10 Famous Movie Villains With Lame Motivations

2. The Neighbourhood Watch Alliance (Hot Fuzz)

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The Motivation: To win the Village Of The Year award.

When the mystery of Hot Fuzz's central murders finally unravels, we learn that it wasn't just a single killer who was responsible - it was an entire organisation. Though its intentions seemed pure from the outside, the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance had a dark underbelly, and had been killing off random people for an assortment of bizarre reasons.

George Merchant was killed for having a modern home that clashed with the local rustic aesthetic, Martin Blower was killed for being a bad actor, Eve Draper was killed for having an annoying laugh (and for having an affair with Blower), Tim Messenger was killed because of his bad spelling, and Leslie Tiller was killed because she planned to move away.

When badass cop Nicholas Angel confronts the NWA at one of their meetings, they reveal that these murders were committed to preserve the village's image as the perfect place to live, so that it stood a better chance at winning the coveted Village Of The Year award. Yes, really.

While this whole plan is only played semi-seriously (Hot Fuzz is an action-comedy, after all) it cannot be denied that the NWA's motivation was unbelievably lame, and that their crimes were not justifiable in the slightest.

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