00:00While the hero doesn't always come out on top in movies, it's generally made abundantly clear when
00:05the bad guy wins, right? Well, every so often, movies get a little bit more sly and subtle about
00:11the villain's victory, perhaps because they don't want to downplay the hero's successes or make the
00:16movie a pure downer. Yet, all the same, and following up on our last video on the subject,
00:22I'm Ewan, this is War Culture, and here are 8 more movie villains you didn't realize actually won.
00:278. Robert Callahan Big Hero 6
00:31Big Hero 6's villain is a masked man known as Yo-Kai, later revealed to be Professor Robert
00:36Callahan played by the always brilliant James Cromwell, who faked his death as part of a revenge
00:41plot against tech madman Aleister Cray, Alan Tudyk. And though Callahan is ultimately arrested at the
00:47end of the movie, he straight up accomplished everything that he set out to do. He obliterated
00:52Cray's HQ by reactivating the teleportation portal, and most importantly, he got his
00:57daughter Abigail back, who disappeared while working as a test pilot on one of Cray's portal
01:02experiments. All in all, a few years in jail for executing his plan as intended is probably a pretty
01:08acceptable trade-off for Callahan, especially as he rescued his beloved daughter. It's just a shame
01:14that the plan inadvertently led to the death of protagonist hero's older brother Tadashi,
01:19which Callahan at least expresses regret for. Even so, the outcome for Callahan was absolutely a net
01:25positive. Number 7. Azog the Defiler The Hobbit, The Battle of the Five Armies
01:30In Peter Jackson's less-than-necessary Hobbit trilogy, Ork War Chief Azog the Defiler's plan
01:36was to wipe out the male bloodline of Durin by killing Thorin Oakenshield and his nephews Feli
01:42and Keli. And in the third film, The Battle of the Five Armies, he absolutely succeeds. Sure, Azog also dies
01:49during his final battle on the ice with Thorin, but it's certainly anything but a victory for the
01:54Dwarven King, who also perishes from his wounds moments later. This was Azog's personal quest from
02:01the outset of the trilogy. He took an oath and, damn it, he followed through, even at the cost of
02:07his own life. And while the films might brush it under the carpet in pursuit of a more triumphant,
02:11crowd-pleasing climax, Azog totally succeeded in wiping out Thorin's bloodline just as he swore he would.
02:18If that's not winning, then what is?
02:22Number 6, Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The Dream Master
02:26Though it's fair to say that Robert England's Freddy Krueger just loves to torment young folk
02:31through their dreams, his wider operating goal since the start of the series has been to kill
02:37off the children of the parents who banded together and killed them in revenge for murdering 20 local
02:42children all those years ago. And in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The Dream Master, Freddy finally
02:47follows through with his quest, killing the so-called last of the Elm Street children,
02:52Kristen Parker, who was burned to death midway through the movie.
02:56Kristen herself even hammers the point home by telling Freddy moments before her demise that
03:01she is the last. And while the series of course continued on for many more installments,
03:06for the franchise's midway point, Freddy had effectively accomplished his main mission.
03:11The rest of the souls he claims after that point are just gravy, basically, and no matter how many times
03:16he's defeated in the subsequent movies, nobody can take away from him the fact that he killed
03:21all of the original Elm Street children.
03:235. President Snow
03:25The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2
03:28Granted, there aren't many movie villains who get ripped apart by an angry mob and can still
03:33genuinely claim to coming out on top. But The Hunger Games' President Snow, Donald Sutherland,
03:38is no ordinary villain. Though Snow is murdered by a rabble of irate citizens in Mockingjay Part 2,
03:44this comes at the end of a long, successful, and enriched life.
03:49He got to live many, many decades as the autocratic ruler of Panem,
03:54and through Katniss's actions, not only avoids an official, formal execution,
03:59he also gets to see his nemesis, President Coyne, get murdered by her before he dies.
04:05Even accepting Snow's own brutal death, he literally goes out laughing, knowing that he managed to talk
04:11Katniss into killing his enemy, robbing her of the power she so desperately craved before he himself
04:17was finished off. It may be a pyrrhic victory for Snow, but it's a victory nonetheless.
04:234. Terrence Fletcher
04:25Whiplash
04:26Whiplash seemingly ends with jazz drummer Andrew Nyman, played by a career-best Miles Teller,
04:32triumphing over his abusive former instructor Terrence Fletcher, J.K. Simmons, by leading the band
04:38in a mesmerising performance of the jazz standard caravan. This is despite Fletcher's attempts to
04:43publicly embarrass him by having the band first play a song that Andrew doesn't know. However,
04:49even beyond the debates about whether Andrew pushed himself too far in the pursuit of greatness,
04:54didn't Fletcher ultimately get what he really wanted? His own Charlie Parker. A few scenes earlier,
05:00Fletcher laments to Andrew that despite his efforts, he was never able to mould his own Charlie
05:05Parker. A genuine musical prodigy formed by his harsh, if we're being kind, methods.
05:11But with Andrew's stunning final performance, Fletcher finally got it. Andrew may think he was
05:16the real winner by subverting Fletcher's plan to embarrass him on stage, but all it did was push
05:22Andrew to give the best rendition of his life and fulfil Fletcher's own twisted ambition.
05:273. Richmond Valentine
05:30Kingsman, The Secret Service
05:32Now, to be completely fair, Kingsman's villain, Richmond Valentine, Samuel Jackson,
05:37absolutely did not want to die at the end. But all the same, he was ultimately far more
05:43successful in pulling off his population curbing plan than the movie's ending or its sequel would
05:48have you believe. Valentine's hilariously over-the-top scheme involved giving away free
05:53sim cards to everyone on Earth before transmitting a signal which would turn them murderously violent,
05:59all in the pursuit of whittling down the population and stemming global warming. We see a brief display
06:05of this potential when Valentine activates a signal in the third act, causing absolute chaos around the
06:11world until the signal is stopped. People instantly start fighting and killing each other, with even
06:16parents, including Eggsy's own mother, trying to kill their own kids. And yet, director Matthew Vaughn
06:22kind of glosses over the fallout at the end of the film, no matter that surely millions, even tens of
06:28hundreds of millions of people would have been killed globally, especially the young, old, and vulnerable.
06:35Even with the signal only being active for such a short time, Valentine likely wiped out a decent
06:40portion of the world's population. Number 2, Ozymandias, Watchman. Plenty of spirited debate,
06:46shall we say, about whether Ozymandias is Watchman's true villain or not. But, you know,
06:52the guy kind of sort of murders 15 million people in his quest to unite the world against a common
06:57enemy,
06:58Dr. Manhattan. And that's not exactly heroic. There's absolutely a cruel, perverse logic to his
07:04actions, which are at least initially shown to completely succeed. The world does unite together,
07:11Manhattan is exiled from Earth, and the single dissenting hero, Rorschach, is even killed by
07:18Manhattan on his way out of the door. Some will point to the film's final scene,
07:23where Rorschach's journal ends up in the hands of a New York tabloid, as proof that Ozymandias'
07:28ruse will eventually be exposed. But think about it, who's gonna believe it?
07:32The scrawlings of a deranged vigilante have considerably less credibility than a retired
07:37superhero turned businessman, especially when published by a cranky, paranoid tabloid. As such,
07:43it's incredibly likely that humanity at large would posthumously dismiss Rorschach as a fringe
07:48lunatic conspiracy theorist, and Ozymandias wouldn't face any major repercussions for his actions.
07:54He won in pretty much every way that matters.
07:571. Khan Noonien Singh – Star Trek II – The Wrath of Khan
08:02Ricardo Montalban's iconic villain Khan Noonien Singh may not survive the events of the
08:07greatest Star Trek movie, Wrath of Khan, but he nevertheless fulfills his primary objective,
08:13to, in his own words, do something far worse than kill Captain Kirk. Hurt him and hurt him bad. Khan's
08:20actions end up severely damaging the Enterprise, in turn causing Spock's sacrificial death,
08:26and in Kirk's quest to resurrect Spock in the third film, also leads to the death of Kirk's son,
08:32David. On top of that, the precious Genesis device is destroyed, a ton of Starfleet personnel
08:38are dead, and because Kirk kills Klingon Kruger, Christopher Lloyd, in the third movie's climax,
08:44Klingons now hate him forevermore. And yeah, that's a big old mess that Khan created for Kirk,
08:56and consequently a lot of pain even long after Khan himself is dead. Khan cuts Kirk, and he cuts him
09:03deep. No matter that he didn't actually kill the guy, instead he left him to live and experience the
09:09full feeling of his pain. And those were 8 more movie villains you didn't realize actually won.
09:15Any villains you feel secretly handed a big fan out to their opponents in a given film? Shout them
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09:26watching, I've been Ewan, this has been Watt Culture, and I'll hopefully catch you next time. Bye!
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