10 Heart-Breaking Film Moments When The Hero Became The Villain

6. Verbal Kint - The Usual Suspects

Okay, so Verbal Kint can hardly be considered a hero in Bryan Singer's thriller about ex-cons being played and manipulated by master criminal Keyser Söze, but he certainly has much of our attention and sympathy throughout the film. Kevin Spacey plays the invalid Kint as meek and helpless, being pushed and coerced by the cops interrogating him to co-operate - which at the very least pushes an audience's 'don't pick on the little guy' buttons pretty effectively. Which is one of the reasons why his transformation - if you didn't already know it - is all the more shocking, as it's revealed toward the end that Kint made up more or less the entire plot of the film from items and names in the police office he was sat in, didn't really have any crippling ailments and might very well be the villainous Keyser Söze himself. It's a stirring and unsettling turn of events that Spacey's character has everyone fooled right up until the moment he doesn't need them to be any more. As Kint himself says: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."