24 Movie Villains Who Weren't Really Bad

21. Col. Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds

This one is tricky. Landa is a Nazi. He is the €˜Jew Hunter€™. He is a murderer. Landa however is serving in one of the most feared armies in history. His hesitation or his compassion in the Nazi administration would lead to certain death. He even tries his hand at heroics by offering to end the war €“ killing Hitler and the entire Nazi command for the Allies. He€™s as tired of the German€™s as the rest of the world and plots to blow Hitler to hell €“ albeit at a terrible cost to his forehead.

20. Loki in Thor

As much as I loved last year€™s Thor I did feel there was a lack of a menacing villain. Loki isn€™t really revealed to be the villain until well into the second act and even then, he is not inherently evil. He feels betrayed and unloved by his adopted family. He is guilty of some sibling jealousy which we have all felt at some stage in life. Loki deals with some shocking discoveries (he is in fact an adopted Frost baby) and his arrogant brother Thor. It€™s a very Shakespearean plot but the bard€™s characters were a lot more ruthless and Machiavellian than the God of mischief. Loki does amp up the bad in The Avengers even killing beloved Agent Coulson but in Thor it€™s all very teenage angst stuff.
 
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