10 Movie Villains Who Caused Their Own Defeats

The Defeat: Bats is a weird little sci-fi horror film that released in 1999, and it's about... well, bats. But not just ordinary bats. Killer bats.

Midway through the film, our gang of heroes find themselves trapped inside a school while being attacked by these spooky winged beasts, before Dr. McCabe foolishly goes outside, thinking he can somehow control the swarm of bats enveloping the building. He is wrong. And they kill him. Because that's what they do.

How He Caused It: In the opening chunk of the film, it's never made fully clear why these bats were made into killers, or what they're even doing flying around the small Texas town in which the film is set.

McCabe - who previously experimented with the bats and genetic modification - does say that he made them omnivorous and more intelligent so they might avoid extinction, but that the whole "killing humans" thing was an accidental side effect. However, you get the sense that there's more to his story than meets the eye.

And, of course, there is. The film reveals that McCabe is actually crazy, and created the bats to become lethal predators that can kill humans. Like with Judge Doom, McCabe created the means of his own destruction, and clearly didn't realise that building a human-munching swarm of beasts would also make him a target too.

Plus, it was quite dumb of him to run outside and try to control them, after they'd already murdered a fair few people. It was a stupid death that he brought upon himself, for the fact that he seemingly didn't take any of the bat swarm's recent, bloodthirsty actions on board.