9 Annoying Minor Movie Characters Everyone Wanted To Die

A great movie needs great supporting characters. It's one of the unwritten laws of Hollywood and you can look at any of the most successful movies of all time to see it's true. Seeing those characters face death is often a crucial part of the story, building the tension and stakes to an unbearable level before the inevitable happens.

Titanic became a phenomenon and the highest grossing movie of its time because James Cameron made sure you cared about every passenger as they headed towards their icy fate. Avengers Endgame succeeded in part because of its cold open with the Barton family. Seeing, or rather NOT seeing them vanish was a stab to the heart of almost every one who saw the movie, especially little Nathaniel Pietro who was just a baby in Age of Ultron.

Sometimes it's clear early on that someone is going to be meeting their fate during the film, normally they are the annoying ones. Whether it's the naive rookie who keeps screwing up, the bitchy cheerleader or a kid who is just exasperating, there is nothing more satisfying than seeing them finally killed off.

Except sometimes, that never happens... they might get someone else killed instead, or the story or director just allows them to live, leaving the viewer shaking their head.

Tremors is without question one of the better B-movies out there. While it wasn't a hit in theaters, once it reached VHS it found its audience and battling the bizzare but terrifying Graboids played a major part in revitalizing the career of Kevin Bacon.

The residents of Perfection are a big reason for the success of the film, yet many of them are unlikable it is easy to look forward to seeing them killed. Walter Chang was guaranteed to die once he started taking advantage of the situation to make money and survivalists Burt and Heather Gummer seemed nailed on to go but arguably the most annoying character of all was Melvin, the obligatory teenager of the group.

Everything Melvin says or does is designed to annoy both the townsfolk and the viewer, drawing the ire of Fred Ward's Earl Bass on more than one occasion. From silly practical jokes to "crying wolf" and his out of place surfer speak, Melvin a dude you really want to see grabbed and pulled down where he belongs.

Except he survives... but indirectly causes his father to be eaten by the giant worm in a horrifically painful way instead.

After this, Melvin becomes almost catatonic from the trauma of losing his only parent so perhaps he did get what was coming to him in a way but it's hard not to feel a little bit cheated that the Graboids didn't take him.