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* For much of the film, ''Film/DunePartTwo'' feels like a dramatic, but still traditionally heroic struggle of underdogs Paul and the Fremen against the unambiguously evil Harkonnens. [[spoiler:Once Feyd gets involved in the conflict on Arrakis, however, his brutal tactics force Paul to resort to darker methods to defeat his enemies, and the full horror and tragedy of Paul's story comes to the forefront.]]
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** ''Film/BadBoysForLife'': Isabel Aretas is arguably the reason behind the DarkerAndEdgier tone of the movie, because [[spoiler:she was the ex-girlfriend of Mike and wants him dead for abandoning her, and she's also responsible for [[HeroKiller killing Captain Howard]].]]
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* ''Film/BadBoys1995'': Fouchet is a [[RuthlessForeignGangsters wrathful French gangster]]. Despite the film being a comedy, there's absolutely nothing funny about him, and every time he appears, the film loses its comedic beats. [[TriggerHappy With gunfire]].

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* ''Film/BadBoys1995'': Fouchet is a [[RuthlessForeignGangsters wrathful French gangster]]. Despite the film being a comedy, there's absolutely nothing funny about him, and every time he appears, the film loses its comedic beats. [[TriggerHappy With By gunfire]].
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* ''Film/BadBoys1995'': Fouchet is a [[RuthlessForeignGangsters wrathful French gangster]]. Despite the film being a comedy, there's absolutely nothing funny about him, and every time he appears, the film dramatically loses its comedic beats. [[TriggerHappy With gunfire]].

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* ''Film/BadBoys1995'': Fouchet is a [[RuthlessForeignGangsters wrathful French gangster]]. Despite the film being a comedy, there's absolutely nothing funny about him, and every time he appears, the film dramatically loses its comedic beats. [[TriggerHappy With gunfire]].
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* Gmork in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''. While the situation was already grim with the Nothing gradually destroying the world of Fantasia, his introduction causes the film's tone to go from hopeful to dark and intense. The scene where he confronts Atreyu is a nightmarish deconstruction of the nature of stories and imagination, revealing him to be an opportunistic nihilist working with the Nothing to destroy Fantasia in order to rule over the unimaginative masses left in the wake of the oblivion, which makes Gmork's evil feel more personal and vile, while the Nothing behaves more like an uncaring natural disaster.
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* ''Film/LethalWeapon'':
** ''Film/LethalWeapon1987'': While most of the other villains are in some minor way laughably evil, the General has absolutely no comedic moments and darkens the tone (and music) of the film whenever he appears.
** Pieter Vorstedt in ''Film/LethalWeapon2'' leaves a very high body count, killing over a half dozen people.
** Wah Sing Ku in ''Film/LethalWeapon4'' is one of the most brutal villains in the franchise, let alone the film, especially when he nearly kills both Riggs and Murtaugh in the climax.
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* ''Bourne'' ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]]'' film series:
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* ''Film/BadBoys1995'': Fouchet is a [[RuthlessForeignGangsters wrathful French gangster]]. Despite the film being a comedy, there's absolutely nothing funny about him, and every time he appears, the film dramatically loses its comedic beats. With gunfire.

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* ''Film/BadBoys1995'': Fouchet is a [[RuthlessForeignGangsters wrathful French gangster]]. Despite the film being a comedy, there's absolutely nothing funny about him, and every time he appears, the film dramatically loses its comedic beats. [[TriggerHappy With gunfire. gunfire]].
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** ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'' brings us The Entity and Gabriel. The former is a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue A.I.]] that has the ability to bring the world to its knees in the blink of an eye and can manipulate modern technology, while the latter has a [[ItsPersonal personal]] connection with Ethan Hunt and his past [[spoiler:and even [[HeroKiller kills Ilsa in a fight]]]] to show how much of a threat both him and the Entity pose.

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** ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'' ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoning'' brings us The Entity and Gabriel. The former is a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue A.I.]] that has the ability to bring the world to its knees in the blink of an eye and can manipulate modern technology, while the latter has a [[ItsPersonal personal]] connection with Ethan Hunt and his past [[spoiler:and even [[HeroKiller kills Ilsa in a fight]]]] to show how much of a threat both him and the Entity pose.
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** Of all three of Donnie's main opponents in the ''Film/{{Creed}}'' series (including Ricky Conlan & [[Film/CreedII Viktor Drago]]), Damian Anderson in ''Film/CreedIII'' is the only one that is an ''active threat'' in Donnie's life.

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** Of all three of Donnie's main opponents in the ''Film/{{Creed}}'' ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}'' series (including Ricky Conlan & and [[Film/CreedII Viktor Drago]]), Damian Anderson in ''Film/CreedIII'' is the only one that is an ''active threat'' in Donnie's life.
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* Suarto Rahmat starts off ''Film/Expend4bles'' by attacking the home of a Libyan general before killing him and his family after they surrender the nuclear weapon, [[spoiler: [[HeroKiller and he also comes the closest to killing Barney Ross]].]]
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* ''Film/BadBoys1995'': Fouchet is a [[RuthlessForeignGangsters wrathful French gangster]]. Despite the film being a comedy, there's absolutely nothing funny about him, and every time he appears, the film dramatically loses its comedic beats. With gunfire.
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** The mood darkens significantly in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' when Jurgen Voller appears. Where the previous films' villains had some humorous or campy moments, Voller is dead serious at all times and he's much more prone to pointless bloodshed than them - with the exception of Mola Ram.
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** In comparison to previous dinosaur antagonists, the ''Indominus rex'' from ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is the most threatening, homicidal, intelligent, depraved, and frightening. [[spoiler: She also had managed to kill Hammond [[{{Expy}} expy]] Simon Masrani, who only wants to delight the visitors much like Hammond and dies trying to stop this dino from going on a rampage, which shows how much a dangerous threat she is that not even the park owner can stop her and dies trying to.]]

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** In comparison to previous dinosaur antagonists, the ''Indominus rex'' Rex'' from ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is the most threatening, homicidal, intelligent, depraved, and frightening. [[spoiler: She also had managed to kill Hammond [[{{Expy}} expy]] Simon Masrani, who only wants to delight the visitors much like Hammond and dies trying to stop this dino from going on a rampage, which shows how much a dangerous threat she is that not even the park owner can stop her and dies trying to.]]
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* Quentin back in Spider-Man:FarfromHome Is this compared to all spider man movie villains,being the only to reveal his secret identity world Wide.
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* Quentin back in Spider-Man far from home Is this compared to all spider man movie villains,being the only to reveal his secret identity world Wide.

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** ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'' brings us The Entity and Gabriel. The former is a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue A.I.]] that has the ability to bring the world to its knees in the blink of an eye and can manipulate modern technology, while the latter has a [[ItsPersonal personal]] connection with Ethan Hunt and his past [[spoiler:and even [[HeroKiller kills Ilsa in a fight]]]] to show how much of a threat both him and the Entity pose.

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* In comparison to previous dinosaur antagonists, the ''Indominus rex'' from ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is the most threatening, homicidal, intelligent, depraved, and frightening. [[spoiler: She also had managed to kill Hammond [[{{Expy}} expy]] Simon Masrani, who only wants to delight the visitors much like Hammond and dies trying to stop this dino from going on a rampage, which shows how much a dangerous threat she is that not even the park owner can stop her and dies trying to.]]

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In comparison to previous dinosaur antagonists, the ''Indominus rex'' from ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is the most threatening, homicidal, intelligent, depraved, and frightening. [[spoiler: She also had managed to kill Hammond [[{{Expy}} expy]] Simon Masrani, who only wants to delight the visitors much like Hammond and dies trying to stop this dino from going on a rampage, which shows how much a dangerous threat she is that not even the park owner can stop her and dies trying to.]]
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** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'': The High Evolutionary. Good lord, '''the High Evolutionary.''' While he's not as powerful or far-reaching as Thanos or Kang and is (for the most part) [[NonActionBigBad pretty useless in a fight]], he's quite possibly ''the scariest MCU villain ever put on screen.'' He's an EvilutionaryBiologist who has delusions of creating a perfect society (which he has total dominion over) and there is '''nothing''' he won't do to accomplish this. He's a sick, twisted monster with [[TheSociopath no sense of humanity or morals]] and much like Kang, any trace of humour found in the movie screeches to a halt the second he's on screen. That he's [[ArchEnemy responsible for most of the awful things in Rocket's life]] only adds to his detestable nature and even the Guardians themselves want nothing more than to bring him down. [[spoiler:TheReveal of the horrific mess that is [[FacialHorror his true face]] is probably one of the darkest scenes in all of the MCU.]]
-->'''High Evolutionary:''' Incinerate them.
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** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' tops them all with Lyutsifer Safin, who murdered Madeleine Swann's mother, and years later, has developed a mutagenic weapon threatening the world, and he does the one thing no other Bond villain did: [[spoiler:''he kills Bond himself'']].

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** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' tops them all with Lyutsifer Safin, who murdered Madeleine Swann's mother, and years later, has developed a mutagenic weapon threatening the world, and he does the one thing no other Bond villain did: [[spoiler:''he [[spoiler:''[[HeroKiller he kills Bond himself'']].himself]]'']].
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** Of all three of Donnie's main opponents in the ''Film/{{Creed}}'' series (including Ricky Conlan & [[Film/CreedII Viktor Drago]]), Damian Anderson in ''Film/CreedIII'' is the only one that is an ''active threat'' in Donnie's life.

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* [[GalacticConqueror Thanos]] is easily considered to be the [[KnightOfCerebus darkest and most threatening villain]] in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] to date. He has entire planets and nations who fear his power, both [[TheTrickster Loki]] and [[AggressiveCategorism Ronan]] were [[TheDreaded visibly frightened by him]], even telling the latter he would 'bathe the starways in his blood' if he failed him and not to mention he's considered the most powerful being in the universe and immortal by certain people. He is absolutely dreaded and hated by his daughter Gamora and Nebula [[spoiler: who he would make fight each other everyday and when Gamora won, Thanos would take apart Nebula and replace her flesh and blood with machines to make her less 'weak'.]] By the time he became the BigBad in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', [[spoiler: Thanos succeeds in his goal to kill half the universe, which includes half of the Avengers and most of the Guardians of the Galaxy]].

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[[GalacticConqueror Thanos]] is easily considered to be the [[KnightOfCerebus darkest and most threatening villain]] in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] MCU to date. He has entire planets and nations who fear his power, both [[TheTrickster Loki]] and [[AggressiveCategorism Ronan]] were [[TheDreaded visibly frightened by him]], even telling the latter he would 'bathe the starways in his blood' if he failed him and not to mention he's considered the most powerful being in the universe and immortal by certain people. He is absolutely dreaded and hated by his daughter Gamora and Nebula [[spoiler: who he would make fight each other everyday and when Gamora won, Thanos would take apart Nebula and replace her flesh and blood with machines to make her less 'weak'.]] By the time he became the BigBad in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', [[spoiler: Thanos succeeds in his goal to kill half the universe, which includes half of the Avengers and most of the Guardians of the Galaxy]].
** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' might be DenserAndWackier, but Hela is a very big threat and the film gets serious whenever she's on screen. ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' one-ups it with Gorr the God-Butcher, a scary TragicVillain who literally takes the color out of the movie when he appears (some scenes in his Shadow Realm are downright monochrome!).
** ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'': '''Kang the Conqueror'''. He doesn't show any of the humorous traits exhibited by his AlternateSelf He Who Remains, being FauxAffablyEvil at best, making him a far more serious threat to Scott and company than either Yellowjacket or Ghost -- all fitting for a villain who's set up to be the the next major BigBad after Thanos. It's significant that the first trailer for ''Quantumania'' is rather fun and whimsical until Kang shows up -- at which point all humor ''stops''. In the film, Scott tries to preserve his line in snarky backchat, but Kang {{No Sell}}s every joke made in his presence. He even lacks quips, the main source of humor in [[WorldOfSnark the MCU]], which even Thanos dabbled in occasionally.
--->'''Kang:''' Let me make this easy for you. You will bring me what I need... Or everything you call a life will end.



* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' might be DenserAndWackier, but Hela is a very big threat and the film gets serious whenever she's on screen. ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' one-ups it with Gorr the God-Butcher, a scary TragicVillain who literally takes the color out of the movie when he appears (some scenes in his Shadow Realm are downright monochrome!).
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** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' tops them all with Lyutsifer Safin, who murdered Madeleine Swann's mother, and years later, has developed a mutagenic weapon threatening the world, and he does the one thing no other Bond villain did: [[spoiler:''he kills Bond himself'']].
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** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' took it UpToEleven with [[BigBad Franz Oberhauser]] [[spoiler:AKA [[HijackedByGanon Ernst]] [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Stavro Blofeld]]]] not only being revealed as [[GreaterScopeVillain the mastermind behind everything]] since ''Casino Royale'', but [[spoiler:also Bond's [[BigBrotherBully estranged foster]] [[CainAndAbel brother]] who committed {{Patricide}} out of pure envy and jealousy for the time his father spent with Bond]], drills holes into Bond's head out of pure sadism, and forces him into a SadisticChoice in which [[spoiler:Bond has to save Madeleine from the former [=MI6=] building in three minutes before it blows up]]. Disturbingly enough, [[spoiler:[[AdaptationalVillainy he is the darkest version of Blofeld]]]], and possibly one of the vilest villains in the franchise, as he's a far more brutal and ruthless madman. And the ways in which he does ColdBloodedTorture shows the extremely insane nature of this psychopathic monster, [[ForTheEvulz as he's only doing it to get a sick kick at 007's expense]], all the while gleefully enjoying it regardless of the manner he does it.

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** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' took it UpToEleven up to eleven with [[BigBad Franz Oberhauser]] [[spoiler:AKA [[HijackedByGanon Ernst]] [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Stavro Blofeld]]]] not only being revealed as [[GreaterScopeVillain the mastermind behind everything]] since ''Casino Royale'', but [[spoiler:also Bond's [[BigBrotherBully estranged foster]] [[CainAndAbel brother]] who committed {{Patricide}} out of pure envy and jealousy for the time his father spent with Bond]], drills holes into Bond's head out of pure sadism, and forces him into a SadisticChoice in which [[spoiler:Bond has to save Madeleine from the former [=MI6=] building in three minutes before it blows up]]. Disturbingly enough, [[spoiler:[[AdaptationalVillainy he is the darkest version of Blofeld]]]], and possibly one of the vilest villains in the franchise, as he's a far more brutal and ruthless madman. And the ways in which he does ColdBloodedTorture shows the extremely insane nature of this psychopathic monster, [[ForTheEvulz as he's only doing it to get a sick kick at 007's expense]], all the while gleefully enjoying it regardless of the manner he does it.
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* Invoked by ''Film/TheMummy1999''. After accepting the role of [[BigBad Imhotep]], actor Creator/ArnoldVosloo requested that he be allowed to play the character ''completely'' straight, despite director Creator/StephenSommers envisioning the film as a mostly lighthearted and campy throwback to old-fashioned pulp adventure serials. Most critics agree that Imhotep was all the more effective as a villain because his serious presentation contrasted so starkly with the rest of the film's tone.

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** Major Pa Tee Tint from ''Film/RamboIV'' is more brutal, sadistic, psychotic and noticeably disturbing than the previous [[BigBad Big Bads]] or previous kinds of villains all together. The graphic outcomes of the atrocities he committed are absolutely played for horror and makes the past villains' sins pale in comparison. He's the complete 180 degree contrast to Teasle if comparing Tint's large amount of KickTheDog acts to Teasle's large amount of PetTheDog acts.

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** Major Pa Tee Tint from ''Film/RamboIV'' is more brutal, sadistic, psychotic and noticeably disturbing than the previous [[BigBad Big Bads]] {{Big Bad}}s or previous kinds of villains all together. The graphic outcomes of the atrocities he committed are absolutely played for horror and makes the past villains' sins pale in comparison. He's the complete 180 degree contrast to Teasle if comparing Tint's large amount of KickTheDog acts to Teasle's large amount of PetTheDog acts.



* Due to this entry being DarkerAndEdgier, Mick from ''Film/SuddenImpact'' is a more depraved and sadistic threat then the previous [[BigBad Big Bads]] and the later one in [[Film/TheDeadPool the next film]].

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* Due to this entry being DarkerAndEdgier, Mick from ''Film/SuddenImpact'' is a more depraved and sadistic threat then the previous [[BigBad Big Bads]] {{Big Bad}}s and the later one in [[Film/TheDeadPool the next film]].film]].
* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' might be DenserAndWackier, but Hela is a very big threat and the film gets serious whenever she's on screen. ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' one-ups it with Gorr the God-Butcher, a scary TragicVillain who literally takes the color out of the movie when he appears (some scenes in his Shadow Realm are downright monochrome!).

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