8 Movie Villains Created Out Of Spite

Turns out George Lucas isn't the only Hollywood bigshot who takes film criticism extremely personally. The creators of the 1999 sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest did so as well, resulting in another villain created as a spiteful "f**k you" to a critic.

The critic in question was Andrew Sarris, who actually co-founded the National Society Of Film Critics. In other words, he was one of the most prominent voices in this space, so getting a positive review from him was a pretty major deal.

However, for his work on the 1984 sports film The Natural, producer Mark Johnson definitely did not get a positive review. Sarris called it "a pathetic strike-out", a bruising remark that Johnson remembered when he went on to produce Galaxy Quest.

Here, he decided to name the villain of the piece - an ugly alien seeking the Omega 13 superweapon - after Sarris, deciding to flat-out call him "General Sarris."

Johnson played coy when asked about this himself, but you don't exactly need to be a rocket scientist to put these pieces together.