History EvilCannotComprehendGood / LiveActionFilms

* [[MagnificentBastard Cipher]] from ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Fate of the Furious]]'' (the eighth ''Fast and Furious'' film) mocks [[TheHero Dom]] for showing kindness to a cheating driver he defeated at the beginning of the film, to which Dom informs her by letting bygones be bygones, he earned the man's respect and [[DefeatMeansFriendship a new ally]] [[spoiler: who plays a part in his scheme to turn the tables on her]], something Cypher dismisses. This comes back to bite her in the end; [[spoiler: after Dom makes peace with his former enemies, [[HeelFaceTurn the Shaw brothers]]]], he gains an edge on Cipher that she never saw coming.

* Elsa Schneider in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Throughout the movie, she can’t understand that Indy doesn’t want to find the grail for the same reasons as her. She insists that [[NotInThisForYourRevolution she “believes in the grail, not the Swastika”]], but Indy retorts that she “stood up to be counted with the enemy of everything the Grail stands for.” In the end, she refuses to believe that the grail isn’t meant for her to keep. As she heads for the exit, she crosses the Great Seal and triggers the temple’s collapse. She almost falls into a chasm but Indy catches her. Instead of letting him save her, she pulls a hand free to reach the grail that she dropped. She comes so close, but her glove slips off the hand Indiana was holding and she loses her life. Henry Sr. later comments that Elsa thought the grail was “a prize” and she didn’t understand the spiritual meaning behind it.

* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' has Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the Nazi PraetorianGuard and the man responsible for the concentration camps, surrender to the Allies -- specifically the advancing British army -- on the assumption that [[{{Realpolitik}} the UK and the US would prop up the Nazi regime in Germany to prevent the Communist Soviets from taking over]]. It seems to escape him that after all the horrendous atrocities they have committed, any human of normal moral code wouldn't consider cooperating with them for a second.[[note]] The fact that "the Allies" included Stalin, who was a monster easily the equal of Hitler, who himself cooperated with the Nazis from August of 1939 through July of 1941, and who would turn on his former "allies" as soon as the Nazi threat was disposed of, may have colored his thinking somewhat. [[/note]]

* Used and subverted early in ''Film/{{Serenity}}''. Someone from the [[SchoolForScheming Academy]] says that Simon Tam "must be crazy" to have run such risks and gone to such lengths to save River. The Operative, true to his WellIntentionedExtremist nature, recognizes it for what it is.

--> '''Han:''' You Know what your problem is? You think everybody’s like you!

** The Thrombeys all made assumptions that Marta must have "got her claws" into Harlan and slept with him because they simply cannot imagine (or don't want to accept) that Harlan generally liked her and valued her company/friendship more than that of his family because Marta.

** A concept a lot of the great powers didn't understand at the time. Until the dust had settled, the US had no interest in playing the postwar geopolitical "game" and intended to go back home when it was over.

* In ''Film/KnivesOut'', the point at which the murderer's plan starts to unravel is when his intended patsy, [[spoiler:the film's heroine Marta,]] stays behind and tries to save the life of the killer's second victim, rather than running from the scene in a panic and thereby incriminating herself as the killer predicted she would.
** Worth noting that this is the ''second'' EvilPlan foiled for the same reason, because the original was [[spoiler: to make Marta believe that she had accidentally overdosed Harlan and flee; instead, she stayed and told Harlan, which made Harlan commit suicide in order to fake an alibi for her.]]
** The Thrombeys all made assumptions that Marta must have "got her claws" into Harlan and slept with him because they simply cannot imagine (or don't want to accept) that Harlan generally liked her company and friendship compared to the rest of his family because Marta is a good, kind-hearted person.
* In ''Film/TheLastSamurai'', Nathan Algren is greatly haunted by the atrocities he committed in the past as a soldier. His fellow soldier Bagley sees his own atrocities as [[IDidWhatIHadToDo duty]] and [[ButForMeItWasTuesday barely remembers them]]. Bagley cannot understand why Algren is so bothered by them.
** Likewise, BigBad Omura doesn't understand Katsumoto's determination to die fighting the good fight, apparently having counted on Katsumoto to commit {{Seppuku}} and avoid the shame of defeat if the battle became unwinnable for Katsumoto.

* At the end of ''Film/PathsOfGlory'', General Broulard is so impressed by Colonel Dax's efforts in his battle against General Mireau to save his men from public execution that he's going to offer him Mireau's place. When Dax refuses because he wasn't doing it to have a promotion, Mireau is completely dumbfounded that anyone would try to save lives without something to gain from it, and threatens to have Dax arrested.

* In the remake of ''Film/TheStepfordWives'' this is the undoing of those behind Stepford. It never occurs to them that, given the choice between a wife who's a brainless robot who caters to his every whim or one who's strong, independent and more successful, a husband would chose the latter instead of the former.

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', both Holmes and Moriarty employ a SherlockScan to predict the outcome of their final confrontation, and both come to the same conclusion: [[spoiler: that due to Holmes' injured shoulder, he can't win]]. However, [[spoiler: Moriarty -- self-interested to the point of outright sociopathy -- couldn't comprehend that Holmes was [[HeroicSacrifice willing to sacrifice his own life]] to defeat him. Even ''after'' Sherlock told him earlier that he was willing to if it guaranteed Moriarty's demise.]]

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', both Holmes and Moriarty employ a SherlockScan to predict the outcome of their final confrontation, and both come to the same conclusion: [[spoiler: that due to Holmes' injured shoulder, he can't win]]. However, [[spoiler: Moriarty -- self-interested to the point of outright sociopathy -- couldn't comprehend that Holmes was [[HeroicSacrifice willing to sacrifice his own life]] to defeat him.]]

** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': As Anakin morally succumbs to the Dark Side of the Force, he completely loses touch with the values system that makes up so much of who Padme is. He's so obsessed with saving her from a vaguely defined, possible death that he violates every conscionable rule and moral in the name of possibly protecting her. It never even seems to occur to him that the same Padme he knows and loves would also be absolutely appalled and horrified by his betrayal of the Jedi, his support of a power-mad dictator, and the slaughter of younglings. At one point, [[DomesticAbuse he chokes his wife out]] [[MoralEventHorizon and blames Obi-Wan]] [[NeverMyFault for turning Padme against him]].

** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', [[GeniusLoci Ego the Living Planet]] is so convinced [[LackOfEmpathy in the worthlessness of other life forms]] that [[LoveIsAWeakness he killed his lover for being a distraction]]. When he lets it slip to his son Peter Quill during his MotiveRant, he casually expects him to be ''okay with it'' and [[WeCanRuleTogether still join him in his universal conquest]], not realizing the seriousness of what he had done. (specially given said lover was Peter's mother) He was completely baffled why Peter would give up his immortality to stop him and accuses him of being disobedient and [[ImmaturityInsult childish]]. The fact that Peter values his friends and other lives more than the idea of universal conquest never really occured to Ego.

** In ''Film/SupermanII'', General Zod and Ursa assume Supes is protecting the humans because they are his pets.

** ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'': Darth Vader handily unhands Luke during their lightsaber battle, and corners him on that control room vein. Confident in victory Vader tries to make the seriously injured Luke a offer he can't refuse -- to join him and the Dark Side. It doesn't occur to Vader to take Luke seriously when he roars back that he would never join Vader. But Luke is serious enough to let go and plunge to his presumable death rather than join the Dark Side. The young Skywalker may be his father's son, but he's also his mother's son, too.

** ''Film/ANewHope'': [[EarthShatteringKaboom Alderaan gets destroyed]] by Grand Moff Tarkin as a warning to star systems thinking of opposing the Empire or sympathizing with the Rebel Alliance. [[MachiavelliWasWrong It has the opposite effect]], making many systems more sympathetic to the Rebellion, and in the expanded universe, it even sparked a mass defection by Alderaan-born Imperial officers. Leia even told him "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers..." Of course, he wasn't expecting the Death Star, whose power he was using Alderaan as a demonstration for, to be destroyed shortly afterward. It's hammered home even more in the Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas, where Leia declares that using the Death Star to destroy Alderaan isn't just a MoralEventHorizon for the Empire in general and Tarkin in particular, but is also a sure sign that the Empire is doomed. Even '''''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Palpatine]]''''' was shocked when he learned that Tarkin had destroyed Alderaan with the Death Star, later citing that while he had signed off on Tarkin using '''''a''''' planet [[PragmaticVillainy as a demonstration to the Galaxy about the Death Stars' power]], he didn't expect Alderaan to be that destroyed planet since The Dark Lord of The Sith knew of [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating Alderaans' reputation and significance to the Galaxy at large]] that he knew it would be grossly idiotic to have Alderaan destroyed by the Empire like it was.

* ''Film/WillysWonderland'': [[spoiler:[[CorruptHick Sheriff]] [[KnightTemplar Lund]] does not see the Janitor as heroic for destroying the killer animatronics, instead holding him at gunpoint and tries to feed him to Willy as payback for it. This backfires as [[KarmicDeath she gets brutally murdered by Willy in return]].]]

* ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'': John Milton [[spoiler:aka {{Satan}}]] succeeds in the beginning because he is expert in manipulating Kevin's vanity and ego. [[spoiler: He also thought Kevin would forget that he raped his wife and would lust after his demon half-sister. Ultimately Kevin loved his wife more and was selfless enough to kill himself rather than create the Anti-Christ, which literally makes Milton [[VillainousBreakdown explode]]. And when Kevin is brought back to life, Milton sees Kevin's new moral stance as just another form of vanity he can manipulate]].

** ''Film/ANewHope'': [[EarthShatteringKaboom Alderaan gets destroyed]] by Grand Moff Tarkin as a warning to star systems thinking of opposing the Empire or sympathizing with the Rebel Alliance. It has the opposite effect, making many systems more sympathetic to the Rebellion, and in the expanded universe, it even sparked a mass defection by Alderaan-born Imperial officers. Leia even told him "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers..." Of course, he wasn't expecting the Death Star, whose power he was using Alderaan as a demonstration for, to be destroyed shortly afterward. It's hammered home even more in the Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas, where Leia declares that using the Death Star to destroy Alderaan isn't just a MoralEventHorizon for the Empire in general and Tarkin in particular, but is also a sure sign that the Empire is doomed.

** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'': The EvilutionaryBiologist Kaminoans cannot understand why Jango would want an unaltered son to raise.

* ''Film/FallingDown'': Nick, a crazed, homophobic Neo-Nazi, hears about D-Fens' [[GoingPostal antics]] and assumes that he [[NotSoDifferentRemark is a crazed racist like him]], rather than a man having a nervous breakdown. He flips out when D-Fens tells him off.