10 Movies You Didn't Realise You Were Following The Villain

5. Fight Club

You can certainly sympathise with Fight Club's protagonist "Jack" (Edward Norton) for suffering with overpowering mental illness, which causes his mind to create a second, dissociated personality - the ultra-cool, sexy badass he always wanted to be, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt).

This is a fact hidden from the audience until deep until the film's third act of course, with most of the movie seeming to depict an effete white-collar worker who slowly begins to shed his obsession with capitalism as he embraces traditional codes of masculinity courtesy of his new pal Tyler.

As Fight Club morphs into Project Mayhem, it's abundantly clear that Durden is the film's villain, not Jack, at least until we find out that they've been one and the same person the entire time.

Even if you accept that Project Mayhem was focused more on property destruction and economic anarchy than causing actual death, Jack/Durden's scheme isn't as cool as teenage boys might think it is - it's quite clearly insane.

Sure, you can argue Jack's mental illness is really a symptom of a soulless society hopelessly obsessed with things, but that doesn't cause anyone else to start blowing up corporate buildings now, does it?