10 More Movie Villains Killed By Characters Nobody Expected
These villains got offed by the most unexpected of characters.
It's a pretty basic expectation of most movies that the main villain will end up being killed by the frontline hero in the climax.
It's the protagonist's duty to take them out, after all, and it's generally what audiences want to see when they pay their hard-earned cash to see a film.
Yet this isn't always what happens, and in a handful of films we've actually seen the overarching antagonist instead get done-in by a most unexpected character indeed.
This could be a comic relief sidekick who didn't seem to pose a palpable threat at all, another villain with their own sinister motivations, or in one especially unhinged example on this list, even a weapon-wielding animal totally outta nowhere.
Following up our previous article on the very same subject, here are 10 more movie villains who were killed by characters nobody could've possibly expected, leaving us all thoroughly agape in the process.
While this may not always guarantee audience satisfaction, in the case of these 10 movies it certainly offered an enticingly expectation-defying surprise, no matter that we were deprived of seeing the card-carrying hero deliver some well-earned justice...
10. Le Chiffre - Casino Royale
It's simply expected of any James Bond film that the primary villain gets taken out by 007 at the end, right?
But of course, Casino Royale was no ordinary Bond film, as it proved with the manner in which terrorist banker Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) is ultimately nudged off his mortal coil.
After Le Chiffre captures Bond (Daniel Craig) mid-film, he tortures him for the bank account info containing his poker winnings, but 007 naturally resists the abuse, even joking through his pain that Le Chiffre's going to "die scratching [his] balls."
And we as fans of the franchise absolutely believe that Bond'll get his opportunity to kill Le Chiffre by film's end, yet no more than a few moments later, the shadowy Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) bursts in the room and holds Le Chiffre at gunpoint.
At this point Le Chiffre, who is in enormous debt to terrorists, promises he'll find a way to get the money, but Mr. White simply tells him trust is more important than money, and shoots Le Chiffre square between the eyes.
It's a shocking end-of-second-act twist, teeing up Mr. White as a serious threat moving forward, even if this was followed up rather underwhelmingly in sequel Quantum of Solace.