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** ''Film/TheHatefulEight'': Every member of the titular group of characters has a questionable past and is not exactly the nicest person, though while Daisy Domergue is a murderous criminal searched dead and alive, while the other characters are at least lawful citizens. [[spoiler:Till it turns out not to be the case - only bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren, John "the Hangman" and Chris Mannix are really what they say to be - the rest of the bunch turn out to be EvilAllAlong and part of Daisy's gang]], further invoking this trope between both parties.
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* In the two ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' movies, the Predators are this to the Aliens. In the [[Film/AVPAlienVsPredator first movie]], not only does this lead to an EnemyMine situation where the last surviving human character teams up with the last surviving Predator, but it's made abundantly clear that the Predators are ''by far'' the lesser threat, as the Aliens will cause global extinction if they reach civilization (which, as many of noted, [[TrailersAlwaysLie invalidates the famous tagline]] [[EvilVersusEvil "Whoever wins... we lose"]]). The [[Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem second film]] is a bit better about this trope, with the Predator gruesomely killing a fair number of people without an EnemyMine in sight, but to the humans, it remains a significantly smaller problem than the Alien swarm in addition to the many EvilVirtues of [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy its species]].
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* In the two ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' movies, the Predators are this to the Aliens. In the [[Film/AVPAlienVsPredator first movie]], not only does this lead to an EnemyMine situation where the last surviving human character teams up with the last surviving Predator, but it's made abundantly clear that the Predators are ''by far'' the lesser threat, as the Aliens will cause global extinction if they reach civilization (which, as many of have noted, [[TrailersAlwaysLie invalidates the famous tagline]] [[EvilVersusEvil "Whoever wins... we lose"]]). The [[Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem second film]] is a bit better about this trope, with the Predator gruesomely killing a fair number of people without an EnemyMine in sight, but to the humans, it remains a significantly smaller problem than the Alien swarm in addition to the many EvilVirtues of [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy its species]].
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** The character who comes across as the most genuinely decent is probably Stalin's daughter Svetlana, [[GoodIsImpotent who has no real power]] and is constantly being manipulated by the men around her for her OneHundredPercentAdorationRating with the Soviet people.
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* In ''Film/Beast2017'', [[spoiler:Moll is seriously unstable, and it's revealed that she lied in claiming she stabbed the girl in self-defence, which makes it ambiguous how much of a bully she was, and she fantasizes about killing the victims. However, she still gets revenge on Pascal and ensures he can't hurt anybody else by killing him after he confesses to being the killer.]]
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* In ''Film/Beast2017'', [[spoiler:Moll is seriously unstable, and it's revealed that she lied in claiming she stabbed the girl in self-defence, which makes it ambiguous how much of a bully she was, and she fantasizes about killing the victims. However, she still gets revenge on Pascal and ensures he can't hurt anybody else by killing him after he confesses to being the killer.]]
* Caine in ''Film/MenaceIISociety'' is just as much of a criminal living the thug life as his friends, but he is portrayed more sympathetic, with a backstory of him being born into a bad disfunctional family and surrounded by negative peers and influences all of his life. He acts as the OnlySaneMan of the group, and just when he's about to do a full HeelFaceTurn [[spoiler:he is gunned down in a driveby shooting.]]
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* Caine in ''Film/MenaceIISociety'' is just as much of a criminal living the thug life as his friends, but he is portrayed more sympathetic, with a backstory of him being born into a bad disfunctional family and surrounded by negative peers and influences all of his life. He acts as the OnlySaneMan of the group, and just when he's about to do a full HeelFaceTurn [[spoiler:he is gunned down in a driveby shooting.]]
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* ''Film/OrphanFirstKill'': [[spoiler:Esther and the evil Albrights have no moral high ground over each other, but Tricia covered up Gunnar's murder of his own little sister and are overtly xenophobic and classist against Esther for being Eastern European as well as using ableist terms to disparage her dwarfism... all this while forcing her to play into their cover story while mistreating her. Also, Esther was originally content with just leaving the family and abandoning the charade and had no intentions of hurting them initially--notable for someone who had ''already'' murdered a family.]]
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* ''Film/TheBigShort'': The big banks and Wall Street are clearly the villains, but the protagonists are greedy opportunists trying to profit off a global economic collapse. However, some of them have more morality than others:
** Mark is a {{Jerkass}}, but he hates how Wall Street rips people off. Once he realizes that the global economy will collapse, he tries to find some sort of moral absolution and seems dismayed that neither he nor any of the other bankers will face any comeuppance.
** Charlie and Jamie are two normal guys who come across the whole thing by chance. When their mentor tells them just how many people will be affected their actions, they're appropriately horrified and try to warn the press about it to little avail.
** Ben Rickert is the most moral of the main characters. Even though he helps Charlie and Jamie, he never profits off of the collapse himself. When Charlie and Jamie celebrate over how much money they've made, he's quick to tell them about the consequences of what they've done.
** Mark is a {{Jerkass}}, but he hates how Wall Street rips people off. Once he realizes that the global economy will collapse, he tries to find some sort of moral absolution and seems dismayed that neither he nor any of the other bankers will face any comeuppance.
** Charlie and Jamie are two normal guys who come across the whole thing by chance. When their mentor tells them just how many people will be affected their actions, they're appropriately horrified and try to warn the press about it to little avail.
** Ben Rickert is the most moral of the main characters. Even though he helps Charlie and Jamie, he never profits off of the collapse himself. When Charlie and Jamie celebrate over how much money they've made, he's quick to tell them about the consequences of what they've done.
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** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they're definitely the guys you'll want to root for.
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** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they're definitely they can possibly be the guys you'll want to root for.
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* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuities where Godzilla is more of an AntiVillain, his opponents tend to be much worse in comparison, allowing the audience to root for him despite being a destructive, rage-filled monster who's killed countless thousands of innocent people, because at least Godzilla takes rests between his rampages. Films that fit this description include ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', ''Film/Godzilla2000'', and ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''.
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* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuities where Godzilla is more of an AntiVillain, his opponents tend to be much worse in comparison, allowing the audience to root for him despite being a destructive, rage-filled monster who's killed countless thousands of innocent people, because at least Godzilla takes rests between his rampages. Films that fit this description include ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'', ''Film/Godzilla2000'', and ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''.''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus''.
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* Creator/QuentinTarantino's films (both directed and produced) at their darkest descent into this type of conflict.
** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they're definitely the guys you'll want to root for.
** ''Film/KillBill'': The villains are ruthless assassins (though in the present, half of them have retired) and attacked The Bride at her wedding rehearsal, slaughtered everyone present, before mercilessly beating her. The Bride herself used to be one of them, an assassin, merciless, and with a sadistic streak. This trope is best summed up by Bud, who is the one of the only ones to admit that what they did was wrong, "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die. But then again, so does she."
** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they're definitely the guys you'll want to root for.
** ''Film/KillBill'': The villains are ruthless assassins (though in the present, half of them have retired) and attacked The Bride at her wedding rehearsal, slaughtered everyone present, before mercilessly beating her. The Bride herself used to be one of them, an assassin, merciless, and with a sadistic streak. This trope is best summed up by Bud, who is the one of the only ones to admit that what they did was wrong, "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die. But then again, so does she."
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* In ''Film/FreddyVsJason,'' Jason is often read this way, since at least he's not a children-killing scumbag with pedophilic undertones who stretches out his victims' deaths out of sheer sadism. That and Freddy can go just about anywhere whereas Jason only sticks to his home place. Jason's motive for becoming a killer is to avenge his mother whom he [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas truly cares about]], while Freddy is pretty much unable to love anyone. On the flip side, Jason racks up a ''way'' bigger body count than Freddy does (which is actually Freddy's motive for fighting him -- he is killing kids Freddy has targeted), is clearly out of control, and is slaughtering teenagers by the dozen seemingly ForTheEvulz, so... Also, on a metaphysical level, there's the fact Freddy explicitly steals the souls of his victims, whereas Jason just kills people.
* All the main characters in ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'' are morally questionable at best, being high-ranking members of Stalin's inner circle, and a bunch of brutal authoritarians. However, in the EvilPowerVacuum left after Stalin's death, some definitely come off better than others.
** Between Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrentiy Beria, Khrushchev comes across as the much better option and the much more sympathetic character, having a few scruples and a reformist agenda, while Beria, leader of the sadistic SecretPolice, is a SerialRapist driven solely by self-interest. Most of the other characters whose support they are vying for, particularly [[PointyHairedBoss Georgy Malenkov]], come across as petty, cruel, and/or stupid.
** The character who comes across as the most genuinely decent is probably Stalin's daughter Svetlana, [[GoodIsImpotent who has no real power]] and is constantly being manipulated by the men around her for her OneHundredPercentAdorationRating with the Soviet people.
** [[EleventhHourRanger Finally]], there's Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who comes across as fairly likable, being a down to earth soldier who, in his own words, "fucked Germany" and also (refreshingly) has no time for the political double-talk and scheming of the men around him.
** Between Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrentiy Beria, Khrushchev comes across as the much better option and the much more sympathetic character, having a few scruples and a reformist agenda, while Beria, leader of the sadistic SecretPolice, is a SerialRapist driven solely by self-interest. Most of the other characters whose support they are vying for, particularly [[PointyHairedBoss Georgy Malenkov]], come across as petty, cruel, and/or stupid.
** The character who comes across as the most genuinely decent is probably Stalin's daughter Svetlana, [[GoodIsImpotent who has no real power]] and is constantly being manipulated by the men around her for her OneHundredPercentAdorationRating with the Soviet people.
** [[EleventhHourRanger Finally]], there's Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who comes across as fairly likable, being a down to earth soldier who, in his own words, "fucked Germany" and also (refreshingly) has no time for the political double-talk and scheming of the men around him.
* In ''Film/FreddyVsJason,'' Jason is often read this way, since at least he's not a children-killing scumbag with pedophilic undertones who stretches out his victims' deaths out of sheer sadism. That and Freddy can go just about anywhere whereas Jason only sticks to his home place. Jason's motive for becoming a killer is to avenge his mother whom he [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas truly cares about]], while Freddy is pretty much unable to love anyone. On the flip side, Jason racks up a ''way'' bigger body count than Freddy does (which is actually Freddy's motive for fighting him -- he is killing kids Freddy has targeted), is clearly out of control, and is slaughtering teenagers by the dozen seemingly ForTheEvulz, so... Also, on a metaphysical level, there's the fact Freddy explicitly steals the souls of his victims, whereas Jason just kills people.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuities where Godzilla is more of an AntiVillain, his opponents tend to be much worse in comparison, allowing the audience to root for him despite being a destructive, rage-filled monster who's killed countless thousands of innocent people, because at least Godzilla takes rests between his rampages. Films that fit this description include ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', ''Film/Godzilla2000'', and ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuities where Godzilla is more of an AntiVillain, his opponents tend to be much worse in comparison, allowing the audience to root for him despite being a destructive, rage-filled monster who's killed countless thousands of innocent people, because at least Godzilla takes rests between his rampages. Films that fit this description include ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', ''Film/Godzilla2000'', and ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''.
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* Creator/QuentinTarantino's films (both directed and produced) at their darkest descent into this type of conflict.
** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they're definitely the guys you'll want to root for.
** ''Film/KillBill'': The villains are ruthless assassins (though in the present, half of them have retired) and attacked The Bride at her wedding rehearsal, slaughtered everyone present, before mercilessly beating her. The Bride herself used to be one of them, an assassin, merciless, and with a sadistic streak. This trope is best summed up by Bud, who is the one of the only ones to admit that what they did was wrong, "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die. But then again, so does she."
** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they're definitely the guys you'll want to root for.
** ''Film/KillBill'': The villains are ruthless assassins (though in the present, half of them have retired) and attacked The Bride at her wedding rehearsal, slaughtered everyone present, before mercilessly beating her. The Bride herself used to be one of them, an assassin, merciless, and with a sadistic streak. This trope is best summed up by Bud, who is the one of the only ones to admit that what they did was wrong, "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die. But then again, so does she."
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* Creator/QuentinTarantino's films (both directed and produced) at their darkest descent into this type of conflict.
** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': The Gecko brothers are''Film/ISeeYou'': [[spoiler:Alec]] is a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but dangerously disturbed young man due to his unresolved severe childhood who increasingly develops a taste for terrorizing the Harper family, [[spoiler:and it's even implied he was going to sexually assault the unconscious Harper teen when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they're definitely the guys you'll want to root for.
** ''Film/KillBill'': The villains are ruthless assassins (though in the present, half of them have retired) and attacked The Bride at her wedding rehearsal, slaughtered everyone present,his madness reaches its height before mercilessly beating her. The Bride herself used to be one of them, an assassin, merciless, Mindy stops him]]. But [[spoiler:Greg, the serial child predator who abducts, tortures and kills boys, is unquestionably much, ''much'' worse than Alec even without the fact Greg is willing to kill anyone to cover up his true colors, plus it's implied he's actually responsible for Alec's behavior since Alec was a past victim who escaped him. Ultimately, Greg tries to kill Alec and frame the latter for his crimes, and Alec kills Greg in a mix of vengeance and self-defense]].
* Caine in ''Film/MenaceIISociety'' is just as much of a criminal living the thug life as his friends, but he is portrayed more sympathetic, with asadistic streak. This trope is best summed up backstory of him being born into a bad disfunctional family and surrounded by Bud, who is negative peers and influences all of his life. He acts as the one OnlySaneMan of the only ones group, and just when he's about to admit that what they did was wrong, "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die. But then again, so does she."do a full HeelFaceTurn [[spoiler:he is gunned down in a driveby shooting.]]
** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': The Gecko brothers are
** ''Film/KillBill'': The villains are ruthless assassins (though in the present, half of them have retired) and attacked The Bride at her wedding rehearsal, slaughtered everyone present,
* Caine in ''Film/MenaceIISociety'' is just as much of a criminal living the thug life as his friends, but he is portrayed more sympathetic, with a
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* All the main characters in ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'' are morally questionable at best, being high-ranking members of Stalin's inner circle, and a bunch of brutal authoritarians. However, in the EvilPowerVacuum left after Stalin's death, some definitely come off better than others.
** Between Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrentiy Beria, Khrushchev comes across as the much better option and the much more sympathetic character, having a few scruples and a reformist agenda, while Beria, leader of the sadistic SecretPolice, is a SerialRapist driven solely by self-interest. Most of the other characters whose support they are vying for, particularly [[PointyHairedBoss Georgy Malenkov]], come across as petty, cruel, and/or stupid.
** The character who comes across as the most genuinely decent is probably Stalin's daughter Svetlana, [[GoodIsImpotent who has no real power]] and is constantly being manipulated by the men around her for her OneHundredPercentAdorationRating with the Soviet people.
** [[EleventhHourRanger Finally]], there's Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who comes across as fairly likable, being a down to earth soldier who, in his own words, "fucked Germany" and also (refreshingly) has no time for the political double-talk and scheming of the men around him.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuities where Godzilla is more of an AntiVillain, his opponents tend to be much worse in comparison, allowing the audience to root for him despite being a destructive, rage-filled monster who's killed countless thousands of innocent people, because at least Godzilla takes rests between his rampages. Films that fit this description include ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', ''Film/Godzilla2000'', and ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''.
* All the main characters in ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'' are morally questionable at best, being high-ranking members of Stalin's inner circle, and a bunch of brutal authoritarians. However, in the EvilPowerVacuum left after Stalin's death, some definitely come off better than others.
** Between Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrentiy Beria, Khrushchev comes across as the much better option and the much more sympathetic character, having a few scruples and a reformist agenda, while Beria, leader of the sadistic SecretPolice, is a SerialRapist driven solely by self-interest. Most of the other characters whose support they are vying for, particularly [[PointyHairedBoss Georgy Malenkov]], come across as petty, cruel, and/or stupid.
** The character who comes across as the most genuinely decent is probably Stalin's daughter Svetlana, [[GoodIsImpotent who has no real power]] and is constantly being manipulated by the men around her for her OneHundredPercentAdorationRating with the Soviet people.
** [[EleventhHourRanger Finally]], there's Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who comes across as fairly likable, being a down to earth soldier who, in his own words, "fucked Germany" and also (refreshingly) has no time for the political double-talk and scheming of the men around him.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuities where Godzilla is more of an AntiVillain, his opponents tend to be much worse in comparison, allowing the audience to root for him despite being a destructive, rage-filled monster who's killed countless thousands of innocent people, because at least Godzilla takes rests between his rampages. Films that fit this description include ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', ''Film/Godzilla2000'', and ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''.
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* In the two ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' movies, the Predators are this to the Aliens. In the [[Film/AVPAlienVsPredator first movie]], not only does this lead to an EnemyMine situation where the last surviving human character teams up with the last surviving Predator, but it's made abundantly clear that the Predators are ''by far'' the lesser threat, as the Aliens will cause global extinction if they reach civilization (which, as many of noted, [[TrailersAlwaysLie invalidates the famous tagline]] [[EvilVersusEvil "Whoever wins... we lose"]]). The [[Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem second film]] is a bit better about this trope, with the Predator gruesomely killing a fair number of people without an EnemyMine in sight, but to the humans, it remains a significantly smaller problem than the Alien swarm in addition to the many EvilVirtues of [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy its species]].
** A lot of the victims the Predators kill in many of the films and video games are {{Asshole Victim}}s: either gang leaders, thugs, criminals, rapists, or child-abusers (this is evident in ''Film/{{Predator 2}}'' where the Predator was killing a bunch of gang leaders and their henchmen). The Predators follow a strict code of honor and even helped develop some of the greatest civilizations in history (i.e. the Aztec Empire, Ancient Egyptians, and the Khmer Empire). The reason the Predators are considered antagonists is because many of the protagonists in such works are law enforcement officers or military personnel (which the Predators consider to be {{Worthy Opponent}}s since many of them are capable of fighting back).
* In ''Film/Beast2017'', [[spoiler:Moll is seriously unstable, and it's revealed that she lied in claiming she stabbed the girl in self-defence, which makes it ambiguous how much of a bully she was, and she fantasizes about killing the victims. However, she still gets revenge on Pascal and ensures he can't hurt anybody else by killing him after he confesses to being the killer.]]
* In ''Film/FreddyVsJason,'' Jason is often read this way, since at least he's not a children-killing scumbag with pedophilic undertones who stretches out his victims' deaths out of sheer sadism. That and Freddy can go just about anywhere whereas Jason only sticks to his home place. Jason's motive for becoming a killer is to avenge his mother whom he [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas truly cares about]], while Freddy is pretty much unable to love anyone. On the flip side, Jason racks up a ''way'' bigger body count than Freddy does (which is actually Freddy's motive for fighting him -- he is killing kids Freddy has targeted), is clearly out of control, and is slaughtering teenagers by the dozen seemingly ForTheEvulz, so... Also, on a metaphysical level, there's the fact Freddy explicitly steals the souls of his victims, whereas Jason just kills people.
* Every character in ''Film/Conspiracy2001'' is a Nazi and have enthusiastically engaged in war crimes, so they're all evil. Yet [[AntiVillain Dr. Wilhelm Kritzinger]], while still a proud servant of the Fuehrer who's glad to oppress the Jewish people, is the only one appalled by the concept of complete extermination. This is a HistoricalHeroUpgrade for him -- the movie is about the Wannsee Conference which discussed details of the Holocaust, but the records (admittedly compiled by those in charge of the proposed measures) show that nobody objected to the genocide at the time, not least because it was already well underway -- the point of the conference was not to start the Holocaust, but to make sure it happened efficiently. Kritzinger ''did'' try to resign soon after, but whether and how it was related to the conference is anyone's guess. He was ashamed about the whole thing after the war though.
* The German movie that ''Conspiracy'' was based on, ''Film/DieWannseekonferenz'', gives this role to Stuckart, except much more downplayed. He's proud of the fact that his office has produced five pounds of legislation restricting Jews in everything. His only beef is with [[DeadlyEuphemism evacuating]] German Half-Jews with the rest. They number seventy-two thousand out of eleven million, just under two-thirds of one-percent.
* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': Blondie, the "good," is hardly good by normal standards -- he's a bounty hunter who is nearly as ruthless as the people he hunts -- but unlike Angel Eyes (who is a complete sociopath) and Tuco (basically an amoral thug, albeit with a few humanizing moments), Blondie has moral standards. He is disgusted by the carnage of the Civil War and in the end decides to spare Tuco's life.
* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'': Henry Hill is a proud gangster who never directly kills anyone and is relatively sympathetic through most of the film even though both his associates and enemies are very nasty customers.
* Hayley Stark in ''Film/HardCandy'' is a sociopathic ManipulativeBitch whose modus operandi is [[DrivenToSuicide driving her victims to kill themselves]]...but she only targets [[PaedoHunt child predators]], such as the male protagonist. It seems to be up to the viewer to decide who to root for, [[spoiler:until it turns out that Jeff did it]].
* Creator/QuentinTarantino's films (both directed and produced) at their darkest descent into this type of conflict.
** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they're definitely the guys you'll want to root for.
** ''Film/KillBill'': The villains are ruthless assassins (though in the present, half of them have retired) and attacked The Bride at her wedding rehearsal, slaughtered everyone present, before mercilessly beating her. The Bride herself used to be one of them, an assassin, merciless, and with a sadistic streak. This trope is best summed up by Bud, who is the one of the only ones to admit that what they did was wrong, "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die. But then again, so does she."
* In ''[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 Suicide Squad]]'', while the titular team consists primarily of criminals and psychopaths that have basically been co-opted by the US Government as a black ops unit, faced with the threat posed by the Enchantress, who seeks to completely destroy civilisation, the Squad eventually make a choice to stand against the Enchantress even when they don't have to, with WordOfGod affirming that the film is, at its core, drawing a line between the Squad being bad guys while the Enchantress is just ''evil''.
* ''Film/TheWayOfTheGun'':
** Our protagonists Parker and Longbaugh are simple thugs who kidnap a pregnant woman to collect a ransom from a mob accountant. They're evil, but not without a sense of honor, and never plan to harm the pregnant woman, which contrasts with other characters in the film.
** Jeffers and Obecks are both ruthless mob bodyguards who plan to betray their employer. However, Obecks is subtly shown to be less awful than Jeffers. When the pair point their guns at a woman's pregnant belly as a threat to her would-be kidnappers, Obecks surreptitiously calls her attention to the fact that his finger isn't on the trigger, showing her that it's a bluff, at least on his part. When he pulls her behind cover during the ensuing firefight, he whispers "You're okay" to her. Jeffers never shows any humanity contrasting with the pair's ruthless actions.
* Caine in ''Film/MenaceIISociety'' is just as much of a criminal living the thug life as his friends, but he is portrayed more sympathetic, with a backstory of him being born into a bad disfunctional family and surrounded by negative peers and influences all of his life. He acts as the OnlySaneMan of the group, and just when he's about to do a full HeelFaceTurn [[spoiler:he is gunned down in a driveby shooting.]]
* All the main characters in ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'' are morally questionable at best, being high-ranking members of Stalin's inner circle, and a bunch of brutal authoritarians. However, in the EvilPowerVacuum left after Stalin's death, some definitely come off better than others.
** Between Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrentiy Beria, Khrushchev comes across as the much better option and the much more sympathetic character, having a few scruples and a reformist agenda, while Beria, leader of the sadistic SecretPolice, is a SerialRapist driven solely by self-interest. Most of the other characters whose support they are vying for, particularly [[PointyHairedBoss Georgy Malenkov]], come across as petty, cruel, and/or stupid.
** The character who comes across as the most genuinely decent is probably Stalin's daughter Svetlana, [[GoodIsImpotent who has no real power]] and is constantly being manipulated by the men around her for her OneHundredPercentAdorationRating with the Soviet people.
** [[EleventhHourRanger Finally]], there's Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who comes across as fairly likable, being a down to earth soldier who, in his own words, "fucked Germany" and also (refreshingly) has no time for the political double-talk and scheming of the men around him.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuities where Godzilla is more of an AntiVillain, his opponents tend to be much worse in comparison, allowing the audience to root for him despite being a destructive, rage-filled monster who's killed countless thousands of innocent people, because at least Godzilla takes rests between his rampages. Films that fit this description include ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', ''Film/Godzilla2000'', and ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''.
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** A lot of the victims the Predators kill in many of the films and video games are {{Asshole Victim}}s: either gang leaders, thugs, criminals, rapists, or child-abusers (this is evident in ''Film/{{Predator 2}}'' where the Predator was killing a bunch of gang leaders and their henchmen). The Predators follow a strict code of honor and even helped develop some of the greatest civilizations in history (i.e. the Aztec Empire, Ancient Egyptians, and the Khmer Empire). The reason the Predators are considered antagonists is because many of the protagonists in such works are law enforcement officers or military personnel (which the Predators consider to be {{Worthy Opponent}}s since many of them are capable of fighting back).
* In ''Film/Beast2017'', [[spoiler:Moll is seriously unstable, and it's revealed that she lied in claiming she stabbed the girl in self-defence, which makes it ambiguous how much of a bully she was, and she fantasizes about killing the victims. However, she still gets revenge on Pascal and ensures he can't hurt anybody else by killing him after he confesses to being the killer.]]
* In ''Film/FreddyVsJason,'' Jason is often read this way, since at least he's not a children-killing scumbag with pedophilic undertones who stretches out his victims' deaths out of sheer sadism. That and Freddy can go just about anywhere whereas Jason only sticks to his home place. Jason's motive for becoming a killer is to avenge his mother whom he [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas truly cares about]], while Freddy is pretty much unable to love anyone. On the flip side, Jason racks up a ''way'' bigger body count than Freddy does (which is actually Freddy's motive for fighting him -- he is killing kids Freddy has targeted), is clearly out of control, and is slaughtering teenagers by the dozen seemingly ForTheEvulz, so... Also, on a metaphysical level, there's the fact Freddy explicitly steals the souls of his victims, whereas Jason just kills people.
* Every character in ''Film/Conspiracy2001'' is a Nazi and have enthusiastically engaged in war crimes, so they're all evil. Yet [[AntiVillain Dr. Wilhelm Kritzinger]], while still a proud servant of the Fuehrer who's glad to oppress the Jewish people, is the only one appalled by the concept of complete extermination. This is a HistoricalHeroUpgrade for him -- the movie is about the Wannsee Conference which discussed details of the Holocaust, but the records (admittedly compiled by those in charge of the proposed measures) show that nobody objected to the genocide at the time, not least because it was already well underway -- the point of the conference was not to start the Holocaust, but to make sure it happened efficiently. Kritzinger ''did'' try to resign soon after, but whether and how it was related to the conference is anyone's guess. He was ashamed about the whole thing after the war though.
* The German movie that ''Conspiracy'' was based on, ''Film/DieWannseekonferenz'', gives this role to Stuckart, except much more downplayed. He's proud of the fact that his office has produced five pounds of legislation restricting Jews in everything. His only beef is with [[DeadlyEuphemism evacuating]] German Half-Jews with the rest. They number seventy-two thousand out of eleven million, just under two-thirds of one-percent.
* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': Blondie, the "good," is hardly good by normal standards -- he's a bounty hunter who is nearly as ruthless as the people he hunts -- but unlike Angel Eyes (who is a complete sociopath) and Tuco (basically an amoral thug, albeit with a few humanizing moments), Blondie has moral standards. He is disgusted by the carnage of the Civil War and in the end decides to spare Tuco's life.
* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'': Henry Hill is a proud gangster who never directly kills anyone and is relatively sympathetic through most of the film even though both his associates and enemies are very nasty customers.
* Hayley Stark in ''Film/HardCandy'' is a sociopathic ManipulativeBitch whose modus operandi is [[DrivenToSuicide driving her victims to kill themselves]]...but she only targets [[PaedoHunt child predators]], such as the male protagonist. It seems to be up to the viewer to decide who to root for, [[spoiler:until it turns out that Jeff did it]].
* Creator/QuentinTarantino's films (both directed and produced) at their darkest descent into this type of conflict.
** ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': The Gecko brothers are a bunch of scoundrels worthy of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, but when compared to diabolical bloodsucking monsters, they're definitely the guys you'll want to root for.
** ''Film/KillBill'': The villains are ruthless assassins (though in the present, half of them have retired) and attacked The Bride at her wedding rehearsal, slaughtered everyone present, before mercilessly beating her. The Bride herself used to be one of them, an assassin, merciless, and with a sadistic streak. This trope is best summed up by Bud, who is the one of the only ones to admit that what they did was wrong, "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die. But then again, so does she."
* In ''[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 Suicide Squad]]'', while the titular team consists primarily of criminals and psychopaths that have basically been co-opted by the US Government as a black ops unit, faced with the threat posed by the Enchantress, who seeks to completely destroy civilisation, the Squad eventually make a choice to stand against the Enchantress even when they don't have to, with WordOfGod affirming that the film is, at its core, drawing a line between the Squad being bad guys while the Enchantress is just ''evil''.
* ''Film/TheWayOfTheGun'':
** Our protagonists Parker and Longbaugh are simple thugs who kidnap a pregnant woman to collect a ransom from a mob accountant. They're evil, but not without a sense of honor, and never plan to harm the pregnant woman, which contrasts with other characters in the film.
** Jeffers and Obecks are both ruthless mob bodyguards who plan to betray their employer. However, Obecks is subtly shown to be less awful than Jeffers. When the pair point their guns at a woman's pregnant belly as a threat to her would-be kidnappers, Obecks surreptitiously calls her attention to the fact that his finger isn't on the trigger, showing her that it's a bluff, at least on his part. When he pulls her behind cover during the ensuing firefight, he whispers "You're okay" to her. Jeffers never shows any humanity contrasting with the pair's ruthless actions.
* Caine in ''Film/MenaceIISociety'' is just as much of a criminal living the thug life as his friends, but he is portrayed more sympathetic, with a backstory of him being born into a bad disfunctional family and surrounded by negative peers and influences all of his life. He acts as the OnlySaneMan of the group, and just when he's about to do a full HeelFaceTurn [[spoiler:he is gunned down in a driveby shooting.]]
* All the main characters in ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'' are morally questionable at best, being high-ranking members of Stalin's inner circle, and a bunch of brutal authoritarians. However, in the EvilPowerVacuum left after Stalin's death, some definitely come off better than others.
** Between Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrentiy Beria, Khrushchev comes across as the much better option and the much more sympathetic character, having a few scruples and a reformist agenda, while Beria, leader of the sadistic SecretPolice, is a SerialRapist driven solely by self-interest. Most of the other characters whose support they are vying for, particularly [[PointyHairedBoss Georgy Malenkov]], come across as petty, cruel, and/or stupid.
** The character who comes across as the most genuinely decent is probably Stalin's daughter Svetlana, [[GoodIsImpotent who has no real power]] and is constantly being manipulated by the men around her for her OneHundredPercentAdorationRating with the Soviet people.
** [[EleventhHourRanger Finally]], there's Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who comes across as fairly likable, being a down to earth soldier who, in his own words, "fucked Germany" and also (refreshingly) has no time for the political double-talk and scheming of the men around him.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuities where Godzilla is more of an AntiVillain, his opponents tend to be much worse in comparison, allowing the audience to root for him despite being a destructive, rage-filled monster who's killed countless thousands of innocent people, because at least Godzilla takes rests between his rampages. Films that fit this description include ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'', ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', ''Film/Godzilla2000'', and ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah''.
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