# Great acting as antagonists in films who are not really bad/evil but just serious a\*\*holes

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> The other sort of assholes are the corrupt or the bootlickers.

So Burke in _Aliens_. Or is he an ahole for trying to get Ripley and Newt infected with the facehuggers?

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