10 Most Entertaining Bad Guys In Action Movie History

9. T-Bird (The Crow)

In a movie filled with generic, caricatured bad guys, David Patrick Kelly (most remembered for his Warriors catchphrase, "Waaaarriors, come out and play-yay!") stands head and shoulders above his wicked brethren. Kelly's turn as speed freak T-Bird even overshadows the supposed "main villain" Top Dollar, played to the hilt by a scenery-gnawing Michael Wincott. And when the reincarnated "ghost" of our antihero Eric Draven starts dispatching the gang members who murdered him and his girlfriend one year ago (one by one), it's T-Bird who gets the most dramatic death scene. Strapped into the front seat of his car, Kelly oozes desperation and tenacity with great verve, spitting out a ham-fisted explanation for his gang's dirty deeds ("we had to put the fear of God into that little lady, she wasn't going along with our tenant relocation program") before realizing the man duct-taping him into his deathtrap is the man he killed in that same self-described "sweep and clear." It's in this moment that Kelly shows his brilliance, sputtering what sound like the nonsense ramblings of a cokehead: "This is the really real world...there ain't no comin' back!"
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