10 'Bad Guy' Movie Characters Who Were Actually Good All Along

Though Roland Emmerich's Godzilla from 1998 was unable to capture the imagination of the cinema-going public, there was at one point a plan for a sequel that would have seen the monster's offspring become a hero. This was to be redemption for not giving Godzilla this treatment in the first movie. When the franchise was rebooted in 2014 however, there was to be no such omission.

Initially, Godzilla was naturally to be treated as the threat to the world he could have been. Nuclear bombs were deployed to try and kill him upon his discovery in 1954, though he survived living happily deep under the ocean until another MUTO made itself known in 2014.

Essentially responding to its instincts as the top monster on the food chain, Godzilla confronted this new MUTO, and it's easy to see why he was so feared and why the government wanted him dead. In just turning up he caused a massive tsunami in Hawaii, and at first there was no reason to differentiate him from the other monsters running amok across the globe.

The military planned to lure all of them together with a nuclear bomb and kill them with the force of the blast, but ultimately it was Godzilla who defeated the other two MUTOs before heading back into the ocean where he hadn't bothered a soul for six decades. He saved the entire planet, and was rightly hailed as the King of the Monsters.