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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  (#7) Raleigh Antrobus

  • Pacific Rim

  It’s hard not to incur casualties when Earth is under attack from massive aliens rising out of the ocean floor, but Raleigh and his Jaeger, “Gypsy Danger,” don’t do anything to help mitigate loss of life during their battle with several Kaiju in the streets of Hong Kong.

  While the city was already under attack before Gypsy Danger shows up, Raleigh (along with his fellow Jaeger pilot Mako) made matters much worse when they inadvertently took the battle from the water off the coast of Hong Kong to a naval port, and eventually to what seems to be center of the ciy. From using an oil tanker as a baseball bat, to smashing through highway bridges and giant sky scrapers, Raleigh, Mako, and Gypsy Danger ended the lives of a lot more than just a few Kaiju.
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  (#6) Dominic Toretto

  • Fast Five, Los Bandoleros, Fast & Furious, The Fast and the Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Fast and the Furious 6

  Who knew that the heroes of the Fast and Furious franchise were also responsible for scores of deaths on the streets of Rio de Janeiro? In Fast Five, Dom and Brian successfully complete a heist where they literally pull a massive bank vault through the streets of the Brazilian city, smashing through police cars, buildings, and bus stops. While Mia Toretto excuses some of the damage by saying, “Well the plan is working, you guys have every corrupt cop in Rio on your tail,” it’s safe to assume that as the damage and mayhem continued to mount, so to would the need for cops, both corrupt and otherwise.

  Innocent civilians also faced injury or death when the vault smashed through the glass walls of a bank. While the movie would have you believe that everyone got away, how likely is it that a large group of people waiting in line at a bank were each able to dodge a several-ton metal vault careening towards them at 60 miles per hour? Exactly.

  The traffic accidents Dom and Brian caused would have likely killed scores of people, and in the end, Dom turns the safe into a deadly wrecking ball, which he smashes into nine police cars before finally reaching the two SUVs driven by the actual bad guys. Who’s to say that all of those police officers were the corrupt cops Mia mentioned? Even if they stayed on the straight and narrow for their entire careers, they could have easily still found themselves on that bridge, and on the very wrong end of Dom and Brian’s murderous bank heist. Luckily, thanks to Dr. Randall Kelley, a physicist at Harvard, we now know that the physics behind their stunt would make the mayhem mathematically impossible.
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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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  (#5) Genie

  • Aladdin, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Arabian Nights, The Return of Jafar

  In the film Aladdin, the Genie is a figure of terrifying potency. As he says himself, he possess near-unlimited cosmic power. He expresses his magic through wishes, but he's bound by three rules: 1) he can't kill anybody, 2) he can't make anybody fall in love with anybody else, and 3) he can't bring people back from the dead.

  While these may seem like hard-and-fast rules, it's pretty clear they're just the Genie's preference, not a statement of limitations. After the "no bringing back people from the dead" clause, the Genie adds "...it's not a pretty picture. I don't like doing it!" He doesn't like doing it. Not he can't, or won't, he just doesn't like it. The same probably holds true for his other "rules."

  So when, exactly, does the Genie kill countless innocents? Why, after a big song-and-dance number, of course. See, after Aladdin wished to be a prince, the genie made him a prince. Literally. He didn't wish to appear to be a prince or seem to be a prince, so the Genie made him an actual prince. And that means subjects. All the people we see in the song "Prince Ali" are real, thinking humans. They have to be, otherwise Aladdin is prince of nothing.

  So what happens to those people? Since we don't see them in any of the direct-to-video sequels, or the spin-off television series – and they're never mentioned again – we have to assume the Genie "unmade" them once Aladdin got the girl, and assumed the regal role he really wanted. That's murder, the same way it's murder if a parent kills a child.  
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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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