Gotta agree with Michael24: Palpatine getting the shaft in "Return of the Jedi". Well deserved... and a long time coming.
Honorable mentions: General Zod in "Superman II". Loved seeing the arrogant, power-hungry son of a bitch get his hand crunched just before it too.
Rosa Klebb in "From Russia With Love". Not the best Bond villain death, but I don't think anyone's mentioned her yet, and there was just something particularly unpleasant and nasty about her. And it was nice to see her get finished off by someone she'd previously held in such fear...
Nicol Williamson's demise in The Cheap Detective - dead so fast he doesn't have time to change his expression or posture. Very funny moment in a patchy movie.
I agree with you, gone. Watching Martin be punished in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo did bring a sense of justice. Watching her being brutally raped, hearing her screams of pain, and seeing her limp back to her apartment due to the physical viciousness of her attack are almost unbearable to watch and hear, all of which makes Bruce's comments really offensive!
Actually, Martin (Stellan Skarsgård) was not the guy who assaulted Lisbeth. That was Nils Bjurman, played by Yorick van Wageningen. But either way, yes, it was great how she got back at both of them, even if Martin's death she was more indirectly responsible for.
I agree with you, gone. Watching Martin be punished in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo did bring a sense of justice. Watching her being brutally raped, hearing her screams of pain, and seeing her limp back to her apartment due to the physical viciousness of her attack are almost unbearable to watch and hear, all of which makes Bruce's comments really offensive!
She wasn't really raped Joan - its only a movie You should save you wrath for David fincher who reportedly made poor Ms. Mara do 50 takes! Sadist!
Though nothing really happens to HIM, Ramses witnesses the annihilation of his chariot army as they are crushed under the closing walls of the Red Sea. He returns to his empty throne room and finally admits to his queen and himself "His god...IS GOD".
For pure fun and a sense of satisfaction: Alan Rickman's Elliott Marston in Quigley Down Under (1990) after he has pushed Tom Selleck's titular hero into a handgun fight.
But top of the list has to be: Lionel Barrymore's Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) ... the film's hero, James Stewart's George Bailey, achieves the comeuppance without seeking to defeat the villain.
Tim Roth in Rob Roy, less for what actually happens to him than for how primally ingenious it was of Liam Neeson's character to think to do it. Bad-ass.
I don't remember the film, but Telly Savalas played a villain. The hitch of a trailer fell onto his crotch and dragged him down a cliff side into a lake. That was just so wrong.
