10 Great Movies Where The Villain Kills The Hero

7. Logan

For anyone fed on the fairly family friendly entertainment of the X-Men franchise (aside from Deadpool, OBVIOUSLY), Logan's R-rated, emotionally devastating tale of the last days of a wounded gunslinger would have been profoundly shocking. Gone are the colourful mutants and camp villain plans, replaced with a world gone stale, a Wolverine trapped in a broken body and the deeply disturbing sight of Professor X ravaged by mental decline.

It's not a fun ride at all, and by the end of the movie, Wolverine is in such bad shape that you just wish it was all over. He's been tenderised by his own twin/clone, emotionally ruined by encountering his daughter/clone and destroyed by the death of Xavier. And he's still forced to fight X-24 again to the death, with his younger enemy dumping him unceremoniously on a tree stump fatally.

Sure, he gets his comeuppance immediately, but watching the life eke out of Wolverine as he tells Laura he feels like her father is the most devastating comic book movie moment of all time.