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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most wacky villain send-offs in movies.
00:10We'll be getting into some zany spoilers, so consider this your warning.
00:14In 30 seconds, you'll be dead, and I'll blow this place up and be home in time for cornflakes.
00:25What are they waiting for?
00:28He expects us to honor our agreement.
00:31This cold-blooded colonial was the perfect opponent for our favorite band of pirates.
00:35But despite thinking of himself as superior, Lord Beckett ends up losing everything in spectacular fashion.
00:41During his final stand against the pirates, his ship is more or less blown to smithereens.
00:46But while that seems like a harrowing experience, Beckett takes it all in stride.
00:50Stop, what are you, come on!
00:52It's just...
00:55Good business.
00:58His attitude as he strolls through the chaos and down the stairs is at once stunning and horrifying.
01:04Even as his world falls apart, he seems serenely resigned to his fate.
01:08Well, whatever floats your boat, we guess.
01:10Number 29, Igor Korshinov, Air Force One.
01:14You've been very busy downstairs, haven't you?
01:21Killing my men.
01:22This airplane action thriller involves both high flying and high stakes.
01:27Now, in most cases, parachutes are lifesavers.
01:30But here, not so much.
01:32As Russian terrorist Igor Korshinov battles President James Marshall aboard Air Force One,
01:37his luck ultimately runs out.
01:38With some clever maneuvering, the President manages to use Igor's own parachute against him.
01:43The results are not pretty.
01:50Thanks to Marshall's move, Igor does indeed get off his plane.
01:54Honestly, we're not sure what's more over the top,
01:56Igor's untimely demise or just seeing the President duking it out against bad guys on Air Force One.
02:02Number 28, Bennett, Commando.
02:05He'll do exactly as he's told.
02:07As long as he thinks he'll get his daughter back.
02:11This classic 80s action thriller follows John Matrix,
02:14a special forces colonel who must rescue his kidnapped daughter and take down an ex-dictator along the way.
02:19Spoiler alert, if you're a bad guy in an action movie going up against Arnold Schwarzenegger,
02:24you're pretty much screwed.
02:25Mercenary leader Bennett tries to hold his own,
02:28but when Matrix uses a steam pipe to his advantage, the battle is done.
02:32If this decisive takedown isn't scorching hot enough,
02:35then the one-liner Matrix drops afterwards definitely is.
02:41That's one way to turn up the heat.
02:43Number 27, Howard Payne, Speed.
02:46For most of Speed's runtime, vengeful mastermind Howard Payne is pulling all the strings.
02:51Officer Jack Traban and the rest of the LAPD scramble to stop him from blowing up a city bus.
03:02However, the tables turn when Jack catches up with Payne in person.
03:06As they brawl atop a subway train, Payne suddenly comes face to face with a subway light.
03:12It's a situation that makes it hard to keep a level head.
03:21Let this be a PSA, never ride on top of the subway.
03:26Sometimes you need to slow down in life, otherwise you won't have one.
03:30Number 26, Ra's al Ghul, Batman Begins.
03:33In the first film of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, Batman faces off against Ra's al Ghul,
03:39leader of the League of Shadows, who is determined to destroy Gotham.
03:52Their final fight takes place aboard the city's monorail train.
03:55With Gordon's help, Batman makes sure that the train derails.
03:59Just as it does, he dips, leaving Ra's stuck inside of a literal train wreck.
04:13There's no way Ra's walked away from this.
04:15Interestingly, he's not the only Batman villain to have plummeted to their death.
04:19Joker fell off of a building in the 1989 Batman movie.
04:23Two-Face fell to his death as well in Batman Forever.
04:26Huh, maybe Batman's not the greatest foe.
04:28Maybe it's just gravity.
04:29Number 25, Judge Doom, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
04:45Judge Doom is a nefarious judge with a hatred of toons.
04:49Near the end of the movie, he faces a setback in his plans when he's crushed by a steamroller.
04:54However, that's not what actually kills him surprisingly.
04:57It turns out he's a toon himself.
04:59His true undoing comes from the dip, a special acid that's harmful to toons.
05:04When he gets into close contact with it, the acid wipes him out.
05:08Have you seen what happens to the Wicked Witch of the West when she gets doused in water?
05:12That's pretty much what happens to Doom.
05:23Toons might be able to take a lot of damage,
05:25but it's gonna be hard to come back from being melted.
05:27Number 24, Vincent Ludwig, The Naked Gun, From the Files of Police Squad.
05:33There are numerous over-the-top deaths in this zany spoof.
05:36If you wanna see just how absurd things can get,
05:39then look no further than corrupt businessman Vincent Ludwig's demise.
05:43Cornered by Lieutenant Frank Drebin at Anaheim Stadium,
05:46he gets stunned in the neck by one of Drebin's weaponized cufflinks.
05:55Yeah!
05:58You killed him!
05:59No, no. He's just stunned. He'll be alright in a couple of minutes.
06:03Though it wasn't meant to be lethal on its own,
06:05it disorients Ludwig and causes him to fall from the top of a baseball stadium.
06:09And that's still not the end.
06:11Admittedly, it is pretty funny seeing the barrage of things that happen to him after he falls,
06:15but it's definitely not pretty.
06:17Oh, Christ!
06:19That's horrible!
06:22That's so horrible!
06:24I know it.
06:30You have killed our women and our children,
06:34bombed our cities from afar like cowards,
06:37and you dare to call us terrorists?!
06:40Usually, if we say that someone's got a rocket strapped to their back,
06:44it means they're destined for greatness.
06:46But for terrorist leader Salim Abu Aziz,
06:48he's destined for, well, basically the opposite.
06:51In James Cameron's tongue-in-cheek action comedy,
06:54Aziz spends his final moments in True Lies going out in a grand way.
06:58And by grand, we mean getting caught on the end of a plane missile that goes kablooey.
07:02Hey, we did mention that it's a bad idea to go up against Arnie in an action movie.
07:06That is especially true when there's a good opportunity for a cheesy one-liner.
07:16You're fired.
07:22Terminator 2, Judgment Day.
07:24While T2's T-1000 may not be as physically imposing as old Arnie,
07:28he proves to be way more dangerous.
07:31The persistent Terminator chases Sarah and her son John Connor to the ends of the Earth,
07:35determined to kill them and ensure Skynet's survival.
07:38Here, drive.
07:48Eventually, though, he's defeated when he takes a grenade to the chest.
07:51Courtesy of everyone's favorite T-800.
07:54While the T-1000 may still have recovered from the damage,
07:57he then falls into a pool of molten steel,
08:00which eventually kills him once and for all.
08:02Yep, that'll definitely do the trick.
08:05Is it dead?
08:07Terminated.
08:12People always make fun because of the way I look.
08:17I thought if you couldn't see my face,
08:21maybe you would want to be my friend.
08:24Despite manifesting as a killer clown, Pennywise is the one getting clowned in the end.
08:29The supernatural monster who terrorized Derry is finally destroyed in IT Chapter 2.
08:34This happens when the now grown-up members of the Losers Club realize
08:38that the best way to take Pennywise down is not with weapons, but with words.
08:41Well, something like that at least.
08:43What they're really doing is denying the fear that it feeds on.
08:46The entity is essentially roasted to death by the group.
08:49I am the eater of worlds.
08:53Not to us, you're not.
08:57You're just a clown.
08:58No, seriously.
08:59The surprising verbal assault weakens it enough for the Losers to physically get a hold of its heart.
09:04Talk about heartbreak.
09:05Despite how scary Pennywise is,
09:08this kind of schoolyard hazing has us convinced that he wouldn't last a day on the internet.
09:16I know what it's like to lose.
09:20I feel so desperately that you're right.
09:24Yet to fail, nonetheless.
09:26Well, we never thought we'd see this in a Marvel film, but hey, Endgame was full of surprises.
09:31In this rather surprising sequence, Thor blasts his way through the cabin and takes off Thanos' arm.
09:36Bruce then pushes Thanos to the ground, and Thor gets him with a quick swipe.
09:41What did you do?
09:44I went for the head.
09:46Rocket can hardly believe what he just saw, and neither can the viewers.
09:50It's a surprisingly dark, graphic, and violent scene for the MCU,
09:54and is really too much for children to handle.
09:57But then again, they had to continue the darker tone following that depressing ending to Infinity War.
10:11You should have gone for the head.
10:16No!
10:21This is arguably the best movie in the Mission Impossible series,
10:24and August Walker makes for one of the best villains.
10:27It's all there.
10:28Henry Cavill, a glorious mustache, and even a confusing bit of arm reloading.
10:39Walker also goes out in the coolest, most outlandish way possible.
10:43While dangling off the side of a massive cliff, Ethan yanks on a rope,
10:47causing a metal hook to slam into Walker's face and drag him to the ground below.
10:52To make matters even better, his body bounces off the rocks and goes directly into an exploding helicopter.
10:58So, yeah, we think he's dead.
11:07Henry Cavill has seen his fair share of over-the-top deaths.
11:10Krypton lives again.
11:12What happens to Earth?
11:15The foundation has to be built on something.
11:19Even your father recognized that.
11:21It's not Cavill doing the dying in Man of Steel.
11:24He's dishing it out.
11:25Superman gets Zod in a chokehold, but Zod begins shooting beams of heat from his eyes,
11:30threatening the lives of a nearby family.
11:33If you love these people so much, you can mourn for them.
11:42With no other choice, Supes gets Kraken.
11:45The whole thing is very dramatic and over-the-top,
11:48complete with moody piano music, faded sound effects,
11:51Superman yelling,
11:52Stop!
11:53and a cliché,
11:54Never!
11:55from Zod.
12:03It also frustrated a lot of diehard Superman fans,
12:06who claimed that the superhero would never kill anyone,
12:10let alone in this manner.
12:11For some, this was moodiness for the sake of moodiness.
12:27This spy action film is nothing if not over-the-top.
12:30Luckily, it veers full tilt into its own ridiculousness,
12:34and never once takes itself seriously.
12:37I'll have the Big Mac, please.
12:38Great joy!
12:39The goofiness lasts from beginning to end,
12:41with Samuel L. Jackson's Richmond Valentine experiencing a particularly hilarious death.
12:46Just as Valentine is activating the deadly signal,
12:49Eggsy snags one of Gazelle's prosthetic knife legs,
12:52and hurls it like a javelin into Valentine.
12:55Then, more grossness.
12:58Hey!
13:02Now, how many villains can say they barfed after meeting their end via a prosthetic knife leg?
13:11This film is much like Kingsman.
13:13It's incredibly violent,
13:15it doesn't take itself seriously,
13:16and it contains some majorly bombastic action sequences.
13:20Who are you?
13:23I'm Kick-Ass.
13:25This is best represented with the death of antagonist Frank D'Amico.
13:28Frank gains the upper hand against Hit-Girl,
13:30and goes to kill her.
13:32However, he's interrupted by Kick-Ass,
13:34who shoots him with a rocket launcher.
13:36Hey!
13:38Why don't you pick on someone your own size?
13:44The rocket blows Frank out the window,
13:46and sends him hurling through the air before exploding over the streets of New York.
13:50It's completely ridiculous,
13:52and Frank's prolonged scream aids the over-the-top visuals to create a truly hilarious demise.
14:06You know, Dave, sometimes I feel like a plastic bag.
14:11Drifting through the wind?
14:13Wanting to start again.
14:15This Seth Rogen comedy received a lot of media attention,
14:18as North Korea essentially scared the United States from releasing it in theaters.
14:22They hacked Sony's servers and threatened attacks,
14:25as they were incensed with the movie's storyline about assassinating Kim Jong-un.
14:30Take him out.
14:31Like on the town?
14:32Party?
14:33No, uh, take him out.
14:37You want us to assassinate the leader of North Korea?
14:40Yes.
14:41And assassinate him they do,
14:43albeit in a very humorous and over-the-top fashion.
14:46A tank fires at the helicopter that Kim is riding in,
14:49and the movie utilizes both slow motion and a slowed-down acoustic cover of Katy Perry's Firework
14:55to add a faux-dramatic effect.
15:03Kim is then in flames in slow motion,
15:06and the helicopter falls to the ground and explodes.
15:10Senator McComb, Time Cop
15:12Being a Jean-Claude Van Damme film,
15:14everyone knew Time Cop was gonna be silly.
15:18Read it.
15:22Wolverine?
15:23Between the lines.
15:25And silly it was.
15:27The story follows Van Damme's Max Walker,
15:29a DC Metro cop turned member of the Time Enforcement Commission,
15:33a secret body that polices the use of time travel.
15:36The antagonist is Senator McComb,
15:38a corrupt politician using time travel to fund his presidential campaign.
15:43The climax of the film sees Walker luring a 1994 McComb
15:46into sharing the same space with a 2004 McComb.
15:49Usually I hate doing things more than once,
15:52but in this case I don't see any other option.
15:55I do.
15:59As the same matter cannot occupy the same space,
16:02Walker kicks the two McCombs together,
16:05who fuse into a writhing, fleshy mass that eventually melts into nothingness.
16:10You should be closer.
16:11Keep him away from me.
16:12The same matter cannot occupy the same space.
16:15I'm still kicking.
16:16I must be on Broadway.
16:26Did you ever ask why?
16:28Why we topple all those dictators, undermine all those regimes?
16:32Only to come home.
16:33Well done, good job, but sorry, old boy.
16:35Everything you risked your life in limbo has changed.
16:38James Bond villains have met a wide variety of demises,
16:42some of which are more over-the-top than others.
16:44One of the craziest Bond deaths belongs to Alec Trevelyan,
16:47aka 006.
16:49As 006 is played by Sean Bean,
16:52it was only natural that he be given a cinematic death for the ages.
16:56Following a brief fight atop a satellite dish,
16:58Bond literally drops the dude,
17:00and he falls like a hundred stories to the ground.
17:03For England, James?
17:05No.
17:08For me.
17:11Only, for some reason, he doesn't die.
17:13But no matter.
17:14The satellite then explodes in a massive fireball,
17:16and Trevelyan is crushed by the falling debris.
17:19Ouch.
17:27This is undoubtedly one of John Carpenter's weirder movies.
17:30It involves ancient curses,
17:32a fantastic underworld,
17:34weather-based magic,
17:35and sorcerers,
17:36all of which can be found underneath San Francisco's Chinatown.
17:45It also contains one of the silliest death scenes in movie history.
17:49Jack kills Lopin,
17:51and after discovering his body,
17:52Thunder sorta just blows himself up.
18:00He inflates himself like a balloon,
18:02and steam begins shooting out of his nose and ears.
18:04He then explodes in a flash of green light.
18:08It's interesting how, in the span of just eight years,
18:10John Carpenter went from the dark and dreary Halloween to...
18:13whatever the heck this is.
18:23Twenty years after Big Trouble in Little China,
18:25Kurt Russell starred as Stuntman Mike in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.
18:29This is Tarantino's love letter to Grindhouse films of the 70s,
18:33and Stuntman Mike is a deranged psycho.
18:48He eventually comes across a group of badass chicks who fight back,
18:51and the results are suitably satisfying and over-the-top.
18:55The women manage to knock Mike's car off the road,
18:57and they pull the crying occupant from the wreckage.
19:03They then take turns punching.
19:05The dude takes dozens of vicious jabs before being knocked to the ground
19:08with a roundhouse kick to the kisser.
19:10He's then subjected to a particularly gruesome kick to finish him off.
19:21One of Bruce Willis' lesser efforts,
19:23Hudson Hawk stars Willis as the titular safecracker,
19:26and Donald Burton as Alfred,
19:28the personal butler to the movie's main bad guys.
19:31We know, very original name.
19:39The climactic battle isn't between Hawk and the bad guys,
19:42but Hawk and the knife-wielding Alfred.
19:45The short fight ends in an especially intense fashion.
19:47Hawk uses Alfred's knives against him,
19:50and ends the battle with a horrible one-liner
19:52that would even have Roger Moore's Bond cringing in embarrassment.
19:56Hey, Alfred.
20:00Hudson Hawk is quite a goofy movie,
20:02and it contains a suitably goofy climax.
20:05You won't be attending that hat convention in July.
20:11This action-thriller is all kinds of messed up.
20:14The storyline itself is quite dark,
20:16as it sees a professional hitman training a 12-year-old girl named Matilda
20:20so she can avenge her deceased brother.
20:22The rifle is the first weapon you learn how to use,
20:26because it lets you keep your distance from the client.
20:28He and the rest of Matilda's family were killed
20:31by a strung-out DEA agent named Norman Stansfield,
20:34who is played by the always-wonderful Gary Oldman.
20:37As he dies, Leon puts something in Stansfield's hand,
20:41saying that it's from Matilda.
20:42Stansfield finds a grenade pin,
20:45and after opening Leon's jacket,
20:47discovers a large number of grenades.
20:49He can only squeak out a resigned curse
20:52before dying in a massive fireball that spreads to the outside street.
20:56Talk about going out with a bang.
21:00Believe it or not,
21:02The Rock is actually one of Michael Bay's most grounded movies.
21:05But even a low-key Michael Bay film
21:07is filled with bombast and ridiculous scenarios.
21:10Case in point, the hilarious death of Tony Todd's Captain Darrow.
21:14Nicolas Cage utters one of the goofiest one-liners in movie history
21:18before launching a missile directly at his chest.
21:23I don't like soft ass.
21:27Well, I only bring it up because, uh, it's you.
21:31You're the Rocket Man.
21:33The missile launches Darrow out the window,
21:35but the wicked blunt force trauma somehow doesn't kill him.
21:39Rather, Darrow is carried outside the building and falls,
21:42in a particular bit of bad luck.
21:44The scene has Michael Bay written all over it,
21:46and it is glorious.
21:52Number seven, Steve Hadley, The Cabin in the Woods.
21:55The final act of The Cabin in the Woods is totally bonkers,
21:59in the best way possible, of course.
22:01A large array of supernatural monsters are unleashed
22:04in a secret underground laboratory,
22:06resulting in many violent and brutal deaths.
22:09Oh, man, I'm sorry.
22:10He had the conch in his hands.
22:12In a couple more minutes, who knows what might have happened to us?
22:15I am never gonna see a merman, ever.
22:18Two would be thankful. Those things are terrifying.
22:21One of the funniest belongs to Bradley Whitford's Steve Hadley.
22:24Hadley is launched through the air from an exploding grenade,
22:27which effectively puts him out of commission.
22:29His longtime wish then comes true,
22:31as he finally sees a merman in the flesh.
22:35Unfortunately, said merman proceeds to pounce on his face,
22:38and Steve dies at the hands of the monstery bet on.
22:41Well, at least he realizes the irony before going out.
22:45Oh, come on.
22:47Number six, Howard Saint, The Punisher.
22:49In this adaptation of the beloved Marvel series,
22:52John Travolta plays Howard Saint,
22:54a mafia boss who takes revenge against Frank Castle
22:57for the death of his son, Bobby.
22:58Now, I understand your grief, but for your own safety,
23:01leave this to professionals.
23:03Professionals?
23:04Yes.
23:06I'll do that.
23:07This results in a vicious cycle of violence
23:10and Frank's revenge against Howard.
23:12Frank bests Howard in a duel
23:14and attaches the barely conscious mob boss to the bumper of a car.
23:20And now I've killed you.
23:23He then sends the car into a lot filled with exploding cars.
23:26And, yeah, it's only then that the car blows up,
23:29and we see that the explosions have formed the Punisher logo from above.
23:34That must have been very time-consuming.
23:43Number five, Cyrus the Virus Grissom, Con Air.
23:47But he's vetted himself inside,
23:48earned two degrees, including his Juris Doctor.
23:50He also killed 11 fellow inmates,
23:53incited three riots, and escaped twice.
23:56Likes to brag that he killed more men than cancer.
23:58Okay, open wide.
23:59John Malkovich always makes for a fantastic villain,
24:02and he plays a great one in Simon West's Con Air.
24:05He is Cyrus Grissom,
24:06a criminal mastermind who's been given the nickname The Virus.
24:10His death is both wickedly entertaining
24:13and unashamedly ridiculous.
24:15Cyrus does battle with Nicolas Cage's Cameron Poe
24:17atop a speeding fire truck
24:19before being launched through a bridge
24:21and falling through some electrical wires and construction material.
24:37Somehow, Cyrus survives all this.
24:39But, being gravely injured,
24:41he is unable to move when a giant rock crusher threatens his life.
24:45Cyrus comes to rest with his head directly underneath the heavy beam,
24:49and... yeah.
24:56Number four, Emil Antonovsky, RoboCop.
24:59No one said RoboCop was in good taste.
25:01The death of Clarence is particularly seriously graphic.
25:04But, the most over-the-top death belongs to poor Emil.
25:08While attempting to hit RoboCop with his truck,
25:10Emil drives into a vat of toxic liquid,
25:13turning him into a deformed monster.
25:15He unleashes some truly horrific groans
25:18before staggering into the path of Clarence's speeding car.
25:25The results are predictably messy and,
25:27shall we say, wet?
25:29The whole scene is pure nightmare fuel.
25:32And, it led to RoboCop's reputation
25:34for being one of the most violent films of the 80s.
25:37Number three, Vilos Kohegan, Total Recall.
25:40Arnold Schwarzenegger films certainly contain their fair share of outlandish deaths.
25:44But, Total Recall contains the greatest of them all.
25:48Vilos Kohegan is blown out onto the uninhabitable Martian surface by Quaid.
25:53And, he proceeds to tumble down a massive rocky hill.
25:56He then suffers what can only be described as a disturbing death.
26:05We don't know whether Kohegan's iconic suffocation is too crazed or traumatizing,
26:09but either way, it's certainly memorable and very over-the-top.
26:13The gross visuals are truly something else.
26:16And, Kohegan's screams of pain add to the scene's relentless horror.
26:20Space is endlessly fascinating.
26:22But, it will mess you up.
26:24Number two, The Nazis, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
26:27The early 1980s were a different time for kids' movies.
26:31While not specifically made for children,
26:33Raiders of the Lost Ark proved very popular with kids and families of the time.
26:37Despite containing one of the most violent scenes in movie history.
26:45The Ark is opened.
26:46And, while Indiana Jones and Marion close their eyes,
26:49the Nazis are to smart.
26:56The magical properties of the Ark attack the Nazis.
26:59Many Nazis are shot with beams of energy,
27:02Toad's face melts,
27:03and Belloc meets a grisly end.
27:06The whole sequence is unrelenting horror,
27:09complete with nightmarish music and a surprising amount of gore.
27:17Not surprisingly, the movie's PG rating was immediately criticized and brought into question.
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27:50A parody of MacGyver and based on a popular Saturday Night Live sketch,
27:54MacGruber starred a slew of SNL veterans,
27:56including Will Forte, Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig.
28:00It also contains what may very well be the most over-the-top death in movie history.
28:05MacGruber headbutts villain Kunth, played by Val Kilmer,
28:08and pushes him through a structure and off a cliff.
28:16He then grabs a machine gun and shoots Kunth a bunch of times on the way down,
28:20just for good measure.
28:22Not content with that, MacGruber keeps aiming at Kunth,
28:25who had finally come to rest at the bottom of the cliff.
28:28The scene is intentionally silly,
28:31parodying over-the-top action movies,
28:33but man, they really went all out there.
28:35Is there an insanely over-the-top way a bad guy kicked the bucket that we missed?
28:39Let us know in the comments.
28:42Godspeed, Spider-Man.
28:58You