10 Movie Villains Who Actually Got Away With It
6. Azazel (Fallen)
Fallen is a lukewarmly-received box office bomb with a decent cast, a cool premise and a surprise twist ending. The movie follows Denzel Washington's police detective John Hobbes as he investigates a string of murders that appear to have been committed by a man who was previously executed by gas chamber.
One in-depth investigation later, it turns out that the killings were committed by a body-hopping demon called Azazel. Hobbes defeats this hellspawn by tricking it into possessing him, right after he's consumed a lethal dose of poison.
Most acts of hero self-sacrifice are depressing on some level, and this is no exception, but the whole situation is made worse by the fact Azazel actually survives. In the final twist, it just so happens that the demon had time to leap from Hobbes's body to that of a nearby cat, bringing the curtain down on a cliffhanger.
Since Fallen didn't make anywhere near enough money to push a sequel into development, the story ends with Azazel winning the final battle.