10 Movies Where The Villain Isn't Seen Until The End

10. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them - Gellert Grindelwald

Though it may be hard to imagine now, given the overall state of the franchise, the Fantastic Beasts series actually kicked off with a solid movie, introducing an interesting storyline, a whole host of lovable creatures and characters, and what could have been an epic villain: Johnny Depp's Gellert Grindelwald. Unfortunately, he spends the majority of the movie in absentia.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) focuses on Eddie Redmayne's kooky, quirky magical zoologist Newt Scamander, who gets embroiled in a scheme far larger and deadlier than anything he intended. Stalked by the sinister Government Director of Magical Security, Percival Graves (Colin Farrell), everything comes to a head during a final showdown in the New York subway, where Graves is revealed to be more than meets the eye.

It turns out he has been harbouring a Grindelwald-shaped face beneath a grim, officious exterior the whole time, using his power, influence and firm dissimilarity to one of the greatest dark wizards of all time to manipulate the civilised wizarding world in his favour.

This narrative reveal is clearly designed to mimic the progenitor of this series -- the Harry Potter movies -- and get fans back into the same mode, ready to be ploughed with another two, three, four(?!) instalments.