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  • The Naked Gun:
    • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!: Vincent Ludwig, a wealthy socialite plotting the assassination of Queen Elizabeth II.
    • Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear: Quentin Hapsburg, who's behind the kidnapping of Dr. Meinheimer and plans to have a lookalike endourse his own energy policy.
    • Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult: Rocco Dillon, who plots to bomb the Academy Awards.
  • Nam Angels: Chard, a former Nazi who's kidnapped a group of American soldiers in Vietnam.
  • National Treasure: Ian Howe, who plots to steal the Declaration of Independence to find the Templar Treasure. Ben Gates plans to steal the Declaration before Ian can destroy it.
    • National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets: Mitch Wilkinson frames Ben's ancestor Thomas Gates of being a member of John Wilkes' Booth's conspiracy, forcing Ben to find Cibola to clear his ancestor's name.
  • Nazi Overlord: Dr. India Eris, who has joined up with the Nazis to make bioweapons for them.
  • Near Dark: Jesse Hooker, leader of a ruthless vampire gang.
  • Ned Kelly (1970): Superintendant Nicholson, head of the corrupt police department that drove Ned to crime.
  • The Negotiator: Commander Grant Frost, the one behind Nate's murder.
  • Nekrotronic: Finnegan, a corrupted nekromancer seeking to unleash demons upon Earth.
  • The Neverending Story: The Nothing, a force created from the forgotten hopes and dreams of mankind that threatens to erase Fantasia, and by extension, humanity's imagination.
    • The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter: Xayide, an evil sorceress who spreads the Emptiness across Fantasia, leaving its denizens devoid of meaning.
    • The Neverending Story III: Escape From Fantasia: Slip, the leader of the Nasties who steal the NeverEnding Story Book and use it to cause chaos in both Fantasia and the real world.
  • New Jack City: Nino Brown, a rising crime lord and drug dealer in New York City, who takes control of an apartment complex and capitalizes on the crack epidemic.
  • The New York Ripper: Peter Bunch, a duck-voiced madman killing women in New York.
  • Nightbreed: Dr. Philip Decker, Boone's Psycho Psychologist who frames him for murders he committed and starts a war against the Nightbreed.
  • Nightcrawler: Louis "Lou" Bloom, who is willing to commit any crime to get good footage for the news.
  • Night at the Museum:
    • Night at the Museum: Cecil Fredericks, Larry Daley's predecessor as head night watchman at the Museum of Natural History. He accepted Larry as a replacement in the first place in spite of Larry's poor resume so he and his co-night watchmen Gus and Reginald could conspire to steal the Tablet of Ahkmenrah, which reinvigorates them at night in addition to bringing to life the museum exhibits, and frame Larry for the crime so they could have a graceful retirement, even if it means robbing the exhibits of their life. Larry ultimately catches up to him and defeats him, but doesn't have Cecil arrested, leading to him becoming a reformed Ex-Big Bad in Secret of the Tomb.
    • Night at the Museum: Battle of The Smithsonian: Kahmunrah, Ahkmenrah's older brother. He sees an opportunity to use the Tablet of Ahkmenrah to summon his underworld army to Take Over the World when the tablet arrives at the Smithsonian with the many museum exhibits shipped to it from the Museum of Natural History. Kahmunrah actively opposes Larry's attempts to stop him and save the other exhibits, even threatening Jedediah at one point, and puts together an alliance with Ivan the Terrible, Napoléon Bonaparte, and Al Capone in order to have greater power. Unlike Cecil and Lancelot, Kamunrah never gets a Heel–Face Turn and is soundly defeated for his crimes.
    • Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb: Lancelot, the museum exhibit based on the famed Knight of the Round Table from Arthurian Legend. He is initially introduced as a new ally who Larry and the other museum exhibits encounter at the British Museum, before becoming convinced the Tablet of Ahkmenrah is the Holy Grail he seeks for Arthur and Guinevere and steals it from Larry before running off into the streets of Britain. His shock at discovering he is not a real person leads to a further Villainous Breakdown until the Tablet beginning to lose the last of its magic, leading the rest of the exhibits to start going inanimate, convinces him to have a Heel–Face Turn, give up the Tablet, and let Larry restore its magic to save them.
  • The Night Flier: Dwight Renfield, a vampiric pilot stalking the airfields of America.
  • Night Hunter (1996): Ulmer, a Vampire Monarch trying to make sure the eclipse happens properly to continue his species.
  • Night of the Demon: Julian Karswell, the leader of a devil-worshiping cult who's using a demon to kill his enemies.
  • Night of the Demons (1988): The demon possessing Angela leads the chaos in Hull House.
  • The Night of the Hunter: Reverend Harry Powell, a corrupt preacher and Serial Killer who will go to any length to obtain the money hidden by his former prisonmate Ben Harper.
  • Night of the Templar: Lord Renault, who masterminded Gregoire's slaying.
  • A Night to Dismember: Mary Kent, the latest in a long line of killers in a certain family.
  • Night Watch: Zavulon, head of the Dark Others, who wants to make the centuries-long cold war between Dark and Light hot again.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger, an undead child killer stalking the dreams of his killers' children.
  • Ninja: Masazuka, who is seeking to steal his former master's collection of weapons, and is taking advantage of a corporatist cult to do so.
  • No Country for Old Men: Anton Chigurh, a hitman initially tasked with obtaining the money lost in the shootout, but goes rogue and starts killing everyone in his pursuit of the money.
  • Noah: Tubal-Cain, who wants to seize Noah's Ark for his tribe of cannibals and rapists.
  • Non-Stop: Tom Bowen, who masterminds the plane hijacking in order to prove the lack of safety in American airline security.
  • Nope has a mysterious UFO abducting the Haywoods' horses, leading the siblings to try and get photographic evidence of it. While at first believed to be an alien spaceship, the UFO is revealed to actually be a living predatory creature that was eating the horses alive, and the situation goes From Bad to Worse when the beast (dubbed Jean Jacket by OJ) eats everyone at the Star Lasso Experience at Jupiter's Claim...
  • Noroi: The Curse: Kagutaba, a demon trying to get itself summoned into the world and whose very spiritual presence is a curse on those around it.
  • North to Alaska: Frankie Cannon, who's out to take the group's gold for himself.
  • Nosferatu: Count Orlok, a vampire spreading a plague across a German village.
  • Now You See Me: Dylan Rhodes, the Fifth Horseman who's been controlling the Four Horsemen the entire time.
    • Now You See Me 2: Arthur Tressler turns out to be the mastermind of the plot targeting the Horsemen.
  • Nudist Colony of the Dead: Mrs. Druple, head of a group of zombie nudists who kill religious people.

    O 
  • Ocean's Eleven: Terry Benedict, a ruthless billionaire whose casinos Danny Ocean targets for his heist.
    • Ocean's Twelve: Terry Benedict again, who forces Danny and his crew to repay the money they stole, and François Toulour, a thief envious of Danny's legendary heist who sold him and his crew out to Benedict and is determined to outdo him.
    • Ocean's Thirteen: Willy Bank, who tricks Reuben into investing in his new big hotel-casino and then he takes everything for himself; with Danny Ocean planning to rob it as revenge.
  • Old: [[spoiler:The pharmaceutical executive masquerading as a hotel resort manager who's been trapping tourists with different chronic illnesses on the beach in order to study them for medical research.
  • Oldboy (2003): Lee Woo-Jin, the one responsible for imprisoning Oh Dae-su for fifteen years; leading him to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • Olympus Has Fallen: Kang Yeonsak, a terrorist who leads the takeover of the White House.
  • The Ωmega Man: Jonathan Matthias, the leader of the group of albino mutants, "The Family", who has set out to eliminate all traces of civilization; including Robert Neville.
  • The Omen: Damien Thorn, the Anti Christ destined to bring ruin to the world.
  • On Guard: Philippe de Gonzague, a French 18th century nobleman who's jealous of the wealth of his cousin Philippe de Nevers and kills him to inherit his fortune and marry his wife.
  • On the Waterfront: Johnny Friendly, a mob boss running the dockworkers' union whose illegal activities Terry plans to expose.
  • Once Upon a Time in the West: Frank, a ruthless mercenary who is tasked with forcing the McBain family off their land. This brings him into conflict with Harmonica, a gunman with a vendetta against Frank.
  • The One: Gabriel Yulaw, a former officer of the Multiverse Authority who travels to various parallel universes to kill alternate versions of himself so he can absorb their power and become "the One", with Gabe Law being his final target.
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Nurse Ratched, the abusive, domineering nurse who runs the state hospital with an iron fist. At least until Randle shows up.
  • One Hour Photo: Seymour Parrish, a mentally disturbed photo developer who obsessively stalks the Yorkins family.
  • One Man's Justice: Agent Karl Savak, a corrupt FBI agent selling weapons.
  • Ong-Bak: Komtuan, a crime boss who has the head of the sacred Buddha statue stolen from Ting's village.
    • Ong Bak 2: Rajasena, a warlord responsible for the deaths of Tien's family, leading Tien to seek revenge against him.
    • Ong Bak 3: An evil mystic warrior who usurps Rajasena's position as king and intends to use his powers to rule the land.
  • The Open House: An unnamed Serial Killer terrorizing people at open houses.
  • Orphan: Esther Coleman, a woman with dwarfism posing as a child who plans to kill her latest adoptive family so she can have John to herself.
  • Othello: Iago, who drives Othello insane by convincing him his wife is cheating on him.
  • Out of the Furnace: Harlan DeGroat, a crime boss responsible for the death of Rodney's brother, Russell.

    P 
  • P-51 Dragon Fighter: Dr. Heinrich Grudun, a Nazi occultist setting dragons upon the Allies.
  • Pacific Heights: Carter Hayes, Patty and Drake's new tenant who torments them in order to get their property for cheap.
  • Pacific Rim: The Progenitors, a group of aliens who keep setting kanji on Earth to destroy the humans.
  • Pan's Labyrinth: Captain Vidal, a Francoist soldier bent on crushing the leftist revolutionaries.
  • Peeping Tom: Mark Lewis, the Villain Protagonist, who kills women while photographing their death cries.
  • Peppermint: Diego Garcia is the son of a Cartel chief, responsible for much of the LA drug trade. He directly ordered the hit on protagonist Riley North's husband, and drives the villainous manhunt against North.
  • Phantasm: The Tall Man, a Humanoid Abomination acquiring corpses to make into his slaves.
  • Phantom of the Paradise: Mr. Swan, the devil-worshipping CEO of Death Records who steals Winslow's music and has him sent to prison; driving him to become the Phantom and exact his revenge.
  • The Phenix City Story: Mob boss Rhett Tanner, who runs the Poppy Club and all the organised crime in Phenix City, is the main antagonist and directly or indirectly responsible for all the bad things that happen in the movie.
  • Phenomena: Patua Bruckner, a Serial Killer offing girls near a boarding school.

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    R 
  • Ran: Lady Kaede, who masterminds a civil war within the Ichimonji clan to avenge her family.
  • Ravenous (1999): Colonel Ives, a cannibalistic soldier who kills his way through the cast of the film.
  • Rawhead Rex: Rawhead Rex, an ancient monster terrorizing an Irish village.
  • Ready Player One (2018): Nolan Sorrento, who wants to win the game in order to turn the OASIS into a monetized pay-to-play advert-filled standard MMO to grossly increase IOI's profits and deprive most of the poor of their access to it.
  • Real Steel: Farra Lemkova, a powerful businesswoman who aids Zeus' creator, Tak Mashido.
  • Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator: Dr. Carl Hill, who plagiarized Herbert West's mentor and becomes a mad zombie out to destroy him.
  • Red series:
  • Revolution (1985): Sergeant Major Peasy, who kidnaps Tom's son to act as a drummer boy for the British army.
  • Roh: Tok, the kindly old woman helping the family in their struggle against the supernatural evil plaguing them, who turns out to be a demon responsible for said evil, which is mostly illusionary rather than physical and meant to make humans turn against and destroy each other.
  • Rolli – Amazing Tales: The High Priest of the Trashers plans to diabolically destroy the Rölli Forest by polluting it into lifelessness. He's technically The Dragon of the Great Trash, the Trashers' deity, but he has a lot more screen-time, and he's the one who gives the Trashers all the orders and devices their plans. After the Great Trash has died and the Trashers dispersed, the High Priest tries to kill the heroes, threatening afterwards to convert new Trashers and destroy the forest. It's after his death that the threat is considered to be finally over.
  • Rolling Thunder: The Texan, the gang leader who killed Charles Rane's family.
  • Rolling Vengeance: Tiny Doyle, a Small-Town Tyrant who gives his sons free reign to terrorize his small town.
  • Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods: Lackey, the glib adviser of the rolley tribe's chieftain, is ultimately the most mean-spirited of all the rolleys. After the old chieftain leads the tribe to settle in the village of elves and passes away, Lackey is the most vocal about the tribe's refusal to live peacefully with the elves. After Big Rolley becomes the chieftain by force, Lackey proceeds to influence the tribe through him, and then through Rolli when the latter replaces Big Rolley, manipulating him to attack the elves, which leads to Millie's Disney Death and the sun being concealed by the moon. He's ultimately stripped of all authority, allowing the rolleys and elves to coexist peacefully.
  • The Room (2003): Lisa, Johnny's adulterous girlfriend whose seduction of his best friend causes the plot.
  • Runaway: Dr. Charles Luther is responsible for the robot rampages.
  • The Running Man: Damon Killian, the host of the titular show that Ren Richards is forced to participate in.
  • Rush Hour:
    • Rush Hour: Juntao/Thomas Griffin, who kidnaps Han's daughter as payback for his criminal empire being squandered.
    • Rush Hour 2: Ricky Tan, a Triad leader who orchestrates a bombing on China's U.S. Embassy as a means of distracting from taking his counterfeiting racket to a Las Vegas casino.
    • Rush Hour 3: Kenji, Lee's estranged foster-brother and a criminal mastermind out to kill Genevieve, a woman under Lee and Carter's protection, for her information on the Triad.
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist who runs a castle of debauchery.

    S 
  • Sahara (2005): Brigadier General Zateb Kazim, Mali's oppressive ruler who's responsible for the nation's water supply getting polluted.
  • The Saint (1997): Ivan Tretiak, a billionaire who dominates the gas and oil market in Moscow and is responsible for its freezing crisis.
  • Salt: Ted Winter and Oleg Vasilyevich Orlov, both of whom kidnap Evelyn Salt's husband and forces her to assassinate the Russian and US Presidents with the intention of kickstarting a nuclear war.
  • Salvador: Major Maximiliano Casanova, the leader of the far-right ARANA party and the head of death squads plaguing El Salvador
  • Samson and Delilah (1949): The Saran of Gaza, the emperor of the Philistines oppressing the Hebrews.
  • Samurai Cop: Fujiyama, a Yakuza boss out to take over Los Angeles' drug trade.
  • Satan's Slave: Darminah, a demon who torments and enslaves lapsed Muslims.
  • Satan's Little Helper: The Satan Man, a Serial Killer pretending to be Satan.
  • Savaged: Trey, leader of a gang of rednecks who kill Native Americans for fun.
  • Savages: Elena Sánchez, the leader of a Mexican drug cartel who intends on expanding their operations in the US by taking over Ben and Chon's weed business.
  • The Shadow: Shiwan Khan, the descendant of Genghis Khan who plans to destroy New York City in order to get the rest of the world to kneel before him.
  • Shadow of the Vampire: Max Schreck, a vampire who joins Murnau's film and attempts to feed on the entire crew.
  • Shane: Rufus Ryker, who tries to drive the homesteaders off their land for his own benefit.
  • Shaft: Lee, a thug who's kidnapped a Harlem mobster's daughter for The Mafia.
  • Shapeshifter: Marcoux, a Russian mobster whose imprisonment started the Shapeshifter's rampage.
  • Silver Lode: Fred McCarty, the leader of the group of men riding into Silver Lode looking for Dan Ballard, is the main antagonist and directly or indirectly responsible for all the bad things that happen in the movie.
  • Sin City:
    • The Hard Goodbye: Kevin, a Seiral Killer and cannibal who murders Goldie, the love of Marv's life, and Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark, who actively protects Kevin and allows him to continue his cannbalistic activities in his barn.
    • The Big Fat Kill: Manute, who seeks to destroy Old Town when the prostitutes there killed one of his organization's Dirty Cops.
    • That Yellow Bastard: Ethan Roark Jr., whose attempts to rape Nancy force Hartigan to come after Junior to defend her.
  • Sin City: A Dame to Kill For:
  • A Dame To Kill For: Ava Lord, who tries to manipulate into murdering her husband.
  • The Long Bad Night: Senator Roark, who wants to make Johnny suffer for humiliating him in a game of poker.
  • Nancy's Last Dance: Senator Roark again, who Nancy wants revenge against for driving Hartigan kill himself.
  • Snowpiercer: Wilford. He created the Snowpiercer train, and is responsible for the caste system that keeps the tail-enders in such nightmarish exploitative conditions. He also uses Gilliam to causes rebellions that are intended to fail as a means of population control, with Curtis's being only the most recent.
  • Society: Judge Carter, master of a Body Horror cult of rich people.
  • Sodom and Gomorrah: Queen Bera of Sodom is the embodiment of all vice in this version of the Old Testament story. She kidnaps innocent people to use as slave labour in the salt mines that have made her cities wealthy, tortures them to death for information or simply for entertainment, actively encourages the depravities of every free citizen under her rule, and takes personal satisfaction in corrupting the devout Lot and the other Hebrews with the life of decadence available within Sodom's walls. Such is Jehovah's displeasure with her and everything she represents that He razes the cities to the ground.
  • A Soldier's Story: Private Peterson.
  • Solo (1996): General Clyde Haynes, the military official who ordered Solo created and now wants him destroyed.
  • Some Like It Hot: Spats Colombo. He'ss the Chicago mafia boss responsible for gunning down a rival gang and hunting down Joe and Jerry as witnesses, forcing them to go undercover as women. At least until he's killed by his boss, Little Bonaparte, who takes over as main villain for the last part of the film.
  • Someone to Watch Over Me: Joey Venza, who attempts to kill socialite Claire Gregory, the sole witness of his murder of Winn Hockings; with Detective Mike Keegan being assigned with protecting her.
  • Something Wild: Ray Sinclair, a low level thief that robs convenience stores and an abusive, would-be rapist.
  • The Sons of Katie Elder: Morgan Hastings, who murdered Katie Elder to get her farm.
  • The Sound of Music: Herr Zeller, a Nazi Gauleiter attempting to force Captain Georg von Trapp into the Kriegsmarine.
  • South Bronx Heroes: Mr. Bennett, a foster parent who makes child porn of his charges.
  • Speed: Howard Payne, a Mad Bomber who rigs a bus full of people to explode if it goes under 50 mph, unless he's paid a ransom.
  • Spotlight: Cardinal Bernard Law, mastermind of a mass coverup of sexual abuse in the Boston Catholic Church.
  • SS Doomtrooper: Dr. Ullman, a Mad Scientist making Nazi super soldiers.
  • Stagecoach: Geronimo, the leader of the Apaches who is responsible for much of the danger the party faces, and the Plummer Brothers, the gang of killers and archenemies of the Ringo Kid.
  • Stage Fright (2014): Roger McCall, the seemingly-kind head of a theatre camp, who secretly started the plot by killing the killer's mother.
  • Stalag 17: Price, The Mole sabotaging the prisoners' clandestine resistance efforts and escape attempts, and using Sefton as a scapegoat.
  • Starship Troopers: The Brain Bug, the leader of the Bugs at war with humanity.
    • Starship Troopers 3: Marauder: It's revealed that the Brain Bugs are actually in thrall to an even higher leadership caste of which there is only one member, the humongous Bug God Behemecoatyl.
  • Stardust: Lamia, an evil witch that desires Yvaine's heart so she may remain young and beautiful.
  • Stargate: Ra, an Ancient Astronaut using his advanced knowledge to enslave two planets, putting on a God Guise and ruling his subjects with an iron fist.
  • State of Play: Stephen Collins, the one responsible for the death of Sonia Baker.
  • The Stepfather and the 2009 remake: The unnamed stepfather, who keeps marrying into families and killing them when they fail to meet expectations.
  • Summer of '84: Officer Wayne Mackey, the true identity of the Cape May Slayer who's now targeting Davey.
  • Sunrise: The Woman From the City, who is responsible for making the man nearly drowning his wife.
  • Sunshine: Pinbacker, who works to sabotage the attempts of the Icarus II crew to reignite the Sun.

    T 
  • Taken:
  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three has Mr. Blue, the mastermind behind the titular hijacking.
  • A Tale of Two Cities: Madame Therese Defarge, who seeks the destruction of anyone even remotely related to the Evrémondes after the Evrémonde brothers killed her family.
  • A Tale of Two Sisters: The real Heo Eun-ju, who caused Su-mi's mental break by letting Su-yeong die.
  • Tales of Halloween:
    • "Sweet Tooth": Sweet Tooth, a homicidal candy-obsessed spirit.
    • "The Night Billy Raised Hell": Mr. Abaddon, a demon tormenting a child who pranked him.
    • "Trick": Caitlyn, leader of a gang of child torturers.
    • "The Weak and the Wicked": Alice, a sadistic gang banger tormenting children.
    • "Grim Grinning Ghost": Mary Bailey, a ghost stalking a young woman.
    • "Ding Dong": Bobbie, a witch plotting to eat a child.
    • "This Means War": Boris, a guy going insane over his neighbor's Halloween decorations.
    • "Friday the 31st": An unnamed Serial Killer stalking the woods.
    • "The Ransom of Rusty Rex": Rusty Rex, a demon who binds himself to poor victims.
    • "Bad Seed": Milo, a corporate stooge distributing mutant pumpkins.
  • The Thing (1982) and its 2011 prequel has the titular alien, with its ability to spread like a virus and replicate any living thing it absorbs causing paranoia at the camps as everyone tries to figure out who's human and who's the alien in disguise.
  • The Thin Man: Herbert MacCauley, the true identity of the killer.
  • Think Fast, Mr. Moto: Joseph B. Wilkie, the head of the smuggling operation.
  • The Third Man: Harry Lime, who's been running an underground penicillin racket, leaving countless men, women, and children poisoned.
  • Thir13en Ghosts: Cyrus Kriticos, who intends on killing Arthur in order to complete a ritual that will give him infinite power.
  • To Die For: Suzanne Stone Maretto.
  • Toho's non-Godzilla tokusatsu films have plenty of Big Bads:
    • Invisible Man: The villain is not the invisible man Nanjō, who's actually the kindly protagonist. It's Yajima, leader of a gang of criminals, who capitalizes on the the recent revelation of the invisible man's existence to go on a bank-robbing spree with his men posing as invisible men.
    • Half Human: Oba starts out as the Big Bad, being the unscrupulous circus animal broker who seeks to capture the elusive snowman of the Japanese Alps and make a mint exhibiting him. When he kills the snowman's son in the process, the snowman goes mad, killing Oba and his henchmen and then terrorizing all humans it comes across, becoming the final threat.
    • Legend of the White Serpent: There are two independent antagonists who cause the problems for the heroes. This being an adaptation of the Chinese fairy tale "Legend of the White Snake," one of them is the Taoist monk who seeks to unmask Bai Niang, aka Madame White Snake, as a snake spirit to her beloved husband Xu Xian and kill her. The other is original character Wang Ming, the lecherous moneylender who tries to force Bai Niang into sleeping with him and ultimately sets in motion the events that reveal her.
    • The Mysterians: The leader of the Mysterians, a remnant of an alien civilization destroyed by nuclear war. He leads his people in the attempted annexation of a significant chunk of Japan and the kidnapping of human females which whom they can reproduce.
    • Throne of Blood: Taketoki Washizu and his wife, Asaji. Asaji is the schemer and most ambitious of the two, being the one who pushes Washizu into betraying and usurping his daimyo, but Washizu is the one who holds the actual power and it is ultimately his choice (or is it?) to go along with his wife's plan. The eerie spirit of the Spider's Web forest might also be considered a Big Bad, as it is her prophecy that sets the whole plot in motion and her goading encourages Washizu to pursue his destiny to its bloody end.
    • The H-Man: There are two separate Big Bads. The most dangerous are the H-Men, horrifying sometimes-humanoid blob monsters that were once human until their encounter with H-bomb radiation. They have the nasty ability of transforming those they come into contact with into H-Men as well. The other Big Bad is a more human evil, Uchida, leader of a gang of drug smugglers, who unwittingly becomes entangled in the H-Men's rampage when one of his men becomes an H-Man.
    • The Three Treasures: Ōtomo no Takehi, one of Emperor Keikō's scheming advisors, who plots to get the first-in-line to the throne, the legendary Yamato Takeru, killed so that his nephew will succeed the emperor instead.
    • Battle in Outer Space: The alien Natal, who seek to subjugate Earth.
    • The Secret of the Telegian: The Telegian, who is actually the ex-soldier Sudō, posing as scientist's assitant Goro Nakamoto, using a transmitter machine to teleport himself to his target's location, where he exacts Revenge on the former comrades who left him for dead after he tried to prevent their theft of gold bars at the end of the war. His goals would be sympathetic if he wasn't so embittered by what happened to him that he doesn't care who he has to hurt to get his vengeance.
    • The Human Vapor: Mizuno, the test subject of an experiment that had the bizarre side effect of giving him the power to turn into vapor without any loss of bodily cohesion or intelligence, and the gruesome ability to asphyxiate people with said vapor. He's obsessed with Fujichiyo Kasuga, and will do anything to facilitate her comeback dance performance, even bank robbery and murder.
    • The Last War: The Federation and the Alliance, expies for the United States and Soviet Union respectively, whose brinkmanship provokes a nuclear war with innocent Japan caught in the middle.
    • Matango: The eponymous Matango, which turn people who eat them into mushroom people. While it's questionable whether the original mushrooms are actively malevolent, they may exert some sort of influence to get people to ingest them, and the mushroom people are unquestionably intentional in their efforts to force people to eat Matango.
    • The Lost World of Sinbad: The evil Premier, who's secretly poisoning the king, ruining his reputation among the populace, and plotting to marry the princess.
    • Atragon: The Empress of Mu, a lost Pacific empire that once ruled the entire world before it sank. After millennia of being forgotten by the surface world, the Empress reignites Mu's imperialistic ambitions and seeks to once again make the other lands her colonies.
    • The Adventure of Taklamakan: The Chamberlain, who leads a cabal of treacherous courtiers working to make their paranoid, misanthropic king a despised tyrant whom they will then overthrow with popular support. At the climax of the film, however, the bandit leader Gorjaga, power-hungry and sick of his belittling treatment at the hands of the Chamberlain, kills his boss and attempts to claim the throne himself.
    • King Kong Escapes: Dr. Who (no, not that one) and Madame Piranha. The former is an evil scientist who seeks to unearth a huge deposit of the rare and powerful Element X (enslaving King Kong to do so), while the latter is a spy and representative for an unnamed Asian country bankrolling Dr. Who that wants to exploit the resource. Madame Piranha is the more sympathetic of two, genuinely hopeful that the wealth that would come from a monopoly over Element X will improve her country's conditions and increasingly disturbed by the lengths Dr. Who will go to to achieve his goals. This leads to Madame Piranha betraying Dr. Who, and him killing her for it.
    • Latitude Zero: Malic, archenemy of Captain Craig McKenzie of the Alpha, and perennial foe of the undersea utopia Latitude Zero. His long-term goal is world domination, but his immediate goals, the ones that drive the conflict, are killing McKenzie and kidnapping and conscripting Dr. Okada, a Japanese scientist who developed a formula granting immunity to radiation.
    • The Vampire Doll: Yūko Nonomura, a hate-filled undead woman who murders anyone she comes across. She was resurrected by a supernatural post-hypnotic suggestion implanted by the other Big Bad, Dr. Yamaguchi, a physician obsessed with the occult who was responsible for the mass murder of Yūko's mother's family and household, and her father by rape. Yamaguchi is possessive of Yūko and her mother, though he never intended for his daughter to come back as an undead monster that he has no control over. Yūko's murderous behavior stems from her suppressed rage towards what her mother suffered through, and she ends up killing Yamaguchi when she encounters him.
    • Lake of Dracula: The unnamed vampire who, having met and become obsessed with heroine Akiko Kashiwagi when she was a child years ago, seeks to turn her and make her his bride.
    • Evil of Dracula: The principal of Seimei Women's Junior College and his wife, both of whom are actually centuries-old vampires who maintain their cover by inviting an unsuspecting teacher (the latest of which is the protagonist Shiraki) to be the former's "successor," which means being killed and having their face literally taken by the principal (his wife would take the face of one of the college's unfortunate students).
    • ESPY: Ulrov, the powerful psychic leader of the evil organization Anti-ESPY, who sees psychics as being a separate superior species to humans, and who seeks to instigate a nuclear war between the East and the West that will leave only psychics alive. The heroes muse at the end, however, that Ulrov may have been controlled by an alien intelligence.
    • House: Auntie, a ghost woman waiting forever for her dead fiancé to return from the war, luring unwed girls to her Haunted House and eating them to sustain her existence.
    • The War in Space: Commander Hell, the leader of the alien attack on Earth. He and his people, having fled their dead world Messiah 13, intend to take Earth as their new home.
    • Bye Bye Jupiter: While the main threat is the traveling black hole that is threatening to collide with the Sun, there is a Big Bad in Anita June Pope, leader of a radical faction of the Jupiter Church and insanely devoted to Peter, the church's more peaceable leader. Since Jupiter is sacred to the cult, her goal is thwart the Jupiter Solarization Project's plan to convert the planet into a fusion explosion that will nudge the black hole onto a different trajectory.
    • Gunhed: Kyron-5, a malevolent supercomputer attempting to secure the extremely powerful energy source Texmexium, the key to its planned offensive to wipe out humanity.
    • My Soul Is Slashed: Ryūzaburō Kitahara, who is not only responsible for the faulty drugs Takashima Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. produced but was the one behind Shūtarō Ishikawa's "accident." When he learns that Ishikawa has returned from the dead (as a vampire, unbeknownst to him), he dispatches hitmen to finish the job.
    • Mikadroid: Nabeshima, a Cyborg supersoldier completed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the final days of World War II, then trapped underground and forgotten following a B-29 raid. When he reactivates in the present day, he starts going on an indiscriminate murder spree in a discotheque's underground parking structure.
    • Yamato Takeru: Tsukuyomi, the evil god of the underworld, spends most of his time trapped in ice in space, and so the Big Bad duties are shouldered by the evil magician Tsukinowa, a fragment of Tsukuyomi who seeks to prepare the way for his master's return by killing Yamato Takeru. While he fails to finish off the young prince, he does succeed in acquiring the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi to restore Tsukuyomi's full power. It is upon said return that Tsukuyomi actually becomes the Big Bad, transforming into Orochi in the climax.
    • The Hypnotist: The malevolent supernatural entity Rat awakens, or summons, within Yuka Irie through his hypnotism. It plants post-hypnotic triggers in people that cause them to violently kill themselves.
    • Pyrokinesis: Masaki Kogure, head of a gang of vicious teenage delinquents, is the one who rapes and murders protagonist Junko Aoki's love interest's sister, and he's leading his group on a whole slew of grisly murders that are recorded as snuff films. However, he's actually being enabled and instructed by Yoshihiro Hasegawa, chief of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Bureau. A Knight Templar who started out killing criminals, he grew to loathe victims as well as those who hurt others and ultimately degenerated into a sadist. Intoxicated by his ability to have people killed on his orders, he organized a clandestine organization known as the "Guardians" to carry out his whims.
    • Onmyōji: Dōson, the head of the imperial court's Bureau of Onmyō, and a nihilist who secretly finds pleasure in stoking hatred and causing strife. He forms a Big Bad Duumvirate towards the end of the film when he releases and is possessed by the powerful ghost of Prince Sawara, the brother of a previous emperor who was falsely accused of treason and killed, and who thus bears a grudge against the imperial line and the capital city of Heian.
    • The Returner: There's a Big Bad Ensemble between the alien Daggra that are on the verge of wiping out all of humanity in the future and Liu, a Triad boss intent on acquiring a crashed Daggra starship and its juvenile pilot in the present. Liu's Japanese lieutenant, the hot-tempered and psychopathic Mizoguchi, however, serves as The Heavy for the film, and he ultimately supplants Liu as the second Big Bad and turns out to be the cause of the Daggra's genocidal war against humanity, as, in the original timeline, he's the one that kills the child Daggra.
    • Onmyōji 2: Genkaku, the chief of Izumo prior to its almost complete extirpation by the Yamato. Consumed by revenge and the desire to restore Izumo, his plan revolves around turning his son Susa into the reincarnation of Susanoo, who will then destroy the Yamato and become the new king of Izumo.
    • Infection: Creepy Dr. Kiyoshi Akai, who turns out to not be a doctor at all, but the ghost of the patient the hospital staff accidentally killed through misdosage. Angry not because they caused his death, but that they're trying to cover it up, he becomes a sort of memetic infection that spreads through sleep and preys upon his victims' guilt. Maybe. The film is a heck of a Mind Screw.
    • One Missed Call 2: Killed after she cursed several of her fellow villagers to death (though she may have only predicted their deaths due to a waterborne disease), Vengeful Ghost Li Li kills people via a curse transmitted through their cell phones and was, in fact, responsible for the death of Mimiko Mizanuma, whose ghost is the previous film's Big Bad. It also turns out Mimiko is not quite absent in this film either, and is targetting protagonist Takako Nozoe and her husband Chen Yuting.
    • Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean: Ryōkitsu Asakura, the mid-ranking officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff who planned the mission to Tinian in the first place. Embittered at his higher-ups for leading the country into a devastating war and their not properly paying for it, Asakura actually arranges to hand over Paula Atsuko Ebner, the titular Lorelei, to the United States, with the proviso that the Americans DO nuke Tokyo. Only this way, he believes, can Japan's irreponsible leadership be purged and a new Japan emerge.
    • One Missed Call: Final: Asuka Matsuda, a schoolgirl who seeks Revenge on her class for her savage bullying by transmitting a curse through their cell phones. Except she's actually in a coma and possessed by the original Big Bad, Mimiko Mizanuma, who is using her to spread her curse.
    • Monkey Magic: King Gold Horn and King Silver Horn, two powerful demon brothers who've conquered the land of the Tiger People and are seeking an orb that will release a monster whose miasma will blot out the Sun.
    • K-20: Legend of the Mask: Power-hungry master thief K-20, aka Detective Kengorō Akechi, who is trying to steal a Weapon of Mass Destruction, the Tesla device, and frames circus acrobat Heikichi Endō as part of his plan.
    • 20th Century Boys 1: The Beginning of the End: Friend, the charismatic but monstrous cult leader who orchestrates an elaborate plan based on the childhood fantasies of Kenji Endō and his gang, a plan whose first stage involves successfully taking over Japan.
    • 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope: Friend again, who executes the next part of his plan, faking his resurrection from the dead, unleashing a deadly engineered virus worldwide, and using his messianic status and possession of a vaccine to rule the world. Once again, he succeeds.
    • 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption: Still Friend, who sets into motion the final part of his plan, to wipe out most of mankind, leaving only a remnant he would rule over. His true identity is finally revealed to be Tadanobu Katsumata, a childhood acquaintance of Kenji and his friends lashing out at the world in a rage stemming from childhood loneliness, bullying, and a degree of loss of sense of self. It at this final stage of the plan that he is finally defeatednote .
    • Space Battleship Yamato: Desla, the leader of the alien Gamilas trying to exterminate humanity and terraform Earth to their liking. Desla more properly is Gamilas, the aggressive aspect of the alien species' Hive Mind that, unlike its more peacable half Iskandar, wants to escape its homeworld's destruction by colonizing Earth.
    • Gantz: The closet thing to a Big Bad is Gantz itself, which resurrects recently deceased humans to hunt down dangerous (when provoked) but apparently non-hostile aliens hiding out on Earth. Whereas the manga would reveal that Gantz, while sadistic and capricious, is genuinely helping humanity, Gantz's reasons for doing this in the film are inscrutable.
    • Gantz: Perfect Answer: Gantz again, for the reasons given above, but there's a second Big Bad in the form of the leader of the shapeshifting Men in Black aliens, who want revenge on Gantz after one of its previous teams murdered their friends.
    • Attack on Titan: There's a Big Bad Ensemble between Kubal, director of Paradis' military, and Shikishima, captain of the Scout Regiment, though it is not until the second movie that the fact they are the Big Bads is revealed, along with their motives and plans.
    • Parasyte 2: The first Big Bad is Takeshi Hirokawa, a key member of Ryōko Tamiya's parasite network and the city's new mayor. Frustrated by Tamiya's goal for peaceful coexistence with humanity, he operates behind her back and ultimately supplants her in a coup with the intent of pursuing more aggressive relations with humanity. Hirokawa's actually human, but he hates humanity for its deletorious effects on the biosphere, and sees culling most of the human population as the only way to restore ecological balance. As Tamiya predicted, Hirokawa's tactics end up getting him and all but one of the parasites in the network wiped out. The survivor, Gotō, becomes the final Big Bad. His ultimate goal is to Kill All Humans, having inherited the misanthropic mindset of the man whose body he killed to possess, but his immediate objective is to kill the heroes Shin'ichi Izumi and Migī.
    • Attack on Titan: The End of the World: Shikishima and Kubal are revealed to be the Big Bads. Shikishima despises the repressive regime that rules Paradis, and wants to overthrow it and achieve absolute freedom by destroying the two intact Walls protecting the city from the Titans. This will mean the deaths of countless innocent people, but Shikishima despises them too for their perceived passivity. Kubal, on the other hand, takes the opposite position. He believes that humanity cannot survive outside the Walls, and that the controlling government and necessity to share resources eliminates the conflict that perennially plagued humanity. He also is revealed to be the Colossal Titan that broke the outermost Wall in the first place, causing the events of the story, in order to reinforce the population's fear of Titans to quash dissent and end any desire to live outside the Walls.
  • Tokyo Gore Police: The Chief of Police, who killed the Key Man's father to privatize the police, thus creating the Engineer problem in the first place.
  • Training Day: Detective Alonzo Harris. The entire plot is because of him killing a courier for the Russian Mafiya, and the "training day" with Jake is a means of securing the money to pay them off and set up Jake as his fall guy.
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7: Judge Julius Hoffman. He shows open bias against the defense and rules one-sidedly for the government. His ordering Bobby Seale held bound and gagged in open court appals even lead prosecutor Schultz.
  • Trick or Treat: Sammi Curr. He's the ghost of a Satanic rockstar who comes back from the dead via The Power of Rock.
  • Trilogy of Terror:
    • "Julie": Julie Eldridge, a woman who manipulates predator into thinking she's the perfect victim before killing them for fun.
    • "Therese and Millicent": Therese Loramont, Millicent's sister who's actually a split personality who spends the segment tormenting and abusing her.
    • "Amelia": He Who Kills, an evil spirit trapped inside a Zuni fetish doll.
  • Troll (1986): Torok, a troll seeking to free his brethren and set them upon the human world.
    • Troll 2: Creedence Leonore Gielgud, a goblin queen who turns people into plants for food.
  • The Troll Hunter: Finn Haugen, a ruthless government agent covering up the trolls.
  • Tropic Thunder: Tran, the leader of the Flaming Dragon gang.
  • Troy: Agamemnon, who seeks to conquer Troy and uses Helen's abduction as an excuse to sack the city.

    U 
  • Unlawful Entry: [[Killer Cop Pete Davis], a local cop who develops an obsession with Karen Carr, which leads him to ruin the life of her husband and attempt to kill the both of them.
  • The Untold Story: Wong Chi-hang, who killed his boss's entire family to take his restaurant and disposes of the bodies by making them into BBQ buns.
  • The Untouchables (1987): Al Capone, the source of all of the corruption and violence in Chicago.
  • Urban Legend: Brenda Bates, the identity of the killer murdering college students by recreating different urban legends..
  • The Usual Suspects: Keyser Soze though we never see him until the end of the film and revealed to be Roger "Verbal" Kint.
  • Utu: Te Wheke, who terrorizes and slaughters the British invaders after they destroy his village, and Colonel Elliot, who goes to great lengths to hunt Te Wheke down.

    V 
  • Veronica Guerin: John Gilligan, a powerful drug lord that Veronica attempts to expose.
  • Veronica Mars: [[spoiler:Stu "Cobb" Cobbler. He manipulated the people on the boat into covering up Susan's death, blackmailed them, killed Carrie, sexually extorted Gia, and eventually killed her.
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  • Versus: The unnamed necromancer who wishes to take over the Forest of Resurrection for his own power.
  • Vice (2015): Julian Michaels is the head of the Vice Corporation and the one behind all the misery the artificials are put through.
  • Vidocq: The Alchemist revealed to be Etienne Boisset, who's been murdering Paris citizens for centuries and using their souls to fuel his immortality.
  • The Village (2004) has the Elders, who dress up as monsters and scare those who attempt to leave the village.
  • The Visit: The Grandparents, who are actually escaped mental patients that killed the real grandparents and stole their identities.
  • Vlad Tepes: Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire, who is on a path of conquest and has just reached Wallachia.
  • The Void: Dr. Richard Powell, an insane cult leader seeking to conquer death.

    W 
  • Warriors of the Wasteland: One, a raider who wants to slaughter everybody on Earth.
  • War Witch: Great Tiger, leader of the militia that conscripted Komona.
  • Watchmen: Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, who masterminds the destruction of several major cities in a bid to unite the world's nations.
  • Waterworld: The Deacon. He's in charge of a band of pirates known as Smokers who regularly terrorize folks and plans on using Enola to get him and his pirates to dry land (as the tattoo on her back is actually a map), and ends up chasing The Mariner across the ocean for her.
  • Way of the Dragon: The Boss, leader of the Mafia group harassing the restaurant.
  • Whispering Smith: Barney Rebstock, a powerful local Rancher, is also the head of the gang of train robbers that Smith is hunting. Smith is convinced Rebstock is the mastermind behind the gang, but is having trouble proving it.
  • Wild Things: Suzie Toler, a manipulative teenager out to destroy a rich family.
  • Wild Wild West: Arliss Loveless, a Confederate officer who intends to take over the United States using his steampunk machinery.
  • Wishmaster: Djinn, a genie who willfully corrupts the wishes of his masters and plans on unleashing his kind upon humanity once his wisher grants three wishes.
  • The VVitch: Black Phillip, the family goat, who's secretly the demon setting the witches upon everybody.
  • Witchboard: Carlos Malfeitor, an executed murderer who wants to return to the land of the living to keep killing.
  • The Witches Hammer: Madeline Renoir, a vampiress who seeks to bring Hell on Earth.
  • The Wizard: Lucas and Putnam. Lucas is the main rival of Jimmy at the video game tournament, while Mr. Putnam is the creepy and greedy private investigator/bounty hunter hired to find the escaped kids and resorts to unscrupulous tactics to capture them.
  • Wizards of the Demon Sword: Lord Khoura, who seeks the Blade of Aktar to cloak the world in darkness.
  • Wolf Creek: Mick Hunter, a killer, rapist, and torturer who preys upon tourists visiting the Wolf Creek area.
  • WolfCop: Mayor Bradley is the leader of the secret reptilian conspiracy to control the town.
  • Wolfen: The Alpha of the Wolfen pack responsible for a series of murders.
  • The Wolfman (2010): Sir John Talbot, the werewolf that bit Lawrence, and also killed Lawrence's brother and mother.
  • Wolfman: Reverend Leonard, the Satanist minister who cursed the Glasgows with lycanthropy.
  • The Woman in Black: The Woman in Black, a vengeful ghost terrorizing the village's residents.
  • Would You Rather: Shepard Lambrick, a wealthy man forcing poor folks into playing a sadistic game.
  • Wrestlemaniac: El Mascarado, a luchador made of other wrestlers' body parts and driven to kill everything he sees.
  • Wyrmwood: The Captain, a Well-Intentioned Extremist willing to commit human experimentation to cure the zombie plague.

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    Y 
  • Young Sherlock Holmes: Eh-Tar/Professor Rathe, the fencing master, is the leader of the cult of Rame Tep and undertakes a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the British academics who killed his parents with the help of his sister Mrs. Dribb. After surviving the final duel, Rathe takes the alias Professor James Moriarty, and plagues Sherlock Holmes for years to come.
  • Youth of the Beast: Nomoto Tetsuo, the Yakuza boss who is responsible for Jo's partner's murder.
  • Yuma: Mules McNeil, the true source of all of the corruption in Yuma.

    Z 
  • Z: The unnamed General orders the Deputy's assassination and the coverup thereof.
  • Zathura: The Zorgons, a species of bloodthirsty reptilian aliens who decide to loot the Budwings' floating house, with their Killer Robot as Dragon-in-Chief.
  • Zero Dark Thirty: Osama bin Laden, who Maya deadset on either capturing or killing for the evils he and his terrorist organization has caused.
  • Zodiac: The Zodiac Killer, a hooded madman stalking San Francisco.
  • Zombie Cop: Dr. Death, a voodoo priest plotting to zombify a group of schoolchildren.
  • Zombie Strippers!: Dr. Chushfield, who started a zombie outbreak for military research purposes.
  • Zombie Wars: George, who trained the zombies to take slaves.
  • Zoolander: Jacobin Mugatu, who plans on brainwashing Mark into assassinating the Prime Minister of Malaysia so he can continue to use cheap Malaysian child labor.
  • The Zorro films starring Antonio Banderas:

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