10 Film Characters Who Were Secretly The Villain All Along

10. The Sheriff - Friday The 13th: Jason Lives

When the sixth Friday the 13th instalment begins, it does so with Jason Voorhees safely dead. Well, safely dead until the film's lead, Tommy Jarvis, has the genius idea to dig him up - leading to the axe-wielding serial killer being hit by a bolt of lightning that bring him back to life.

While your instinct is to blame Tommy Jarvis for digging him up, he did kill Jason in the first place - and he wouldn't have done it were it not for the nightmares he was having, which very much suggested the murderer was going to come back anyways. As Jarvis himself says, the blame instead lies with the county Sheriff, who was paid to put the Voorhees boy in a grave.

While it's not exactly heroic to lie, the Sheriff could have easily pretended to have buried Voorhees and instead cremated him. The masked killer had already seemingly come back from the dead once in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, and anyone even vaguely up to date with all the weird occurrences around Crystal Lake would surely be aware of this.