10 Movie Villains Whose Conscience Got The Better Of Them

10. Jason Voorhees - Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

The Friday the 13th franchise has always been ripe for the ridiculing. Despite very few of the dozen-odd films in the series being deserving of the label "a good film", primary antagonist Jason Voorhees has nonetheless become an entrenched icon of pop culture. Seeing that hockey mask come at you through the fog of Crystal Lake means you're not long for this world, because Jason never spares anyone. Except once. In the sixth instalment of the franchise, which saw the return and explicit supernaturalism of the famous character, Jason is loose among campers at a newly renovated and renamed summer site, and in one scene, he stands among a cabin of sleeping children, one of whom wakes up and sees the serial killer standing there. For once, Jason walks away with everyone still breathing. Maybe his own childhood trauma - which caused him to slash countless lives following his "death" - informed the degree of mercy in this scene, but then the camp counsellors aren't that much older, though, and they certainly get the full dose of Jason's wrath. In any case, this is the only time something resembling a conscience surfaces in Jason Voorhees, and it occurs in one of the more worthwhile Friday the 13th outings.