11 Surprise Movie Villain Reveals Everyone Loved

11. Ra's Al Ghul - Batman Begins

Christopher Nolan's trio of Dark Knight pictures are revered as some of the greatest superhero movies ever. In fact, Batman Begins was one of the first such films to be viewed by the masses as a proper, serious movie, rather than being looked down upon by some chin-stroking folk as being a throwaway film purely because it involves capes 'n' tights.

In Batman Begins, Christian Bale's troubled Bruce Wayne ends up being taken under the wing of Henri Ducard and offered the chance to become a member of Ra's al Ghul's infamous League of Shadows. Realising that Ra's' organisation have evil intentions in mind for Gotham City, Master Bruce decides to burn their temple to the ground, leaving al Ghul to perish under the falling debris, with Wayne saving Ducard in the process.

Skip ahead to the final act of that 2005 reinvention of the cinematic Caped Crusader, and Ducard would step out of the shadows and reveal that he is the real Ra's al Ghul.

So often, superhero films tend to signpost such twists a mile of, but the reveal of Liam Neeson's character as the actual Ra's al Ghul was a breath of fresh air that served to appease those left flabbergasted at the thought that Ra's - one of Batman's greatest comic book opponents - had been offed so easily and with such disregard by Nolan.