10 Movies Where Heroes Turned Villains

One of the biggest twists in the

movie is that the hero who leads the story ends up being the villain.

This can happen in a few different ways.

Throughout the story, the hero can start as a good guy and gradually turn into a villain.

There are also times when the male lead is always a villain and hides it in the movie. There will also be heroes in

movies who don't even know they're a villain and don't know their destiny until the moment the truth is revealed, just like the audience.

Most of these movies have to be fair to the audience or they'll end up turning it on, but the ones that do it right are instant classics.

10, Fight Club (1999)

David Fincher's 's Fight Club is a film in which neither the audience nor the actor know he is the real villain of the story.

In the film, Edward Norton plays the narrator, telling the story of his life, which includes encountering Brad Pitt 's charismatic Tyler Durton.

The two start an underground fight club where men in the community relieve their toxic masculinity in brutal fistfights at each other.

However, Tyler Durton also plans to destroy capitalist society with acts of terrorism.

Finally, the narrator learns that he is actually Tyler and hallucinates him throughout the film.

9, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Everyone knows that the hero of the Star Wars prequels will one day turn into a villain.

Anakin Skywalker joined the Jedi Order as a child and ended up training under Obi-Wan Kenobi.

In the first two films, the two fought evil and joined forces, and fans waited for this shift to come.

In Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith , Anakin ends up in the hands of the dark forces.

He killed several young Jedi students and became very evil.

he ended up fighting Obi-Wan , was badly beaten, but was eventually rescued and turned into the mighty Sith Lord Darth Vader.

8, " Godfather " (1972)

"The Godfather" tells the story of a good man degenerating into a bad man. When the

movie started, Michael Corleone was a good guy, he had just been in the WW2 , served in the Marine Corps , fought in the Pacific and European theaters.

He was honorably discharged after being wounded, receiving the Silver Star and the Navy Cross .

However, his father was Old Man Victor Corleone, the most powerful mafia boss in New York City.

When his brother dies in an ambush and his father dies of a heart attack, Michael realizes he will never achieve his dream of living outside of his father's empire and takes over the godfather, becoming more than his own father More ruthless.

7, Memento (2000)

Christopher Nolan 's film Memento is a unique puzzle movie that helps it stand out from other detective films.

The whole story unfolds in reverse order, starting with the last scene of the movie, and then in reverse order, until the first scene appears at the end.

Leonard Shelby suffers from anterograde amnesia and he can no longer store new memories.

He knows his wife was murdered, but he doesn't know who killed her, he wants to find the killer.

He learned about a suspect named Teddy and decided he was the murderer.

At the end of Memento, viewers learn that he has found his wife's killer a year ago and has been killing random people for someone since then.

6, The Dark Knight (2008)

In The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan has created what is considered to be the best of his Batman trilogy and presents a larger better heroes.

This is Harvey Dent, Bruce Wayne thinks he can clean up Gotham City in a way that Batman can never do.

sadly, the clown ruined it all, Harvey's girlfriend died in his attack, he ended up with half of his face burned and became the last villain Batman had to stop.

5, Carrie the Witch (1976)

Carrie is based on 's debut novel by Stephen King , and tells the story of a young girl who is severely bullied at school and at home.

Carrie White is a teenage girl whose mother considers her impure as punishment for her crimes as a girl. As a result, she imposed religious torture on her daughter, turning her into a school outcast.

When some bullies play pranks on Kylie at school, she gains telepathic powers and starts killing everyone, from bullies to teachers who treat her well.

4, "x-Men: First Battle " (2011)

Starting with the first "X-Men", Magneto is a complex villain that has won a certain degree of sympathy.

He is a Holocaust survivor, where his parents died as a child, leaving him with a strong hatred and mistrust of humanity, especially when dealing with prejudice.

In the X-Men prequel film X-Men: First Class, Magneto is a young man whose hatred has not yet reached the peak of the first trilogy.

However, after helping Professor X and the X-Men stop the Cuban Missile Crisis , Magneto succumbed to his anger, killing Sebastian Shaw for war crimes, then destroying Professor X's ability to walk.

3. Terminator: Genesis (2015)

In most of the Terminator movies, there is only one person responsible for saving the world from destruction, and that is John Connor .

In the first movie, he sends a soldier back to stop the first Terminator from killing his mother.

in the second and third stories is about keeping kids safe.

Terminator: Genesis changed everything.

is a film with the idea that time travel can change things in the future, with freedom fighter John Connor turning into a villain when Skynet attacks him and turning him into the new Terminator.

2, "Shutter Island" (2010)

Martin Scorsese directed the genre film "Shutter Island" based on Dennis Lehan's novel.

This is one of only a few horror films from Scorsese and a psychological thriller starring Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo DiCaprio as Chuck and Teddy, two detectives sent to a mental hospital to investigate a mysterious disappearance.

However, not everything is as it seems.

Finally, the truth reveals that Chuck is trying to help Teddy remember his tragic past.

is not missing, Teddy was a patient whose wife drowned their child and then he murdered her.

1, Watchmen (2009)

The Watchmen is based on Alan Moore's graphic novel about a superhero banned, America wins the Vietnam War , and an alternative Earth living in world peace story.

directed by Zack SnyderThe film tells a basically the same story, that the doomsday bell is about to strike and the end of the world is imminent.

When someone kills a former superhero, one of his former teammates starts investigating the case.

Ultimately, however, another former superhero, Ozymandius, becomes the villain, plotting an opening murder that then kills millions, forcing the world to work together to stop the Doomsday Clock.

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