10 Movie Characters Everyone Was CONVINCED Would Die (But Didn't)

10. Cal Hockley - Titanic

Has anybody in the history of cinema been more obviously teed up for a brutal third act demise than Titanic's cartoonishly awful Cal Hockley (Billy Zane)?

A walking, talking Disney Villain if there ever was one, Cal treats his fiancee Rose (Kate Winslet) more like property than a human being while sneering down at anybody "below" him - namely Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) - like there's money to be made doing so.

Cal's possessiveness of Rose grows increasingly twisted and violent throughout the film, such that it seems a given we'll get to see him die horribly when the Titanic sinks.

But James Cameron opts for a more realistic outcome - Cal manages to worm his way onto a lifeboat by posing as a lost child's father, and the last time we see him on screen, he's comfortably onboard the rescue vessel RMS Carpathia, where he searches for Rose.

Now to be completely fair, Rose's modern day voiceover does reveal that Cal committed suicide almost 20 years later after losing his fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, but for him to live almost two decades longer than poor Jack is all the proof you need that life just ain't fair.