Ever Cheer For the Bad Guy?

[Julianking93]

Have you ever been watching a movie, reading a book or playing a game and found yourself hoping the villain succeeds? Be it due to you agreeing with the morals of the villain or just that the protaginists are complete dicks or douchebags, have you ever just wanted the bad guy to get away with it all?

Personally, I just watched the film Orphan for the second time and it centers around a young girl who turns out to be a psychotic murderer (don't worry, I'm not spoiling anything big) and I just thought the whole time "I really want her to get away with this" mainly because the enitire family she was trying to kill were a bunch of idiots.

So, Escapist, am I the only one who sometimes roots for the bad guy?

 

[Marter]

First off, high five for watching Orphan!

I often root for the bad guys, just because movies nowadays are too predictable. I'd like to see the bad guy win once and a while, so I cheer for them.

 

[Jonluw]

I at least found my self sympathizing with VIKI in i robot.
I was sitting there genuinely thinking that the protagonist was being illogical and irrational.

Edit: Does this mean that the normal person would perceive me as evil?

 

[Shockolate]

I wonder how long it takes for Death Note and Code Geass (up to interpretation mind you) get mentioned.

 

[Rakkana]

As long as the evil guy actually has a brain then I always root for him.

By no brain I mean the idiots that put the protagonist in some sort of silly machine that will kill them in 5 hours when they could just shoot them in the forehead to avoid risk, retards...

 

[Nouw]

Lets see... out of all the movies I've seen have I ever rooted for the bad guys?

Pirates of the Caribbean, rooted for Davy Jones

 

[Colonel Alzheimer's]

I also rooted for the orphan in Orphan. Huh.
OT: I don't necessarily always root for the bad guy to win, but I always find myself hoping that every good guy in the movie (or TV show) will just die.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Definitely, if the bad guy is the kind of bad guy who won't brag about his victory for too long afterwards.

Like in Ninety Nine Nights, I so desperately wanted Dwykkfario to achieve his goal, as the two main protagonists basically cleave their way through thousands of innocent goblins just for the sake of getting revenge on ONE Goblin.

Lets see... out of all the movies I've seen have I ever rooted for the bad guys?

Pirates of the Caribbean, rooted for Davy Jones

I felt so sorry for Davy Jones when I found out about his relationship with Calypso. After that scene, I was desperately hoping he kicked the pirates' asses.

 

[Grayjack]

I always wanted The Empire to win. Of course they didn't.

 

[Wardnath]

Not really. I don't see why one'd cheer for the losing side.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I rooted for the truck that nearly crushed Bella Swann at the beginning of Twilight if that counts, but I also see Bella as being the villain of that series so the truck driver is in fact the good guy so it may not count.

Aside from that I very rarely root for the villain. I may feel sympathy for him, and want him to achieve his goals, but that's not exactly the same. Rooting for him would imply that instead of wanting the hero to win I wanted the villain to win. Given that it takes a really awful hero to make me want them to fail it doesn't happen so often, and even then it's more a case of wanting the hero to fail than the villain to win.

 

[Exterminas]

I might sound silly but: Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter books. I mean, seriously, that guy had nothing in his life. No friends, no nice teacher, no reputation, no endless vault of money, he just sat down and studied, he actually worked for his stuff.

He just didn't trip over his destiny one day and everything went well from there on, more ore less by chance.

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

All the time. In fact, I often root for the bad guy more often than the good guy.

I'm sick of movies and games with happy endings. It's not realistic!

 

[mb16]

star wars: what did the empire ever do wrong? i didn't see any slave labour or death camps
half life 2: when Breen is offering freeman to work with the combine, second time I wanted to join them

 

[CNKFan]

I was rooting for the Colonol and MNU in District 9.

 

[Julianking93]

In Law Abiding Citizen, I wanted Clyde to kill everyone.

That was another one when I wanted him to kill everyone and succeed in his revenge.

 

[Sonicron]

On several occasions, yes. The ones that most prominently stick out in my mind involve Chaos in W40k and some of the Decepticons in Transformers.

 

[Shurikens and Lightning]

Sorta related but when playing both KOTOR games I played evil and wish I could actually play as a sith lord instead.

 

[iLikeHippos]

One Piece. Most of the time because the "evil" protagonists are so damn awesome.

That's all.