Yahoo News 16 most satisfying movie deaths
Now we don't endorse violence at Digital Spy, but if you're going to get your primal urges out of your system, how better than by watching a well-earned movie death?
After all, no one was hurt, and you can enjoy a little fist pump (while nobody's watching) as another hateful villain receives their just desserts.
Like these hateful guys:
(Warning: Some of these death scenes are pretty gruesome)
1. Gaston – Beauty and the Beast
The traditional Disney death of falling into oblivion after being spared by the hero was waiting for loathsome sexual predator Gaston, who might still be with us today if he'd gone after anyone who had shown the slightest interest in him.
Disney loves an accidental death by falling, keeping its heroes free of all wrongdoing – although in this case we would have gladly forgiven Belle for pushing him.
2. Jabba the Hutt – Return of the Jedi
The ick factor surrounding the decades-long sexualisation of 'Slave Leia' notwithstanding, you can't beat watching Carrie Fisher strangle her abuser to death with her own chains. Even if he is just a giant puppet.
3. Margaret White – Carrie
Carrie's mother is a real monster, and it's thanks to her psychological and physical abuse of her daughter that this movie is a horror instead of Matilda. Her death is gruesome, but she earned it a hundred times over.
4. Hans Gruber – Die Hard
Damn, did the late, wonderful Alan Rickman make a brilliant bad guy. Gruber's death is choreographed perfectly, from his smug satisfaction when he thinks he has won to his slow motion fall from a very great height.
5. Bellatrix Lestrange – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Helena Bonham Carter's Bellatrix is the cackling face of evil throughout the series, and her shocked expression as Julie Walters's Molly Weasley blows her to bits is wonderful to behold. "Not my daughter, you bitch," indeed.
6. Commodus – Gladiator
Never was there a slinking creep as creepy and slinky as Joaquin Phoenix's patricidal Emperor Commodus. Having already delivered a mortal wound to Maximus Decimus Meridius, he stacks the deck in his favour as much as he can and is still killed by his own knife. How embarrassing.
7. Alma Coin – The Hunger Games Part 2
President Snow was a nasty piece of work, but Julianne Moore's Alma Coin – with her penchant for blowing up children – probably wouldn't have been much better. Thankfully, Katniss Everdeen does what she does best. Nice shot.
8. Count Tyrone Rugen – The Princess Bride
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." You've only had the whole bloody film to prepare for this so don't try and worm your way out of it now.
9. Gremlin in the microwave – Gremlins
We've all been tempted to chuck things in the microwave and see what happens. Billy's mom gets to live that reality and learns that the horrible gremlins are highly explosive.
10. Mola Ram – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Evil priest Mola Ram has a lot to answer for: kidnapping, murder, and terrifying a generation or two of children with his "Kali Ma" shtick. How better to send him off than burned by the sacred stones that he'd been so intent on stealing?
11. Auric Goldfinger – Goldfinger
007 does warn Goldfinger that it's dangerous to fire a gun on an aeroplane, but he just doesn't listen. And so follows one of the most iconic James Bond deaths in all its 1960s special effects glory.
12. Bennett – Commando
Bennett is a horrible, child-kidnapping type, but that isn't really why his death is so satisfying. It's because this is probably the most absurd Arnold Schwarzenegger execution of them all – and that's saying something.
13. Dick Jones – RoboCop
Ronny Cox's Dick Jones is the archetypal scheming, murderous businessman of '80s action sci-fis. RoboCop even has his confession, but he's unable to make a move against members of mega-corporation OCP's board, right?
Well, there's a simple solution...
14. Henry Rhodes – Day of the Dead
What better fate for the megalomaniacal army captain than to meet his end at the hands of a horde of zombies who won't respond to his threats? His absolute puree-fication (a word invented for this very film) guarantees that Rhodes is one man who will not be rising from the grave.
15. Hitler – Inglourious Basterds
Adolf Hitler, shot to pieces in a burning cinema. This one speaks for itself.
16. Captain Vidal – Pan's Labyrinth
Ofelia's fascistic military stepfather might be one of the most irredeemably evil characters in all of cinema, listing torture and killing people with his bare hands among his hobbies. No one was ever more deserving of a shot through the eye.
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