10 Movie Villains Totally Ruined In The Sequels

5. Jaws - Moonraker

The Original

1977's The Spy Who Loved Me introduced audiences to Jaws (Richard Kiel), the absurdly gigantic henchman of primary antagonist Karl Stromberg (Curd Jürgens), best known for his razor-sharp teeth and ability to withstand impossible amounts of damage.

The Sequel

Jaws was an immediate hit with fans, and so he returned for the next film, 1979's sci-fi Bond romp Moonraker, playing henchman this time to maniac industrialist Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale).

Because director Lewis Gilbert received so much fan mail from young children asking why Jaws had to be a "baddie", Gilbert made the well-meaning but ill-advised choice to turn Jaws face over the course of the movie.

This was achieved by turning Jaws into a clumsy oaf character and making his near-death experiences more comical in nature, especially when his runaway cable car crashes through a wall and he nabs himself a tiny girlfriend, Dolly (Blanche Ravalec).

Jaws ends up helping Bond defeat Drax, and he finishes the film popping champagne in an escape pod with Dolly, toasting to their love.

As endearingly barmy as Moonraker is for the most part, the film's treatment of Jaws is just painfully cringe-worthy, and too jarring a contrast from his genuinely brutal villainy in the previous film.

Jaws was originally going to return to marry Dolly in For Your Eyes Only, but those plans were mercifully nixed for being too silly.