10 More Movie Villains Who Would Have Won By Doing NOTHING

Now to be completely fair to Mad Max's main villain Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne), he's a card-carrying manic whose central preoccupation appears to be causing chaos and misery.

All the same, everybody needs to know when to toe the line (sorry), and in his case, he should've appreciated when to walk away.

Mid-way through the movie, Toecutter's protege Johnny the Boy (Tim Burns) is arrested for assaulting a man and raping his girlfriend, but is ultimately released when the witnesses all refuse to testify out of fear. Case closed, right?

Not quite. Rather than simply accept their victory and perhaps lie low for a minute, Johnny and Toecutter decide to terrorise Max's (Mel Gibson) fellow cop Goose (Steve Bisley), with Johnny forcing him to crash his car.

Toecutter then makes the truly fateful double-mistake of forcing a reluctant Johnny to throw a lit match on the car wreck, severely burning Goose, and ordering his gang to attack Max's family, killing his young son Sprog (Brendan Heath) and leaving his wife Jessie (Joanne Samuel) comatose.

This of course sets Max on a brutal quest for vengeance, resulting in Toecutter and Johnny both being savagely killed at his hand.

While it's not within a violent criminal's mindset to calm things down, Toecutter had no chill at all, and it ultimately got him and his gang killed when they'd just gotten away with a major crime scot-free.