10 Huge Mistakes Which Doomed Movie Characters

A general rule of thumb derived from Guy Ritchie's Snatch? It's probably an ill-advised move to mildly irritate a bare-knuckle boxing champion who happens to be harder than a coffin nail - let alone burn down his mother's caravan with her still inside it.

However, that's exactly what the 2001 crime-comedy's central antagonist - Alan Ford's "Brick Top" - does, attempting to coerce Brad Pitt's Mickey O'Neill into fixing an unlicensed boxing match. Brick Top appears to believe that his terrifying underworld reputation coupled with the threat of further violence will deter any retribution from Mickey and his community of Travellers.

Seemingly taking the demise of the woman who birthed him rather lightly in the first instance, Mickey flips the script on fight night - knocking out his opponent in the very round he was meant to take a dive in. As an apoplectic Brick Top follows to murder Pitt's pugilist, the gangster is ambushed and murdered by O'Neill's associates outside the venue.

Placing the cherry atop an extremely bloody cake, Mickey is revealed to have bet the house on himself - taking advantage of Brick Top driving his odds down before carrying out his vengeance. Case in point - messing with a man's mother is almost certainly a dreadful mistake.