History BigBad / LiveActionFilmsNToZ

* ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'': Leatherface is TheHeavy of the series, but he is usually taking orders from someone else.
** ''[[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)]]'' and its [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2 sequel]]: Drayton "The Cook" Sawyer, the de facto patriarch of the Sawyer clan who continues the cannibalism operation from [[GreaterScopeVillain his grandfather]].

*** ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'': [[AbsoluteXenophobe Harold Attinger]], the founder of Cemetary Wind who wants to eradicate all transformers and convert their husks into his own personal army all out of paranoia, Greed and [[FantasticRacism]], under the [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist false guise]] of protecting humanity.

*** ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'': [[AbsoluteXenophobe Harold Attinger]], the founder of Cemetary Wind who wants to eradicate all transformers and convert their husks into his own personal army largely out of paranoia, greed and [[Fantastic Racism]].

*** ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'': A BigBadEnsemble of [[AbsoluteXenophobe Harold Attinger]], the founder of Cemetary Wind who wants to eradicate all transformers and convert their husks into his own personal army, [[BountyHunter Lockdown]], a mercenary hired by "The Creators" to hunt down Optimus, and Galvatron, a resurrected Megatron who intends on exacting vengeance on Optimus and Earth with his drone army.

%%** ''Film/{{Creed}}'': [[HairTriggerTemper "Pretty" Ricky Conlan]].

* ''Film/TheVillage'' has [[spoiler:the Elders, who dress up as monsters and scare those who attempt to leave the village]].

* ''Film/{{Unhinged}}'': [[SpreeKiller Tom Cooper]], who sets out to ruin Rachel's life [[DisproportionateRetribution because she honked at him when he stalled at a green light]].

* ''Film/ThePatriot'': [[NobleDemon General Lord Charles Cornwallis]], the highest officer in the British Army, leading the Southern theater against the Continental Army, [[BigBadDuumvirate and]] [[SociopathicSoldier Colonel William Tavington]], who systematically hunts down Martin's guerillas; with Martin's personal objective being to kill the latter.

** ''The Big Fat Kill'': [[ScaryBlackMan Manute]], who seeks to destroy Old Town when the prostitutes there killed one of his organization's DirtyCop{{s}}.

* ''Film/TheRoom'': Lisa, Johnny's adulterous girlfriend whose seduction of his best friend causes the plot.

** ''Film/Onmyoji2001'': Dōson, the head of the imperial court's [[UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}} Bureau of Onmyō]], and a [[StrawNihilist nihilist]] who secretly [[ForTheEvulz finds pleasure in stoking hatred and causing strife]]. He forms a BigBadDuumvirate towards the end of the film when he [[SealedEvilInACan releases]] and is [[SymbioticPossession possessed]] by the powerful [[VengefulGhost 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.

*** ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons who's after the [=AllSpark=] and aims to use its power to destroy Earth.

* ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'':
** ''[[Film/SpiderMan1 Spider-Man]]'': [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn The Green Goblin]], a psychotic [[JekyllAndHyde alternate personality]], is Spider-Man's first big obstacle in his newfound beginnings as a hero. Awakening when Norman Osborn took an experimental performance enhancer, it did various attacks in the name of keeping him from losing everything, turned to battle Spider-Man when he started interfering, and in death continues haunting his son Harry throughout the rest of the film series.
** ''Film/SpiderMan2'': ComicBook/DoctorOctopus, a TragicVillain who is corrupted by his tentacles during an experiment with his [[ThePowerOfTheSun fusion reactor]], and intends to continue his experiment even if it causes drastic damage in New York (though he is later convinced to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath destroy his reactor at the cost of his life]]).
** ''Film/SpiderMan3'': ComicBook/{{Venom}}, a symbiote that lands on Earth and bonds to Spider-Man, making him stronger at the expense of being more agitated. While the same film also has Spider-Man confront [[DishingOutDirt Sandman]], a thug who was involved in the death of [[DeathByOriginStory Ben Parker]], and [[FaceHeelTurn Harry Osborn]], whom became [[LegacyCharacter New Goblin]] to avenge his father's death, the Venom symbiote had a far more toxic impact on Spider-Man's life than the both of them, and when Spider-Man finally forced it off, it bonded to embittered ex-photographer Eddie Brock for revenge, becoming the FinalBoss of the film when he recruits Sandman and Harry has a HeelFaceTurn.

%%* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
%%** ''Film/XMen1'': [[WellIntentionedExtremist Magneto]].
%%** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': [[GeneralRipper William Stryker]].
%%** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': [[WellIntentionedExtremist Magneto]].
%%** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': [[GeneralRipper William Stryker]].
%%** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': [[EvilutionaryBiologist Sebastian Shaw]].
%%** ''Film/TheWolverine:'' [[spoiler:[[EvilOldFolks Ichiro Yashida]]]].
%%** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': [[MadScientist Bolivar Trask]], [[RevengeBeforeReason Mystique]], [[BigBadEnsemble and]] [[spoiler: [[WellIntentionedExtremist young Magneto]]]].
%%** ''Film/Deadpool2016'': [[MadScientist Ajax]].
%%** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': [[AGodAmI Apocalypse]].
%%** ''Film/{{Logan}}'': [[EvilutionaryBiologist Dr. Zander Rice]].
%%** ''Film/Deadpool2'': [[FantasticRacism The headmaster]] whose abusive treatment of mutant orphans is what set Russell Collins on the path to his StartOfDarkness.
%%** ''Film/DarkPhoenix'': [[ManipulativeBastard Vuk]], the leader of an AlienInvasion that seeks to seize control of the Phoenix Force and use it to wipe humanity off the face of the Earth.
%%** ''Film/TheNewMutants'': [[spoiler: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Cecelia Reyes]]]]

** ''Film/{{Glass}}'' has [[spoiler:a VillainTeam-up between Elijah Price/Mr. Glass and Kevin Crumb/The Horde, specifically the Beast, though the true villain is revealed to be [[KnightTemplar Dr Ellie]] [[CapeBusters Staple]], who heads the AncientConspiracy to prevent superhumans from becoming known to the world.]]

* ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'': [[EvilUncle Nizam]], who sets out to retrieve the Daggar of Time and Sands of Time so he may rewind time and kill his brother as a child, making it so that he grows up to become king.

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Lord]] [[SmugSnake Cutler Beckett]]. Even though he didn't appear until ''Dead Man's Chest'', you can make a pretty good case for Beckett being the big bad of the first trilogy, as he was indirectly responsible for the events of the first movie (branding Jack, initiating the chain of events that made Jack the captain of the Pearl, etc.) despite never appearing or being mentioned, and was pulling everyone's strings in the second, before stepping in as the primary threat of ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At Worlds End]]''. Each movie also has its own individual villain as well:
** [[AffablyEvil Captain Hector Barbossa]] in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse of the Black Pearl]]''. Unlike the other Big Bads in the franchise his crew are just as independent, motivated and passionate as he is with their goal of removing the curse. He is more like the coordinator of the miscreant group.
** [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} Davy Jones]] in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'', does everything to get his due from Jack, killing and endangering people left and right, with his crew acting as little more rather as extensions of his brutal will. Until Beckett manages to take control of him at the end that is.
** [[HollywoodVoodoo Edward Teach "Blackbeard"]] in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]'', is the most ruthless pirate to ever sail the seven seas who's after the Fountain of Youth and will cut down anyone in his way in order to get it.
** [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Captain Armando Salazar]] in ''[[Film/PiratesoFTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales Dead Men Tell No Tales]]'', who's out to destroy all who practice piracy, regardless of how severe their crime is.

* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'': Has Royal Pain/[[spoiler:Gwen Grayson]], although the case could also be made for a ''[[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning posthumous]]'' BigBad in the form of [[spoiler:Sue Tenny, the original Royal Pain and Gwen's pre-incarnation]], who set up the EvilPlan in the backstory before [[spoiler:an unfortunate accident involving a weaponized FountainOfYouth set her back a little bit.]]

* ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'': [[EvilFormerFriend Maxim Horvath]]. While he answers to [[EvilSorceress Morgana le Fey]], Horvath leads the villains for most of the backstory and the story itself, whose actions drive the conflict, and whose centuries-long feud with Balthazar writes the plot, providing an emotional challenge in addition to the magical threat.

* ''Film/{{Tron}}'': The Master Control Program, who runs his computer like a dystopia.
** ''Film/TronLegacy'': Clu 2.0, the new ruling program of The Grid.

** ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'':[[AliensAreBastards The Martians]], who are out to terraform the Earth.

* ''Film/WarWitch'': Great Tiger, leader of the militia that conscripted Komona.

** ''Film/ThePinkPanther1963'' has [[GentlemanThief Sir Charles Lytton]], the identity of the master thief known as the Phantom, who Inspector Clouseau is tracking down.
** ''Film/AShotInTheDark'' has [[AristocratsAreEvil Benjamin and Dominique Ballon]], [[TheButlerDidIt Madame [=Lefarge=], Simone, Pierre]], [[BigBadEnsemble and]] [[AxCrazy Commissioner Charles Dreyfus]], all of whom are responsible for the string of murders Clouseau is trying to solve.
** ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'' has a BigBadEnsemble between [[ItAmusedMe Lady Claudine Litton]], who framed Sir Charles for the theft of the Pink Panther, [[SecretPolice Colonel Sharki]], who uses the theft as an excuse to conduct mass arrests of his political opponents, and [[AxCrazy Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus]], who continues his attempts to kill Clouseau.

%%* ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'':
%%** ''Film/{{Rocky}}'': [[DesignatedVillain Apollo Creed]].
%%** ''Film/{{Rocky II}}'': [[WorthyOpponent Apollo Creed]].
%%** ''Film/{{Rocky III}}'': [[ScaryBlackMan Clubber Lang]].
%%** ''Film/{{Rocky IV}}'': [[HeroKiller Ivan Drago]].
%%** ''Film/{{Rocky V}}'': [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil Tommy Gunn]] and [[EvilMentor George Washington Duke]].

** ''Film/Scream4'': [[spoiler:[[AttentionWhore Jill Roberts]] and [[TheNapoleon Charlie Walker]]]].

** ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'': [[spoiler:[[BarbaricBully Billy Loomis]] and [[DumbMuscle Stu Macher]]]].
** ''Film/{{Scream 2}}'': [[spoiler:[[KnightTemplarParent Mrs. Loomis]] and [[PracticallyJoker Mickey Altieri]]]].
** ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'': [[spoiler:[[MadArtist Roman Bridger]], [[MetaTwist who doesn't have an accomplise]]]].
** ''Film/{{Scream 4}}'': [[spoiler:[[AttentionWhore Jill Roberts]] and [[TheNapoleon Charlie Walker]]]].
** ''Film/{{Scream 2022}}'': [[spoiler: [[LoonyFan Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman]]]].

* ''Literature/SamsonAndDelilah'' (1949): [[TheEmperor The Saran of Gaza]], the emperor of the Philistines oppressing the Hebrews.

* ''Film/{{Plane}}'': Datu Junmar, the Filipino militant leader who kidnaps the passengers of Brodie Torrance's plane in order to secure ransom from their families.