10 Movies That Tricked You Into Believing Heroes Were Evil

10. Terminator 2: Judgement Day - T-800

Terminator 2 is one of the greatest action films of all time, and part of its greatness is how it takes everything from the first film and not only ups the stakes to 11, but turns everything you knew about the T-800 upside down.

In the first film, it is a killing machine that stops at nothing to finish its mission, not even sleep. It relentlessly pursues our heroes the entire runtime and it took an insane amount of punishment before finally dying.

When a sequel came out people were excited to see just how a new incarnation would be stopped.

Yet again it is beamed back along with another less intimidating foe and gets introduced robbing a man of his clothes, boots, and motorcycle while stabbing his buddy in the back with a knife. In comparison the T-1000 knocks a cop-out quickly and steals his stuff, setting him up as seemingly this films Kyle Reece.

So when the two finally meet their target, John Connor, audiences were stunned to see the T-800 protect John and prevent him from being shot. Then our supposed heroic police character reveals himself to be a more advanced terminator hellbent on killing him.

It is a genius flipping of viewer's expectations as the T-800 then grew into a highly loveable character that showed it was anything but evil, and learned to go against its deadly programming.

It took an entire film of getting to know the character as evil, to pull off tricking audiences so well.