History DesignatedVillain / Film

* Exaggerated with the Central Park Rangers in ''Film/{{Elf}}'', who are immediately evil because for some reason they look like the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Nazgul]] despite being mounted police (though Santa eventually mentions that he put them on his naughty list once and they never forgave him).

* ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' has Erica Raymond. The worst thing she does is to try to get Jem to become a solo act, which is something Jerrica could easily just say no to. She's treated as a CorruptCorporateExecutive because she produces "no talent auto-tune pop acts", rather than musicians with depth, but she's nonetheless competent and successful at her job. [[InformedAttribute Also, we never get to see any of the damage she does to the music industry.]] This is especially true when her countpart in the original series was a genuinely horrible person who endangered the heroes' lives.

* In the "Kick the Can" segment of the ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'' , the apparent villain is a man whose only concern is for the welfare of a bunch of octogenarians who shouldn't be engaging in physically strenuous activity. How's ''he'' supposed to know that it's really magic at work that will keep them safe? The man, Mr. Conroy, [[JerkassWoobie is crushed to find that the magic was real and he missed the chance to be young again]] (but right at the end, Mr. Bloom promises us that he'll get the magic after all).

* Jillian in the Lifetime TV Movie, ''Dear Santa,'' is supposed to be seen as the bad guy because... she has a loving relationship with Derek. Her attempts at thwarting Crystal are completely justified because she has stalked Derek and tried to sabotage their relationship.

* Keith in ''Film/LaLaLand'' is a Jazz musician who understands that the traditional form of the genre is no longer as popular as it used to be, and to "save" the genre, he must adapt to what younger people are listening to. He creates a successful Jazz Fusion band that rides to great success and at least one arena-packing tour. Too bad he isn't the hero of the story. Sebastian, who is a Jazz traditionalist, doesn't want to change anything and thinks anyone doing so is a sellout and a traitor. Keith is shown as a nice guy and just as passionate about the genre as Sebastian, but the film makes it seem like he is in the wrong for wanting to change a genre from what it used to be, despite Jazz itself being a form of music that was created as something new and non-traditional and something that evolved over time, never staying the same. It doesn't help that we're expected to the audience is supposed to side with Sebastian in this, despite the fact that Keith offers him steady employment (an offer Sebastian happily grabs after being fired from several previous gigs), and the money Sebastian makes from the tours and chart success enables him to [[spoiler:lease and open a jazz club that is operating several years after the main events of the film]], proving that even if Keith wanted to change the genre into "something it's not", there's still a market for traditional Jazz, particularly in a hotly-contested market like Los Angeles.

* Keith in ''Film/LaLaLand'' is a Jazz musician who understands the traditional form a Jazz is no longer popular like it used to be, and to save the music, he must adapt to what the younger people are listening to today. He creates a successful Jazz Fusion band. Too bad he is not the hero of the story. Sebastian, who is a Jazz traditionalist doesn't want to change anything and thinks anyone doing so is a sellout and a traitor. Keith is shown as nice guy and just as passionate about Jazz as Sebastian, but the film makes it seem like he is in the wrong for wanting to change the music from what it used to be, despite Jazz itself being a form of music that was created as something new and non-traditional and something that evolved over time, never staying the same.

* The NTSB in ''Film/{{Sully}}'' - to the point that [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/12/sully-clint-eastwood-hudson-river-plane-crash-ntsb the organization complained about their portrayal in the film]]. Even with as much as Clint Eastwood tries to paint them as the mean bureaucrats who want to pin sole responsibility for the crash on TheEveryman Sully and his co-pilot, the NTSB is just doing the job they exist to do; to investigate accidents and determine if the cause was human error or otherwise.

** There's also the US Army, who decide to just up and [[KillEmAll wipe out all civilians, infected or otherwise]]. Harsh? Yes. Necessary? ''Yes''. It's the most deadly plague in human history, it spreads so unbelievably fast it's simply too deadly to try and tell if someone's infected or not (and if he is and he spots you, you have about two seconds before he's on you biting and vomiting infected blood in your face), and they've now learned [[TyphoidMary people can be asymptomatic carriers]]. Any escaping survivor could spread the infection, [[spoiler:which is ''exactly'' what happens when the protagonists spread it to France by escaping: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Good job Sergeant Doyle]], you saved two children but doomed (at least) all of Europe and Asia]].

* Taken UpToEleven with Natalie from ''Film/HomeAlone 4''. Despite ''supposedly'' being some kind of RichBitch WickedStepmother, she is nothing but kind to Kevin until he ruins her engagement party [[note]] He ''was'' trying to stop some burglars, however, considering no one else saw anything and he provides no evidence, you can't really blame her for being skeptical [[/note]] and gives her reason to suspect he is trying to sabotage her relationship with Peter. She is even nice to [[TheMissusAndTheEx Kate when she comes to visit]], the only bad thing she's alleged to have done is overwork Prescott, [[OffscreenVillainy which we never even get to see]], as such the ending (Peter breaks up with her on Christmas Eve and she bursts into tears in front of everyone, who seem to be happy about it) comes across as ''extremely'' mean spirited.

* Exaggerated with the Central Park Rangers in ''Film/{{Elf}}'', who are immediately evil because for some reason they look like the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Nazgul]] despite being mounted police (though Santa eventually mentions that he put them on his naughty list once and they never forgave him.)

* The title character of ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' becomes this to an extent in [[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the live-action film adaptation]], due to his sympathetic portrayal compared with the commercialistic Whos, who are almost ObliviouslyEvil. Subverted when he decides to, well, steal Christmas solely based on something only ''one'' Who (the Mayor) does.

* The Gorgonites in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'' is actually a JustifiedTrope InUniverse. The Gorgonites were originally meant for an environmental-friendly toyline, but it was cancelled and folded into the Commando Elite as the bad guys. However, their creator was angry at that and, instead of turning the Gorgonites into the enemy, [[WriterRevolt their friendly nature was left in]]. Thus, the supposed-to-be heroic Commando Elite turn into genocidal monsters because they are "the good guys" and the Gorgonites are "the bad guys".

* The NTSB in '' Film/Sully '' - to the point that [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/12/sully-clint-eastwood-hudson-river-plane-crash-ntsb the organization complained about their portrayal in the film]]. Even with as much as Clint Eastwood tries to paint them as the mean bureaucrats who want to pin sole responsibility for the crash on TheEveryman Sully and his co-pilot, the NTSB is just doing the job they exist to do; to investigate accidents and determine if the cause was human error or otherwise.

* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'':
** Peter Ludlow is the head of [=InGen=] Corporation, and is primarily made out to be the main villain by Ian's group. Yet, all of his actions throughout the film are pragmatic, well-reasoned and entirely understandable. In a deleted scene from the opening, Ludlow removes John Hammond from the board of directors, correctly pointing out that Hammond's experiment has resulted in tens of millions of dollars being lost, the deaths of at least five people, and a little girl getting injured by Compsognathus when her family strayed too close to "site B", and then correctly pointing out that the only way to save the company is to authorize a relaunch of the park at their backup site. Despite the fact that he acts generally callous towards Ian, Sarah and Nick (who are outsiders), [=InGen=] still rescues them during the climax when they reach the operations center. Even when they get back to San Diego, Ludlow invites Ian and Sarah in to his private launch event despite them acting like dicks to the security guards. After all this (and the ''T. rex'' escaping), all he receives is a response from Ian that "now (he's) John Hammond" a short while before [[spoiler:he gets eaten by a baby ''T. rex'' as its father watches]].
** The human villains have this trait specifically so that their arguments can be dismissed. While they were shown to be quite ruthless when dealing with the dinosaurs, the 'villains' keep going out of their way to save the protagonists' lives, while the 'heroes' continue to heckle and sabotage them. While a Tyrannosaurus is rampaging through the hunter group, the leader suddenly finds out that one of the heroes stole the bullets from his gun.
** The film also falls headfirst into StrawmanHasAPoint. The antagonists are supposed to be evil because they claim that the dinosaurs were property of the local MegaCorp, when ''that's exactly what they are''; they wouldn't even exist if they hadn't been deliberately created, which also nicely shatters the protagonists' argument that they should be left alone to live naturally, nature having nothing to do with it. A clear example of the "villains" being more like jerks than actually evil.

* Rail Chief Patterson in ''Film/MoneyTrain'' is the bad guy for the [[FelonyMisdemeanor terrible]] crime of not wanting his trains robbed by the protagonists. Granted, he's not exactly likable, being a bit {{greed}}y and a ControlFreak {{Jerkass}}, but when the "good guys" are motivated by paying off gambling debts, (and one of them was semi-seriously planning the heist when paying off the debt was not nearly as much of an issue as it later became) it's hard to say they're any better when it comes to greed, at least. Patterson does go JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope by endangering the lives of innocents as part of his attempt to stop the robbery, but that's also something which movies tend to shrug off or ignore when, say, a main character who's a detective or action hero does it.

** The human villains have this trait specifically so that their arguments can be dismissed. While they were shown to be quite ruthless when dealing with the dinosaurs, the {{Designated Hero}}es were directly or indirectly responsible for every human death in the movie. The 'villains' keep going out of their way to save the protagonists' lives, while the 'heroes' continue to heckle and sabotage them. While a Tyrannosaurus is rampaging through the hunter group, the leader suddenly finds out that one of the heroes stole the bullets from his gun.

* The NTSB in ''Film/Sully'' - to the point that [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/12/sully-clint-eastwood-hudson-river-plane-crash-ntsb the organization complained about their portrayal in the film]]. Even with as much as Clint Eastwood tries to paint them as the mean bureaucrats who want to pin sole responsibility for the crash on TheEveryman Sully and his co-pilot, the NTSB is just doing the job they exist to do; to investigate accidents and determine if the cause was human error or otherwise.

* Sgt. Doberman from the 1970s love letter to anarchy, ''Film/OverTheEdge''. His shooting of a teenager in the film is considered a MoralEventHorizon - and subsequently, his murder by anonymous teenagers is presented as a good thing - ignoring that the stupid kid was ''pointing a gun at him'' and screaming "Die, pig!!"[[note]]In case you're confused, pointing anything that even LOOKS like a gun at a cop is granting him permission to blow your head off. And that isn't some new policy of theirs; it's always been that way.[[/note]] Doberman tries to defend himself by saying that he didn't know the gun wasn't loaded (and, in fact, his life depended on not making such an idiotic assumption), but [[StrawmanHasAPoint the movie plainly doesn't care about that very salient point and drops it rather quickly]]. '70s audiences no doubt were horrified, but modern audiences might instead feel relieved that the Sergeant took this moron out [[TooDumbToLive before he could get the chance to breed]].

* The A.I. from the first ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movie. It was ''supposed'' to be seen as wrong for insisting that the main characters kill one of their own who was infected before the A.I. would let them leave and for killing everyone in the facility when the virus was released. The problem with this? ''It was the only one doing its job''. Everyone else was too busy trying to force their way in and then out, short circuiting the A.I. or sending in more and more people into what should be a building under total quarantine. If they had just let the A.I. do its job they wouldn't be dealing with a world wide zombie apocalypse two movies later. The Red Queen becomes much more antagonistic during her return in ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'', in which she's running a facility cloning Alice and several of the movie series characters by the hundreds and killing them over and over again in order to try and control Umbrella's viruses.

* Zander Barcalow in ''Film/StarshipTroopers''. He's supposed to be seen as the bad guy because he keeps trying to "steal" Johnny Rico's girl Carmen throughout the movie. However, he's completely upfront about his interest in her. When they fight in the mess hall, he keeps his word about disregarding rank (he's an officer fighting with an enlisted man), he could have easily had Johnny imprisoned or thrown out of the Mobile Infantry. He risks his own ass to come out and give the Roughnecks covering fire when they are evacuating Planet P when he could have sat in his cockpit, safe and sound. He was an honorable man and a brave soldier.

** Had his wife not given away the survivors' location at the start by letting in a child, there's a good chance they would have been fine, not to mention Dom was unable to reach her due to an infected in the way and more coming, survival instinct kicked in right there. Not to mention he would have never reached his wife in time to prevent her from being bitten (she was on the second floor of a house, he outside) and attempting to do so meant fighting off no less than ''ten infected'' with his bare hands (it's established in the film fighting a single infected one-on-one unarmed is effectively a death sentence).

* Mrs. Tingle in ''Film/TeachingMrsTingle'' is really the only sensible and likable character. Most of the movie involves the [[DesignatedHero jerkass protagonist]] and her friends trying to torture and murder her because she accused the protagonist of cheating when she had every reason to believe that the protagonist had, in fact, been cheating. The movie also heavily implies that Trudy, the protagonist's competitor for the stipendium, deserves to be killed [[FelonyMisdemeanor merely for being studious]].