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Movie antagonists that turned out to be dumbasses or wimps...


The aliens in Signs (02) have a terrible reaction to water and decide to touch down on 'The Blue Planet'...dumb move😕
A pile of water balloons, a few squirt guns and your garden hose would wipe those wimps out

What other dopey/wimpy movie villains can you think of?

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The aliens in War of the Worlds.

They can obliterate half the population, but they can't handle a common cold. Pathetic.

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Pathetic indeed...

Master crossing the universe in gigantic spacecraft✅
Survive the sniffles🚫

They deserved a proper ass-whooping

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The Wizard of Oz.

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Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) in "Death Proof."

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Oh yeah. He was ultimately a real pussy. LOL.

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Good one

He was a real let down in the ass-kicking department!

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A total fraud for sure

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The Scorpio Killer from Dirty Harry got owned by Callahan half way through the picture, got off on a technicality and then got himself wasted like a big dope

Scorpio was violent but ultimately a stupid weakling

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Freddy Krueger always seem somewhat of a pussy to me when people finally turn the tables on him.

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3k...Huzzah Angular🎉

Yeah, I love Freddy but he was one to panic and fall apart whenever 'the kids' came up with a plan

Fun villain though👍

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I like that aspect of Freddy. He is after all the quintessential bully. And aren't all bullies, at heart, fabulously insecure and laughably weak?

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It fit the character for sure

No, I don't think we are all bullies nor insecure
I prefer to think the opposite, truth be told Angular
I have a habit of observing people and I encounter dozens of them everyday through my job...the majority seem to be weak, stand-offish or friendly due to societal norms
Getting along with them all is second nature
Maybe I'm just an optimist;)

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What kind of job do you have?

A lot of Bond villains seem to shit bricks when Bond invades their impregnable fortresses and redecorates the walls with their henchmen's guts.

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I work for New York City in a social services branch up in The Bronx...I see a lot of roughed up, angry and confused people

Most people actually seem pretty decent and scared, they just want somebody to help them and show them some compassion
I am pleased and well paid to do so
I have yet to be shanked so I must be pretty good at it LOL😎

Good call! Bond villains often die in the stupidest ways...Walken fighting Bond on The Golden Gate Bridge is a standout dumbass death😂

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Caring for people who have slipped through the cracks isn't for everyone. I couldn't do it. Good for you.

Frank (Robert Loggia) in "Scarface" turned into a Grade-A pussy. He seemed determined to go out sans a shred of dignity.

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Thanks, I try...hard to care somedays but you gotta push through that feeling

Scarface:
'Manolo, choot that piece of chit!'
Great movie
Gotta rewatch it soon

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People turn to religion, politicians, drugs and media in their search for a personal savior when the only thing that can save them is themselves.

Joe Pesci's gangster Nikki in "Casino" becomes a whimpering, cowering mess when he sees his brother beaten and shoved into a shallow grave and is about to being beaten and shoved into a shallow grave himself.

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That hulking Nazi airplane mechanic that was beating up Indiana Jones stupidly stumbled into a spinning propeller like a big dummy!

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He was too busy gloating (the downfall of many villains).

You also have have Mola Ram. He looks like a bit of a pussy when Indy gets the upper hand and tells him that he betrayed Shiva. I do like that moment though because it deepens the character. Before Indy sends Mola Ram to his "Doom" you get a sense this truly evil character knew what he did was wrong.

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He probably did realize the error of his ways
He did feed the crocs on his way out so maybe all is forgiven?

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Being eaten by crocs is penance enough.

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Snoke in The Last Jedi.

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Yeah!
WTH was that crap?
Big letdown

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Yeah, when i saw it i expected his death to be some sort of trick, but no, he just went out like a complete pussy. So much for the invincible overlord of the galaxy.

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Agreed
Waste of a pretty cool character

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One of 1000 reasons to hate that movie.

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Biggest let down ever.

Who and what is Snoke? I guess we'll never know now.

Thanks Rion Johnson.

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As Rian would say: It's submersive.

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Buffalo Bill kinda turned out to be a pussy when the lady he had imprisoned in a pit (or well, or whatever it was) got a hold of his little dog and threatened to kill it if he didn't let her go.

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Which is funny, because Buffalo Bill desperately wanted a pussy.

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True.

What Bill ultimately turned into (or resembled anyway), when he was wearing night vision googles, while stalking Clarice in that pitch black room, was one of his pet moths.

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Boba Fett and his dumbass jetpack. So lame.

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Damn!
Greatest example of a crappy villain ever

Are all Dutch girls brilliant and classy or are you the only one😘

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You know I'm modest, but yeah, I'm pretty much the only one.😘

I actually thought Boba was really cool in The Empire Strikes Back, but his demise was one of the stupidest moments in the OT. I'm supposed to believe this guy is one of the best bounty hunters in the galaxy???

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Boba's death was the first red flag that George might not be as competent as a director as one would've thought. Yeah, i know he didn't really direct the film, but that idea was 100 % him. No question.

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Apparently he decided to get rid of him as quickly as possibly when he dropped the idea of another trilogy. That's no excuse for his extremely stupid death scene, though.

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True, also he should've died at the end if anything, not in the opening scene.

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Yep.

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His dad had a sucky death as well in Attack of the Clones, not as bad as being defeated by a blind man and turn into a slapstick character, but it was still a bit bullshit. Guess it runs in the family.

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I think it's kind of cool.

Here's this seemingly badass character with his own self-styled aura of indestructible mystique, and he's defeated in the most flippant and easy manner.

I like to think it was an intentional joke on the part of Lucas back from the day when he knew how to translate his cheeky and irreverent humour onto film (see also the Dr. Evazan scene in A New Hope).

Robot Chicken does a great pisstake of Boba Fett's fate and his attempts to dress it up as cooler than it actually is.

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It's funny in a way, that is true, but it wasn't worth spoiling his whole character just to get a laugh. Imagine if they made the Emperor trip and fall down the shaft, you can't build a character up so much and then kill it off like that, it's pissing on the audience.

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Boba is a side-villain at most.

The Emperor is the Big Bad. He had to maintain his dignity in order to maintain his threat.

To think of it in terms of the new trilogy, making the Emperor a figure of fun would be like making Snope an irrelevant throwaway joke of a character...

..oh, hang on a minute...

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The Emperor was similar to Boba in the way that he didn't do much or was seen much in ESB. They were both just kinda there, but we knew they would eventually get into action and be really cool when they did. Sadly Boba wasn't so lucky.

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Exactly. And I didn't even get a laugh out of it.

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I think it's just lame.

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Does The Mandarin in Iron Man 3 count?

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Kurt Russell in "Death Proof" immediately comes to mind.

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Did he fall off a bridge?
I'd say that would count

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I don't remember. It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I remember him crying like a little girl when the stunt women start beating his ass.

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My bad, he gets his ass beat in that movie by a few girls...
I was thinking of a semi falling off a bridge...I may have mixed the climaxes up!
Sorry

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