10 Movie Heroes Who Were Secretly Just Awful
4. Grandpa Joe Would Do Anything For Chocolate, Except Get Up And Find A Job - Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
Grandpa Joe spent 20 years in bed, having a gay-old time smoking tobacco and napping, whilst the rest of the family were having watery cabbage soup (and Mr and Mrs Bucket were working their fingers to the bone).
The moment Charlie admits to having a golden ticket, and needing an adult to accompany him, the bedridden Grandpa Joe makes a miraculous recovery and jumps out of bed, performing a little jig.
Charlie never falls for any of the temptation which leads the other children from being “eliminated,” that is, until his Grandpa Joe convinces him to drink the "Fizzy Lifting Drink" in the Bubble Room. And of course, as advertised, the two start floating upwards – towards a deadly rotating fan.
Luckily, Grandpa Joe belches, causing him to descend a little and helping the two to figure out how to disembark from their sky journey. But what does Grandpa Joe say after almost getting the two of them cut up into little pieces? "C'mon Charlie, let's catch up with the others!" No apologies, no regrets, no nothing. This old bastard is determined to get that lifetime supply of chocolate even if it means life or death.
Grandpa Joe seems infinitely motivated by the promise of chocolate, but seems to have little to no regard for his own family’s well-being or for the health of young Charlie Bucket.