These Film Villains SUCK!

4. Terl - Battlefield Earth

Oh Terl....you useless pinecone headed fool. I absolutely love how completely ineffective you are in Battlefield Earth. Seriously there is a strange, almost peverse skin crawling pleasure I get from watching this absolute whale of a stinker, and it's mainly down to how Terl as a character is repeatedly shot in the foot, face and back by the films plot again and again, rendering his actions and motives utterly ineffective and hilarious.

If you've never seen Battlefield Earth, then first off lucky you because it's hot garbage, but also it's a film about aliens known as the Psychlo's.

I know.

enslaving a post apocalyptic Earth and making the survivors dig for Gold.

I know.

That's right. Bloody gold. The most classic evil film trope of all, that all of these actions all of his world destroying is done in the name of Cash4Gold's wet dream. And if that sounds stupid, then fret not because Terl is even stupider....er.er.ere.rrr.

he constantly tells stories of how his people took over Earth in only 9 minutes, and how they are superior in nearly every way, which would normally make for a truly detestable villain, if this same "superior being" didn't give his human captives a plane and leave them COMPLETELY UNSUPERVISED for them to discover Fort Knox and a hidden millitary cache and train themselves which would eventually lead to his downfall while supplying him with gold.

.....I know.

Even when they give him the gold bars this noseplug nimrod doesn't even question why they're in brick form. Like take a moment. How utterly. UTTERLY incompetent is this villain?

It's just stupid moment after stupid moment in this film and thanks to the comically terrible angles that the action is shot in looks like a school project made by someone who's spirit level is more than a little broken.

The only fun thing about this entire role is the fact that Travolta is on full scenery chew here, and judging by the sheer amount of laughing Terl does it must have been a fun shoot...and speaking of fun shoot please play this unedited clip of Terl shooting cows. Please. For me. because words cannot express how stupid this is.