10 Famous Movie Villains With Lame Motivations

The Motivation: His father's favouritism towards Bond.

Before release, one of the most exciting things about Spectre was the fact that Christoph Waltz had been cast to play the film's villain, Franz Oberhauser (revealed as Blofeld in the film), but the character failed to reach the towering heights set by Craig's previous bad guys - namely, Skyfall's Silva, and Casino Royale's Le Chiffre.

Part of the problem here was Blofeld's actual motivation. As the film nears its end we learn that Blofeld and Bond share quite a personal connection, in that they both grew up under the same father figure, Hannes Oberhauser. Hannes adopted Bond after he was orphaned, becoming his guardian, for a time. As a result, Blofeld grew to resent Bond because he believed Hannes preferred him, and so, he went on to form the organisation known as Spectre, to personally target Bond. This revelation retconned Craig's entire run of films, by making Blofeld responsible for basically every bad thing that had happened to Bond since Casino Royale.

And all of that multi-movie villainy - including a lot of murders - stemmed from a trivial bit of childhood jealousy. We never actually see any flashbacks that support Blofeld's point of view either, something to help us understand his hatred a bit better (a scene of Hannes ignoring him in favour of Bond would have gone a long way). As it stands, Blofeld just looks rather pathetic and whiny for holding a life-long grudge against someone who literally did him no wrong in the first place.