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Neil Patrick Harris, when he stole Harold’s car and left love stains on the back seat. It was a dick move on his part.
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Literally.
Joe
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Still, Darth Vader did engage in some fierce Imperial douchebaggery.
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Like personally killing Jedi toddlers for instance.
E B Farnum’s a complete douchbag to Ricahrdson on Deadwood.
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Neil Patrick Harris, when he stole Harold’s car and left love stains on the back seat. It was a dick move on his part.
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Yeah, but he paid for their burgers and gave them some cash to get it cleaned. Overall, a nice guy I want to party with. 
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Like personally killing Jedi toddlers for instance.
E B Farnum’s a complete douchbag to Ricahrdson on Deadwood.
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It’s because Richardson’s such a scene stealer. 
Everything Jim Belushi has ever done on According to Jim. He treats his wife like dirt, but supposedly it’s OK because he’s a big, cuddly goofball.
I would shine Alan Rickman’s shoes with my tongue every day for the rest of my life, but his character’s betrayal of his wife in Love Actually made me want to beat him with a crowbar.
[QUOTE=oft wears hats]
Actually, it was Grand Moff Tarkin who did the whole “Tell me where the base is or I’ll blow up the planet” gig. Darth Vader just held Leia back as Tarkin gave the order.
Still, Darth Vader did engage in some fierce Imperial douchebaggery.
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In any case I still don’t think it was a bad move for a tyrant. Leia continually lied to the Empire, she was the leader of the rebels, and there was no reason for Darth not to believe that Alderan was the headquarters of the rebellion or at least a key supplier of funds to the cause.
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He is the only one who can hold his head high. He may have put up with her shit, but at least HE was hitting that. She’s way above his station!
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Hah! He’a a tenured Ph.D. and she’s a waitress/fashion buyer, so it’s more like the other way around.
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad]
In Robocop, Dick Jones doesn’t just have Bob Morton killed, he has Boddicker play that smug little recording taunting him first.
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How about the scene early on when Bob Morton pops in to check on Robocop’s surgical progress, and the doctors announce that they’ve managed to save his arm ? “Lose the arm.”
[QUOTE=middleman]
I believe Grand Moff Tarkin also kicked a dog…)
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Well, in one SW novel, he motivated a class of students to excel by assembling them in front of a window on a Star Destroyer whenever one failed, and destroying the failure’s home town or city from orbit while the class watched. Note that many of them were driven insane or died, and he STILL destroyed their hometowns, and only a few graduated.
He was not a nice man.
For me - and I have seen a lot of movies - nothing will ever top when that little blond kid in Butterfly Effect kills the main character’s dog by tying it in a sack and lighting it on fire.
That kid is the evilest, scariest kid in the history of cinema, and I don’t care what anyone says. All the pale little girls with big eyes from all those so-called horror movies, they’re nothing compared to the sheer menace and sadism of that kid in Butterfly Effect. I know a lot of people think that movie is trash, and it’s true that Kutcher’s performance in it is mediocre, but it’s worth watching just for that evil kid alone.
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Hah! He’a a tenured Ph.D. and she’s a waitress/fashion buyer, so it’s more like the other way around.
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Finally! Someone agrees with me. On top of that, he’s doing exactly what he always dreamed about doing.
The old bitch that the Kate Winslet character became in “Titanic”.
The woman’s long-suffering granddaughter, after waiting on crotchety Granny for God knows how many years, deserved a cut of the big bucks Granny could have gotten from that jewelry she so thoughtlessly tossed overboard at the film’s end.
“Romantic and touching ending” my ass!!
But then what do you expect of someone who says, “I’ll never let you go,” to someone she’s about to let go of ?
I suppose that means she never really was NOT a bitch. How she avoided being throttled in her sleep for so many years is beyond me.
I saw this piece of crap exactly once when it first came out and have religiously avoided it on both cable and network TV ever since. Great special effects weren’t enough to save it from its crappy script. I said immediately after leaving the theater that it was too bad that Cameron spent so much on wardrobe, sets and special effects that he had only $1.98 left for the script writer.
Ripley in Aliens made an implied contract with the Alien Queen, Newt and I walk out of here, and I don’t destroy your eggs. Just before she and Newt get on the lift, kablooey, Ripley goes all flamethrower on the eggs. What a douchebag.
I have trouble calling it douchebaggery when the entity is a deadly foe. To me it wasn’t an unwritten contract. It was “you got the drop on me.” Like when the hitman puts a gun to a victims head to get him to walk to a certain place.
Now, in Casino, the hitmen were douchbags. They spent time and effort beating the hell out of Joe Pesci and his brother before chucking them in the pit. Especially when Pesci is begging them to stop beating his brother and the guy takes an extra special swing at the brother because of it. I guess the hitman had some extra-special resentment with all the crap Pesci had been up to.
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When Uniblab encouraged George to badmouth Mr. Spacely, covertly recorded him doing it, and then played it back to Spacely.
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Ding! Oh wow, great one! For so many reasons. 
[QUOTE=bouv]
Yeah, but he paid for their burgers and gave them some cash to get it cleaned. Overall, a nice guy I want to party with.
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Yeah, but it was a dick move on his part.
Sauron was pretty much an asshole, but dark lords are like that.
Sam Stone was pretty evil. Tried to kill his wife (who could blame him?) for her father’s money, wouldn’t pay her ransom, cheated on her, bought a big dog to eat her dog, and pushed cops off a pier to retrieve his money.
Not to mention stealing the spandex mini skirt idea from Helen Slater.
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Everything Jim Belushi has ever done on According to Jim. He treats his wife like dirt, but supposedly it’s OK because he’s a big, cuddly goofball.
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I’ve only ever seen one episode of that show. The daughter turns out to be a spelling bee champion, and poor Jim is forced to drive her to them week after week (he treats it as if it’s some horrible imposition on his life). At the end, it turns out his wife was faking an injury(?) in order to get out of sharing some of this (you know, the onerous task of taking your daughter to something she’s excelling at). I think they deserve each other.
Maybe I’m misremembering, but I think that at the end of the show, when the daughter is qualified for the state finals, they convince her to stop (because it’s such a burden on her parents), and she doesn’t really mind. Maybe not as bad as blowing up a planet, but those are some douchebag parents.
[QUOTE=Bill Door]
Ripley in Aliens made an implied contract with the Alien Queen, Newt and I walk out of here, and I don’t destroy your eggs. Just before she and Newt get on the lift, kablooey, Ripley goes all flamethrower on the eggs. What a douchebag.
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Just before she leaves the room, a facehugger egg opens up, implying Queeny & the Aliens broke the contract.
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Besides, the whole place is about to become a vapor cloud the size of Nebraska. Wouldn’t make sense for Ripley to waste time & risk retribution by attacking. (Not that it would have to make sense to the character, but from the writer / audience POV)
The niece in Uncle Buck tells the woman that he likes that he’s with another woman. Total fucking douchebag.
Saruman is much more of a douche than Sauron. He gets G-Funk in his crib under totally false pretenses. Not to mention what he does to the environment.
The guy who sells his shares to Danny Devito in “Other People’s Money” is sort of a douche.
(might I also mentioned how impressed I am that most people in this thread seem to have stayed pretty true to the distinction between douchebag and just evil)