10 Recent Movie Characters You Were Happy To See Die

For any movie to be successful, there has to be some connection formed between the audience and the characters. Those watching have to invest in the people on screen, stick with the twists and turns of the story, and often ultimately care whether they live or die.

Then there are those villains and antagonists that flip this particular coin. There are heroes that everyone wants to see survive the conflict of the film, but what about the bad guys an audience actively wants to see die?

Death is a big part of cinema, in some genres and projects more so than others, and it can have a huge emotional effect. This can come from watching a beloved character die, while it can also be incredibly satisfying watching someone get what's been coming to them. Comeuppance is always sweet, and these ten characters all had it coming to them.

There have been those with relatively little screen time that made an impression all the same, evil businessmen who suffered deliciously ironic deaths, and even a supernatural villain who had to be killed again after surviving being killed the first time, all of which gave audiences wonderfully deserved death scenes.

It's typically the case in the Alien franchise that there are more bad guys than just the Xenomorphs trying to kill everyone. There's always at least a human or a synthetic or two to play an antagonistic role.

Though Rook (Ian Holm) played this part in Romulus, he wasn't the only one. Bjorn (Spike Fearn), cousin to Archie Renaux's Tyler and one of the key leaders of the group trying to get away from Jackson, may not have been a villain, per se, but there is no denying the antagonistic force he brought to the dynamic.

This came completely directed at David Jonsson's Andy. The synthetic Rain's (Cailee Spaeny) brother was a sweet, simple creature whose only directive, until he was upgraded at least, was to do what was best for his sister. He liked awful dad jokes and did nobody any harm, and yet found himself the subject of Bjorn's abuse simply because he was a synthetic.

Of course, it was tragic that Bjorn's parents lost their lives thanks to a cold and calculated decision made by a robot, but that didn't give him the right to paint them all with the same brush and to take it out on Andy. He was a vile bully, and there wouldn't have been too many tears shed when he was finally killed by the dripping acid that essentially melted him to death.