00:00Welcome to MsMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most devastating reasons
00:11movie villains turned evil.
00:13Spoilers ahead, so tread carefully.
00:20Number 10.
00:21Maleficent, Maleficent.
00:22Disney's animated Sleeping Beauty features what is easily one of the most iconic villains
00:36in Maleficent, the witch who puts the sleeping curse on Princess Aurora.
00:40Re-framing the fairy tale from the antagonist's point of view, this origin story gives a shockingly
00:46powerful reason for her hatred for the girl.
00:48Maleficent is a misunderstood fairy.
00:51Once in love with a young and ambitious Stefan, he betrays her in order to become king.
00:56Stefan even drugs her and cuts off her wings to attain his goal.
01:07Despite its fantasy trappings, it's an incredibly tragic scene that holds a lot of disturbing
01:12subtext.
01:13Disney's performance in the scene is simply shattering.
01:29Number 9.
01:30Severus Snape, Harry Potter Franchise.
01:41Severus Snape's arc is a wild ride, with most of its sharpest turns in the last three
01:46installments of the series.
01:48He reveals himself to be on the side of Lord Voldemort, only for the truth to be far more
01:53complicated and heartbreaking.
01:55With his dying breaths, he transfers his memories of Harry's deceased mother Lily.
02:01Much of his hatred for Harry stems from his hatred for his father James, who tormented
02:05him and yet one Lily whom Snape deeply loved.
02:09He carried that love and the regrets associated with it all these years.
02:14And knowing this, a lot of his actions suddenly make so much sense.
02:18His last words about Harry having his mother's eyes still have fans weeping all these years
02:24later.
02:29Number 8.
02:30Godzilla, Godzilla Franchise.
02:36Exploding onto the scene in a 1954 Japanese film, the menacing kaiju creature is known
02:42for stomping through cities and sinking ships, but Godzilla's story is steeped in a painful
02:47history.
02:48The scientists fighting to stop it realize that the creature has been powered by ongoing
02:53H-bomb testing.
02:55Given the horrors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic breathed
03:00creature becomes a metaphor for the Pandora's box opened by these devastating weapons.
03:12While many of the modern American versions of the story have downplayed its original
03:16and possibly controversial origins, the true circumstances of Godzilla's creation have
03:21a profound impact.
03:40Number 7.
03:41Sweeney Todd, Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
03:46Based on a musical that was in turn based on a penny dreadful about a murderous barber
03:59and the woman who makes meat pies of his victims, Johnny Depp stars as the vengeful Sweeney
04:04Todd.
04:05Some of his backstory is even a mystery to him until Mrs. Lovett fills in the blanks.
04:10Her solo, Poor Thing, reveals what happened after the treacherous Judge Turpin sent Todd
04:16away on trumped up charges.
04:18His wife Lucy was preyed upon by the judge in his absence and he took Todd's daughter
04:23as his own.
04:31Todd devotes the rest of his days to getting his revenge and honestly, it's hard to blame
04:36him.
04:43Number 6.
04:44Killmonger, Black Panther, Marvel's epic superhero film introduced millions to Wakanda.
04:57The incredibly advanced nation in the middle of Africa maintains its power and unity by
05:02shutting itself away from the world.
05:04Eric Killmonger Stevens' father was a Wakandan agent but eventually used the country's prized
05:11technology to help oppressed people outside Wakanda.
05:27Eric's father is murdered as a result, causing Killmonger to live a rough childhood thereafter,
05:33alienated from his homeland.
05:35This isolation from everything his father knew coupled with his death makes him cold
05:40and vengeful and the movie makes us watch that happen.
05:43It gives the ideological tensions of the entire movie equal weight.
05:58Number 5.
05:59Carrie White, Carrie
06:10You might argue that some characters on this list aren't villains but are pushed to villainy
06:15by extreme circumstances.
06:18Carrie White is one such example.
06:20While her merciless reign of fire and revenge on her senior prom is absolutely cold-blooded,
06:25much of the movie follows her as she endures pitiless tormenting from everyone in her life.
06:39This treatment has clearly been going on her entire life and the fateful prom is just
06:44the culmination.
06:45If it were just her classmates, it would be one thing but even her own mother gets in
06:50on the action.
06:51By the end, she's so twisted up that even the people who showed her kindness look like
06:56enemies to her.
07:06Number 4.
07:07Arthur Fleck, The Joker, Joker
07:14Todd Phillips' gonzo reinterpretation of the classic Batman villain is not your typical
07:19superhero movie.
07:20It's more a character study of one man's descent into madness after years of social isolation
07:26and mistreatment.
07:27Joaquin Phoenix won an Oscar for playing Arthur Fleck, the aspiring stand-up comedian with
07:32a neurological disorder brought about by abuse.
07:36Things go from bad to worse for him, leading him to murder and terrorism and inspiring
07:42a city-wide descent into chaos and lawlessness.
07:50It's a far cry from the cartoonish villainy of Jack Nicholson's Joker and goes even further
07:55than the parental cruelty suffered by Heath Ledger's version of the character.
07:59Ledger's vision for the iconic villain is far more savage and far more terrifyingly
08:05realistic.
08:08Number 3.
08:09Magneto, X-Men Franchise
08:18Professor X believes mutants should assimilate into larger society.
08:22Magneto is convinced that mutants are a superior race who must violently assert their power.
08:28Magneto's viewpoint takes on a new and profoundly uncomfortable dimension when we know Magneto's
08:34early life in Nazi-occupied Poland.
08:36Originally known as Erich Lencher, he lived through the Holocaust.
08:41His family, however, did not, with his mother being killed right in front of him.
08:46This experience has clearly had a profound effect on his view of morality.
08:54Full of rage and vengeance, he has no patience for mutants who seem convinced that people
08:59and mutants can live in harmony.
09:01When you've seen the hate he has seen firsthand, it's not hard to figure out why.
09:19Number 2.
09:20Elphaba, The Wicked Witch of the West
09:23Wicked Part 1
09:31The Wizard of Oz isn't too interested in humanizing the Wicked Witch.
09:35She isn't even given a name before she's melted in the original.
09:39It would take decades for Elphaba to get that name, let alone a story of her own.
09:44Adapted from the Broadway musical, Wicked tells the story of Elphaba and Glinda the
09:48Good Witch's relationship before Dorothy.
09:51Elphaba is an outcast from the start, for both her green skin and her social awkwardness.
09:57While Glinda eventually takes a liking to her, their friendship was torn apart by politics
10:02and romantic rivalry.
10:11Elphaba is cast as a villain, but in fact frequently holds the moral high ground.
10:16Back to incredible, shiver-inducing music, the entire reinterpretation of her story is
10:21enough to give us goosebumps for days.
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10:44Number 1.
10:46Frankenstein's Monster – Frankenstein For years, Frankenstein's Monster has been
10:57thought of as a lumbering ghoul terrorizing rural villages, but that's not even half
11:02the story.
11:03Since Boris Karloff donned the makeup in the most well-known version of Mary Shelley's
11:08sci-fi horror classic, his expressive eyes have made us second-guess our fear of the
11:12character.
11:21Think about it.
11:22Imagine waking up as a collection of body parts by a father who doesn't want you,
11:26and everyone who sees you runs from your hideousness.
11:29He's essentially a newborn babe in the body of a grown man, but with no one to teach
11:34him how to behave or control himself.
11:36It's a torturous existence made even more torturous by his creator Dr. Frankenstein's
11:42palace abandonment.
11:51Which of these backstories got to you?
11:53Tell us in the comments.
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