10 Horror Movie Characters Who Died Breaking Their Own Rules

10. Janek - Prometheus

In one of the more noble examples on this list, we have the ship's captain in 2012's Prometheus: Janek, played in a superb supporting turn by action mainstay Idris Elba.

Janek is employed by the Weyland Corporation to captain the titular research vessel to LV-223. As such, he is under strict orders to carry out Peter Weyland's instructions to the letter, parroted by the mouthpiece of his daughter Meredith Vickers.

Elba's character is a good, moralistic man and clearly struggles with some of the more devastating decisions that the crew are forced to make on their harrowing journey. The captain notably pleads with Vickers to allow the stricken Holloway onboard the ship before she barbecues him with a flamethrower. Nevertheless, Janek ultimately does not prevent the archaeologist's gruesome fate, highlighting that loyalty to his employer is one of his key personal principles.

However, when all is said and done, Janek's Employee of the Month status at the Weyland Corporation does not prevent him from ploughing the research vessel into the Earth-bound alien ship like an intergalactic kamikaze fighter. The captain heroically sacrifices his own life, going out in a blaze of glory to protect his planet by taking out the Engineers' spacecraft. A hidden gem of a supporting character within the genre and a prime example of a character who met his end in abject defiance of his own professional code.