10 Movie Villains Who Foreshadow Their Biggest Fears

10. Ransom Thought He Was The Only One To Win Against Harlan - Knives Out

Providing cinema with one its most smarmy and unpredictable forces of evil in modern times, Chris Evans' unexpectedly slimy turn as Hugh "Ransom" Drysdale in Rian Johnson's brilliantly twisty whodunnit by the name of Knives Out comes equipped with a declaration much more significant that it initially seems.

With Ransom's grandfather, Harlan, being seemingly killed early on, it soon becomes clear that the pair shared a particularly close, though often complicated, bond, with the two regularly playing the board game Go together and the former apparently being the only person to beat his grandpaps. So, when Ransom ultimately discovers that Harlan's faithful nurse Marta actually beat Harlan more than Ransom did at the game, his statement of "I thought I was the only one who could beat him at Go," hints at him not actually being as smart as he thought he was all along.

In the end, Marta is actually able to outwit the hot-headed Ransom into confessing his murdering of Harlan in front of Benoit Blanc, hammering home a fear Ransom had no doubt harboured from the second he realised Marta was better at Go than he was; perhaps he wasn't actually the smartest person in the room.