10 Movie Villains Obsessed With Immortality
1. Dr. Tolian Soran - Star Trek Generations (1994)
Star Trek has long been an excipient for philosophies on the human condition, ever since Captain Kirk struggled to appreciate Vulcan pragmatism, like an underclassman coming around to Schopenhauer. There's something very dramatic about a group of different races confined to the bridge of a spaceship.
Even the foes of the final frontier teach complex lessons, and Malcom McDowell's Soran is no exception. Like Roy Batty, Soran is somewhat sympathetic in that he's a refugee from an enslaved planet. Fueled by the bitterness of being thus forsaken, he will stop at nothing to enter Nexus, a simulated heaven that fulfills one's every wish--one of which, sadly, is to be reunited with his murdered family.
Captain Picard sympathizes with Soran and attempts to reach and reason with him, but the villain's madness is too far gone. He explains his fatalistic worldview, and it becomes clear that his desire for paradise is in part a death wish.