10 Films That Make You The Bad Guy

1. Bandersnatch

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This may be cheating, but Black Mirror's choose-your-own-adventure special literally puts its main character's choices in your hands. As anyone who has played through its many different pathways knows, it's more or less impossible to get through the story without becoming a villain.

Whether you choose to "Eat Sugar Puffs" or "Kill Dad", Bandersnatch does its very best to make sure that whatever you do, you are directly responsible for ruining the main character's life and the lives of those around him.

As a special one-off episode of an anthology series, you may argue that Bandersnatch is not technically a film. You may argue that it's not even an episode of television, as it really has more in common with a role-playing video game. Either way, it is a standalone experience that puts the viewer in charge of the main character more so than any other entry on this list, and the viewer almost always ends being the bad guy.

If there's anything we learn from this choose-your-own-adventure game, it's that your choices don't matter. You are a bad person, and you make bad things happen. Bandersnatch really makes you miss the days when choose-your-own-adventures games were more about rescuing princesses from castles and less about confronting the inherent evil of humans.

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Jimmy Kavanagh is an Irish writer and co-founder of Club Valentine Comedy, a Dublin-based comedy collective. You can hear him talk to his favourite comedians about their favourite comics on his podcast, Comics Swapping Comics.