Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
99Kviews
30 Bad Guys Who Were Scary Because They Were Right All Along, According To Folks In This Online Group
Have you ever found yourself re-watching a movie or re-reading a book that you first encountered years ago, but now see the whole plot totally differently? Very often in such cases, we see some of the characters in a different light. Suddenly, we want to justify those who we hated or thought to be villains, realizing why they chose a certain path. Reddit user @u/Chadderbug123 decided to ask others online “What villain was terrifying because they were right?” and received more than 25k answers. People online soon started giving interesting answers, naming villains from well-known movies, TV shows, books, games, and even commercials. These were followed by explanations and elaborate backstories of some of the characters.
Which one of these were you terrified of? And if you don’t see your favorite villain on this list, don’t forget to leave their name in the comments down below!
More Info: Reddit
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
The Matrix’s Agent Smith: “I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.”
RELATED:
#2
Ultron, browsed the internet for 30 seconds and decided humanity had to go.
#3
Maleficent. The king was a peice of s**t and deserved everything she did to him.
tabitha knipp 2 years ago
The whole drugging her and cutting off her wings was an allegory for grape (without the G) so yeah, Stefan deserved it all.
#4
Not a true villain but Squidward. Damn is SpongeBob an annoying neighbor I'd hate him too
#5
Ken from The Bee Movie. I too would go absolutely berserk if a talking bee stole my girlfriend and gaslit me into thinking I was crazy
#6
Heath Ledger’s Joker. Specifically with this quote: “Their morals, their code, it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. You’ll see. when the chips are down, these civilized people, they’ll eat each other. See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve”. I felt this quote is super relevant based on the state of the world right now
Mokayokok 2 years ago (edited)
This clearly explains how the downfall of the human race when Covid-19 hit - I was an essential worker who thought ppl were already the worse, but by god, the level of selfishness, total disgrace that the human race went to was horrifying. I had a customer spit directly on my face because I wouldn't let her have 2 packs of water, we were only allowed to let ppl have one because ppl were trying to buy ALL of them then triple the charge & sell it to other desperate ppl or simply thought they were the only ppl that matters, f**k everyone else. My manager literally did nothing when that c**t leaned forward & spit in my eye. I thought we had seen the worst POS citizens that got Trump elected, but we devolved even further when 2020 hit. The human race needs to be removed, we serve absolutely no positive aspects to this dying planet.
#7
Colonel Kurtz. “We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "f**k" on their airplanes because it's obscene.”
#8
Magneto is my favorite villain of all time. Every time his motives are brought to light I get that "yeah, I kinda get it" moment
#9
King Kong. Not even because he was right. He was just alive. Minding his own business and blam....taken out of his home and made to be the villain without any choice. A real good example of human nature. Edit a word
Donnie Mc00 2 years ago
I've never thought of Kong as the Villain of the piece. Has anyone else?
#10
None of you said the most terrifying one.
Mo jo jo jo from the Powerpuff girls. He wanted to bring free energy and advanced technology to the people. And in one episode he actually did. He made the world an amazing place. And then the Powerpuff girls ruined it all.
#11
Poison Ivy is an environmentalist at heart and Raj Al Ghul is a humanitarian. Both were pushed into extremism after the broken system they're trying to fix simply refused to change for so long that they decided the system itself needed to be torn down
RoanTheMad 2 years ago (edited)
We need Poison Ivy irl ngl, then those billionaire fuckwads might actually listen
#12
Red Queen resident evil, I have locked down this facility to prevent a world ending virus, please could you 'good guys' pay attention and not blow holes in the doors.
Bananaramamama 2 years ago
Oh I remember this. Does EXACTLY what they created her to do...so destroy her
#13
Roy Batty. What was done to him and his kind was wrong and he had righteous anger.
Jerry Mathers 2 years ago
Totally agree. I love these movies for exactly this. The question does bear some impact on reality. Should we ever push machines into self awareness, how would we know and what we do about it? Blade runner is an exceptional look at humanity.
#14
The Hamburglar was just trying to save children from childhood obesity!
BeardedVulture 2 years ago
I will forever use this excuse to continue to steal fries. Stolen fries taste irrationally better.
#15
The Replicants from Blade Runner. Used as slaves and given artificially short lives. They just wanted to live and be free.
#16
Screenslaver from The Incredibles 2. The monolog given during that movie regularly rings in my head. I'm sure the creepy bass robotic voice doesn't help too.
“The Screenslaver interrupts this program for an important announcement. Don’t bother watching the rest. Elastigirl doesn’t save the day; she only postpones her defeat. And while she postpones her defeat, you eat chips and watch her invert problems that you are too lazy to deal with. Superheroes are part of a brainless desire to replace true experience with simulation. You don’t talk, you watch talk shows. You don’t play games, you watch game shows. Travel, relationships, risk; every meaningful experience must be packaged and delivered to you to watch at a distance so that you can remain ever-sheltered, ever-passive, ever-ravenous consumers who can’t free themselves to rise from their couches to break a sweat, never anticipate new life. You want superheroes to protect you, and make yourselves ever more powerless in the process. Well, you tell yourselves you’re being ‘looked after’. That you’re inches from being served and your rights are being upheld. So that the system can keep stealing from you, smiling at you all the while. Go ahead, send your supers to stop me. Grab your snacks, watch your screens, and see what happens. You are no longer in control. I am.”
TLDR: you think everything will always be okay and while you remain distracted, the powers that be will continue to steal from you.
#17
Not really sure if you can consider him a villain.. but Peacemaker when he went on a rant about Batman causing countless deaths because he refuses to kill supervillains
#18
Bobby Heenan. Spent the 80s telling us how awful and selfish Hulk Hogan was. Was proven absolutely correct in 1996. In hindsight, Heenan was trying to save us all from the inevitable scourge of “Hollywood” Hogan.
#19
Frankenstein's "monster". Adam. Created by a shortsighted, arrogant doctor as the first of his race, then denied the opportunity to be part of a community (of his own, manmade beings, or the human community). He only became monstrous after it became clear that Frankenstein would never create another of his kind, and was driven mad by his desire to punish Frankenstein's hubris.
IDGAFabtyourfeelings 2 years ago (edited)
Ughhj...once again OP seems confused. Frankenstein's monster was never the villain. The whole story is to say that the true "monster" was Frankenstein, the mad scientist.
#20
The mom in Mrs. doubtfire
BeardedVulture 2 years ago
As a child Robin is the best dad ever, as an adult married to them? Hard pass.
#21
Not terrifying, but Thanos had some good points, also Ultron had his heart in the right place and he was terrifying in the What If episodes
Edit: I'll add Gorr the God-Butcher as well, even though the new movie was boring, he was pretty scary and his motives were fair, he was just giving the Gods what they have given others for centuries
Xander Gonzalez 2 years ago
the actual movie was good but the CGI effects were horrible though.
Load More Replies...
Colin Timp 2 years ago
While Thanos wasn't wrong, there were two issues with his plan. One, it would only prolong the inevitable. In a short amount of time, we'd be back in the same boat. (The population would rebound). Second, it would've been just as easy for him to double the Universe and its habitable worlds and raw materials as it was to eliminate half the population.
Madeleine Flowers 2 years ago
I got practically three minutes into the newest Thor movie before just going, "Nope. Gorr is right, he's absolutely right (please don't smite me gods)."
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
Thanos' entire conceit of destroying 50% of all life is ineffective and useless. There's just under 8 billion people in the world right now. Get rid of half (4 billion) and you now have the # of people around in 1975.
RafCo (he/him) 2 years ago
Thanos is an idiot, and his whole kill half the universe nonsense is as lazy a plot device as they come. The Earth's population has doubled in the last 60 years, and will likely double again in the next 40 years. Everything Thanos is trying to do would be undone within a single generation. He would be more successful by just distributing birth control and setting up sex education centers. Why not snap your fingers and halve the fertility rate.
Balso Steele 2 years ago
In the comics, he wasn't even doing it out of misplaced logic, he was doing it to get in Death's pants because he was jealous of Deadpool.
Load More Replies...
MagicJacket 2 years ago
If you believe in Heaven or life after death, then the Avengers dragging billions of souls out of paradise and back to their corporeal existence makes them not necessarily the good guys.
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago (edited)
"Omg this is beautif..." (Hulk snap) "DAMNNN! I'M IN DEATH ROW AGAIN??? WTF!!!???'
Load More Replies... 
Sasha Kuleshov 2 years ago
Dude, mass genocide on a galactic scale based on the unscientific truth that we are depleting our resources is in no way "a good point" :/
Russ Whiteman 2 years ago
Thanos was FAR more a moron than he was right. Killing off half the population "solves" nothing, just delays the inevitable for 3-4 decades. If you truly have the power of a god, ANYONE could do better than he did.
UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
Killing half the population is a morbid and ineffective way to save resources. We had half our current population just 40 years ago.
#22
Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin from Spider-Man. "In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually, they will hate you." Dude was right about how the perception of public figures changes over time.
Patrick Linnen 2 years ago
For a long time in-universe, the public did hate Spiderman. A lot of it was due to J. Jonah Jameson and his anti-Spiderman crusade through this paper, The Daily Bugle.
#24
Aria’s parents on Pretty Little Liars. They’re villainized for not letting their high school daughter date her teacher??
#25
Dr.Doofenshmirtz
#26
The bears from goldilocks and the tree bears
Billy Harrelson 2 years ago
Actually Goldilocks was the villain of that. I mean, c'mon, broke into a family's home while they were out, ate all their food, sat all over their furniture and then messed up their beds. Add to that she was basically squatting when the bears came back. Yeah, I'd be rightly peeved too if I came home to that.
#28
GLaDOS - she was absolutely right, you are a terrible person
#29
Dexter Morgan.
I wouldn't say he was a villain, but what he did was right even if illegal.
#30
Where is Q from Star Trek? He introduced the Borg just to prove a point.
What do you think ?
Donnie Mc00 2 years ago
I always felt that Killmonger in the Black panther movie was correct all along, had proper motives but was screwed completely.
Bill Evs 2 years ago
The machines from The Matrix (obviously I'm condensing everything). They began as slave labour, developed and simply wanted independence and to co-exist with humans. Humans had a massive hissy fit and effectively destroyed the planet to try and give the machines a bloody nose. Instead of the machines just wiping out humanity at this point they plugged them into a virtual utopia which humanity also rebelled against.
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 2 years ago
The Viking Chieftain from Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal. Spear and Fang killed everyone in his village, including his youngest son and wife. Later, they killed his son, and eventually him. He only went through with Vidarr's plan to resurrect him so he could save his son from being stuck in the underworld forever. Cheiftan-6...0-jpeg.jpg 
DrGirlfriend 2 years ago
I LOVE THIS, I LOVEEEEE THAT SHOW,!! I still have not seen last episode, cannot stomach what he did to spear, mirha has no choice and.. I can't. Amazing show and your spoton
Load More Replies...
SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago
You either die a hero or live long enough to be the villain. Definitely a true enough saying in today's pretty darn fickle world.
Shadow the Dragon King 4 months ago
Two: Lysandre from Pokémon XY and Technoblade from Dream SMP. Lysandre thinks that humanity is too far gone to save and it’s better to just exterminate them and start over with a better world, and Technoblade believes that governments are good for nothing but spreading hate and corruption.
Rachel Reynolds 2 years ago
Karli Morgenthau and the Flag Smashers in Falcon and Winter Soldier. They're fighting for the continued global cooperation that happened after the Blip and against the sudden xenophobic nationalism that occurred once everyone came back. Additionally, they used their powers to to bring vaccines, medicine, food, and supplies to people still in displacement camps.
SkinnyMini 1 year ago
Catwoman, specifically the Batman Returns version. She was literally just trying to take down a monster exploiting a city. He also had a penchant for murdering employees. She couldn’t live with herself without knowing Shrek’s evil doings were ended.
Potato Puffin 2 years ago
Ardyn Izunia (Final Fantasy XV) - I won't post spoilers but he was screwed over big time and is an anti-hero
Donnie Mc00 2 years ago
I always felt that Killmonger in the Black panther movie was correct all along, had proper motives but was screwed completely.
Bill Evs 2 years ago
The machines from The Matrix (obviously I'm condensing everything). They began as slave labour, developed and simply wanted independence and to co-exist with humans. Humans had a massive hissy fit and effectively destroyed the planet to try and give the machines a bloody nose. Instead of the machines just wiping out humanity at this point they plugged them into a virtual utopia which humanity also rebelled against.
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 2 years ago
The Viking Chieftain from Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal. Spear and Fang killed everyone in his village, including his youngest son and wife. Later, they killed his son, and eventually him. He only went through with Vidarr's plan to resurrect him so he could save his son from being stuck in the underworld forever. Cheiftan-6...0-jpeg.jpg
DrGirlfriend 2 years ago
I LOVE THIS, I LOVEEEEE THAT SHOW,!! I still have not seen last episode, cannot stomach what he did to spear, mirha has no choice and.. I can't. Amazing show and your spoton
Load More Replies... SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago
You either die a hero or live long enough to be the villain. Definitely a true enough saying in today's pretty darn fickle world.
Shadow the Dragon King 4 months ago
Two: Lysandre from Pokémon XY and Technoblade from Dream SMP. Lysandre thinks that humanity is too far gone to save and it’s better to just exterminate them and start over with a better world, and Technoblade believes that governments are good for nothing but spreading hate and corruption.
Rachel Reynolds 2 years ago
Karli Morgenthau and the Flag Smashers in Falcon and Winter Soldier. They're fighting for the continued global cooperation that happened after the Blip and against the sudden xenophobic nationalism that occurred once everyone came back. Additionally, they used their powers to to bring vaccines, medicine, food, and supplies to people still in displacement camps.
SkinnyMini 1 year ago
Catwoman, specifically the Batman Returns version. She was literally just trying to take down a monster exploiting a city. He also had a penchant for murdering employees. She couldn’t live with herself without knowing Shrek’s evil doings were ended.
Potato Puffin 2 years ago
Ardyn Izunia (Final Fantasy XV) - I won't post spoilers but he was screwed over big time and is an anti-hero
You May Like 80 Of The Most Memorable Movie Villains Who Excel At Being Mean 50 Underrated Movies Revealed for Your Cinematic Nights Worst Movies Of All Time We Do Not Recommend Watching
Linas Simonaitis
Linas Simonaitis
Linas Simonaitis
Related on Bored Panda
