…and screw the dearly departed husband, kids, and faithful dog, she plans to spend the whole hereafter with some kid she had a one-night roll in the Model-T with 90 years ago.
This act is what prompted the Queen to chase after Ripley, leading to the last scene on the ship and to Alien 3. So you can say that Ripley got her comeuppance.
This is actually revenge that the actor Frank Vincent gets after being the victim of Joe Pesci’s characters starting in Raging Bull where he gets the crap beaten out of him and then gets killed in Goodfellas.
The extra whacks Vincent gets in are a wink to the film geeks.
Oh yeah. That bastard!
Glenn Close’s character boiling Michael Douglas’ daughter’s bunny in Fatal Attraction ought to be right in there.
The Shawshank Redemption: Warden Norton bringing the young inmate (who could have cast reasonable doubt on Andy’s guilt) outside the fence to parley. Under the pretense of being on Andy’s side, or at least of honestly seeking the truth, he finds out whether the kid is willing to testify in court to what he knows. When the kid says yes, Norton drops and crushes out his cigarette on the ground, signaling Captain Hadley, watching from the guard tower, to shoot him for “trying to escape.”
Do I win?
You know, that’s pretty damn evil but I think the way Norton confronted Andy in solitary was the real douchebaggery. Threatens to destroy the library and books, take away Andy’s protection and have him do “the hardest time there is.” “You’ll think you were fucked by a train” sums it up rather well.
Yes.
That guy is an uber-douche.
Willing to keep an innocent guy in jail for life for the sake of having his taxes done.
Battlestar Galactica: the miniseries. No. 6 snapping the babies’ neck. I mean, yeah that baby & those parents would still have been vaporized the next day, but - she couldn’t let them be happy & peaceful for one last day? She had to ensure that that couple’s last day would be spent dealing with a horrendous, unfathomable trauma?
Battlestar Galactica: the miniseries. No. 6 snapping the babies’ neck. I mean, yeah that baby & those parents would still have been vaporized the next day, but - she couldn’t let them be happy & peaceful for one last day? She had to ensure that that couple’s last day would be spent dealing with a horrendous, unfathomable trauma?
Mortimer and Randolph Duke in Trading Places. Both of them total douchebags. Sure, they got their comeuppance at the end, but how many others did they screw before our heroes took them down?
Wait–I thought Alien 3 was our punishment for some hideous, unspecified sin?
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Messala, in Ben-Hur. He had his best friend sent to the galleys for a crime he knew he didnt commit, in order to further his political career.
Nurse Rachet in Cuckoo’s Nest.Everything she did ever.
Most everything the Paul Giamatti character did in Sideways.
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Overslept when he had someplace important to be, where several people were waiting on him. I know there was a properly-functioning alarm clock involved, so he knew what he was doing when he chose to ignore it.
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Instead of calling them up and telling them he’d be late, to go ahead without him, he called them up and lied about being on his way, so that they’d think he was only twenty minutes away when he was really an hour away. (I haven’t seen the movie in a long time and I’ve tried to wipe it from my memory in the meantime, so forgive me if I get the details wrong)
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Tells his friend that he’s making just a short detour to his mom’s house, when he knows full well that he’s intending to spend the night there.
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Steals money from his elderly mother, who is presumably on a fixed income.
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When she later asks him if he needs any money, says, “No,” without adding that he already took a few hundred from her drawer.
I don’t remember the rest.
The drunken ship’s captain in that excellent 1930s horror flick*** Island of Lost Souls*** has a couple of moments of low-down douchebaggism. First, when he slugs Dr. Montgomery’s cringing, inoffensive servant M’ling just because the movie’s protagonist* calls him a drunken bozo (I’m paraphrasing, obviously). His next real prick move is crucial to the story, but a prick move nonetheless: when Dr. Moreau’s boat pulls up alongside his to pick up Dr. Montgomery and the cargo he’s carrying for them, the captain knocks the principal character --who at the beginning of the movie was rescued from a shipwreck-- overboard onto Dr. Moreau’s vessel and sails off laughing and cussing at both parties – his former passenger and the men who paid him good money for transport and delivery.
- (his name’s Prendick in the original story, but even though I love the movie and have seen it a dozen times, I can’t remember what his name was in it)
I just watched Pan’s Labyrinth and I thought of Captain Vidal. But I am not sure if the Captain could be called just a total douchebag, he’s really more of an evil son of a bitch. I think he does start out as total douchebag and progresses into evil son of a bitch, but it really doesn’t take very long to make the transition.
Nina Myers from 24.
Pretending to work for CTU while setting up viruses in their computer system, killing Jack’s wife, providing other terrorists with the means to bomb CTU, trying to purchase a deadly virus for an unknown purpose, killing several guards and surgeons in an attempt to escape CTU, and then nearly killing Jack’s daughter in the same room in which she had killed his wife three years prior.
Kinda floats closer to “evil” than douchebag, but still.
What about Gob from Arrested Development? There are episodes where he seems to show a good heart underneath all the douchebaggery, but seriously, he’s a pretty big douchebag:
- Been unfaithful to his girlfriend.
- Hijacked said girlfriend’s television interview to promote his own career.
- Taken up presidency of The Bluth Company while letting Michael do all the work.
- Alienated and subsequently fired the entire staff.
- Abandoned his son.
- Misrepresented the cost of his suit.
There’s plenty more, but that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is probably the most vile character in the series (besides big V). Even more than Malfoy, since at least Malfoy has the excuse that he’s a stupid kid and doesn’t know better, but Umbridge is an elected official. She’s not outright evil, Voldy is of course the true villain of the story, but all the things she does at the school are extremely douchebaggersome. Actually in that book pretty much the whole ministry becomes the Ministry of Douchebaggery. I know the OP specified movies and TV but it’s going to be a movie this summer; hopefully they’ll capture the hate and frustration of the whole situation in the movie.