I think the reference was to Edmund, George, Percy, and Baldrick getting shot by the Hun.
No mention of Watchmen yet?
It’s certainly arguable.
Jack Williamson’s With Folded Hands/The Humanoids
A.I. perhaps?
I was also going to say** Fallen**, but it’s been mentioned already.
How about Munich?
Or it could be argued that there are no good or bad, just varying shades of gray.
“The devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!”
Also, The house always wins…from, The Shining
That’s a valid point, but he still kills people for pleasure and accepted modern morality in the Western World makes no allowance for the guilt or innocence of the victim. By that standard he is clearly ‘evil’ IMO, even if he’s a nice person.
Fair enough. Personally I would contend that ‘The Hun’ don’t really count as ‘bad guys’, especially in a Blackadder Goes Forth since above all it was about the pointlessness of The Great War.
Eugene Sue’s The Wandering Jew
Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot
That’s the first movie that came to mind, but I’m not certain that the cops in this case are unambiguously “good guys”. Kujan’s MO seems to be framing suspects he doesn’t like. He threatens Verbal (repeatedly) with false exposure as an informant–certain death on the streets OR in prison. In what is almost a throwaway line, he reveals that he (or other law enforcement) had already convicted people of crimes he knew to be committed by Dean Keaton. I wouldn’t call the cops “good guys” in The Usual Suspects.
Blake’s 7
Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
(which, as I always mention, would be a great title for a Dilbert book.)
Depending on your definition, “Vintage Season” by C.L. Moore (mostly) and Henry Kuttner (possibly not).
Robert Silverberg’s “Passengers”
“The Screwfly Solution” by Racoona Sheldon
“Press Enter ” by John Varley
No Way Out might well count.
Not exactly bad guys, but …** Three Kings** is morally ambiguious. (and an excellent movie.)
Another one, where you ( me) always roots for the bad guys and you don’t realize they are bad guys because a)they are slick b) hot c) both and a and b is The Ocean’s 11 franchise. They get a pass on their crime because a) they are hot and stuff and b) they are robbing a casino, which has a buttload of money anyways so boo-yah.
If you think about the characters and the con man careers, they’ve probably screwed over plenty of regular people and decent people to hone their skills to that level. But, hey, they are going after the Bellagio, and they’ll make back that cash in a week, so it’s all good and stuff.
And the ‘bad guy’ in the film is actually the ‘good guy’ who is Andy Garcia.
Outta curiosity, who were you thinkin’ of hittin’?
Ferris Bueller.
If you think about Ferris from an adult perspective, he is a manipulative narcissitic ahole. From a teen perspective, we all want to be like Ferris.
In the end, he won.
Dr. Phibes Rises Again.
Oh! and the original The Wicker Man.
Kind of, but it is implied that Lord Summerisle will be on the bonfire next year if they have another bad harvest.
Not just implied, but threatened/prophesied by Sgt. Howie himself. And Summerisle shows a bit of worry at his words.
Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman. (The book; not the horrible abortion of a movie.)
See also: High Fidelity