10 Movies That BRILLIANTLY Avoided Huge Cliches

2. Ozymandias' Villain Monologue - Watchmen

Watchmen Ozymandias
Warner Bros.

There's nothing more frustrating than listening to a villain prattle through a Bond Villain Monologue, explaining what they're going to do and how there's nothing the hero can do to stop them - but of course, they almost always can.

Enter Watchmen, which climaxes with Adrian Veidt aka Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) revealing that he's orchestrated all the very bad things that have happened throughout the movie, and his final gambit involves detonating a series of nuclear reactors across the world, killing 15 million people.

More to the point, he intends to frame Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) for it, in turn uniting the U.S. and U.S.S.R. against a common, alien entity. 

Once Veidt finishes his speech, a shocked Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) and Nite Owl II (Patrick Wilson) attempt to stop him putting his plan into action, only for him to reveal that, far from a cliched comic book villain, he triggered the explosions 35 minutes prior, and there's nothing they can do to stop them. How diabolically refreshing.

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