8 Movie Villains Created Out Of Spite

4. General Sarris (Galaxy Quest)

Galaxy Quest General Sarris
DreamWorks Pictures

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.

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