Arch Enemy / Live-Action Films

"He is you, your opposite, your negative, the result of the equation trying to balance itself out."

"No, no, I'm not gonna kill him. We need each other. We define each other. We're... yin and yang, black and white."

— David Allen Griffin, The Watcher

Examples of Arch-Enemies in live-action films.

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Works with their own pages:

• Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Star Trek
• Star Wars

Other Works:

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• 10 Cloverfield Lane: Michelle has her captor Howard Stambler.
• 12 Years a Slave: Solomon Northup has Edwin Epps, a cruel slave owner who tries to break his spirit.
• 22 Bullets: Charly Mattei has Tony Zacchia, his Evil Former Friend who wants him killed so he can't get in the way of his drug business.
• 48 Hrs.: Reggie Hammond has Albert Ganz, whom he had sold out to the authorities for a robbery they both committed.
• 300: King Leonidas, the ruler of Sparta, has Xerxes, a Persian ruler who seeks to conquer Sparta. Although Xerxes' forces eventually slay Leonidas, the Spartan king manages to make wound Xerxes, who considers himself a god, before his death. Even so, the actions of Leonidas and his 300 inspire more Greeks to resist the Persian invaders.
  • 300: Rise of an Empire: Themistocles has Artemisia, who manipulates Xerxes into declaring war against Greece after Themistocles kills Xerxes' father Darius. Artemesia later tries to convince Themistocles to join her, but after the two have a Destructo-Nookie, he rejects her. Themistocles kills Artemesia in a later encounter.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey: David Bowman has HAL 9000, who massacres his crewmates.
• 2020 Texas Gladiators: The Rangers have Catch Dog, a former member who was expelled for Attempted Rape and immediately joined the side of villainy, eventually killing a member who retired in good standing.
• 10,000 BC: D'Leh has the Warlord, a slaver who kidnapped several of his fellow villagers, including his Love Interest Evolet.
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter:
  • Abraham Lincoln has Adam, the leader of the vampires in America, who are responsible for killing Lincoln's mother Nancy and eventually his son Willie.
    • Lincoln initally has Jack Barts, the vampire directly responsible for Nancy's death. However, Lincoln kills Barts halfway through the story.
  • Henry Sturges also has Adam, who turned him into a vampire.
• Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe has Secundus, his former partner who went evil to gain ultimate power.
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: Dan Marino has Ray Finkle, who blames him for inadventently ruining his football career. Finkle has Marino kidnapped by his henchmen in retaliation.
• The Addams Family: The Addams' have Abigail Craven, a con woman who schemes to steal their fortune with the aid of Gomez's duplicitious lawyer Tully Alford and his (Gomez's) amnesiac brother Fester, even managing to get them evicted from their home.
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: Buckaroo Banzai has Hanoi Xan, the criminal mastermind who killed his wife. Oddly enough for such a personal foe, he never appears in the film proper.
• The Adventures of Robin Hood:
  • Robin Hood has Sir Guy of Gisborne, the thuggish knight who enforces Prince John's tyranny on Nottingham.
  • King Richard has Prince John, who seeks to usurp his throne.
• The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl: Max has Minus and Mr. Electric.
  • Minus usurped control over Planet Drool, the dream world Max created, and orders Mr. Electric to kill Sharkboy and Lavagirl, who Minus refers to as "his [Max's] most precious dream", in order to destroy Max.
  • Mr. Electric is Planet Drool's counterpart of Max's teacher, who serves as The Dragon for Minus, causes Sharkboy and Lavagirl's Disney Deaths, and travels to Earth to kill Max in his sleep after Minus has his Heel–Face Turn.
• Air Force One: President James Marshall has Ivan Korshunov, the terrorist who hijacked his plane, took his family hostage, and killed several of his staff.
• Alien: Ellen Ripley has the entire Xenomorph race, which she has vowed to destroy so they can't kill any more people. Ripley also has Weyland-Yutani Corporation, who sought to exploit the Xenomorphs for profit, and were willing the sacrifice human lives to do so, leading to the deaths of Ripley's crewmates aboard the Nostromo.
• Alice in Murderland: Alice Lewis has the Jabberwocky, AKA Kat Glass, whose mom murdered her mom and has pretended to be her best friend to continue the tradition.
• Alice in Wonderland (2010):
  • Alice Kingsleigh has the Red Queen. Alice is prophesized to slay the Jabberwocky, who the Red Queen relies on to stay in power.
  • The Mad Hatter has the Knave of Hearts, who participated in the attack on his village, and who later tortured him. The Hatter defeats the Knave in the 2010 film's climax.
  • The White Queen has the Red Queen, her evil sister who overthrew her.
• All About Eve: Margo Channing has Eve Harrington, a Loony Fan who steals her career.
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Sevilles have Dave's former roomate Ian Hawke, who turns the Chipmunks against Dave in the 2007 film, returns as the main antagonist of The Squeakquel, and seeks to ruin Dave's vacation in Chipwrecked, before making his Heel–Face Turn. In The Road Chip'', the Chipmunks have Agent James Suggs, who despises them because his girlfriend dumped him for being a fan of them.
• American Gangster: Richie Roberts has Frank Lucas, who is selling the drug responsible for his partner's death.
• American History X: Derek Vinyard has his former Evil Mentor Cameron Alexander, a white supremacist who seeks to indoctrinate Derek's brother Danny.
• American Justice: Jack Justice has Sheriff Payden, a racist Dirty Cop who framed him for a murder one of his men committed.
• American Sniper: Chris Kyle has Mustafa, who kills his comrade Biggles.
• Anaconda: Terri Flores has Paul Serone, an Evil Poacher who uses her film crew to help him catch an anaconda. Serone prevents Terri from shooting the male anaconda (which Serone wants to capture alive), which allows it to kill crew member Gary. Serone later directly kills Denise, captures Terri and her childhood friend Danny, and uses the two of them as bait to capture a female anaconda.
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: Ron Burgundy has Wes Mantooth, a rival news anchor. Their rivalry escalates into full-blown street violence between their respective teams, along with several other news teams, although Mantooth get the most focus amongst Burgundy's rivals during the street fight scene.
  Ron Burgundy: Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean that really got out of hand fast.
• Angel Heart: Harry Angel has Louis Cyphre, who seeks to claim his soul.
• Animal House: Delta Tau Chi has Dean Vernon Wormer and Omega Theta Pi. Wormer is the head of Faber College, the college that the Deltas attend, and wishes to have the Deltas expelled because they are troublemakers with poor academic performence. When he finally does have them expelled, he goes out of his way to tell the draft boards they can now be conscripted. Omega Theta Pi are a rival fraternity to Delta Tau Chi within Faber College. The Omegas are the snobs to the Deltas' slobs, and they assist Dean Wormer in his efforts to have the Deltas expelled.
• Apocalypto: Jaguar Paw has Zero Wolf, the Mayan raider who attacked his village, taking Jaguar Paw and several of his fellow villagers as captives to be either enslaved or sacrificed. Jaguar Paw kills Zero Wolf's son, Cut Rock, in the process of escaping, sending Zero Wolf on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• Around the World in 80 Days (2004):
  • Phileas Fogg has Baron Kelvin, who makes a high-stakes bet with him and tries to have him captured or killed to stop him from winning.
  • Lau Xing a.k.a. Passepartout has General Fang, who stole the Jade Buddha from his village.
• Arthur (1981): Arthur Bach has Burt Johnson, who tries to to kill him for cancelling his marriage to Burt's daughter Susan. In the sequel, Burt cuts Arthur off from his fortune and goes out of his way to continue ruining Arthur's life in an attempt to force him to marry Susan.
• Audition: Shigeharu Aoyama has Asami Yamazaki, a Yandere who tortures him for loving his own son, and thus breaking his promise to love only her.
• Austin Powers:
  • Austin Powers has Dr. Evil, who is also his Evil Twin.
  • Foxxy Cleopatra has Goldmember, who murdered her partner.
• Avatar:
  • Jake Sully and Neytiri have Colonel Miles Quaritch. Quaratich was Sully's former superior officer, who used the intelligence Sully gave him to destroy Hometree, resulting in the death of Neytiri's father. A resmorseful Jake betrays Quaritch and helps the Na'vi defend their land from the RDA. After Jake helps foil the RDA's plans, Quaritch, now viewing Jake as a traitor to the human race, faces him in direct combat, only for him to be killed by Neytiri.
  • However, a recombinant Colonel Miles Quaritch would take the original one's place as the archenemy of Jake and Neytiri. Quaritch possesses most of the memories of his past self, including his vendetta towards Jake Sully. While recon Quaritch did not possess memories of the original Quaritch's final battle, he learned a video recording that it was Neytiri, not Jake, who killed the human Quaritch. Shortly after recon Quaritch surfaced into their lives, Jake and Neytiri leave the Omatikaya clan to hide with the Metkayina clan. However, Quaritch continues hunting for the Sullys, eventually becoming indirectly responsible for the death of Jake and Neytiri's oldest son, Neteyam, although it was Quaritch's henchman, the recombinant Lyle Wainfleet, who directly committed the killing.
• The Aviator: Howard Hughes has Juan Trippe, a rival businessman who seeks to undermine Hughes with the aid of the corrupt Senator Brewster.
• Biff Tannen to Marty McFly, Dr. Emmett Brown, George McFly, and Lorraine McFly in Back to the Future.
  • It's later shown that the Tannens and McFlys have been and will be going at it for about 100 years. The rivalry presumably started with Seamus and Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen in 1885, and the last iteration we see are that Marty's children are still dealing with Griff Tannen in 2015.
• The Barbarians: Kulchek and Gor have Kadar, the Evil Overlord who enslaved their entire tribe.
• The Beastmaster has Maax, the Evil Sorcerer who mistakenly gave him animal powers while trying to kill him in infancy.
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua: Delgado has El Diablo, who hurt his parter and psychologically traumatized Delgado into losing his sense of smell.
• Beverly Hills Cop: In the first film, Axel Foley has Victor Maitland, who orchestrated the murder of his friend Mikey. In the second film, Foley has Maxwell Dent, who is responsible for the shooting of his friend Andrew Bogomil, which was committed by Dent's henchwoman Karla Fry. In the third film, Foley has Ellis DeWald, who killed his superior, Inspector G. Douglas Todd.
• Big Jake: Jacob McCandles has John Fain, the leader of the gang who kidnapped his grandson.
• The Big Lebowski: The Dude has the Big Lebowski and Jackie Treehorn.
  • The Big Lebowski, taking advantage of the fact that both he and the Dude are named Jeffrey Lebowski, uses him as a scapegoat when Bunny's supposed kidnappers try to extort a ramsom out of him, sending the Nihilists on the Dude's trail instead of his own.
  • Jackie Treehorn is a Loan Shark whose henchmen break into the Dude's house and urinate on his rug, having mistaken him for the Big Lebowski, the husband of his debtor Bunny. The Dude's conflict with the Big Leboski traces back to Bunny's debt to Treehorn. Treehorn later has the Dude kidnapped and subjected to Police Brutality by corrupt cops who are on his payroll.
• Big Trouble in Little China:
  • The benevolent sorcerer Egg Shen has the Evil Sorcerer David Lo Pan. The two sorcerers are implied to have fought in the past.
    Lo Pan: You never could beat me, Egg Shen.
  • Wang Chi also has David Lo Pan, since Lo Pan kidnaps Wang's fiancée and plans to marry her.
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey: Bill and Ted have Chuck De Nomolos, who sends robotic doppelgangers of Bill and Ted back in time to Kill and Replace them in order to undo the utopian future which Bill and Ted created.
• Black Belt Jones has Don Steffano, a crime boss who killed his master and wants to buy out his childhood dojo.
• Black Butler: Shiori Genpo has her aunt, Lady Hanae Wakatsuki, who killed her parents and is currently plotting a terrorist attack on Japan.
• The Black Cat: Dr. Vitus Werdegast has Hjalmar Poelzig, who betrayed him to the Russians and stole his wife and daughter.
• Black Dynamite has Fiendish Dr. Wu, a Yellow Peril Diabolical Mastermind whom he's clashed with several times before the film, and turns out to be the one who killed his brother.
• BlacKkKlansman: Ron Stallworth and Flip Zimmerman have Felix Kendrickson, who correctly suspects Flip, who is impersonating Ron, of being Jewish, and who seeks to murder Ron's girlfriend Patrice, who is a civil rights activist.
  • Ron Stallworth also has David Duke. Stallworth is an African-American undercover cop investigating The Klan, while Duke is the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klax Klan. Ron manages to charm Duke over the phone while tricking him into believing he (Ron) is a white man, before revealing his deception at the end of the film. Ron also humilates Duke in person by having a photo of himself touching Duke taken.
• The Black Six have Thor, who murdered their leader's brother for dating a white girl.
• Blade Runner: has Roy Batty, the leader of the Replicants Deckard has been sent after. Deckard kills Roy's comrade Zhora, and towards the end of the film, Deckard also kills Roy's girlfriend Pris.
• Blade Runner 2049: K has Luv, a fellow Replicant who destroyed his virtual girlfriend Joi.
• Blazing Saddles: Sheriff Bart has Hedley Lamarr, who arranged for Bart's appointment as the sheriff of Rock Ridge in the hopes that that town's bigotry towards Bart would make it easier for Lamarr to destroy their community. This backfired when Bart proved to be a competent sheriff who was able to win over the townspeople and lead them to victory against Lamarr and his goons.
• Blood of Beasts: Freya has Sven, a warrior of her tribe who left her father to die and wants to make her marry him to rule the tribe.
• Blue Velvet: Dorothy Vallens has Frank Booth, who murdered her husband and made her into his Sex Slave.
• Sheriff Frank Hamer has Bonnie and Clyde, a couple of bank robbers who humiliated him and whom he vows to capture or kill.
• The Book of Eli: Eli has Carnegie, the ruler of a town who seeks steal the Bible in Eli's posession to secure his rule.
• The Boondock Saints: Connor MacManus and MacManus have Giuseppi "Papa Joe" Yakavetta, who kills their friend Rocco.
• Jason Bourne from The Bourne Series has had several.
  • Alexander Conklin, one of the leading figures of Operation Blackbriar, a black ops program Jason used to work for, although the amnesiac Jason is not initially aware of this. Conklin sends assassins to kill Bourne after he fails a misson (said failed mission is where Bourne received his amnesia), and one of those assassins, the Professor, tracks Bourne to the home of a family giving him refuge.
  • Ward Abbott and Kirill, who framed Bourne for the theft of $20 million and are responsible for the death of Bourne's girlfriend Marie Kreutz.
  • Noah Vosen, the director of Operation Blackbriar, a successor program to Operation Treadstone (which Bourne served in). Bourne sought to expose Blackbriar, while Vosen sought to stop him. Vosen has his henchman Paz assassinate Bourne's ally Simon Ross, has Desh Bouksani kill Ross' source Neil Daniels, and tries to have Desh kill Bourne and Nicky Parsons. Bourne exposes Blackbriar through classified documents Bourne stole from Vosen's office. After Paz refuses to kill Bourne, Vosen attempts to kill Bourne personally, but Bourne manages to escape.
  • Robert Dewey and the Asset, who are responsible for the murder of Bourne's father Richard Webb so that Bourne (then known as David Webb) could by recruited into Operation Blackbriar.
• The Brady Bunch Movie: The Bradys have Larry Dittmeyer, who seeks to use the land their house is on (and the surrounding neighborhood) to build a shopping mall. When Mike Brady tries to raise the money to avoid disclosure by selling one of his architectural designs, Larry sabotages Mike by telling his (Mike's) client that one of Mike's buildings collapsed.
• Braveheart: William Wallace has King Edward I, the English monarch whose oppression of the Scottish people leads to the execution of his wife. Wallace would subsequently lead a massive rebellion against Edward.
• The Brotherhood of Death have Harold Turner, the Grand Cyclops of the local KKK, who uses his position as County Attorney to let his fellow Klansman terrorize the black community they banded together to protect.
• The Butterfly Effect: Evan Treborn has Tommy and George Miller.
  • Tommy Miller disapproves of Evan's relationship with Tommy's sister Kayleigh. In the original timeline, Tommy immolates Evan's dog Crockett. In another timeline, Tommy attacks Evan with a baseball bat, only for Evan to take the baseball bat from Tommy and kill him with it.
  • George Miller is Keyleigh's abusive father, and he also abused Evan. In one timeline, Tommy pressured George into leaving Keyleigh alone, only for George to focus his abuse on Tommy instead, causing Tommy to become more violent, leading to the aforementioned baseball bat incident.
• Caddyshack: Al Czervik has an antagonistic relationship with Judge Elihu Smails, the owner of a country club which Czervik seeks to buy and develop into condominiums.
• Candyman Helen Lyle has the Candyman, who murdered her friend Bernadette.
• The Candy Tangerine Man: The Black Baron has a pair of unnamed cops who will commit any crime to bring him down.
• Max Cady to Sam Bowden in both versions of Cape Fear. In both versions, Max Cady seeks revenge against Bowden for getting him sent to prison by trying to harm Bowden's family.
• Carrie (1976): Carrie White has both her abusive mother Margaret White and her school bully Chris Hargensen.
• Casablanca: Victor Laszlo has Major Heinrich Strasser, the Nazi official tasked with capturing him for his resistance activities.
• Catch Me If You Can: Frank Abagnale Jr. has Carl Hanratty, the FBI agent prusuing him in an international chase.
• Cats & Dogs: Lou has Mr. Tinkles, who took his human family hostage.
• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle: Natalie Cook, Dylan Sanders and Alex Munday have Madison Lee, their predecessor who turned evil.
  • Dylan also has Seamus O'Grady, her ex-boyfriend who seeks to kill her for testifying against him.
• Child's Play:
  • Chucky is this to Andy Barclay and his family since he repeatedly harasses them. Cemented in Curse of Chucky when his next target, after the woman who put him away and her daughter, is Andy.
  • Chucky was originally this to Mike Norris, the detective responsible for his human death.
• Chinatown:
  • Jake Gittes has Noah Cross, who used Jake as a pawn, is behind the man who cut his nose, and raped Evelyn. By the end of the film, Cross causes Evelyn's death, kidnaps Katherine, and gets away with it.
  • Evelyn Mulwray also Noah Cross, her abusive father who raped her and killed her husband.
• A Christmas Story: Ralphie Parker has Scut Farkus, a bully who repeatedly torments him.
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Richard B. Riddick has Lord Marshal Zhylaw, who murdered his people and had Kyra turned into a Necromanger.
• Citizen Kane: Charles Foster Kane has Jim W. Gettys, his corrupt political rival, who exposes Kane's extramarital affair with Susan.
• City of God: Knockout Ned has Zé Pequeno, who assaulted him, raped his girlfriend, and killed his brother and uncle.
• Clash of the Titans (1981): Perseus has Thetis and Calibos, who seek vengeance against him for cutting off the latter's hand. Since Perseus himself is protected by his father Zeus, they go for Revenge by Proxy by demanding his Love Interest Andromeda be sacrificed to the Kraken. This results in Perseus embarking on a quest to kill Medusa, collect her head, and use it to kill the Kraken before it kills Andromeda.
• Clash of the Titans (2010):
  • Perseus has Calibos, formerly known as Acrisius, who was the husband of Perseus' mother Danae, who he had killed after she gave birth to Perseus, who was Zeus' son.
  • Zeus has his brother Hades, who plots against him after he tricks Hades into becoming stuck with ruling The Underworld.
• Class of 1984: Andrew Norris has Peter Stegman, a gang leader responsible for many of the problems plauging the school Andy works at. Peter follows Andy to his home and harasses him, frames him for assault, and rapes his (Andy's) pregnant wife with his (Peter's) gang.
• Cliffhanger: Gabe Walker has Eric Qualen, the leader of a group of terrorists who lure Gabe and his former friend Hal into a trap with a fake distress signal, and who later kidnaps Gabe's Love Interest Jessie.
• A Clockwork Orange: Alex DeLarge has Frank Alexander. Alex crippled Frank and raped his wife. Several years later, Frank tortures Alex to the point he attempts to commit suicide.
• Cold Sweat: Joe Martin has Katanga. They hated each other before Joe sold out his fellow prison escapees, and the only word Joe can use to describe Katanga is "virus."
• Collateral: Max Durocher has Vincent, a hitman forcing him to become an accomplice for his murders.
• Collateral Damage: Gordon Brewer has Claudio "El Lobo" Perrini, the terrorist leader who killed his family.
• The Colony (2016): Lena has Paul Schaefer, the cult leader who's holding her boyfriend captive.
• Colombiana: Cataleya Restrepo has Marco and Don Luis Sandoval, who are responsible for the deaths of her parents.
• In Commando (1985), John Matrix had Bennet and Arius. Bennett was Matrix's unhinged former military subordinate until Matrix fired him, and Arius was a former dictator that Matrix deposed of in the past. The two of them teamed up to get revenge on Matrix by kidnapping Matrix's daughter, which sends Matrix on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against them.
• Conan the Barbarian:
  • In Conan the Barbarian (1982), Conan has Thulsa Doom, Evil Sorcerer who raided his village, murdered his parents, and had him enslaved.
  • In Conan the Barbarian (2011), which is a reboot, Conan has Khalar Zym, the warlord who murdered his father.
• Conquest: Illias and Mace have Ocron, a mad queen who believes they're destined to kill her.
• Cool Hand Luke: Luke Jackson has the Captain, the abusive prison camp warden trying to break his spirit.
• The Craft: Sarah Bailey has Nancy Downs, her Evil Former Friend, towards the end of the film.
• Crank:
  • In the first film, Chev Chelios has Ricky Verona, who injects a deadly drug into him. Chev in turn earns Ricky's ire by killing his brother Alex.
  • In the second film, Chev has El Huron, the vengeful brother of Ricky and Alex Verona.
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Li Mu Bai has Jade Fox, who killed his teacher.
• The Crow (1994): Eric Draven has Top Dollar, the crime boss who had him and his fiance murdered.
• Cure: Kenichi Takabe has Kunihiko Mamiya, a hypnotist who makes people murder their loved ones and loves playing mind games with him.
• Dances with Wolves: John Dunbar has Sergeant Bauer and Corporal Spivey, who mistreat him during his captivity late in the film.
• The Dark Crystal: Jen and Kira has SkekSil, who tries to manipulate them. After Jen stabs SkekSil's hand, SkekSil tries to kill Jen by burying him alive and kidnaps Kira.
• Darkman has Robert G. Durant, the thug who disfigured him.
• Dead and Deader: Lieutenant Bobby Quinn has Dr. Scott, who sent his mercenary team on the mission that got them killed, and intends to harvest his blood to sell off the zombie plague as an immortality serum.
• Demolition Man: John Spartan has Simon Phoenix, a chaotic criminal who framed him for killing hostages and was then let out of cryofreeze to take him down for good.
• The Departed: Billy Costigan has Colin Sullivan. The two of them are moles in each other's respective organizations, with Billy spying on Frank Costello's gang for the police, while Colin does the opposite. Sullivan later provides Costello with information which leads to the death of Billy's superior Captain Queenan at the hands of Costello's thugs. Towards the ends of the film, Costigan discovers that Sullivan is the mole, and Sullivan realizes that Costigan has found out about Sullivan's duplicity. Sullivan erases the evidence of Costigan being an undercover cop. Afterwards, Costigan arrests Sullivan, only to be killed by Barrigan, another one of the mob's moles in the police force. Sullivan kills Barrigan to cover his tracks, but is later killed by Sean Dignam, the only other surviving person who knew Costigan was an undercover cop.
• The Devil Rides Out: The Duc de Richleau has Mocata, the leader of the cult which the Duc seeks to rescue his protegé Simon from.
• The Devil's Advocate: Kevin Lomax has his father John Milton, a.k.a. Satan, who corrupts Kevin, rapes his wife Mary Ann, and plans to have Kevin conceive The Antichrist. Lomax defies defies Milton by shooting himself in the head.
• The Devil's Rejects: Sheriff John Quincey Wydell has the Firefly Family, a family of killers of which his brother's killer, Mother Firefly, belonged to.
• Dexter Riley: Dexter Riley has A.J. Arno, a white-collar criminal whose activites bring him into conflict with Dexter in all three films.
• Dial M for Murder: Margot Wendice has her husband Tony, who tries to have her killed for cheating on him, sending a man named Swann to do the job. When Margot kills Swann in self-defense, Tony frames her for murder.
• Hans Gruber to John McClane in Die Hard. Nakatomi Plaza is his defining moment, and Hans' brother Simon Gruber even appears seeking revenge. Colonel Stuart, Thomas Gabriel, Yuri Komarov, and Irina Komarov are this to a lesser extent.
• Dirty Harry: Harry Callahan has Scorpio, a Serial Killer he is trying to catch. Callahan tortures information out of Scorpio in a failed attempt to save one of his victims, and Scorpio later frames Harry for assaulting him.
• District 9:
  • Wikus van de Merwe has Piet Smit, his father-in-law who seeks to have him vivisected, and Koobus Venter, xenophobic mercenary hunting down the partially mutated Wikus on Smit's behalf. By the end of the film, Koobus decides to kill Wikus himself instead of spending any more time trying to hand Wikus over to the MNU for vivisection.
  • Christopher Johnson also has Koobus Venter, who killed his friend Paul.
• Django has Major Jackson, the Confederate guerrilla who killed his wife.
• Django Unchained: Django Freeman has Stephen, who thwarts the convoluted plan of Django's partner, Dr. King Schultz, to free Django's wife, and tries to have Django subjected to a Fate Worst Than Death as retribution of Schultz's killing of Stephen's master, Calvin Candie.
• DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story: Peter LaFleur has White Goodman, his business rival who seeks to demolish his gym.
• Doll from Hell: Erika has the unnamed leader of a gang of Japanese Delinquents, who murdered her for witnessing one of their crimes, an act she tries to avenge from beyond the grave.
• Dollars Trilogy:
  • In A Fistful of Dollars, Ramón Rojo is this to Julián, and later to Joe (a.k.a. The Man With No Name).
    • Ramón Rojo forces Julián's wife Marisol to become his mistress over a gambling dispute.
    • Joe makes himself an enemy of Ramón by freeing Marisol. Ramón tortures Joe, and when Joe escapes, Ramón slaughters the Baxters under the belief they were protecting Joe, and he tortures Joe's ally Silvanito.
  • In For a Few Dollars More: Colonel Douglas Mortimer has El Indio, who raped his sister.
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Blondie (a.k.a. The Man With No Name) has his Evil Counterpart Angel Eyes, who is competing with him for a cache of Confederate gold.
• Don't Open Till Christmas: Chief Inspector Ian Harris has his insane brother Giles Harrison, who starts killing men dressed as Santa Claus to give his brother a challenging case.
• Feraud is this in The Duellists. Deconstructed in that it makes both people unhappy and is a mostly-pointless grudge.
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: Edwin Darvis, Holga Kilgore, and Simon Aumar have Sofina and Forge Fitzwilliam, whose betrayal of them led to the capture and subsequent two years' imprisonment of Edwin and Holga.
• Edward Scissorhands: Edward Scissorhands has Jim, who convinces Edward to help him rob his parents' house, and lets him take the fall, causing the neighborhood to turn against Edward.
• El Mariachi:
  • In the second film, El Marachi has Bucho, the boss of Moco, the man who killed his girlfriend and crippled his hand in the first film. Bucho is also El Mariachi's brother.
  • In the third film, El Mariachi has General Emiliano Marquez, who killed his wife and daughter.
  • Jorge Ramírez has Armando Barillo, who is responsible for the death of his partner.
• Elfie Hopkins: Cannibal Hunter has the Gammon family, a Cannibal Clan who live next door to her and end up killing her family.
• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988): Elvira has her Evil Uncle Vincent Talbot.
• Elysium: Max Da Costa has Agent C.M. Kruger, who kills his friend Julio.
• End of Days: Jericho Cane has Satan, who corrupts his friend Bobby Chicago.
• Enemy Mine: Willis Davidge has Stubbs, an illegal mine owner who enslaved his adopted alien child.
• Enter the Dragon: Lee has Mr. Han, a crime boss whose bodyguard, O'Hara, was responsible for the death of Lee's sister.
• The Equalizer:
  • In the first film, Robert McCall has Nicolai Itchenko, a Russian mob enforcer who pursues McCall for his killings of several men affilated with Itchenko's boss, Vladimir Pushkin. Itchenko murders Mandy, a prostitute McCall had contact with, and sends him a picture of her body. During the climax of the film, Itchenko takes McCall's co-workers hostage.
  • In the second film, Robert McCall has Dave York, who was responsible for the death of his friend Susan.
  • In the third film, McCall has Vincent Quaranta, a crime boss who terrorizes the community McCall befriended and eventually seeks revenge on McCall for killing Vincent's brother Marco.
• Eraser: John Kruger has Robert DeGuerin, his treacherous former mentor.
• Ernest P. Worrell has had several major enemies over the course of the series.
  • In Ernest Goes to Camp, Ernest has Sherman Krader, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who seeks to destroy the camp where Ernest works at.
  • In Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest has his Criminal Doppelgänger Felix Nash, a death row convict who switches places with Ernest.
  • In Ernest Scared Stupid, Ernest has Trantor, a troll who was imprisoned by Ernest's ancestor Phineas Worrell. Trantor puts a curse on the Worrell family which results in Ernest's stupidity, and after Ernest accidentally frees him, Trantor turns several children (including his friends Joey, Elizabeth and Kenny) and his dog Rimshot into wooden dolls.
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: E.T. has Keys, the lead government official seeking to capture him.
• Evil Dead: Ash Williams has the Deadites, a horde of demonic zombies who spend the entire trilogy tormenting him and trying to destroy everything he loves.
• Excalibur: King Arthur has Morgana le Fey, whose father was killed by his father and who intends to destroy Arthur's kingdom due to that.
• The Exorcist:
  • Father Lankester Merrin has Pazuzu, a demon he once performed an exorcism against while in Africa. Years later, Pazuzu kills Merrin while in the body of Regan MacNeil.
  • Pazuzu also becomes a personal enemy for Father Damien Karras, Pazuzu mocked the death of Karras' mother, and possesses Karras himself, upon which Karras throws himself out a window. In retaliation, Pazuzu places the soul of the Gemini Killer in Karras' body.
  • Regan Theresa MacNeil also had Pazuzu, as he once possessed her when she was twelve.Four years later, she banishes Pazuzu with a bullroarer ritual.
• The Expendables:
  • Barney Ross has his Evil Former Friend Conrad Stonebanks, who shot Ross' comrade Hale Caesar during the third film.
  • In the second film, Barney Ross has a vendetta against Jean Vilain, who killed his protégé Billy.
  • In the fourth film, Lee Christmas holds a personal vendetta against Suarto Rahmat, who seemingly kills Barney, while Barney has Ocelot, whose true identity is Marsh, who was responsible for sabotaging one of his missions 25 years ago.

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• Face/Off: Sean Archer has Castor Troy, the criminal who murdered his son.
• Fantastic Beasts: Newt Scamander and his brother Theseus have Gellert Grindelwald, who killed Leta Lestrange, a woman which both brothers loved.
• The Fast and the Furious:
  • Dominic Toretto has Cipher, a Diabolical Mastermind who took his son hostage in order to turn Dom against his crew, murdered said child's mother, Elena, and is revealed to have been behind several of Dom's past adversaries: Arturo Braga, Owen Shaw, and Mose Jakande. Even Deckard Shaw's vendetta against Dom is a result of injuries Owen sustained while in Cipher's employment.
  • Toretto also has Dante Reyes, who seeks revenge on Dom and his crew for the loss of his family's fortune. Dante also has a vendetta against Luke Hobbs, who killed his father Hernan.
  • In the first film, Dom has his rival and former business partner Johnny Tran, whose sister Dom slept with. Tran is later responsible for the death of John's crew member Jesse
  • Johnny Tran was also this Brian O'Conner, an undercover cop whose car Tran destroyed. Brian later has Tran arrested, and he later kills Tran personally.
  • Deckard Shaw has Brixton Lore, his treacherous former comrade who killed Deckard's team and framed him (Deckard) for it.
• In Fatal Attraction, Dan Gallagher has Alex Forrest. Alex Forrest once had a brief affair with Dan, but she refused to accept the fact that Dan had a family to return her. As a result, Alex constantly stalks Dan, tries to entrap him in a permanent relationship with her, murders his family's pet rabbit, kidnaps his daughter Beth, and finally tries to murder Dan's wife, Beth.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Ferris Bueller has Ed Rooney, who seeks to expose Bueller as a truant.
• Tyler Durden is this and the Enemy Within to the Fight Club Narrator.
• Fire with Fire: Jeremy Coleman has David Hagan, a neo-Nazi gang leader who spends the film pursuing him as a witness.
• Freaky: Millie Kessler has the Blissfield Butcher, a Serial Killer who she swapped bodies with.
• The French Connection: Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle has Alain Chairnier, the drug kingpin he is pursuing. The first film ends in Charnier escaping justice, Charnier's surviving accomplices receiving disproportionately light sentences at most, and Doyle being transferred out of narcotics. In the sequel, set four years after the first film, Charnier and his men force a heroin addiction on Doyle. Doyle eventually overcomes his addiction, and goes on to kill Charnier.
• In Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees to Tommy Jarvis, the only person who killed Jason twice. His first encounter with Jason left him so traumatized that he was forced to spend several years in a mental institution. Tommy becomes so consumed with hatred against Jason that he digs up Jason's grave just so he can destroy Jason's corpse once and for all. Unfortunately, this results in Jason being resurrected as a Nigh-Invulnerable zombie. Tommy also has Roy Burns, a Jason copycat who carried out a killing spree against the patients and staff of Pinehurst Youth Development Center, where Tommy was a patient at.
  • Pamela Voorhees to Alice Hardy in the first film.
• Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo: Sandy has the Wendigo, an Ancient Evil she is destined to defeat.
• The Fugitive: Dr. Richard Kimble has Fredrick Sykes, the one-armed man who murdered his wife, a crime for which Kimble was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for. Later in the film, Kimble learns that Dr. Charles Nichols, Kimble's supposed friend, is The Man Behind the Man to Sykes.
• Full Metal Jacket: Pyle has Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, who bullied Pyle in the hopes of molding him into an effective soldier. Instead, this drove Pyle Ax-Crazy, and he ended up murdering Hartman before taking his own life.
• Gamera has the Gyaos as a whole during the Heisei trilogy, as Gamera was created to oppose them. The Super Gyaos from Guardian of the Universe is responsible for the deaths of Ayana Hirasaka's parents, resulting in Ayana developing a grudge against Gamera. The trilogy concludes with a Bolivian Army Ending of Gamera facing a swarm of Gyaos.
  • Iris, the final Big Bad of the Heisei trilogy, who was awakened by Ayana, a girl with vendetta against Gamera (and said vendetta may have corrupted Iris). Iris has a Multiple-Choice Past, with one possible origin being that they were created to kill Gamera if he became too dangerous, and another possible origin being that they are a mutated Gyaos.
• In Gangs of New York, Amsterdam Vallon spent fifteen years plotting for revenge against Bill "The Butcher" Cutting for murdering his father during a gang war.
• Gangster No. 1: Freddie Mays has rival gangster Lennie Taylor, the leader of a gang who attempt to kill Lennie and slit the throat of Freddie's fiancée Karen.
• George of the Jungle: George has Lyle Van de Groot, his Love Interest Ursula's Disposable Fiancé who tries to marry marry her by force. Even after George and Ursula marry and has a kid, Lyle conspires with Ursula's mother Beatrice to steal Ursula from George.
• Get Out (2017): Chris Washington has Rose Armitage, who became his girlfriend so she could lure him into a trap.
• Get Carter: Jack Carter has Eric Paice, who is responsible for the death of his brother Frank.
• Ghost (1990): Sam Wheat has Wllie Lopez, the man who killed him in a botched mugging, and Carl Bruner, his Big Bad Friend who was behind the aforementioned botched mugging.
• Ghostbusters: The Ghostbusters have Gozer. One of Gozer's Co-Dragons, Zuul, possessed the Dana Barrett, the Love Interest of the Ghostbusters' leader, Peter Venkmen. The destruction caused in the first confrontation between the Ghostbusters and Gozer led to the Ghostbusters being forcibly disbanded, although that order was later rescinded by Judge Wexler. Gozer would later kill Egon Spengler, one of the original Ghostbusters.
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Duke has his Evil Former Friend Rex Lewis (later known as Cobra Commander).
• The Gingerdead Man: Sarah Leigh has Millard Findlemeyer, a Serial Killer she testified against who came back as a gingerbread man for revenge.
• Girl vs. Monster: Skylar has Deimata, her personal monster and a Sealed Evil in a Can she inadvertently freed.
• Maximus Decimus Meridius had Emperor Commodus in Gladiator. They used to be friends until Commodus assassinated his own father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who was Maximus' father figure, declared Maximus a traitor, murdering Maximus' family, and forced Maximus to fight in the arena as a slave. Commodus in turn hated Maximus because his own family loved Maximus more than him, and because Maximus refused to acknowledge Commodus as Emperor.
• The Godfather.
  • In the first film, Michael Corleone and his father Vito have Emilio Barzini, who was behind Philip Tattaglia, Virgil Sollozzo, and Captain McCluskey's attempted assassination of Vito. Barzini later arranges the murder of Vito's eldest son Sonny, and towards the end of the film, he arranges to have Michael killed once Vito dies. Unfortunately for Barzini, Vito anticipating Barzini's latest betrayal, warns Michael before his death. Michael promply has Barzini and his accomplices massacred.
  • In Part II, Michael has Hyman Roth, who seeks revenge against Michael for killing Moe Greene. Vito has Francesco Ciccio, who killed his family.
  • In Part III, Michael has Don Altobello, an old family friend who betrays him.
• Godzilla is the Arch Enemy of the Japanese Self-Defence Force as a whole during the films where he's the villain (or not). He also has his own recurring nemesis in King Ghidorah, who has battled him across eight films and four continuities, and whose gleeful malevolence provides a stark contrast with the Big G's more mindless rage. One could also make a case for Mechagodzilla, Godzilla's only enemy to rival Ghidorah for number of appearances (save for Mothra) and ability to hurt Godzilla (the Heisei version of Mechagodzilla in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II is even stated to have been based on the recovered remains of Mecha-King Ghidorah from Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, essentially making it a combination of Godzilla's two arch-enemies).
  • As far as Mothra goes, her arch-enemy is Ghidorah as well; she tolerates Godzilla's existence as long as he's not misbehaving too much, but when Ghidorah gets involved, she knows fully well that the whole planet she has sworn to protect is in danger. Epitomized by the Rebirth of Mothra trilogy, the first and third of which featured either Ghidorah or a close relative as the antagonist.
    • In Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth, Mothra has Battra, her Evil Counterpart and predecessor. While both beings were created by the Earth, Mothra is a protector of humanity, while Battra acts as Gaia's Vengeance against humanity, which ironically led to Earth itself creating Mothra to deal with Battra for going too far.
    • Godzilla: Final Wars made Gigan her arch-enemy so that the single coolest redesigned monster in the film could fight her during the climax while Godzilla dealt with the more plot-relevant antagonist—who was again, eventually revealed to be Ghidorah (this time in Kaiser form).
  • Apart from Godzilla himself, Rodan was Ghidorah's most frequent adversary during the Showa era films, aiding Godzilla against Ghidorah in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Invasion of Astro-Monster, and Destroy All Monsters. Additionally, both Rodan and Ghidorah are avian kaiju.
  • Dr. Toru Yano has Hedorah, who injured him and his son Ken. Dr. Yano later discovers that Hedorah is vulnerable to being dried out by electricity, resulting in the construction of two electrodes which ultimately enable Godzilla's victory against Hedorah.
  • During the Heisei era, Godzilla faced several villains who had a personal connection to him despite only having one film appearence each.
    • Biollante, a Botanical Abomination created from Godzilla's cells.
    • SpaceGodzilla, who kidnapped Godzilla's son and was created from Godzilla's cells, just as Biollante was.
    • Destoroyah, an aggregate form of a group of organisms which were mutated by the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon which killed the original Godzilla, and the weapon of which Destoroyah becomes an Anthropomorphic Personification for. Destoroyah goes on to kill Godzilla Junior, and becomes Godzilla's final opponent in the Heisei era.
  • In Godzilla: Final Wars, Shinichi Ozaki has X, an alien who takes control over Ozaki's fellow mutants, and later takes brief control over Ozaki himself. Both Ozaki and X are powerful being called "Keizers", and Ozaki defeats X in combat late in the film.
  • Ford Brody has the MUTOs. The male MUTO is responsible for the deaths of Ford's parents, while the female MUTO attacked a nuke-carrying train, leaving Ford as the attack's Sole Survivor. Ford later kills the MUT Os' offspring, sending the female MUTO on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge which results in the deaths of Ford's comrades.
• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad: Sinbad and the Grand Vizier Of Marabia have Prince Koura.
  • Koura appeared to Sinbad in his dreams, repeatedly antagonized him with his magic, and stole a map in Sinbad's possession.
  • Koura was responsible for the death of the Grand Vizier's sultan and the disfigurement of his (the Grand Vizier's) face.
• Gone Girl: Nick Dunne has his manipulative wife Amy, who frames him for her murder.
• Tommy DeVito and Jimmy Conway to Billy Batts in Goodfellas. And later, Henry Hill to Jimmy and Paul Cicero when Henry turns state evidence against his old crew and goes into Witness Protection.
• Good Burger: Dexter Reed and Ed, two employees of a restaurant named Good Burger, have Dexter's former boss Kurt Bozwell, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who runs a rival burger restaurant named Mondo Burger. After Dexter and Ed discover his illegal activites, Kurt has them sent to an asylum.
• Good Night, and Good Luck.: Edward R. Murrow in has Joseph McCarthy, who accuses him of being a communist when Murrow becomes an outspoken opponent of McCarthyism.
• The Good Son: Mark Evans has his Ax-Crazy cousin Henry.
• The Goonies has the Fratellis, a family of criminals who kidnap Chunk, compete with them for One-Eyed Willy's treasure (which the Goonies need to prevent their homes from being foreclosed), and try to drown them during the climax of the film.
• Goosebumps (2015): R.L. Stine has his creation and former best friend Slappy, who seeks revenge on Stine for imprisoning him.
• Gran Torino: Walt Kowalksi has Spider, a gang leader who coerced his cousin Thao into attempting to steal Walt's car, and later gang rapes Thao's sister Sue, who Walt befriended.
• Grave of the Vampire: James Hollander has Charles Croydon, the vampire who raped his mother.
• The Great Escape: Captain Virgil Hilts has Colonel von Luger, the head of the POW camp Hilts is trying to escape from.
• The Green Mile: John Coffey has Wild Bill Wharton, who raped and murdered two young girls, a crime for which Coffey was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death.
• Gremlins: Gizmo has Stripe, his Antagonistic Offspring.
• Grosse Pointe Blank: Martin Q. Blank, a rival assassion to seeks to pressure Martin into joining his union by sending NSA agents on his trail. Grocer later attempts to kill Bart Newberry, the father of Martin's Love Interest, and the man Martin himself was assigned to killed.
• Gulliver's Travels (2010): Lemuel Gulliver and Horatio have Edward Edwardian.
  • Gulliver is captured by Edward upon the former's arrival in Lilliput. Shortly afterwards Gulliver saves the Lilliputian king's life, accidently urinating on Edward in the process. Subsequently, Gulliver replaces Edward as General of the Lilliputian army. When Edward defects to the Blefuscians, he defeats Gulliver with a robot, exposes Guliiver's lies, banishes him, captures Gulliver's acquaintance's Darcy, and fights Gulliver again for the fate of Lilliput, which Edward threatens to destroy if Gulliver loses.
  • Horatio's is Edward's rival for the affections of Princess Mary, a rivalry which caused Edward to imprison Horatio. During the climax of the film, Horatio helps Gulliver defeat Edward.
• Gutterballs: Sarah has Steve, a rival bowling team leader who lead his team in gang-raping her. By extension, Steve is also the nemesis of the Bowling Ball Killer, who is her vengeful father.
• Half Past Dead: Sasha Petrosevitch has 49er One and 49er Six, the leaders of a group of terrorists who take over the prison he is incarcerated at, while Sasha is a Spanner in the Works for them. Sasha also has a vendetta against crime boss Sonny Eckvall for killing his wife.
• In Halloween. no matter where Michael Myers goes, his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis will always be there to stop him. However, Michael's personal targets throughout the series are Laurie Strode and her daughter Jamie Lloyd.
• Hancock: John Hancock has Kenneth "Red" Parker, Jr., who had his hand cut off by the superhero.
• The Hangover: The Wolfpack have Leslie Chow, a criminal who causes several problems for the gang. In the first film, he targets them for stealing his money, threatening to kiill their friend Doug if they don't. While they assume he means Wolfpack member Doug Billings, it turns out he the drug dealer who sold roofies to Alan, who is also named Doug. The Wolfpack end up being drawn into a conflict between Chow, who is their ally in this film, and Interpol, who seek to arrest him. In the third film, when the Wolfpack are trying to retrieve gold Chow stole from the crime boss Marshall, on pain of Marshall killing Doug Billings if they fail, Chow betrays them, using them was pawns to steal even more gold from Marshall.
• Happy Gilmore has Shooter McGavin, a rival golfer who tries to sabotoge Happy's golfing career, and who buys the former house of Happy's grandmother out of spite.
• Harakiri: Hanshiro Tsugomo has the Iyi clan, who forced his son-in-law to commit suicide.
• The Hard Way: The Party Crasher to John Moss, a policeman who was injured in a confrontation with the Party Crasher. The Party Crasher later kidnaps Moss' Love Interest Susan, and it is Moss who kills the Party Crasher.
• Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay: Harold Lee and Kumar Patel have Ron Fox, a bigoted government offical who sends them to Guantanamo Bay, and pursues them throughout the Southern United States to recapture them. He finally succeeds with the aid of Harold's treacherous friend Colton Graham. After the duo are sucked out of the plane escorting them back to prison, Fox jumps after them without a parachute and tries to shoot them, resulting in his Disney Villain Death.
• Hatchet: Marybeth Dunston has Victor Crowley, who killed her father and brother.
• The Haunted Mansion (2003): Jim Evers has Ramsley, who kidnaps his children and, attempts to force his wife Sara to marry Master Gracey, and tries to drag Jim to Hell with him during the film's climax.
• Hawk the Slayer has Vultan, his villainous brother who killed their father.
• Neil McCauley to Lt. Vincent Hanna in Heat.
  • Waingro to Neil. Waingro, a member of Neil's crew, turned an armed robbery into a triple homicide. With the help of Roger Van Zant and Van Zant's dragon Hugh Benny, Waingro forces another one of Neil's crew, Trejo, to rat Neil out to the cops, resulting in a deadly shootout between Neil's crew and Vincent and his subordinates. Waingro also raped and murdered Trejo's wife while beating Trejo to a pulp, leaving him in such a condition when Neil finds him, he is begging for death. After giving a Mercy Kill to Trejo (after Trejo tells him everything), Neil is hell-bent on killing Waingro, resulting in his own demise.
• In Hellraiser, Pinhead makes repeated attempts to claim the soul of Kirsty Cotton. Kirsty also has her uncle, Frank Cotton, her stepmother Julia Cotton, and her husband Trevor Goodchild.
  • Pinhead would later be this to Dr. Paul Merchant, whose ancestor John was killed by Pinhead.
• Hercules (2014): Hercules has King Eurystheus, who drugged him and then had Hercules' family murdered by trained wolves, while making him think that he'd done it.
• He Knows You're Alone: Leo Gamble has Ray Carlton, who killed his fiance on their wedding day and has been pursued by him ever since.
• High Noon: Marshal Will Kane has Frank Miller, who seeks revenge on Kane for sending him to prison.
• Highlander: Connor MacLeod has the Kurgan, who ended his original life, killed his mentor Ramirez, and raped his wife.
• The Hitcher: Jim Halsey has John Ryder, a homicidal hitchhiker who makes a game out of stalking him.
• In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Humma Kavula is this to Zaphod.
• In The Hobbit trilogy, Azog is the main enemy of Thorin. whose grandfather Thror was killed by him in battle, where Thorin also cut off his hand. Following Thorin throughout the films and leading the Orcs to take Erebor at the Battle of the Five Armies, it is revealed that Azog is working for Sauron, but he is pursuing Thorin on his own incentive. They end up performing a Mutual Kill.
• The Sanderson Sisters to Max Dennison, Alison, Dani Dennison, Thackery Binx, and Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus.
• Home Alone: Kevin McCallister has Harry Lime and Marv Merchants, a duo of criminals who tried to rob his home in the first film. Kevin, in turn, creates traps to inflict various Amusing Injuries on Harry and Marv during the first two films.
• Horrible Bosses: Nick Hendricks, Dale Arbus and Kurt Buckman have their three respective Bad Bosses.
  • Nick has his boss David Harken, who cheated him out of a promotion.
  • Dale has his boss Dr. Julia Harris, who sexually harasses him.
  • Kurt has his boss Bobby Pellitt, who inherited the company Pellit and Son from his late father Jack, who had a good relationship with Kurt. After taking over the company, Bobby proved himself an Inadequate Inheritor, running the company to the ground and forcing Kurt to fire a disabled employee.
• Simon Skinner to Nicholas Angel in Hot Fuzz
• The House With a Clock in Its Walls: Lewis Barnavelt has Isaac Izard, an Evil Sorcerer who he is manipulated into reviving, and Isaac's wife Selena, who disguised herself as Lewis' mother to manipulate him into reviving Isaac.
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000): The Grinch has Mayor Augustus May-Who, his Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up and rival for the love of Martha May Whovier.
• The Hunt for Red October: Marko Ramius, the captain of the Red October, has his former student Viktor Tupolev, who pursues the Red October with the intention of destroying it after Ramius goes rogue.
• Kermit Wilts is Bo Cruz's biggest rival in Hustle (2022). Kermit repeatedly causes Bo to slip up and fail at his NBA auditions, and a big part of Bo's character development is learning to withstand Kermit's bullying.
• In the Line of Fire: Frank Horrigan has Mitch Leary, who kills Frank's partner Al.
• Inception: Dom Cobb has Mal Cobb, an illusury version of his deceased wife.
• I Come in Peace: Jack Caine has Victor Manning, the crime boss who killed his partner.
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka: Jack Spade has Mr. Big, the crime boss responsible for his brother's gold chain overdose.
• Indiana Jones
  • Indiana Jones has René Belloq, a rival archaeologist willing to steal from Jones and collaborate with the Nazis to get the glory of discovery without doing the work. Following Belloq's death, Jürgen Voller eventually emerges as Indy's new archfoe. In 1944, Indy stole half of Archimedes' Dial from Voller. 25 years later, Voller kills Indy's friend Renaldo.
  • Marion Ravenwood has Major Arnold Ernst Toht, who confronts her in her bar in Nepal and tries to torture her with a hot poker before Indy intervenes. The confrontation results in Toht's hand being disfigured and Marion's bar being destroyed. Toht later throws her into the Well of the Souls.
  • Short Round has Mola Ram, who enslaves him, brainwashes Indy, and attempts to sacrifice Willie. Short Round escapes and breaks Mola Ram's control over Indy, which leads to Mola Ram's downfall.
  • Henry Jones Sr. has Walter Donovan, a Nazi collaborator who shares his obsession with the Holy Grail. Donovan recruits him to search for the Holy Grail, leading to his capture at the hands of Donovan's Nazi allies, and does the same to and eventually shoots him, forcing his son Indy to navigate a series of deadly traps to recover the Holy Grail. Henry Sr., a Scottish immigrant to America, expresses disgust towards Donovan's betrayal of America.
    Henry Jones Sr.: I misjudged you, Walter. I knew you would sell your mother for an Etruscan vase. But I didn't know you would sell out your country and your soul... to the slime of humanity.
  • Mutt Williams has Irina Spalko, a Soviet colonel who kidnapped his mother.
• Inglourious Basterds:
  • The Basterds, a group of Nazi Hunters have Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Early in the film, Hitler expresses his fury with the Basterds, declaring his intention to "hang them naked, by their heels from the Eiffel Tower!" The Basterds, meanwhile, spend much of the film preparing to kill Hitler and the rest of German High Command, and they ultimately succeed in doing so.
    • Aldo Raine, the leader of the Basterds, has Colonel Hans Landa, who kills his ally Bridget von Hammersmark and blackmails Raine into helping Landa secure himself a pardon from the OSS. At the end of the film, Raine carves a swatsika onto Landa's forehead.
  • Shoshanna Dreyfus also has Colonel Hans Landa, the man who murdered her family.
• Innocent Blood: Maria has Sal the Shark, a Mafia don she accidentally turned into a vampire.
• In In the Heat of the Night, Ralph Henshaw turns out to be the killer Virgil Tibbs spends the entire film looking for.
• Insomnia: Jonas Engström (who is renamed Will Dormer in the 2002 remake) has John Holt (who is renamed Walter Finch in the 2002 remake), a murderer who blackmails him for the death of his partner, who Engström/Dormer shot while pursuing Holt/Finch.
• Invasion U.S.A. (1985): Matt Hunter has Mikhail Rostov, who is responsible for the death of his frend John Eagle.
• Ip Man: Ip Man has General Miura, who oversees the occupaton of his home city of Foshanm, and who kills his friend Lin.
• In It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey has Mister Henry F. Potter. Potter is a Morally Bankrupt Banker who controls most of the town of Bedford Falls, with the exception of "Bulding & Loan", which which run by George Bailey. George Bailey is the only person preventing Potter from seizing total control over Bedford Falls, and when Bailey resists Potter's bribes, Potter tries to ruin him by framing him for embezzlement.
• Jack Frost (1997): Sam Tiler has Jack Frost, a Serial Killer he captured who returned as a snowman for revenge.
• The Kelly family as a whole has Jack-O, a demon sent by an Evil Sorcerer to avenge his execution by one of their own a century ago.
• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: Jack Reacher has the Hunter, who frames him for two murders and hunts his dauughter Samantha.
• James Bond:
  • As in the books, Ernst Stavro Blofeld/SPECTRE Number One was the archenemy of James Bond for most of the Sean Connery era films and George Lazenby's sole film. In the first Eon continuity, Blofeld is the boss of Dr. No, Rosa Klebb, and Emilio Largo, and is responsible for the death of serveral of Bond's allies, most notably his bride Tracy. The endless legal disputes over the ownership of Thunderball, SPECTRE and Blofeld prevented the EON Productions film series from using Blofeld for over 40 years after Diamonds Are Forever, so Bond only confronted one-shot villains in that timespan. The legal feud was definitely solved in 2013, and Blofeld returned as Bond's overarching nemesis in Spectre in 2015, which reveals that the Daniel Craig continuity's version of Blofeld is Bond's step-brother and The Man Behind the Man to Le Chiffre, Mr. White, Dominic Greene, and Raoul Silva.
  • Although Blofeld is the villain with the most staying power, Bond has also had notable feuds with several other villains.
    • Bond gained the ire of Auric Goldfinger, the first Big Bad unaffliliated with SPECTRE, when he sabotaged Goldfinger's attempt to cheat at cards. Goldfinger retaliated by killing Bond's lover Jill Masterson, becoming the first Bond villain in the films to successfully have a Bond girl killed. Later on, Bond teams up with Jill's vengeful sister Tilly to oppose Goldfinger, which results in Tilly being killed by Goldfinger's henchman Oddjob, and Bond himself captured by Goldfinger. Bond considers Goldfinger a Worthy Opponent after being told that Goldfinger's plan Evil Plan to nuke Fort Knox, which Bond calls "an inspired deal." Goldfinger comes close to pulling off his plans, and personally attempts to kill Bond after it fails.
    • Dr. Kananga, who is connected to the murders of three of Bond's fellow MI6 agents.
    • Francisco Scaramanga, who killed Bond's fellow agent Bill Fairbanks a.k.a. 002.
    • Jaws is an Implacable Man who managed to be one of the few Bond villains to appear in more than one film, serving as The Dragon to Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me and to Hugo Drax in Moonraker.
    • Franz Sanchez, who crippled Bond's friend Felix Leiter, and murdered Felix's wife.
    • Alec Trevelyan, formerly known as 006, who was Bond's Evil Former Friend.
    • Elliot Carver, who had Bond's New Old Flame Paris (who was Carver's wife) killed.
    • Gustav Graves/Colonel Moon, who was responsible for Bond's fourteen months' imprisonment and torture in North Korea. Colonel Moon deliberately designed his Gustav Graves persona after Bond, and Graves became the Final Boss for Bond in the original EON continuity.
  • Honey Ryder has Dr. Julius No, who murdered her father.
  • Melina Havelock has Aristotle Kristatos, who is responsible for the death of her parents.
  • Camille Montes has General Medrano, who murdered her family.
  • Olivia Mansfield a.k.a. M has Raoul Silva, who causes the death of several MI6 agents, and eventually seeks to kill her personally, as relatiation against her for selling him out the the Chinese.
  • Madeleine Swann has Lyutsifer Safin, who murdered her mother.
• Jaws: Sheriff Brody has the shark terrorizing Amity Island, who nearly kills his son Michael.
• Jennifer's Body: Anita "Needy" Lesnicki has Jennifer Check and Nikolai Wolf.
  • Jennifer Check is Anita's childhood friend who becomes a Serial Killer after being possessed by a demon. Jennifer eventually kills Anita's Love Interest Chip.
  • Nikolai Wolf is the lead singer of Low Shoulder, a rock band who used Jennifer Check as a Human Sacrifice for a Satanic ritual, which results in Jennifer's aforementioned possession. Anita eventually kills Nikolai and his bandmates to avenge Jennifer's fate.
• John Wick:
  • In the first film, Wick had Viggo Tarasov and his son Iosef.
    • Iosef murdered Wick's puppy for no reason.
    • Viggo is John Wick's former employer, whose power and influence as a crime boss was the only reason Iosef had a chance of surviving Wick's Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Viggo gained said power and influence in the first place with John Wick's help, who pwerformed an Impossible Task Viggo gave him when Wick wanted to retire. After Wick kills Iosef, a vengeful Viggo kills Wick's friend Marcus (whose betrayal of Viggo made it possible for Wick to kill Iosef) and taunts Wick about it. This leads to Wick tracking Viggo down and killing him.
  • In the second film, Wick had Santino D'Antonio, who blows up Wick's house to coerce him into killing Santino's sister Gianna (who is an old friend of John's). After Wick does so, Santino betrays him and orders a hit on him. John hunts down Santino and kills him on Continental grounds, despite knowing this will make him a target of the High Table.
  • In the fourth film he had the Marquis de Gramont, who punishes the New York Continental, the Osaka Continental, and the Ruska Roma for their assosiations with Wick, coerces Wick's friend Caine into accepting a hit on his life, and issues a bounty on Wick to squelch his way out of a Duel to the Death he arranged between Wick and Caine.
• Johnny Dangerously has Danny Vermin, who framed him for murder.
• Judge Dredd has Rico Dredd, his sadistic brother whom he personally arrested in the past, and is back for revenge.
• Jumanji: Alan Parrish has Van Pelt, an Egomaniac Hunter who has been trying to killing Alan since the period of time Alan was sealed inside the game.
• Jungle Cruise:
  • Frank Wolff has Lope de Aguirre, his former comrade who Frank turned against for slaughtering natives.
  • Dr. Lily Houghton has Prince Joachim. who is competing with her to find the Tears of the Moon. Joachim seeks to use the Tears to help Germany win World War I, while Lily is from England, which was on the opposite side of the war from Germany.
• Jurassic Park:
  • Alan Grant, Ian Malcolm, and Ellie Sattler have Lewis Dodgson, who was behind the 1993 Isla Nublar Incident, which nearly cost the three individuals their lives. Several decades later, Grant, Malcolm, and Sattler conspire to take a locust sample from Dodgson's Rasearch Facility in Italy to expose his (Dodgson's) involvement in causing the 2022 locust crisis, with Grant and Sattler infiltrating the facility as guests, while Malcolm (who was employed at Biosyn) aids them as an inside man. When Dodgson discovers this, he fires Malcolm and attempts to have Grant and Sattler killed.
    • In Jurassic Park III, Grant has the Spinosaurus, which spends the entirety of the third film stalking him and his group.
    • In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Malcolm has Peter Ludlow, who ruined Malolm's reputation after he went public with his experience on Isla Nublar, which violated a non-disclosure agreement.
  • John Hammond has Dennis Nedry, a disguntled employee who sabotoges his park in an attempt to steal dinosaur embyros, leading to the failure of Hammond's dream.
  • Owen Grady and Claire Dearing have Henry Wu, their former coworker from their time as employees at Jurassic World. Wu created the Indominus rex as a prototype military weapon, leading to the incident that led to many deaths and the abandomnent of Jurassic World. In Fallen Kingdom, he works for Eli Mills, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who betrays Owen and Claire. In Dominion, he is an accomplice to the kidnapping of Masie Lockwood, Owen and Claire's adopted daughter.
    • In the first Jurassic World, Owen has the Indominus rex (who terrorized the park where he worked at, turned his raptors against him, and killed Delta and Echo when they returned to Owen's side) and Vic Hoskins (who wants to use his velociraptors for military purposes).
    • In Fallen Kingdom, Owen and Claire have Eli Mills, who arranged to have Owen and Claire left for dead on Isla Nublar, and had Blue kidnapped.
  • Maisie Lockwood has Eli Mills, her grandfather's corrupt employee and later his murderer.
  • The Big One to Robert Muldoon, a Velociraptor who killed one of his men.
• ...And Justice for All: Arthur Kirkland has Judge Henry T. Fleming, who prevents the release of his innocent client Jeff, and later blackmails Kirkland to represent him in court. Fleming ultimately violates lawyer-client confidentiality by testifying against Fleming in court.
• The Karate Kid
  • Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Kesuke Miyagi have John Kreese, the sensei of the Cobra Kai dojo. Kreese is the Evil Mentor of the Gang of Bullies tormenting Daniel during the first film. During the 1984 All-Valley Tournament, Daniel, under the mentorship of Miyagi, defeats Cobra Kai. Shortly afterwards, Miyagi defeats Kreese in a street fight. Following this, Kreese enlists the aid of his war buddy Terry Silver to get revenge against Daniel and Miyagi.
  • Miyagi also had Sato Toguchi, his Evil Former Friend. When they were young, Miyagi challenged Sato's arranged marriage to Yukie, provoking Sato into challenging Miyagi to a Duel to the Death, which Miyagi fled. When Miyagi returns to Okinawa decades later, Sato still seeks to force Miyagi to duel him, even threatening to destroy Tomi Village if he doesn't. Sato ultimately abandons his vendetta against Miyagi after he (Miyagi) saves his life during a typhoon.
  • Julie Pierce has Ned Randall, a bully who torments her for rejecting him.
• Keoma has the other Shannon brothers, who have abused him his whole life out of sheer racism.
• Beatrix Kiddo from Kill Bill: Bill, Elle Driver, O-Ren-Ishii, Budd, and Vernita Green. All five of them ended up on her hit list after they massacred her friends, murdered her fiance, and put her in a four-year coma as payback for deserting them. Beatrix also blames them for the death of her unborn child until she discovers she is still alive at the end of the second film.
  • Bill is more of her archenemy than any of the others though, both because he was The Leader and because his betrayal seems to have hurt her the most, hence the films' titles.
• Kick-Ass: Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl have Chris D'Amico. In the first film, Chris, using the codenape Red Mist, pretends to befriend Kick-Ass and betrays him, leading to the death of Hit-Girl's father Big Daddy. In the second film, Chris, now calling himself the Motherfucker, seeks revenge against Kick-Ass for killing his father in the first film. brutalizes Kick-Ass' girlfriend Night Bitch, kills Kick-Ass' father.
  • In the first film, Big Daddy and his daughter Hit-Girl had Frank D'Amico, who who had Big Daddy framed and wrongfully jailed, leading to the suicide of Damon's wife. As a result, Damon and Mindy become vigilantes seeking revenge against him. Frank manages to have Big Daddy killed, but Hit-Girl comes for revenge. However, Hit-Girl is unable to defeat him, and it is ultimately Kick-Ass who kills Frank.
• The Killer (1989): Ah Jong has his treacherous client Hay Wong Hoi.
• Kindergarten Cop: Detective John Kimble has Cullen Crisp, a drug kingpin who he's been tracking for years and who eventually leads him to being a kindergarten teacher.
• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: Arthur has Vortigern, his Evil Uncle who usurped the throne of Camelot from Arthur's father.
• King Kong has Carl Denham, except in the MonsterVerse continuity, where his nemesis is the Skull Devil.
• Kingpin: Roy Munson has Ernie McCraken, a rival bowler who convinced him to hustle other bowlers, leading to Roy receiving his Game-Breaking Injury when he got caught.
• Kingsman: Gary "Eggsy" Unwin has Charlie Hesketh (his Rival Turned Evil who joins Richmond Valentine in The Secret Circle and becomes The Dragon to Poppy Adams in The Golden Circle), Richmond Valentine (who non-fatally shoots his mentor Harry), and Poppy Adams (who causes the deaths of his friends Roxy and Brandon, and of his dog JB).
• Kiss of Death: Nick Biano has Tommy Udo, who seeks revenge against Nick for testifying against him.
• Kung Fury has Adolf Hitler, the Kung Fuhrer, who slaughtered his police station and seeks to steal his powers.
• Kung Pow! Enter the Fist: The Chosen One has Master Betty, who killed the Chosen One's parents back when he (Betty) was still known as Master Pain.
• Labyrinth: Sarah Williams has Jareth, who kidnapped her brother.
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: Lara Croft has Manfred Powell, who stole an artifact from her, killed her Love Interest Alex West, and is revealed to have killed her father.
• Last Action Hero: Jack Slater has Benedict, who was involved in the death of his relative Frank, and the Ripper, who killed his son Andrew.
• The Last Dragon: Leroy Green has Sho'nuff and Eddie Arkadian.
  • Sho'nuff is obsessed with fighting Leroy to prove his superiority. He harrasses Leroy at his dojo and vandalizes his family's restaurant.
  • Eddie Arkadian seeks revenge against Leroy for saving Laura from his, beating up his henchman, and dunking his head in a fish tank, which had something dangerous in it (which Leroy didn't know). Arkadian kidnaps Laura again, as well Leroy's brother Richie to lure Leroy to the 7th Heaven, where he sics a Carnival of Killers on Leroy. When they fail, Arkadian lures Leroy to another location so Sho'nuff, who Arkadian allied himself with, can confront Leroy.
• The Last House on the Left: The Cunninghams have Krug Stillo, the gang leader who raped and murdered their daughter and her best friend.
• The Last King of Scotland: Nicholas Garrigan has Idi Amin Dada. The two were friends before Garrigan had an affair with Kay, one of Idi Amin's wives. Idi Amin had Kay killed for her infidelity, prompting Garrigan to attempting to assassinate Idi Amin. When this fails, Idi Amin has Garrigan tortured.
• The Last Legion:
  • Aurelius has Wulfila, who killed his parents.
  • Ambrosinus has Vortgyn, who gave him the scar on his chest.
• Magua to Hawkeye, Chingachgook, Uncas, Cora Munro, Alice Munro, Col. Edmund Munro, and Major Duncan Heyward in Last of the Mohicans. Magua has sworn vengeance against the Munro family for the death of his own family and Hawkeye, Chingachgook, Uncas and Major Heyward are protecting the women. Magua has sworn to cut out Col. Munro's heart and is as good as his word. The verdict at a debate in a Huron village leads to Magua taking Alice prisoner while Cora is to be burned at the stake, prompting Heyward's Heroic Sacrifice. Uncas, who loves Alice, impulsively pursues Magua, leading to his death as Magua cuts him down. Uncas's death prompts Chingachgook to kill Magua to avenge his son.
• Colonel Bagley and Omura to Moritsugu Katsumoto and Nathan Algren in The Last Samurai. Katsumoto's devotion to the way of the samurai runs anethema to Omura's business interests and Algren carries a grudge against Bagley for the atrocities he committed under Bagley's command against Native Americans.
• The Last Temptation of Christ: Jesus has Satan, who seeks to tempt Jesus into choosing not to die the cross.
• The Last Witch Hunter: Kaulder has the Witch Queen, who killed his family and made him immortal.
• Legend (1985): Jack o' the Green has the Lord of Darkness, who seeks to corrupt his Love Interest Lili.
• The Legend of Tarzan: Tarzan has Captain Léon Rom (who massacred a village he was aquainted with, killed Muviro, and kidnapped his wife Jane) and Chief Mbonga (who wants revenge against Tarzan for killing Mbonga's son, who killed Tarzan's adoptive mother Kala).
• Little Nicky: Nicky has his half-brothers Adrian and Cassius, whose escape from Hell results in their father beginning to literally fall apart.
• Lethal Weapon: Martin Riggs has Pieter Vorstedt, who murdered his wife Victoria.
• The Lincoln Lawyer: Mickey Haller has Louis Roulet, who commited a murder one of his prievous clients was wrongfully convicted for.
• Little Shop of Horrors: Seymour Krelborn has Audrey II, a Man-Eating Plant who uses Seymour as a pawn in her plan to Take Over the World.
• The Lone Ranger (2013):
  • John Reid has Butch Cavendish, who killed his brother and ate his heart.
  • Tonto has Laytham Cole, who massacred his tribe.
• Lone Wolf McQuade: J.J. McQuade has Rawley Wilkes, who murdered his friend Dakota and kidnapped his daughter Sally.
• The Long Kiss Goodnight: Charly Baltimore has her ex-lover Timothy, who attempts to kill both Charly herself and their daughter Caitlin.
• Lord of Illusions: Philip Swann has his former mentor Nix, the leader of a cult Swann defected from, and who Swann defeated with the aid of several other defectors. After being resurrected, Nix tries to convince Swann to rejoin him.
• Lord of War: Yuri Orlov has Jack Valentine, an Interpol agent who seeks to bring him to justice.
• The Lost Boys: Michael Emerson has David Powers, a vampire who tricks Michael into drinking a bottle of blood, turning him into a half-vampire.
• Lucy: Lucy has Mr. Jang, a drug lord who killed her boyfriend and had drugs sewn into her abdomen.

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• MacGruber: MacGruber has Dieter Von Cunth, his Evil Former Friend. MacGruber had an affair with Dieter's fiancée Casey Fitzgerald, who broke up with Dieter for MacGruber, who convinced Casey to abort her and Dieter's child. Dieter later killed Casey at her wedding to MacGruber.
• Machete:
  • In the first film, Machete Cortez has his former employer Rogelio Torrez, who betrayed him and murdered his wife and daughter.
  • In the second film, Machete has Luthor Voz, who murdered his Love Interest Sartana. Machete disfigures Voz upon learning this.
• Mad Max:
  • In the first film, Max Rockatansky has the Toecutter, a criminal biker who killed his family. In the second film, Max has Lord Humungus, the leader of a gang of maruaders who killed his dog.
  • Imperator Furiosa has Immortan Joe, the tyrant who kept her as a Sex Slave.
• The Magnificent Seven (2016): Bartholomew Bogue to Sam Chisolm and Emma Cullen. Bogue murdered Emma's husband Matthew at the beginning of the film, prompting her to recruit Chisolm and the rest of the Seven to drive Bogue off. Chisolm accepted the job to get revenge on Bogue for the rape and lynching of Chisolm's mother and sisters (as well as lynching him).
• The Man from Nowhere: Cha Tae-sik has the Seok brothers, a duo of organ traffickers who abducted his only friend.
• The Man in the Iron Mask: Philippe has King Louis XIV, his Evil Twin who had him imprisoned.
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: Ransom Stoddard has the outlaw Liberty Valance, robbed Stoddard at the beginning of the film, and who works for the cattle barons to fight Stoddard's efforts to establish statehood for the territory including the the town of Shinbone. Eventually, Valence tries to kill Stoddard, but is killed by Stoddard's friend, Tom Doniphon.
• In Marathon Man Thomas "Babe" Levy develops a grudge against Dr. Christian Szell for torturing him to gain information that Babe new nothing about.
• Masked Avengers: Lin Yung Chi and Gao Yi, his former Number Two who eventually left the organization because of his boss's crimes. Unlike most arch enemies, Gao prefers to lay low and doesn't directly oppose Lin until the end of the film.
• In the 1940 version The Mark of Zorro, Zorro has Don Luis Quintero, who usurped his father as the alcade of Los Angeles, and used his authority to oppress the people of Los Angeles. Zorro also has Quintero's Dragon-in-Chief Captain Esteban Pasquale, who enforces Quintero's tyrannical rule over Los Angeles. Diego kills Estaban in a Sword Fight towards the end of the film.
• Don Rafael Montero to Don Diego de la Vega and Captain Harrison Love to Alejandro Murrieta in The Mask of Zorro.
  • Don Rafael was the corrupt governor of Mexico when Don Diego was Zorro, and in Diego's public life he was the husband of Esperanza, the woman Don Rafael loved. Rafael discovered that Diego was Zorro, and arrested him; Esperanza was killed in the raid, and Don Rafael took Diego's daughter Elena to raise as his own.
  • Alejandro's vendetta against Captain Harrison Love is built around the fact that Captain Love killed Alejandro's brother Joaquin and put his head on display in a jar that Love drinks from. Alejandro accepted the offer to be trained by Don Diego so he could have a chance of being a good enough fighter to kill Love.
• In The Matrix: Neo has Agent Smith. Neo is a Messianic Archetype seeks to liberate humanity from the machines, whereas Smith is a Satanic Archetype who seeks to destroy both humanity and the machines who created him. Smith proved so dangerous that Neo made an Enemy Mine with the machines to stop him. Neo has seemingly killed Smith on multiple occasions, only for Smith to come back anyway.
• Mean Girls:
  • Janis Ian has Regina George, the Alpha Bitch who made her an outcast.
  • Cady Heron also develops a vendetta on Regina George for resuming her relationship with her ex-boyfriend Aaron, despite Regina knowing Cady had a crush on him. Cady destroys Regina's reputation, and usurps her position as Alpha Bitch.
• Men in Black 3: Agent K has Boris the Animal, an alien criminal who K shot the arm off of and arrested. Decades later, Boris would escape to seek vengeance against K, who regretted leaving Boris alive.
• Metropolis: Joh Fredersen and his son Freder have Rotwang. Frederson and Rowtang who rivals for the love of a woman named Hel, who ultimately chose Frederson, and died giving birth to Freder. Years later, Rotwang kidnaps Freder's Love Interest Maria and uses a robotic duplicate of Maria to incite a rebellion against Frederson's rule.
• Middle School: Rafe has Ken Dwight, a corrupt and abusive principal destroyed his sketchbook, fired his teacher Mr. Teller, and expelled him.
• Mission: Impossible: Ethan Hunt has Solomon Lane (Hunt brought him down in Rogue Nation, and Lane sought revenge in Fallout, where he planned to murder one-third of the world's population and frame Hunt for it) and Gabriel (his Evil Former Friend, who killed Ethan's lover Marie).
• Mortal Engines: Hester Shaw has Thaddeus Valentine, who killed her mother.
• MouseHunt: Ernie and Lars Smuntz have the mouse inhabiting the mansion they inherited. The mouse overcomes the Smuntz brothers various attempts to get rid of it.
• Moxie: Vivian Carter, the creator of a feminist zine, has Mitchell Wilson, a misogynistic Jerk Jock at her school.
• Jim Taylor and Senator Joseph Paine to Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Jefferson Smith has his corrupt former idol, Senator Joseph Paine. Smith also has Jim Taylor, the political boss with Paine in his pocket, and who runs a smear campaign against Smith.
• Mulan: Rise of a Warrior: Mulan has Mengdu, The Evil Prince leading the armies against China.
• The Mummy Trilogy:
  • The O'Connell-Carnahan family has Imhotep. In the first film, he seeks to sacrfice Evelyn Carnahan, who is the Love Interest of Rick O'Connell and the younger sister of Jonathan Carnahan. At the end of the first film, Jonathan kills Imhotep's lover by hijacking control over Imhotep's Elite Mooks, Evy reads the incantation stripping Imhotep of his immortality, and Rick delivers the killing blow. In the second film, the newly resurrected Imhotep's goons kidnap Alex O'Connell, the son of the now-married Rick and Evy's son, sending Rick, Evy, and Jonathan on a quest to save both Alex and the world from Imhotep.
    • Evelyn also has Imhotep's lover, Anck-Su-Namun. Evelyn was the reincarnation of Nefertiri, who was Anck-Su-Namun sparring partner in their past life. When Anck-Su-Namun and Imhotep murder Nefertiri's father Seti, Nefertiri alerts the Medjai, which in turn prompts Anck-Su-Namun to commit suicide. In modern times, Evelyn is killed by Anck-Su-Namun. Upon Evelyn's resurrection shortly afterwards, she confronts Anck-Su-Namun in a duel, slashes her face, and chases her through the pyramid.
  • Ardeth Bay has Lock-Nah. The two of them recognize each other immedietely before their fight at O'Connell Manor. Later in the film, Lock-Nah kills Ardeth's falcon Horus, only to be killed be Ardeth that night.
  • Zi Yuan has the Dragon Emperor, the Evil Overlord who murdered her lover.
• Muppets Most Wanted: Kermit has his Criminal Doppelgänger Constantine, who is responsible for Kermit's wrongful imprisonment in a Siberian gulag.
• My Super Ex-Girlfriend: G-Girl has Professor Bedlam, a Mad Scientist who seeks revenge on her for breaking his heart.
• Nacho Libre has Ramses, who Nacho looked up to until Ramses assaulted him in public.
• The Naked Gun: Frank Drebin has Papshmir. While they never meet in person, Papshmir is the most prominent villain Drebin has to deal with in the trilogy, as he is The Man Behind the Man to both Vincent Ludwig in the first film, and Rocco Dillon in the third film.
• Napoleon Dynamite has his Jerkass uncle Rico Dynamite, who spreads false rumors about Napoleon.
• National Treasure: In the first film, Benjamin Gates has Ian Howe, his former associate until Ian's lack of ethics leads to a falling out between the two. In the sequel, Gates has Mitch Wilkinson, who framed his ancestor Thomas Gates as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
• Need for Speed (2014): Tobey Marshall has Dino Brewster, who killed his friend Pete and framed Tobey for it.
• The Negotiator: Danny Roman has Grant Frost, who framed his for emblezzlement and murder.
• The Net (1995): Angela Bennett has Jack Devlin, a Professional Killer who seduced and tried to murder her.
• The Neverending Story: Atreyu has the Nothing, an Eldritch Abomination who Atreyu is on a mission to defeat before it can destroy his world, and G'mork, who is on a mission to kill Atreyu to ensure the Nothing succeeds.
• In A Nightmare on Elm Street:
  • In the first and third films, Freddy Krueger has Nancy Thompson, the daughter of two of his killers. Freddy murdered Nancy's friends and her boyfriend Glen. Several years afterwards, Nancy would teach children to use dream power to combat Freddy, creating the Dream Warriors. Although Freddy kills Nancy herself, the Dream Warriors would continue to be a threat to Freddy.
  • In the fourth and fifth films, Freddy Krueger has Alice Johnson, the most powerful heroine to oppose Freddy. After she defeats Freddy in the fourth film, he returns in the fifth film, where he kills her boyfriend and tries to corrupt her unborn child.
  • In the sixth film, Freddy has his daughter Maggie Burroughs, whose mother Freddy murdered during his mortal life.
• Reverend Harry Powell to John and Pearl Harper in The Night of the Hunter. Powell murdered the kids' mother, and spend the rest of the film trying to kill John and Pearl themselves.
• Ninja: Casey Bowman has Masazuka, his Rival Turned Evil from his student days, who killed their master and wants to take over their ninja clan.
• Noah: Noah has Tubal-Cain, who kills his father and corrupts his son Ham.
• Norbit: Norbit Albert Rice has Rasputia Latimore, his abusive wife.
• Phillip Vandamm to North By Northwest: Roger O. Thornhill has Phillip Vandamm, who tries to have him killed after mistaking him for a spy.
• The Northman: Amleth has his Evil Uncle Fjölnir, who killed his father.
• Ocean's Eleven: Danny Ocean has Terry Benedict. Terry once had a relationship with Danny's ex-wife, and Danny in turn would rob Terry's casino in the first film. In the second film, Terry forces Danny and his crew to return the money they stole from him, plus interest, within a two-week deadline. In the third film, Danny and Terry form an Enemy Mine, only for Terry to try to betray him.
• Oblivion (1994): Zack Stone and Butou have Redeye, a reptilian outlaw who killed their father and entire family, respectively.
• Lee Woo-jin to Oh Dae-su in Oldboy (2003), as he's the one responsible for him being locked up.
• Olympus Has Fallen series:
  • In London Has Fallen, President Benjamin Asher has Aamir Barkawi and his son Kamran, who seek to kill him for his role in the drone strike which killed Aamir's daughter.
  • In the Angel Has Fallen, Mike Banning has Wade Jennings, his Evil Former Friend who attempts to frame him for treason.
• Damien Thorn and Mrs. Baylock to Robert Thorn and Father Brennen in The Omen.
• Harmonica and Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West. The former has been hunting the latter for decades to put an end to his horrible crimes and to avenge the death of his brother. Frank also has Cheyenne and Jill McBain, because Frank murdered Jill's new family and framed Cheyenne for their murders.
• On the Waterfront: Terry Malloy has Johnny Friendly, who is responsible for the murder of his friend Joey.
• Orphan: Kate Coleman has Esther, her violent adopted daughter to tries to kill her son Daniel and later murders her husband John.
• The Outlaw Josey Wales: Josey Wales has Captain Terrell, who is responsible for the murders of his wife and son.
• Pan's Labyrinth: Ofelia has Captain Vidal, her abusive stepfather.
• The Patriot (2000): Benjamin Martin has Colonel Willaim Tavington, a British officer who killed his sons Thomas and Gabriel.
• Patriot Games: Jack Ryan has Sean Miller, an IRA terrorist whose brother Ryan kills. Miller in turn attacks Ryan's wife and daughter.
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure: Pee-wee Herman has Francis Buxton, his Privileged Rival who had his bike stolen.
• Perfect Assassins: Ben Carroway has Dr. Sam Greely, a Psycho Psychologist who experimented on him as a child, framed his mom for the crimes, and then made her disappear.
• Phantasm: Mike Pearson has the Tall Man, as the conflict between the two spans the entire series.
• The Phantom (1996): The Phantom has Quill, who killed his father.
• Philadelphia: Andrew Beckett has former boss Charles Wheeler, who fired him under suspicious circumstances.
• The Pink Panther: Jacques Clouseau has his long-suffering boss, later ex-boss, Charles Dreyfus, who attempts to murder Clousou multipled times because he his enraged by Clouseau's idiocy.
• Pirates of the Caribbean:
  • Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa. Once both men have died at least once, the conflict between them becomes more of a friendly rivalry.
  • Commodore Norrington might also want to put himself in for consideration as Jack's Arch Enemy, though Jack seems to regard him as more of an obstacle and sometimes pawn.
  • Cutler Beckett may qualify, as he has been the source of much/most of Jack's problems in his life. When using Jack's compass, it points him towards Jack, and Jack guesses that what Beckett wants most in the world is to see Jack dead. He also becomes one for Elizabeth Swann, whose father was killed one Beckett's orders.
  • Davy Jones definitely qualifies, since he's hellbent on claiming Jack's soul. He could also count as one for Will Turner, whose father is one of the many cursed souls forced to work on Davy Jones' ship for hundreds of years.
  • Armando Salazar also has a vendetta against Jack for causing the end of his mortal life early during Jack's career as a pirate.
  • In the fourth film, Barbossa has Blackbeard, who is indirectly responsible for the loss of his leg.
• Planet of the Apes:
  • George Taylor has Dr. Zaius, one of the few apes who know that humans were once the dominant species, but destroyed their own civilization. He firmly believes Humans Are Bastards, and perceives Taylor, an intelligent human, as a threat to the current state of the world.
  • John Brent has General Ursus, who planned to have him used as target practice. Brent later becomes the one who kills Ursus.
  • Leo Davidson has General Thade, a human hating chimpanzee whose is antagonistic towards Leo throughout the film. Thade is a prominent member of an ape society whose members are descended from apes which rebelled against the crew of the Oberon, a space station which Leo served on.
  • In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar has Dodge Langdon, who mistreated him during his captivity at the San Bruno Primate Shelter. In Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar has Koba, his former friend who attempted to murder him. In War for the Planet of the Apes, Caesar has Colonel Wesley McCullough, who kills his wife and son.
  • Koba used to have Steven Jacobs, who used him as a test subject.
• Platoon: Chris Taylor has Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes, who murders his friend Sergeant Elias.
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu: Tom Goodman and Detective Pikachu have Howard Clifford, who is responsible for his father Harry's car crash. Harry survived the crash by being fused with his Pikachu, resulting in the existance of Detective Pikachu, who cannot remember either of his past lives.
• Police Story: Chan Ka-Kui has Chu Tao, a crime boss who Chan spends the first film trying to bring to justice, and who eventually frames Chan for the murder of a fellow cop. Chan catches and assaults Chu at the end of the first film. As a result, Chan is relegated to highway patrol duty by the start of the second film, while Chu is relased from prison due to a terminal illness which will soon kill him, and seeks to torment Chan in what little time he (Chu) has left to live.
• Poltergeist: Carole Anne Freeling has Reverend Henry Kane, a spectral cult leader obsessed with using her as a conduit to return to Earth.
• Pompeii: Milo has Quintas Corvus, who was responsible for the massacre of his people, including his parents, with Milo's mother being personally killed by Corvus himself.
• Predator: Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer has the Jungle Hunter, who kills several of his conrades, including his friend Al Dillon.
• Predestination: The Temporal Agent has the Fizzle Bomber, who is responsible for him being burned and is the Temporal Agent's future self.
• In The Prestige, Alfred Borden and Robert Angier start as friendly rivals, but the two become arch-enemies when one loses a wife. By the end, one has lost his wife and his life, the other reaches a Pyrrhic Victory in besting his enemy but losing his brother and wife as well.
• Prince of Space: The Phantom of Krankor to the Prince of Space, who becomes a massive thorn in his side during his efforts to invade the Earth.
• The Princess Bride:
  • Westley has Prince Humperdinck, an entitled noble who wants to force his beloved Princess Buttercup to marry him.
  • Inigo Montoya has Count Rugen, the sadistic torturer who murdered his father.
• Problem Child: Ben Healy has Martin Beck, a Serial Killer who kidnaps his adopted son Junior.
• The Professional:
  • Mathilda Lando has Norman Stansfield, a corrupt DEA agent who murdered her brother (and her parents and sister, but Mathilda only cared about her brother).
  • Léon Montana also comes into conflict with Norman Stansfield upon becoming Mathilda's father figure. Léon kills Malky, one of Stansfield's flunkies, and Stansfield tortures Léon's boss Tony.
• Prom Night:
  • The original film: The killer/Alex Hammond to Wendy Richards, Nick McBride, Kelly Lynch, and Jude Cunningham. These four teens killed Robin Hammond years ago, and now this figure is out for revenge.
  • The remake: Richard Fenton to Donna Keppel and Detective Winn. Fenton developed a pedophilic love for Donna and murdered her family when they refused him, with Winn being the detective who put him away. Fenton escapes and comes to take another shot at Donna, with Winn trying to stop him before Fenton rapes or kills Donna.
• The Prophecy II: Valerie Rosales has Gabriel, who seeks to kill her to prevent the birth of her unborn son, who is proophesized to end the War in Heaven. Gabriel kills both Valerie's grandmother and her (Valerie's) lover Danyael.
• Psycho: Lila Crane and Sam Loomis have Norman Bates, the murderer of Marion Crane, who was Lila and Sam's sister and girlfriend respectively.
• Pulp Fiction: Butch Coolidge has Marsellus Wallace, who tries to have him killed after Butch breaks his agreement to throw a fight.
• The Pumpkin Karver: Jonathan has Alec, whom he mistakenly killed in life and who torments him as a ghost.
• The Punisher (2004): Frank Castle has Howard Saint, the mob boss who killed his entire family.
• The Quest: Christopher Dubois has Khan, who kills his friend Phang.
• Quigley Down Under: Matthew Quigley has Elliot Marston, who got him to Australia under false pretenses and left him for dead when he protested his genocide campaign.
• Rambo:
  • In the first film, Johh Rambo has Sheriff Will Teasle, an overzaelous sheriff whose abuse of Rambo sends him on a rampage.
  • In the second film, Rambo has Lieutenant Colonel Sergei T. Podovsky, a Soviet officer who tortured him, and Marshall Murdock, a corrupt CIA official who betrays Rambo, leading to his capture at Podovsky's hands.
  • In the third film, Rambo has Colonel Alexei Zaysen, who kidnaps his old friend Trautman.
  • In the fifth film, Rambo has Hugo Martinez, who is responsible the kidnapping and subsequent death of his friend Gabrielle.
• Ran: Hidetora Ichimonji has Lady Kaede, whose parents he killed and who manipulates an entire war to bring him down.
• Ready Player One (2018): Wade Watts has Nolan Sorrento, who kills his aunt.
• Red Sonja: Red Sonja has Queen Gedren, who has her family slaughtered and her gang-raped as retribution for Sonja rejecting and scarring Gedren.
• The Revenant: Hugh Glass has John Fitzgerald, who kills his son Hawk.
• The Ring: Rachel Keller has Samara Morgan, who murdered her niece Katie.
• Rio Bravo: Sheriff John T. Chance has Nathan Burdette, who seeks to free his homicidal younger brother, Joe Burdette, after Chance arrests him.
• Robin Hood (2010): Robin Longstride has Sir Godfrey, who killed Lady Marion's father Sir Walter.
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has Sheriff George of Nottingham as usual, but with the added touch of the latter killing the former's father.
• Rob Roy has Archibald Cunningham, who killed his friend Alan, stole money Rob borrowed (which led to Rob being branded as an outlaw), and raped his wife Mary.
• RoboCop
  • In the first film RoboCop has Clarence Boddicker (the crime boss who killed him as a human) and Dick Jones (a Corrupt Corporate Executive who allied himself with Boddicker, programmed Murphy become incapable of arresting a senior OCP member, arranged the assassination of Bob Morton (who had Murphy rebuilt into RoboCop), and eventually tried to have him killed. Dick Jones, for his part, is resentful that the Old Man favored the creation of RoboCop over Jones' ED-209 project).
  • In the second film, RoboCop has Cain, a crime boss who has RoboCop disassembled, and who is later transformed into an Evil Counterpart of RoboCop.
  • In the third film, RoboCop has Paul McDaggett, who is responsible for the murder of Anne Lewis.
• Rocky: Rocky Balboa has Ivan Drago and Clubber Lang.
  • Ivan proves to be a special case. He lost his rival turned friend Apollo and his health turned especially bad after the fight forcing him into retirement. Even decades later when they meet again in Creed II Rocky considers Ivan Drago the worst thing to have ever happened to him.
  • Rocky also had Clubber Lang, who accidenty killed Rocky's mentor Mickey Goldmill.
• Damon Killian to Ben Richards to The Running Man: Ben Richards has Damon Killian, who coerced him into participating in the titualar Deadly Game by threatening Laughlin and Weiss, two resistance fighters he escaped from a prison labor camp with, only for to send them with Richards into the game anyways.
• Rush Hour: Lee has Juntao, Ricky Tan, and Kenji, all of whom are affiliated with the Triads.
  • Juntao murdered one of Lee's past partners, and the mastermind behind the kidnapping of student Soo-Yung.
  • Ricky Tan is a Triad leader who was the partner of Lee's late father. Tan smugly admits to killing him in his final moments.
  • Kenji is Lee's foster brother, who personally shot Lee's longtime friend, Ambassador Solon Han.
  • Detective James Carter has Hu Li, who is The Dragon to Ricky Tan, in the second film. Hu Li encounters Carter onboard Ricky Tan's yacht, knocks out his filling in a later encounter outside the Reign Plaza Bank, fights him inside the Red Dragon Casino, and tries to kill him and Lee in a sucide attack.

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• Savaged:
  • Zoe has Trey, leader of the gang of rednecks who raped and murdered her.
  • The Apache chief has Trey's grandfather, who killed him and his entire tribe a long time ago.
• Most of the Saw series' killers have had at least one hero as an Arch-Enemy.
  • John "Jigsaw" Kramer had Eric Matthews and Jeff Denlon. Eric hates John for kidnapping his son Daniel, while Jeff gets his revenge on him for kidnapping his wife Lynn (though he was ultimately triggered by John's subordinate Amanda Young shooting her).
  • Mark Hoffman had Peter Strahm, who was the first law enforcement officer to figure that he's a Jigsaw apprentice. While their fight lasts for little more than one film, with Hoffman being the winner by getting Strahm killed and framed for a while, Strahm's partner Perez and their superior Erickson eventually become suspicious of Hoffman too, and pursue him during the investigation of Strahm's death and the reopening of the case regarding Hoffman's first victim. Hoffman also had Jill Tuck, his former accomplice who betrayed and tried to murder him with a Reverse Bear Trap after learning he blackmailed Amanda. Hoffman escapes with a scarred face, and later kills Jill, who becomes Hoffman's final victim, with a rigged Reverse Bear Trap. Jill becomes Hoffman's final victim, as Dr. Lawrence Gordon kidnaps Hoffman, chains him in the same bathroom Gordon was trapped in during the first film, deprives him of the hacksaw he could have used to cut himself free, and locks him inside as retaliation of Hoffman's murder of Jill.
  • Logan Nelson had Brad Halloran, who let one of his informants, Edgar Munsen, kill his wife while covering the crime up for him. The present storyline of Jigsaw revolves around Logan killing Edgar and several other informants of Halloran via recreations of previous Jigsaw works, which he attempts to frame Halloran for after murdering him as well.
  • Zeke Banks eventually becomes a played with version towards William Schenk. Schenk infiltrated as a rookie detective in the Metropolitan Police Department in order to target various Dirty Cops while having some covering, and sought to recruit Zeke as an accomplice since he was a moral detective who was ostracized by said corrupt officers. However, Zeke immediately rivalizes him when he finds out his identity as the Spiral Killer, and refuses to help him in continue killing cops, especially after Schenk sets up a trap to get his father killed.
• Scarface (1983): Towards the end of the film, Tony Montana gains the animosity of Alejandro Sosa, who sends henchmen to have him killed after Tony prevents the assassination of an activist planning to expose Sosa.
• Scary or Die:
  • Emmett has the unnamed were-clown who gave him his monstrous curse.
  • Connie has Romeo, her abusive boyfriend who eventually murdered her.
• Schindler's List: Oskar Schindler has Amon Goeth, a Nazi officer Schindler seeks to save as many Jews as possible from. However, this is one-sided on Schindler's end, as Goeth considers him a friend.
• School of Rock: Dewey Finn has No Vacancy, his former band who kicked him out.
• The Scorpion King: Mathayus has Memnon, who killed his half-brother Jesup.
• Ghostface to Sidney Prescott in Scream.
  • The first Ghostface, Billy Loomis, murdered Sydney's mother, Maureen, after she slept with Billy's father, ruining Billy's parents' marriage. Even after he gets his revenge on Maureen, Billy extends his vendetta to Sidney herself.
  • The second Ghostface, Debbie Salt, wants revenge against Sidney for killed her son, the aforementioned Billy Loomis.
  • The third Ghostface, Roman Bridger, is Sidney's half-brother, who hates Sydney because he was rejected by their shared mother. To escalate things, Roman was The Man Behind the Man for Billy and Stu.
  • The fourth Ghostface Jill Roberts, is Sydney's younger cousin, who wants to kill Sidney because she is envious of Sidney's fame.
• The Searchers: Ethan Edwards has Chief Scar, who is responsible for the deaths of his family and the kidnapping of his niece Debbie.
• Se7en: David Mills and his partner William Somerset have John Doe, the Serial Killer they are pursuing. Near the end of the film, John Doe reveals that he killed Mills' wife.
• Shane: Joe Starrett has Rufus Ryker, a cattle baron seeking to take his land.
• The Shawshank Redemption: Andy Dufresne has Warden Samuel Norton, who systematically ruins his life after he tries to expose the prison's corruption.
• Sherlock Holmes: Robert Downey Jr.'s incarnation of Sherlock Holmes has Professor James Moriarty, who outgambits Holmes in the 2009 film, and serves as the Big Bad of A Game of Shadows, during which he kills Irene Adler, tries to kill the Watsons, and tortures him.
  • Holmes also had Lord Henry Blackwood, a Serial Killer he captures at the beginning of the 2009 film. Three months later, Blackwood escapes imprisonment by faking his own execution, and kills three more people (whose deaths Blackwood told Holmes that he (Holmes) would not be able to prevent). Through his pawn Lord Coward, Blackwood has an arrest warrent issued against Holmes. Blackwood also tries to kill Irene Adler in a death trap and injures Watson.
  • Dr. John Watson has Sebastian Moran in A Game of Shadows. Watson is the best friend of Sherlock Holmes, and Moran is The Dragon to Moriarty. Watson already knew of Moran's reputation as an excellent marksman who was dishonorably discharged. Moran captures Holmes, who is tortured by Moriarty, and Watson rescues Holmes despite Moran's efforts to stop him, with Watson dropping a building on Moriarty in the process. During Watson, Holmes, and their allies escape from Heilbronn, Watson manages to wound Moran, who manages to shoot one of Watson's allies. Watson enounters Moran again in Reichenbach Falls, where Moran kills René Heron, the brother of Watson's ally Simza and another of Moriarty's assassins, and escapes justice.
• Shotgun (1989) Jones has Fletcher Rivington, the Amoral Attorney who killed his sister.
• Silent Night, Deadly Night: In the first film, Mother Superior has Billy Chapman, a Bad Santa Serial Killer who was abused by him as a child. In Part 2, she has Billy's younger brother Ricky, who follows in Billy's footsteps. Unlike Billy, Ricky succeeds in killing her.
• Sin City series:
  • Marv has Kevin, a Serial Killer who murdered a hooker he loved.
  • John Hartigan has Roark Junior, whom he mutilated for raping children and eventually escapes from prison to take down for good.
  • Dwight McCarthy has Ava Lord, his ex-girlfriend who tries to make him murder her husband.
  • Nancy Callahan has Senator Roark, who ruined her hero John Hartigan's life and drove him to suicide.
• Skin Trade: Nick Cassidy has Viktor Dragovic, the human trafficker who killed his wife and sold his daughter.
• Sleepy Hollow (1999):
  • Ichabod Crane has the Headless Horseman, who carries out the string out murders Ichabod is investigating, whose presence shatters Ichabod's disbelief in the supernatural, and who wounds Ichabod partway through the story. Ichabod eventually realizes that the Horseman is being controlled by Lady Mary Van Tassel, and breaks her control over the Horseman by returning his skull to him.
  • Katrina Van Tassel has her Wicked Stepmother Lady Mary Van Tassel.
• Slumdog Millionaire: Jamal Malik has his brother Salim, who turns Jamal's childhood friend Lakita over to the crime lord Javed.
• Smokey and the Bandit: Bo Darville has Sheriff Buford T. Justice, who pursues him for picking up Carrie, the Runaway Bride of Smokey's son. Since Bo's entire goal is to distract the cops so Snow can deliver a truckload of Coors to a racetrack in Georgia, Sheriff Justice may be the most thematic nemesis in dramatic history.
• Snatch.: Mickey O'Neil has Brick Top, a London gangster who murders his mother. Brick Top thinks himself the nemesis to all of the protagonist types, even though he's just a low level gangster and they're just random blokes surviving Margaret Thatcher's England.
  Brick Top: Do you know what "nemesis" means? It's a righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. In this case, an horrible ***. Me.
• The Sons of Katie Elder have Morgan Hastings, who killed their mother and stole their farm.
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Balthazar Blake has Maxim Horvath, his Evil Former Friend, who Blake imprisoned inside the Grimhold.
• The Sound of Music: Georg von Trapp has Herr Zeller, who seeks to force him to join the Nazis, and tries to prevent him from escaping Nazi-occupied Austria.
• Dark Helmet to Lone Starr in Spaceballs in Spaceballs. Subverted because Helmet and Starr have no connection whatsoever and are only forced into proximity by circumstance. Lampshaded when Helmet spells out the absurdly tenuous nature of their connection as Lone Starr's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate. With Mel Brooks it's farce all the way down.
• Spartacus: Spartacus has Marcus Licinius Crassus, who buys his Love Interest Varina, and ultimately puts down Spartacus' slave rebellion.
• Species: Preston "Press" Lennox has Sil, an alien-human hybrid. Preston is part of a team assisgned to track her down and kill her, while Sil develops an attraction towards Preston and kills Preston's teammate Stephen Arden. Preston kills Sil with a grenade launcher.
• Speed: Jack Traven has Howard Payne, a Mad Bomber whose scheme to use an elevator full of hostages to extort $3 million (a plan which Payne spent two years preparing for) was foiled by Jack. Two years later, Payne kills Jack's former partner Harry Temple.
• Spy Kids:
  • Spy Kids: Gregorio Cortez has Alexander Minion. Both of them worked on the OSS' Third Brain project, until Gegorio discovered OSS was tampering with the project and turned him in, resulting in Minion's dismissal from the OSS. Minion would later turn Gregorio into a Fooglie. After Gregorio is turned back to normal, he and his family overpower Minion, and use the threat of transforming Minion into a Fooglie (by making him hold the transformation button) in an attempt to keep him trapped. However, as soon as the Cortez family (and Floop) leave the room, Minion lets go of the button, allowing himself to be transformed into a Fooglie so he can escape.
  • Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams: Carmen and Juni Cortez have Donnagan Giggles, the Mole in Charge of the OSS and the father of Juni and Carmen's rivals Gary and Gerti. Donnagon orchestrates the theft of the prototype Transmooker, which results in Juni being fired from the OSS. After getting his hands on the real Transmooker, Donnagon tries to kill Carmen, Juni, their parents, and their maternal grandparents.
    • Juni also has Donnagan's son Gary Giggles, a rival spy who blames him for the loss of the Transmooker, resulting in Juni's dismissal from the OSS. Gary later breaks Juni's robotic helper R.A.L.P.H., and later tries to kill Juni with a Slizzard he befriended.
  • Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over: Played with between Valentin Avellan and his former comrade the Toymaker, who was responsible for his crippling, resulting in Valentin spending the next 30 years hunting the Toymaker so that he (Valentin) could tell the Toymaker that he had already forgiven him.
• Luke Plummer to the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. Plummer and his two brothers murdered Ringo's father and brother, so Ringo breaks out of prison and hitches a ride on the titular stagecoach to avenge them.
• The Sting: Johnny Hooker has Doyle Lonnegan, whose men killed his friend Luther.
• A Streetcar Named Desire: Blanche DuBois has her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, who reveals Blanche's Dark Secret, ruining her relationships with Mitch, and rapes her, which leads to her being commited to a mental hospital.
• Stuart Little:
  • In the first film, Stuart has Smokey, a cat who is offended by the knowledge that a mouse (Stuart) has a pet cat (Snowbell). Smokey arranges to have a couple of mice kidnap Stuart by pretending to be his parents, and later orders Stuart's death after learning his deceit has been compromised and the police are looking for Stuart.
  • In the second film, Stuart has the Falcon, who forces Margalo to steal Stuart's mother's ring.
• The Sweeney: Jack Regan has Francis Allen, who Regan has arrested on multiple occasions.
• Taken: Bryan Mills has several personal enemies over the course of the series.
  • In the first film, Bryan has Marko Hoxta, who kidnapped his daughter Kim and sold her into slavery. After Marko is killed by Bryan, he is replaced by Patrice Saint-Clair, who bought Kim from Marko, has Bryan's former colleague Jean-Claude Pitrel involved in his human trafficking operation, sells Kim to a sheikh, and tries to have Bryan killed. While the feud wasn't personal for Patrice, it certainly was for Bryan.
  • In the second film, Bryan has Murad Hoxta, the vengeful father of the deceased Marko. Murad kidnaps Bryan and his ex-wife Lenore, and he plans to sell Kim into sexual slavery.
  • In the third film, Bryan has Stuart St. John and Oleg Malankov, who are responsible for the murder of Lenore.
• The Talented Mr. Ripley: Tom Ripley has Freddie Miles, the Jerkass friend of Dickie Greenleaf (a rich man's son who Tom befriended). Freddie disapproves of dislikes Tom's friendship with Dickie, and after Tom kills and impersonates Dickie, Freddie goes to Tom's apartment and realizes his deception, resulting in Tom bludgeoning Freddie to death.
• Travis Bickle spends much of the film preparing to assassinate Senator Charles Palantine in Taxi Driver.
• Ted
  • Ted has Donny, his Stalker without a Crush. In the first film, Donny tries to make Ted a toy for his son Robert. In the sequel, he tries to use Ted to create more living teddy bears.
  • In the first film, John Bennett had Rex, who sought to steal John's girlfriend Lori from him.
• Teenagers from Outer Space: Derek has Thor, a fellow alien whom he butted heads with long before he got to Earth, and who is sent to capture him when he goes rogue.
• Rameses II to Moses in The Ten Commandments. Or is it GOD to Rameses?
• Terminator: SkyNet to John Connor in and Sarah Connor.
  • Every installment has SkyNet sending a Killer Robot into the past (T-800, T-1000, T-X, and the T-RIP T-800) to kill John Conner before he can grow up and lead the human race in the war against the machines.
  • In the original continuity, Sarah Conner lost her friend Ginger, her mother, and her lover Kyle Reese to the T-800 which Skynet sent to kill her. Sarah trained her son John in the hopes of making him into the hero who would save humanity from SkyNet. In the second film, her crusade against SkyNet reaches the point where shetries to murder Miles Dyson to prevent the creation of SkyNet, although she ultimately cannot bring herself to do it. In the Genisys timeline, SkyNet had Sarah's parents murdered when she was a child.
  • The T-800 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day has the T-1000, a more advanced Terminator which seeks to kill John Conner, while the T-800 seeks to protect it. The two have several confrontations over the course of the film. During their confrontation in the steel mill, the T-1000 severely damages the T-800, but the T-800 still manages to destroy the T-1000 by firing a Grenade Launcher at it, causing the T-1000 to fall into a vat of molten steel.
  • In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The T-850 has the T-X, who spends the film trying to kill John Connor and Kate Brewster, while the T-850 is trying to protect them. Towards the end of the film, the T-X corrupts his body and forces him to attack John. The T-850 reboots himself to overcome the T-X's corruption, and returns to pull a Big Damn Heros to save John and Kate from the T-X. The T-800 ultimately destroys both the T-X and himself with one his power cells.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright has Leatherface, who killed his nephew Franklin and narly killed his niece Sally.
• There Will Be Blood: Daniel Plainview has Eli Sunday. Daniel assaults Eli for demanding money from him, and Eli later publically humiliates Daniel. Daniel eventually kills Eli, but not before gloating to him that he drained the oil from the land Eli tried to sell to him.
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924): Ahmed has Cham Shang, a Mongul prince who is Ahmed's rival for the princess of Bagdad's hand in marraige. Cham Sheng exposes Ahmed's status as a thief pretending to be a prince, resulting in Ahmed being flogged and nearly executed. At the end of the film, Ahmed foils Cham Shang's plot to take over Bagdad
• The Third Man: Holly Martins has Harry Lime, his former friend turned murderous Con Man.
• This Is the End:
  • Jonah Hill is this to Jay Baruchel. Jay informs Seth that Jonah hates him, but Seth believes Jonah is a saint. Jay turns out to be right when Jonah reveals his true colors by praying to God for Jay's demise — which horribly backfires on him.
  • Danny McBride is this to James Franco. Franco already hates McBride with a passion for being obnoxious as well as wasting his food and water. When McBride becomes a cannibal, he eats Franco alive after the latter loses his opportunity to reach Heaven.
• Timecop: Max Walker, an agent of the Time Enforcement Commission, has Senator Aaron McComb, a Corrupt Politician messing up history for his own political gain, resulting in the death of Max's wife Melissa. McComb also has Walker's partner Sarah Fielding as a mole.
• Titanic (1997): Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater have Caledon Hockley, the latter's abusive fiancé.
• To Kill a Mockingbird: Atticus Finch has Bob Ewell, who framed his innocent client for beating his daughter, and decides to kill his children after Finch makes him look like a fool in open court.
• Tokyo Gore Police: Ruka has the Chief of Police, who killed her father to privatize the police force.
• Tomb Raider (2018): Lara Croft has Mathias Vogel, a Trinity operative connected with her father's disappearance, as Richard Croft stayed on Yamatai to keep Mathias from discovering Himiko's tomb. After Mathias' death, a Sequel Hook reveals Ana Miller, a woman who Lara trusted, as The Man Behind the Man to Mathias, setting her up as Lara's new Arch Enemy for a sequel that never came.
• Johnny Ringo and Curly Bill to Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday in Tombstone. Wyatt Earp has Curly Bill Brocius, the leader of an outlaw gang responsible for the murder of his brother Morgan.
• Total Recall (1990):
  • Douglas Quaid has Vilos Cohaagen who is responsible for the creation Douglas Quaid by altering the memories of his loyal friend Carl Hauser to turn him into a Manchurian Agent. After Quaid unwittingly carries out this role, Cohaagen plans to to revert Quaid back to the Carl Hauser personality, which Quaid now despises.
  • Quaid also has Richter, who despises Quaid for sleeping with his undercover wife Lori, and later for killing her.
  • Quaid also has Lori, an agent of Cohaagan's who pretended to be Quaid's wife.
• Touch of Evil: Mike Vargas has Hank Quinlan, a corrupt police captain who framed his wife Susan for murder.
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown: Captain JD Ramirez has the Phantom Killer, a Serial Killer he was called into Texarkana to stop, and whose escape from capture haunts him for the rest of his life.
• The Toxic Avenger has Bozo, the violent thug who dunked him in the waste in the first place.
• Trading Places: Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine have Randolph and Mortimer Duke, who ruin Louis' life over a $1 bet, and plot to deprive Valentine of the newfound success they helped him attain.
• Officer Jake Hoyt and Detective Alonzo Harris gradually become enemies throughout the progression of Training Day.
• Trancers: Jack Deth has Martin Whistler, a mind-controlling criminal whom he regularly thwarted in the past, giving them a mutual hatred.
• Transformers Film Series: Optimus Prime has Megatron. Their conflicts spans across all five films of the Michael Bay continuity, and both of them have come Back from the Dead after being killed by the other.
  • Optimus Prime also has the Fallen (a treacherous former Prime and The Man Behind the Man to Megatron. The Fallen incorrectly believes that Optimus is the last Prime, and therefore, the only one who can defeat him) and Sentinel Prime (Optimus' former mentor who defects to the Decepticons and kills Ironhide), Lockdown (who kills Ratchet and captures Optimus), and Quintessa, who brainwashes him).
• The Transporter: Frank Martin has Wall Street, his former employer who tried to have him killed.
• Tropic Thunder: Tugg Speedman has Tran, the leader of a gang who kidnap Tugg and force him to reenact one of his most unsuccessful films, Simple Jack (which Trans and his gang are huge fans of) several times a day.
• Troy:
  • Briseis has Agamemnon, who tries to enslave her, hands her over to his men, and tries to enslave her again during the Sack of Troy, which results in Briseis killing him.
  • Achilles has Hector, who kills his cousin Patroclus.
  • Paris has Menelaus, who seeks revenge against him for stealing his wife Helen, therefore violating Menelaus' Sacred Hospitality.
• True Grit:
  • Mattie Ross has Tom Chaney, who murdered her father.
  • Rooster Cogburn has Lucky Ned Pepper, an outlaw leader who he has prior history with. Cogburn shot Ned in the lip during a confrontation prior to the events of the film.
• True Lies: Harry Tasker has Salim Abu Aziz, who kidnaps him and his wife Helen, and later takes their daughter Dana hostage.
• True Romance: Clarence Worley has Vincenzo Coccotti, although they never meet in person. Coccotti kills Clarence's father Clifford, and hunts Clarence and his lover Alabama for the theft of cocaine belonging to Coccetti's boss, Blue Lou Boyle.
• Since Bruce Willis's character, David Dunn, turns out to be a comic book superhero in Unbreakable, it only stands to reason that he'd have an arch-enemy. Elijah Price, who is right under his nose.
• Under Siege: Casey Ryback, had William Strannix, who led the terrorist attack on the USS Missouri, the battleship Ryback served aboard, and Commander Krill, who was Strannix's mole in the Missouri's crew, and who killed Ryback's commanding officer, Captain Adams.
• Underworld: Selene has Viktor, who killed her parents and deceived her into thinking the Lycans were responsible.
• Unforgiven: William Munny has Little Bill Daggett, a sheriff who beats him and later has his friend Ned tortured to death.
• The Untouchables (1987): Eliot Ness has Al Capone, a crime boss who targets his family in response to Ness' investigation of him. Additionally, Capone's henchman, Frank Nitti, is responsible for killing Oscar Wallace and Jim Malone, two of Ness' fellow Untouchables.
• The Usual Suspects: Dave Kujan has Keyser Söze, a criminal who he seeks to bring down. Keyser Söze turns out to be Roger "Verbal" Kint, a Con Man who Kujan spent the film interrogating. Kint was able to outsmart Kujan by telling him what he wanted to believe: that Keyser Söze was Dean Keaton, a Dirty Cop turned career criminal who Keaton spent several years investigating. By the time Kujan realizes Kint's deception, it is already too late to stop him.
• V for Vendetta: V has the entire Norsefire party, who experimented on him and has dropped the country into fascism.
• Valentine: Dorothy Wheeler to Jeremy Melton/Adam Carr. Dorothy framed Jeremy for sexually assaulting her in middle school, corroborated by her friends Paige, Lily, and Shelley. While Jeremy wants all four of them dead for ruining his life, he goes out of his way to break Dorothy completely by killing her boyfriend and destroying her reputation by framing her for his killing spree.
• Versus: Prisoner KSC2-303 has "The Man," a necromancer he's destined to battle each time he reincarnates.
• The Virgin Spring: Tore has the two shepherds who raped and murdered his daughter.
• Gordon Gekko to Bud Fox in Wall Street. Bud Fox was Gekko's former protege, until Gekko manipulates Fox into helping him bankrupt his father's company.
• War of the Worlds (2005): Ray Ferrier has the aliens, who invade the Earth and nearly kill him and his children many times. Harlan Ogilvy also becomes this when he endangers Ray and his daughter due to his obsession with fighting the aliens.
• The Warriors have Luther, who framed them for the murder of a powerful gang leader.
• David Allen Griffin to Joel Campbell in The Watcher.
• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?: Blanche Hudson has her sister, Baby Jane Hudson. Blanche crippled herself in a failed attempt to run over Jane, and consequently spent years as a cripple in Jane's care. Eventually, Jane became abusive towards Blanche, turning her into a prisoner in their own house.
• Whiplash: Andrew Neiman has Terence Fletcher, his abusive teacher, later former teacher who seeks to humiliate Andrew for getting him fired.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit have Judge Doom, who is responsible for the murder of Eddie's brother, and for Roger's Frame-Up.
• The Witches Hammer: Rebecca has Madeline Renoir, who ordered everybody else in her Creature-Hunter Organization massacred.
• In Without a Clue, Professor Moriarty and... wait for it... Dr. Watson. Moriarty is the only one smart enough to have figured out that the man called "Sherlock Holmes" is just a front for Watson, who's the real Great Detective.
• The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy Gale has the Wicked Witch of the West, who seeks the ruby slippers on Dorothy's feet, which can only be removed upon the death of the wearer.
• Wolfman: The Glasgow family has Reverend Leonard, a Satanist priest sent to torment them after a member reneges on a Deal with the Devil.
• The Wolf of Wall Street: Jordon Belfort, corrupt stockbroker, has Patrick Denham, the FBI agent resistant to his bribes, who seeks to bring Belfort down. It ultimately becomes a hollow victory for Denham, as despite Denham helping being down Belfort's company, Belfort himself ends of being sentenced to a mere 36 months in a minimum securty prison.
• Youth of the Beast: Jo Mizuno has Nomoto Testuo, the yakuza boss who killed his partner.
• Zombie Cop: Robert Gill has Dr. Death, the voodoo priest who zombified him.
• Zoolander: Derek Zoolander has Jacobin Mugatu, who tries to brainwash him into assassinating the prime minister of Malaysia, and sabotaged the contruction of the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good, leading to the death of Derek's wife Matilda and the disfigurement of Hansel.

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