10 More Movie Villains You Didn't Realise Actually Won
7. President Snow - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Granted, there aren't many movie villains who get ripped apart by an angry mob and could still genuinely lay claim to coming out on top, but The Hunger Games' President Snow (Donald Sutherland) is no ordinary villain.
Though Snow is murdered by a rabble of irate citizens in Mockingjay - Part 2, this comes at the end of a long, successful, and enriched life.
He got to live many, many decades as the autocratic ruler of Panem, and through Katniss' (Jennifer Lawrence) actions not only avoids an official, formal execution, Snow also gets to see his nemesis, President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore), get murdered by Katniss before he dies.
Even accepting Snow's own brutal death, he literally goes out laughing, knowing that he managed to talk Katniss into killing his enemy, robbing her of the power she so desperately craved, before he himself was killed.
It may be a Pyrrhic victory for Snow, but a victory nonetheless.