10 Movie Villains With Insanely Ironic Deaths
4. Judge Doom - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Judge Doom is the tyrannical Judge of Toon Town and hates Toons, passing capital punishment on those who break the law. He threatens Roger Rabbit with execution by his invention, a mix of turpentine, acetone and benzene which he has called ‘The Dip’. He demonstrates how deadly it is by disturbingly dissolving a cute animated anthropomorphic shoe.
His evil scheme is revealed at the climax of the film where he explains to a captive Roger, Eddie and Jessica that he plans to destroy Toon Town using a giant, mobile vat of dip connected to a high-pressure water cannon so he can then build a motorway over it. He starts to aim his cannon towards a tethered Roger and Jessica, aiming to kill them.
Eddie has personal reasons for stopping him as he finds out the Judge killed his brother. After a tussle ending in Doom being crushed by a steamroller, the twist reveal is that he is ironically in fact a Toon himself. Eddie manages to turn the cannon of dip away from Roger and Jessica and towards Doom, melting him with his own creation.