Random Movie Heroes Who Killed Lots Of Innocent People Without You Noticing (15 items)

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  (#13) Bryan Mills

  • Taken, Taken 2

  This hero’s very particular set of skills appears to include the ability to cause mayhem and death for innocent people without batting an eye. We all know that Mills is a straight-up murderer, but we get to feel okay about it since he only kills bad guys. 

  In the third installment of the Taken series, however, Mills uses a busy highway to free himself from custody. While it makes for an exciting scene and facilitates his escape, the numerous high-speed crashes – and the cargo crate that rolls over several cars, crushing them entirely – definitely ended more than a few innocent lives.
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  (#12) Bruce Nolan

  • Bruce Almighty

  When you're given the powers of God, you're bound to make a few mistakes. In Bruce Almighty, the titular comedic deity does just that when he uses his newfound powers to lasso the Moon closer to Earth to impress the woman he loves. It seems like a sweet, romantic gesture, until you consider the role the Moon plays on the tides. A closer moon would mean an increase in gravitational pull, creating massive tidal anomalies which would likely end in thousands, if not millions of casualties.
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  (#4) Neo

  • Sex and the Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Animatrix, The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix, Kid's Story, The Matrix Revisited, MTV Movie Awards Reloaded

  In The Matrix Neo's goal is to free mankind from slavery at the hands of sentient machines. However, by the sequel The Matrix Reloaded, it becomes clear that Neo is much more concerned with his love life than the future of the human race. We see how love trumps life for Neo when he races to save Trinity, after she is ambushed and shot by Agent Smith. Neo flies to reach her in time and miraculously save her life.

  The problem is, the speed at which he flies creates a sonic boom of destruction. Buildings rupture and countless cars get pulled into his supersonic wake. While you might give him a pass because he is in the Matrix, we must remember that all those people in the cars and buildings are connected to real, powerless, humans still enslaved by the intelligent machines and at the mercy of Neo’s power. As the movie tells the audience over and over, if you die in the Matrix, you die for real. By the film's own logic, that makes Neo a very real mass murderer. 
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  (#9) President Thomas J. Whitmore

  • Independence Day

  Before the heroes of Independence Day are finally able to infiltrate the alien invaders' mother ship to upload their bafflingly successful virus, the human race exhausted all other options to defeat their enemies. See, prior to their eventual victory, and despite the fact that dreamy scientist David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) warned against it, the otherwise heroic President Thomas J. Whitmore decided that the world’s only possible chance of victory was to nuke the aliens out of the sky. 

  It seems reasonable, if desperate, until you consider the fact that they launch the missiles directly over Houston, a sprawling metropolis that home to nearly 2 million people when the film premiered in 1996. Even if the explosive blast didn’t reach the citizens below, the radiation would impact generations of people to come. 
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  (#2) Elsa

  • Frozen

  It's clear throughout Frozen that Elsa is a little unhinged, and she has every right to be. Her parents locked her up for the entirety of her formative years, and she grew up afraid to touch anything. However, a messed up childhood doesn't excuse straight-up mass murder. 

  As Elsa sings one of the catchiest and most over-played songs of the past decade, she creates an ice palace for herself and inadvertently covers her home kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. To clarify: it wasn't almost winter already. This cataclysmic weather shift came out of nowhere. How many infants must have died, their frail bodies unaccustomed to the cold? How many families starved to death, their crops destroyed by frost? Elsa may have found herself and received her sister's forgiveness, but she will be remembered as an unforgiving and cruel godhead by her people for generations. 
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  (#10) Cameron Poe

  • Con Air

  The smooth talking, long-haired hero of Con Air is one of the most cherished characters from the ‘90s. He's a man wrongfully imprisoned man who just wants to get home to see his beautiful wife and daughter. How can you not root for him? But when he makes the mind-boggling decision to land an actual plane in the middle of the Las Vegas strip, you're left to wonder why he didn’t face a new, legitimate prison sentence.

  While defenders of Poe might remind you that he was not, in fac,t flying the plane, he was in the cock pit. He could have found some part of the vast desert that surrounds Vegas to land, instead of crashing into the busiest part of the only city for miles. Carnage ensues when he lands, as the plane crashes into multiple cars, signs, and casinos. There's simply no way that plane didn't cause the death of countless civilians, all because Poe couldn't be bothered to aim for a cactus.

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