinth that just might be hell. Not all of the Cenobites in&nbsp;Hellraiser&nbsp;originally had names - not even the &quot;Lead Cenobite,&quot; who came to be known and loved as Pinhead - but they all have&nbsp;nicknames that stuck, and over the course of several movies, a number of other Cenobites were introduced. And&nbsp;between movies, books, and comics, the Cenobites have done some <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/worst-cenobites-moments-clive-barker/sabrina-ithal" target="_blank">pretty gruesome things</a>.

What are the Cenobites? In&nbsp;Hellraiser&nbsp;and its sequels,&nbsp;the Cenobites are explained as a&nbsp;sort of monastic order that serves Leviathan and views flesh as something to be modified and sculpted and that seems to draw no distinction between pleasure and pain. Here&#39;s a list of&nbsp;all the nastiest Cenobites from the&nbsp;Hellraiser, ranked by how vile and unpleasant they are. See if you agree!

All The Cenobites From The 'Hellraiser' Films, Ranked By Nastiness

All The Cenobites In The 'Hellraiser' Movies, Ranked By Nastiness

Orrin Grey

Lists for fans who have already read every book, seen every movie, and then read / watched them all several more times each.

Going Deep in Harry Potter

No matter your experience with the Harry Potter franchise, you&#39;ve undoubtedly heard - dozens of times - that &quot;the books are better than the movies.&quot; <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/things-book-readers-hate-about-the-harry-potter-movies/stephanroget" target="_blank">Fans of the books</a>&nbsp;mourn&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/harry-potter-moments-in-books-not-in-movies/joshualee" target="_blank">important scenes</a>&nbsp;that were omitted or cut down in the films, and also lament their favorite&nbsp;missing Harry Potter characters. Leaving out truly <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/harry-potter-characters" target="_blank">great characters</a>,&nbsp;mentioning them only briefly, or putting them only in a video game feels like a travesty. These characters were done dirty!

Enjoyable as the films may be, integral characters&nbsp;like Winky the house-elf&nbsp;and Peeves the poltergeist certainly did not get their fair share of the cinematic love. They deserved better.

'Harry Potter' Characters Who Were Done Dirty By The Movies

Harry Potter Characters Who Were Done Dirty By The Movies

Erin Cody

Over-the-top movie villains have become a Hollywood staple over the years as everyone loves to have <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-comic-book-movie-villain-performances/jonathan-kantor" target="_blank">a wild antagonist</a> to root against. It&#39;s known that the best villain performances are often the most&nbsp;&quot;energetic.&quot;&nbsp;After all, what kind of heroes would James Bond, Superman, and Harry Potter be if they didn&#39;t have some unusual baddies to square off against from time to time? Understated and reserved villains have their place, but that&#39;s not what we&#39;re looking for here.

This list is home to the kind of actors who absolutely love to swing for the fences. Looking for a nuanced take? Don&#39;t peek your head in here because legendary thespians like Gary Oldman, Jim Carrey, and Nicolas Cage are here to scream and shout. Grab your popcorn and get ready to laugh because these actors are playing to the cheap seats. Here are the most over-the-top villains that you can&#39;t help but love.

The 14 Most Over-The-Top Movie Villains

The Most Over-The-Top Movie Villains

T.W. Mitchell

You know the villain as the Big Bad, the truly horrible no-good person who has <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-irredeemably-evil-villains/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">no redeeming qualities whatsoever</a>. But as many great writers have said, &quot;every villain is a hero,&quot; given a different context. It&#39;s high time we take a look at some villains we&#39;ve written off as simply evil, and show you how, with just a slightly different perspective (okay, in some cases, a vastly different perspective), these people aren&#39;t quite as villainous as expected. No, sometimes these are villains just doing their jobs, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/good-parental-advice-from-villains/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">giving solid advice</a>, or dealing with impossible situations where no reasonable person would think they had any good choices to make. Some of these people are just hard up for answers, and even the hero&#39;s solution makes things demonstrably worse.

But this list doesn&#39;t just limit itself to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/spider-man-villain-doc-ock/stephanroget" target="_blank">villains who were good</a>. We also look at villains who had a point, even if what they did was absolutely unforgivable. But really, if you think about it, plenty of our heroes have <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/mcu-villains-created-by-heroes/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">done awful things</a> (Indiana Jones was just stealing artifacts and trashing monuments he had no business being around in the first place, y&#39;know), and it&#39;s all just a matter of perspective. Obi-Wan Kenobi was always rambling on about how things are different from a &quot;certain point of view.&quot; (Easy for him to say, Darth Vader&#39;s pretty cut-and-dried as a villain.) But put on your thinking specs and see how we argue for some of the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/movie-villains-who-get-away-with-it/mike-mcgranaghan" target="_blank">bad guys (and gals!</a>).

President Snow from Hunger Games

29 Movie Villains Who Were Probably Right All Along

Logan Rapp

Whether you love to hate them or just straight-up hate them, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/movie-villains-defeated-without-a-fight/tyler-mitchell" target="_blank">movie villains have to be defeated</a> to give a film a satisfying ending. While some bad guys are just tossed off a building or <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/hoist-by-their-own-petard-villain-ends/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">melted by the Ark of the Covenant</a>, other baddies have to endure a fate that&#39;s worse than the painful bliss of nonexistence.

In some cases, the villains pass&nbsp;into the emptiness of the universe, not dead but not alive, and in other instances, they&#39;re simply driven insane by the knowledge that they&#39;ve been truly and finally bested by their nemesis. And some bad guys are just turned into mutant dogs, which is a pretty nasty fate no matter how you look at it.

Which villains suffer the worst fate is a matter of opinion, which is why we need you to decide which one of these evil creeps was given a send-off that was worse than they actually deserved.

Movie Villains Who Suffered A Fate Worse Than Death

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Lists about unforgettable child actors who nabbed the spotlight and how they have navigated life after fame at such vulnerable stages in their development.

Bright Young Stars

Lifestyle

List of the greatest kid characters in film. These <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/childrens-movies-main-characters-who-should-be-grounded/tracey-graham" target="_blank">onscreen children</a> were the best movie personalities in the history of cinema. Here we have ranked those film characters that we would rather hide from our own children (for the most part) but watch onscreen any day of the week. Of course, if Harry Potter came over for a playdate, a child might want to hang out. 

Movie children are the ones that say what we are really thinking, or sometimes things that no adult would ever be weird enough to think let alone say out loud. Someone like Huck Finn comes to mind, as he ranks up here against (or perhaps with) Simba from &quot;The Lion King.&quot; both of the &quot;Spy Kids&quot; themselves had to be included, of course, as did tough girls like Hit-Girl and Veruca Salt. Speaking of Miss Salt, Roald Dahl brought us more of the great kid characters in movies thanks to Matilda Wormood and Charlie Buckett.

Dorothy Gale

The Greatest Kid Characters in Film

Best Kid Characters in Film | List of Fictional Children in Movies

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In the age of the superhero movies, it's easy to forget sometimes that there are tough guys who don't need to hide behind superpowers or a super suit. For every superhero Superman, Batman or even Robocop, we have a James Bond, Han Solo, Jason Bourne and John McClane willing to chase bad guys. These tough guys need to rely only their brains, brawn and the occasional weapon or two to foil the plots of bad guys. Some of the most legendary action heroes are just regular guys, military personnel or cops that get caught up in a tough situation and fight their way out of it.Sometimes that can mean rescuing a group of hostages or even family members or femme fatale. Other times that could be defending someone's honor or even protecting his country from the threat of total annihilation. While having a super powers or super suit would make things infinitely easier for these tough dudes, what makes them so endearing to audiences is that some of the men on this list could be any of us, depending on how we react in a particular situation.Vote for your favorite movie tough guy on this Ultimate List. These are some of the biggest, baddest guys in the history of <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/roger_s-top-100-and-tough-guy-movies/roger-royce?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">tough guy films</a> and are played by some of the most prominent action stars. So pick who you think toughest of these movie tough guys. Famous tough guys with touch names for guys! They're all listed here!

Jason Bourne

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The Hunger Games

Who are the best Hunger Games&nbsp;characters? This list includes some of the most popular characters from The Hunger Games&nbsp;book trilogy. Some are obviously main characters, like Katniss Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence), Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) and Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth), and others are tributes from the various games and/or Panem districts. This list includes both characters from the Hunger Games books and the Hunger Games cast from the movies because, for the most part, the characters are the same.

Which HG&#39;character do you think is the best of all time? Vote for your favorites, vote down any Hunger Games/Catching Fire/Mockingjay&nbsp;characters you didn&#39;t like (or hated, let&#39;s be honest, some are really hate-worthy), and certainly, if your personal favorite isn&#39;t listed, add them so we have a complete Hunger Games character list! You also have the option of re-ranking this list in any order you want. Time to vote, and may the odds be ever in your favor... and when you&#39;re done voting, don&#39;t forget to also check out more <a href="/list/what-to-watch-if-you-love-the-hunger-games/watchworthy" target="_blank">shows and movies like The Hunger Games.</a>

Fans of <a href="/list/hunger-games-movie-quotes/movie-and-tv-quotes" target="_blank">&#39;The Hunger Games&#39; movies</a> know: The characters are incredibly memorable. Why wouldn&#39;t they be? &#39;The Hunger Games&#39; trilogy is certainly among the <a href="/list/the-13-best-dystopian-novels/ivana-wynn" target="_blank">best dystopian novels ever written</a> (especially in the modern era), and the <a href="/list/full-cast-of-the-hunger-games-actors-and-actresses/reference" target="_blank">&#39;Hunger Games&#39; cast</a> made the first &#39;HG&#39; film come to live in an incredible way.&nbsp;JLaw as Katniss in the movie is one of the&nbsp;<a href="/crowdranked-list/best-movie-characters-of-all-time" target="_blank">best movie characters of all time</a>, don&#39;t you think? 

It would be virtually impossible to make a list of Hunger Games characters without including some of the awesome tributes from the series. Rue, with her sweet nature and that incredible, melodic, haunting voice, is definitely a favorite, as is the clever Foxface (may they both rest in peace) and the hunky, mischievous Finnick Odair from &#39;Catching Fire&#39; and &#39;Mockingjay.&#39;

And, lest we forget, some of the most colorful &#39;Hunger Games&#39; characters are from the Capitol, notably District 12 escort Effie Trinket (always so stylish!), Katniss&#39; stylist, Cinna, and certainly the dastardly, scheming, manipulative, just plain evil President of Panem, Coriolanus Snow.

Effie Trinket

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Best Characters

List of the best movie characters of all time, ranked by film buffs and people like you. This list includes performances by some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-film-actors-and-actresses-of-all-time">greatest actors of all time</a> in classic films, epic dramas, comedies, action and superhero movies, and many other <a href="http://www.ranker.com/tags/best-movie-genres">movie genres</a>. The best characters in film are those unforgettable, magnetic people (or aliens, or self-aware machines) who command the screen. They have spoken some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-movie-quotes-of-all-time">most memorable quotes in movie history</a> in ways fans have been trying to emulate ever since. They are famous movie characters that have inspired fan fiction and fan art; iconic movie characters who have inspired fashion and pop culture; popular movie characters that kids and adults alike aspire to be like. Simply put, they are the best characters ever. Vote for your favorites.