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

5. Ed Norton - Fight Club

Depending on your reading of the film, Ed Norton's character is either nameless or called Jack; in any case, that's not the name you're going to remember best by the end. Jack is an incredibly relatable, pathetically modern lead: a relentless consumer of products somehow not fulfilled by his perfect apartment and dream upholstery, and it's not until he starts stealing ass fat and trading blows with the anarchic Tyler Durden that he actually starts to have some fun. But it's not to last. Soon their nightly reclamation of misplaced masculinity becomes a terrorist operation and, when Jack attempts to put a stop to things, the biggest blow is dealt: he's been Tyler Durden all along. The film has Norton fight himself in several scenes, both literally and figuratively, and becomes one of the few heroes-turned-villains to actually revert to hero status again, with a cleverly-placed (if implausible) bullet that kills Tyler and leaves Jack with little more than a gaping gunshot wound in his face. A happy ending indeed.