10 Movies Where The Villain Deserved To Win

Batman & Robin might be remembered as the worst Batman movie of them all, but with better writing and direction, it had some great ingredients. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mr Freeze was far too pun heavy in the final version, but his motives were pure and he actually deserved victory, even if he went about things in a clunky villainous way.

Let’s just disregard Uma Thurman’s Poison Ivy for now and focus on Arnie’s Freeze. Probably best to forget Alicia Silverstone’s Batgirl and Clooney’s Batnipples too, just because, really.

The only way Ivy factors into this is by sabotaging Freeze’s plan and framing Batman, setting up an unjust conflict that gets in the way of us rooting for Freeze.

Mr Freeze loves his wife, Nora, deeply, and does all he can to secure her safety and her health. He only becomes Mr Freeze in the first place after a chemical accident while trying to cure Nora’s terminal MacGregor’s Syndrome.

The problem of the movie all lies in the execution though, with Schwarzenegger doing a great job of playing a Schwarzenegger character... but Freeze is nothing like that. Patrick Stewart was actually first choice before the script was rewritten for Schwarzenegger’s less accomplished acting style.