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Villains and Bad Guys

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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?

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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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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

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18 Horror Villains Who Are Ruined By Having Backstories

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, almost every Harry Potter character is here, so 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, curious about which Hogwarts houses they were sorted in,&nbsp;or need pictures to jog your memory, you can use the list as a reference.

Hermione Granger

The Greatest 'Harry Potter' Characters

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Villains

&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

Entertainment

A list of the most memorable movie sidekicks of all time. The collection of colorful and unique characters in the list below represent some of the greatest roles ever played on the big screen. These legends of cinema act as a supporting player to the film's central characters, but it doesn't mean they are less important. Often, the sidekick appears throughout the movie as a confidant to the lead or protagonist but later plays a pivotal role in the plot. At times they provide comic relief to more serious dramas and epic adventures, while other times they end up as the emotional core of the entire storyline. Trusted sidekicks in a famous film franchise also become some of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-movie-characters-of-all-time">the most beloved characters of all time</a> because the audience identifies with them more than the hero. A right-hand man or woman offers support, gives advice, loyal to the protagonist and just plain awesome. Other times they turn to the dark side and turn into <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-movie-villains-of-all-time">a cinematic villain</a>, adding a twist or element of surprise to an otherwise boring plot. One thing remains the same, however, when it comes to supporting characters -- they are all scene-stealers. Upvote your favorites from the list of famous film sidekicks below, add characters missing from the list and don't forget to re-rank the list your way.When you're done with this movie lover's list, check out which characters made the cut in the sexiest film characters&nbsp;list or <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-most-badass-big-screen-action-heroes">the best action heroes ever</a>.&nbsp;

Thing

The Most Memorable Film Sidekicks Ever

Famous Sidekicks in Film | List of Best Film Side Kicks

Marc Cuenco

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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The Wonderful World of Disney

Fun facts, fan theories, and rankings of Disney's most memorable human and creature characters.

The Characters of Disney

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Who is the greatest animated Disney villain? Everyone, it seems, has a favorite. Over the decades, Disney movies have given moviegoers some of the most dastardly (and, as with so many movie villains, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-stylish-villains-2010s/erin-cody" target="_blank">immaculately dressed</a>) villains in cinema history. And now, thanks to the <a href="https://disneyplus.bn5x.net/c/1217251/707629/9358?subid1=601734&amp;subid2=Disney%2B&amp;subid3=comlink&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disneyplus.com%2F" target="_blank">magic of Disney+</a>, you can go back and rewatch these classic villains doing all kinds of villainous things again and again. They may be animated, but that doesn&#39;t mean they aren&#39;t, well, mean! This list includes some of the best <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/all-disney-villains-list-of-all-disney-enemies/all-enemies-and-supervillains">Disney movie villains</a> ever but are specifically villians in animated movies, so be sure to vote for your favorites, vote down the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/disney-villains-evil-plans-ranked-stupid/jessica-bedewi" target="_blank">villains you don&#39;t think are worthy</a> of the top spots, and add any disney villains who are missing. If you&#39;re thinking of your favourite Disney bad guys from television, hop on over to vote on the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/disney-cartoon-villains-on-disney-plus/molly-gander" target="_blank">Disney aninmated series with the best villains</a>.

Vote: <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-disney-princesses">The Best Disney Princesses</a>

Disney villains come in many forms. Some, like the evil sorcerer Jafar (&#39;Aladdin&#39;) and the &quot;Mistress of All Evil,&#39; Maleficent (&#39;Sleeping Beauty&#39;), have magical powers that allow them to wreak havoc on their poor, unsuspecting victims. Great Walt Disney movie villains may also be &quot;regular&quot; people who are simply bad apples.

Speaking of bad apples, Queen Grimhilde, from Disney&#39;s classic &#39;Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,&#39; didn&#39;t necessarily have magical powers, but she was cruel beyond measure to Snow White, and a schemer of the highest order. Certainly, the same could be said of the horrible, no good Cruella de Vil from Disney&#39;s &#39;101 Dalmatians.&#39;

Rank: <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-movie-villains-of-all-time">The Best Movie Villains of All Time</a>

Some of the best Disney movie villains aren&#39;t even human. Examples? How about the evil python Kaa from &#39;The Jungle Book&#39;? And without question Scar, the power hungry, sinister baby brother of Mufasa in &#39;The Lion King&#39; is worthy of a spot on this list. Finally, last but certainly not least, the Big Bad Wolf from Walt Disney&#39;s &#39;Three Little Pigs&#39; is a menacing character.

Which Disney film villain is your favorite?

Queen

The Greatest Animated Disney Villains

Best Disney Villains | List of Animated Disney Bad Guys

Horror

The last person you want to be with if you&#39;re stuck in a horror movie is That Guy. You know the one. The guy who turns everyone against each other and argues <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/underrated-horror-movie-final-girls/april-a-taylor" target="_blank">with the final girl</a>. Or worse, does something stupid and gets half the cast killed. These horror movie jerks are often scarier than the monsters they&#39;re fighting.

To be That Guy, a character doesn&#39;t have to be male. They just have to be a complete and total screw-up who can&#39;t see beyond themselves in any given situation. Old ladies, revived sex-maniacs, withholding mothers, and bad boyfriends all can be That Guy in a horror movie.

Every single one of these characters is the absolute worst, but it&#39;s up to you to decide which are the most horrible of them all.

'That Guy' In Horror Movies, Ranked By How Much Of A Jerk They Are

The Biggest Jerks in Horror Movies, Ranked

Exposing all the weird, expensive, political, ego-driven stuff that happens behind the scenes before and after films and TV series hit the screens.

That's Showbiz, Baby

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There are all kinds of stories about actors. For example, some actors&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/stars-who-passed-on-iconic-hollywood-roles/marc-cuenco" target="_blank">passed on</a>&nbsp;a role in a film or television show, only to see the role become iconic for the actor who&nbsp;did&nbsp;take on the part. Sometimes - like with <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/how-marvel-actors-got-cast/tyler-mitchell" target="_blank">many MCU stars</a>, for example - it takes a bit of persuasion (or luck) to accept the gig. And there are other times where the casting of a role&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/controversial-casting-decisions/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">is controversial</a>&nbsp;- maybe the part was originally played by one actor but then got recast. Or maybe the audience had a particular actor in mind for the role, only to see someone else get the part.

But there are also stories about actors who&nbsp;did&nbsp;take on parts that made them iconic -&nbsp;or for which they are best remembered - but only after they had considered passing on the role. The reasons for their hesitation vary - from not thinking they were right for the part, to not wanting&nbsp;to make the time commitment, to simply not being available when the part was first being cast. But thankfully for film and TV&nbsp;history, these actors ended up deciding to take on the role&nbsp;that helped to define their career.&nbsp;

Actors Who Almost Didn't Take Their Most Iconic Roles

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Most people&#39;s childhoods were filled with the magic of Disney. Classics like&nbsp;The Little Mermaid&nbsp;and&nbsp;Cinderella&nbsp;share a special place in many fans&#39; hearts, however, modern Disney films are catching up in sentimentality.&nbsp;Frozen&nbsp;and&nbsp;Tangled&nbsp;have popular fandoms, and are <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/small-details-about-disney-princesses/loren-o_connell" target="_blank">still finding interesting details</a> about our favorite Disney princesses.&nbsp;

Whether it&#39;s about Rapunzel and Mother Gothel or Princesses Anna and Elsa, there is always more to learn by observing a scene closely. Take a look at the posts below and vote up the most interesting things fans noticed about Disney princesses.

20 Fans Share Something About Disney Princesses We Never Noticed Before

Raelyn Giansanti

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

Casting Calls

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

Josh Plainse

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

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

Across 23 films, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has brought&nbsp;some of the most popular heroes, villains, and supporting characters from the comics to the big screen - many of whom possess astonishing abilities and spectacular skills (though some are <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weakest-mcu-characters/zach-seemayer" target="_blank">pretty weak</a> when you think about it).&nbsp;

When it comes to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/marvel-universe-most-powerful-weapons-ranked/stephanroget" target="_blank">the strongest MCU</a> characters, raw strength isn&#39;t the only qualification. Instead, it&rsquo;s important to look at how each individual uses&nbsp;unique abilities when facing enemies or carrying out missions. In the end, however, the choice is yours.

Here are the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/powerful-characters-marvel-comics/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">strongest Marvel characters ranked</a> by the fans who love them.

The Strongest Characters In The MCU, Ranked

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The Strongest MCU Characters, Ranked By Fans

Math Erao

Virgil Tibbs, &quot;Red&quot; Redding, Jules Winnfield...&nbsp;This is a list of the all-time greatest Black characters in film, ranked as the best in film history by movie lovers everywhere. From famous male protagonist characters to memorable villains, this list has the best Black characters in film, portrayed by award-winning actors and featured in some of the greatest films ever made. Who are the most famous&nbsp;Black characters in film?

From classic films like&nbsp;Hotel Rwanda, The Color Purple, and Jerry Maguire, the fictional characters on this list are also some of the best characters in film history. Many of the actors who portrayed these classic Black film characters received numerous awards for their notable performances. This includes some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-black-actors-in-film-history/ranker-film?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best Black actors of all time</a>, such as Denzel Washington and Sidney Poitier.

Cast your votes for the iconic <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-african-american-characters-in-film/ranker-film?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Black movie characters</a> listed here that you believe are the best of all time.

Lando Calrissian

The Greatest Black Characters In Film History

The 100+ Best Black Movie Characters Of All Time, Ranked

Action

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

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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The Best Actors and Actresses

Lists of fun facts and differing opinions about Hollywood's biggest, most self-congratulatory night.

The Oscars

Over the years, many <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-actors?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">great actors</a> and actresses have been awarded the title of &quot;Best Actor&quot; for their portrayal of classic characters in film. Some of these Oscar-winning performances were based on real people, while other performances that won Oscars were based on fictional characters.&nbsp;Who are some of the best character portrayals that have earned actors Oscars? Forrest Gump from Forrest Gump made our list. Tom Hanks won a Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of this multi-talented man. Forrest Gump was based on the 1986 Winston Groom book of the same name. Anthony Hopkins's iconic portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in the film The Silence of the Lambs also made our list. Hopkins took home the Best Actor Oscar in 1991.Several Best Supporting Actor performances also made the cut. Gregory Peck's performance as Atticus Finch in the film To Kill A Mockingbird, based on the novel by Harper Lee, earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1962. Other supporting actor roles that are featured on this list include Tommy DeVito from Goodfellas, played by Joe Pesci, and Rod Tidwell from Jerry McGuire, played by Cuba Gooding Jr.Which best actor performance is your favorite? Vote up your favorite Oscar-winning character below!&nbsp;

Tommy DeVito

The Best Oscar-Winning Actor Performances, Ranked

Best Actor Oscar-Winning Performances Ranked

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

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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

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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

Movie Tough Guys Without Super Powers or a Super Suit

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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.