Why villains never win




















Eventually, the man is contacted by the kidnapper who tells him he will reveal what happened to his girlfriend only if the man experiences it himself. The man's obsession leads him to agree, and he even drinks a drugged tea. The movie ends with the man waking up buried alive in a coffin and the kidnapper going unpunished. Though the movie seems to be building to the inevitable showdown between the two men, Moss is killed off-screen halfway through the story.

With Moss gone, Chigurh is able to collect the money and even kills Moss' wife, making good on his threat. The Star Wars films are perhaps the clearest stories of good versus evil, but the second film in the series dealt a shocking blow to our heroes.

Throughout the movie, the heroes are separated as Luke trains with Yoda while Han and Leia try to evade the Empire. In the end, Han Solo is captured by Darth Vader and frozen in carbonite. To make matters worse, Luke fights Vader and loses his hand before being told that Vader actually is his father.

It is a dark and grim way to leave the story and set up the end of the trilogy. The underrated thriller Arlington Road stars Jeff Bridges as a man living in the suburbs who begins to suspect his neighbors are hiding a dark secret. As his suspicions grow, others begin to see him as losing touch with reality and becoming erratic following the recent death of his wife.

The man finally discovers the neighbors have planned to blow up a government building and he rushes to stop it. In other words, we wanted movies where the hero and the villain squared off with battle lines clearly drawn, and the hero took the L anyway.

Suffice it to say, this list includes major spoilers. David has become the movie, in the way that the best villains often do. Chinatown Oh, the bad guy wins in Chinatown , all right, and that bad guy is America.

One of the best movies ever made about the rapacity of capitalism, Chinatown locates in the larger-than-life figure of Noah Cross all of the most dangerous qualities of the American Dream: bourgeois charm, the hypnotizing shine of wealth, and a greed so bottomless that nothing, not even his own daughter, is out of bounds.

And she wrote a novel in which a mysterious blonde kills her lover with an ice pick as an alibi. You can guess what happens next. Arlington Road Tim Robbins — a villain? His voice is too soft; his eyes, too sensitive. In this middlebrow thriller, Robbins plays a domestic terrorist who moves in next door to a college professor played by Jeff Bridges.

Will he be unmasked? Not a chance! See also Villain Protagonist. Please do not list examples on this page. After all, there is a reason for the "Always" in the trope name. Plus, we'd be here forever. Community Showcase More. In Underverse 0. Chara and they escape. Sans, Cross still manages to escape with Underfell's Snowdin. Underverse 0. Ink starts losing his emotions after X-Event! Chara is brought back to life, X-Event!

Chara escapes with the Underswap cast, and the Underswap timeline is destroyed, with Underswap! Papyrus staying behind with Underswap! Chara until the very end. The nail in the coffin is Underverse 0. A good chunk of the cast is killed, including Underfell! Sans and Underswap!

Sans, XGaster is revived, and the Doodle Sphere is gone, leaving behind a destroyed multiverse without alternate realities and thus leaving Error the "winner" of the truce. Had it not been for the revelation that CORE! Frisk managed to save a good amount of people as well as Cross and Dream safely escaping to the Omega Timeline, it could've been worse.

Feedback Video Example s :. Jack beats The Scorpius Triump Chipwrecked Prisma beats Sofia King K. Rool win Smash Ultimate Damien Wins. Show Spoilers. Mordegon Takes Over The World The end of the game's first act sees Mordegon successfully obtain the power of the Heart of Yggdrasil which he uses to take over the world of Erdrea by stealing the Luminary's power. How well does it match the trope?

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