10 Movie Villains That Were Total Fanboys
8. Richie & Amber - Scream (2022)
The Scream franchise has featured a number of fanboy antagonists, whether obsessed with horror movies or franchise heroine Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) herself, though the recent fifth film offered up a terrifically pointed, contemporary riff on this very idea.
As it turns out, the killers are Richie (Jack Quaid) and Amber (Mikey Madison), a pair of literally die-hard fans of the Stab horror movie franchise - a series of in-universe films adapted from the original Ghostface killings.
The pair reveal that they met online and, after both being disappointed with the Rian Johnson-directed Stab 8, decided to embark on their own killing spree in Woodsboro.
This goal? To create source material for a new Stab movie, while luring the "original cast" - that is, Sidney, Dewey (David Arquette), and Gale (Courteney Cox) - back into the fold for good measure.
As commentaries on toxic fandoms go, it's pretty ingenious, revealing the villains to be a heightened, nightmarish version of all the social media trolls who make their favourite movie franchise their entire personality. Brilliant.