8 Movie Villains Whose Logic Makes No Sense

8. Ghostbusters - Peck Ignores Three Scientists & Shuts Down An Unknown Machine

Is there not a more punchable character than Walter Peck? An obtuse figure in the film who only serves to be the interfering straw-man for the main characters. Peck is a personality we have all certainly encountered in the real world - but his annoying characteristics aren't what put him on this list.

Peck's arrival as an EPA officer does make sense for the Ghostbusters' universe, but after being rebuffed by Venkman and the team, he returns with the full force of litigation and warrants, and demands the containment unit that houses the trapped ghosts be shut down.

Quick Hypothetical: Putting the way in which this goes about aside, even if you had it on good authority that toxic waste was pouring out the containment unit and spilling onto the streets, if three acclaimed scientists advised you not to switch off said machine (for the safety of others), you would probably listen to them, right?

This whole scenario is accompanied by an anxious electrician who doesn't recognise the machine he is being tasked with switching off, and even Peck doesn't know what it is exactly either.

Of course, Peck's a stubborn idiot and the machine is switched off and all hell breaks loose. Peck immediately points the finger at the Ghostbusters, and herein lies not just a backstabbing weasel of a man, but someone who is so dumb he cannot see the consequences of his own actions.

Peck is the kind of person who would leave naked candles unattended overnight, and then blame the fire brigade for his house burning down.