11 Most Horribly Disappointing Movie Supervillain Reveals

11. The Newborn (Alien: Resurrection)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien: Resurrection is a pretty poor movie on the whole, and in respect of consistency, it also features a terrible final villain. The major revelation comes when the Ripley clone realises that the alien Queen aboard the USM Auriga (extracted from her womb) has developed a human-like womb, and subsequently gives birth to the film's ultimate Big Bad, the so-called "Newborn", a grotesque combination of human and Xenomorph DNA.

However, due to its peculiar birthing method, the Newborn rejects the Queen as its mother, killing her and instead feeling the parent-child bond with the Ripley clone. Though Ripley is able to easily dispatch the Newborn by using her acid blood to melt a hole in a viewing window, sucking it out into space, the brief time we spend with the Newborn is a massive anti-climax. The real problem is the design: it lacks the brilliant elegance of the H.R. Giger work from the earlier films, and though by its nature the Newborn is supposed to be a bit of a mess, the cheap-looking, unimaginative puppet design is more laughable and gross than terrifying or interesting to look at. Still, at least they didn't go with the original idea of giving it Ripley's face...