1. Aldrich Killian - Iron Man 3
But the biggest prick of all is yet to come. Admittedly, in those early moments of Iron Man 3, we might have a little sympathy for Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), as an arrogant Tony Stark firmly rejects an audience with him, leaving Killian embittered and angry. Stark spends the first half of Iron Man 3 being antagonised by Ben Kingsley's The Mandarin, before coming to realise that this was all a devious trick played by Killian, and that Kingsley's character was actually an actor called Trevor Slattery, employed by Killian to distract from the fact that
he is the real Mandarin. Even discounting the fact that I wasn't overly fond of the twist, Killian pulled the rug out from not just Tony Stark, but all of us, and in his megalomanial quest for revenge, kills Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall) and kidnaps Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), subjecting her to the Extremis virus that ironically allows her to survive a fall into the fire, and then get the fatal drop on Killian. What a douche. Which movie pricks were your favourite this year? Let us know in the comments below.