Classic Villain / Live-Action Films

• Avengers: Endgame has Thanos, who represents Wrath and Pride. When seeing first-hand that all his efforts and hopes for a balanced universe would only result in ruined worlds filled horribly traumatized people, he comes to the conclusion that it's everyone else's fault for not following his vision and appreciating his "gift." Mixing unfathomable Wrath and Pride, like a child flipping a game board over when he realizes he's lost, he resolves to become a god of a new "grateful" universe where he can find the appreciation (read: worship) he feels he deserves, and others won't be able to ruin his work.
• James Bond:
  • Ernst Stavro Blofeld, 007's Arch-Enemy and the leader of SPECTRE, is Greed, Pride, Ambition and Wrath all rolled into one Diabolical Mastermind. All of his Evil Plans are of the Take Over the World variety, primarily involving pitting nations against each other for personal gain, and reacts quite violently whenever a henchman displeases him. Blofeld contrasts Bond by being of modest origins, but rising to a position of power in contrast to Bond.
    • His most recent incarnation in Spectre comes with the additional vice of Envy, as he resented the attention an orphaned Bond got from his father, causing him to commit patricide and orchestrate all of 007's misery since Casino Royale (2006).
    • Blofeld's flunkies such as Rosa Klebb, Largo, and Le Chiffre are all driven by Greed. They're primarily motivated to bring in profit to SPECTRE by all means necessary.
  • The titular antagonist of Dr. No isn't just motivated by pure greed after he joined SPECTRE, but also revenge, partly because the Warsaw Bloc and NATO rebuffed his offers to provide his expertise on atomic weapons testing.
  • As with Blofeld, most Bond villains such as Goldfinger, Elliot Carver, and Max Zorin are primarily motivated by Greed, as their schemes revolve around monetary gain from whatever Evil Plan they hatched. Another vice they have is Wrath, as they break down whenever Bond foils their plans, sometimes to the point of killing their mooks. Ambition is another vice for many Bond villains, as they seek to dominate the world through underhanded means.
  • GoldenEye: Greed and Wrath motivate the film's Big Bad, Janus/Alec Trevelyan, who is an ex-00 agent gone rogue. Janus plans to use the titular Kill Sat to steal from the Bank of England and plunge the world economy into chaos in revenge against Britain for the betrayal of his people (the Lienz Cossacks) to Stalin at the end of WWII, who had them executed. He also envies Bond for having the luxury of losing his parents to natural causes, while Trevelyan's own were Driven to Suicide out of Survivor's Guilt. He essentially shows what Bond could have been had he remained fixated with old scores.
    • Lust motivates Xenia Onatopp, as she is an Ax-Crazy Combat Sadomasochist who gets sexually aroused when killing people, especially when she's gunning down innocent scientists at the Russian satellite base in Arkhangelsk.
  • Skyfall: Wrath motivates Rogue Agent Raoul Silva, as he wants revenge against M for selling him out to the Chinese. However, M points out that he brought all the misery he suffered upon himself because he hacked into the Chinese spy agencies without clearing it with his bosses.
  • Greed and Ambition are the prime motivators for Max Denbigh/C in Spectre, as it's revealed he aligned himself with Blofeld by enabling SPECTRE to secretly get unlimited access to data gathered by the world's major intelligence agencies without others knowing in exchange for more political power.
• Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road is Greed; his defining characteristic is his obsession with ownership of any and all resources in the Wasteland. Tellingly he never refers to his fleeing wives/sex slaves as people. They, and the babies they carry, are his "property" or his "treasures."
• Captain Vidal of Pan's Labyrinth representing Pride and absurd amounts of Wrath. A Wicked Stepfather obsessed with continuing his legacy, Vidal does not care for others and only uses them as tools for his own benefit. He's pretty much the complete opposite to Ofelia: Where as she is young, optimistic, kind and forgiving, Vidal is older, ruthless, cruel and beyond redemption. The clothes he wears (clean, fascistic grab) not only share a difference to Ofelia wears but to the very rebels he fights, who wear ragged and downtrodden clothes.
• Jigsaw from the Saw franchise is Envy and Pride. He's so convinced that his philosophy is correct and he's genuinely helping people whom he can't conceive of the opposite. Also, his viciousness stems from resentment towards people wasting the gift of life that he's being denied.
• Star Wars:
  • The Sith as a whole have Wrath and Ambition as their personal philosophy, drawing their power from hatred to corrupt and control the galaxy. Their opposition to the Jedi Order makes itself apparent in beliefs and appearance.
  • Emperor Palpatine. Ambition, Pride and Wrath. While his deception is in the first (storyline wise) half of the sextology, he gains his color coded differences in the second half, what with his ultra-aged appearance and stylish black cloak. Is always in dark rooms and such when he is in his Sith garb, and has an ominous theme that plays most of the time when he is onscreen. Done in when he tortures his apprentice's son. Vader doesn't appreciate it and tosses him into an engine exhaust vent. Except for the Force-Ghost and his clone bodies. In that incarnation, he eventually dies trying to possess Anakin Solo.
  • Darth Vader is Wrath and more iconic than the Emperor, and in his own ways- brought to the Dark Side by Anger, clad in black armour and masked, and a very personal relationship with the hero... and definitely qualifies for the classic death scene.
  • Jabba the Hutt from Return of the Jedi is practically Gluttony and Lust incarnate.
  • From the Star Wars Expanded Universe (specifically the Knights of the Old Republic comics), is Haazen. He embodies envy full stop, to the extent that it's eaten up his life; he has a color scheme of dark greys, purples, and reds that sets him apart visually from both other Jedi and Sith characters (fitting, since he considers himself neither); he deceives Lucien into thinking he's his friend and mentor (Lucein snarks at Haazen a lot, but its clear he also relies on him a great deal) and is a Shadow Archetype to main character Zayne Carrick. He also gets a big Karmic Death brought about as a direct result of his own actions.
  • Also The Big Bad of The Old Republic era, Sith Emperor Vitiate represents Gluttony, Pride and Lust. He's already immortal (thanks to adsorbing all life on his home plant) But he aims to adsorb all life in the galaxy just to be sure. He sees himself above all overs like they were mere ants. He loves life and every experience that comes with it and seeks to spend eternity becoming everything from a farmer, to an artist, to a simple man. And unlike most sith Vitiate only seems to value power as a means to an end and doesn't seek power for its own sake. He somehow manages to be even more cruel and Sadistic then even Palpatine.
• General Zod, Ursa and Non in the Christopher Reeve Superman II film^note the trio was introduced in the opening of Superman: The Movie represent Pride and Wrath. Whereas Superman was sent to his world to live peacefully with the natives of Earth and decides to be its champion, the Phantom Zone criminals choose to come to Earth and conquer it as the supposed right of being innately superior. In doing so, while Superman is like the arrival of a benevolent and humble god, the Trio is a walking/flying armageddon of arrogant selfishness with the powers of a god.
• Elijah Price a.k.a. "Mister Glass" in Unbreakable, (Ambition and Pride) distinguished physically by his malady. In this case his physical contrast with the hero is the actual basis of the plot, and not just a signifier.

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