great characters shocking backstories
hey guys its Phoebe with WatchMojo today
we're counting down our picks for the
top ten disturbing backstories behind
your favorite movie characters I was
never a very good practical joker so do
you have any regrets
Garfield maybe we're taking a look at
movie characters whose personal
histories contain tragic subject matter
we will not be including animated
characters on this list and warning
minor spoilers ahead number 10
Tallahassee Zombieland Micke named for
his original intended destination
Tallahassee is one of the most
entertaining characters in this is on
the apocalypse comedy with his only
apparent passions in life being killing
zombies and finding a Twinkie
Tallahassee is tremendously funny no
balls
I like some buff I hate coconut not to
taste consistency
well this one key thing here ain't over
yet yet he isn't without his tender
moments as he recalls his puppy buck who
was killed by zombies with fondness and
love whenever he speaks of him me home
was a puppy named buck
she's just dog ever yet it's only later
in the film that some of the characters
in the audience realized that buck was
Tallahassee's son not his puppy and that
his jovial attitude masks the real pain
he feels at the loss of his child take
away a man's son you've truly given him
nothing left to lose number 9 read us
the film us follows several families who
encounter murderous doppelgangers of
themselves while on vacation the leader
of the doubles is red the counterpart of
Adelaide
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it was the doppelgangers call themselves
tethered as their actions are linked to
their original counterparts and they
hope that by killing the originals they
can be free to one day she was being it
while it appears that Adelaide is able
to overcome red and rescue her son a
flashback reveals that red is actually
the original Adelaide whom her tethered
imprisoned underground after taking her
place forcing her to live like a
tethered despite not being one of them
number 8 Neville Longbottom the Harry
Potter franchise Neville Longbottom is
one of the more prominent side
characters in the Harry Potter series as
a boy Neville is nervous and forgetful
and something of the class sad-sack
when this met tonnes bad it means you've
forgotten something the only problem is
I can't remember what's a forgotten but
as he gets older he develops into a
competent wizard and a brave young man
yet he also has a tragic past like many
people of his generation
Neville lost his parents to Voldemort
and his followers however unlike most
Neville's are still alive she tortured
them for information but they never give
him I'm quite proud with Essen
unfortunately they were tortured into
insanity and they no longer recognise
themselves or their own son while the
film's make no mention of this the
tragedy of Neville and his parents is
detailed further in the books the movies
are based on how's mom and dad better
another about to be avenged
number 7 al Powell die hard while John
McLean is fighting a one-man battle
against terrorists at Nakatomi Plaza he
keeps in contact with sergeant al Powell
the first police officer on the scene
Pawel is a stand-up guy and keeps McLean
apprised of the situation on the ground
over the radio while also providing
excellent moral support you hang in
there man you hear me you hang in there
despite his affable demeanor and
experience in the field
Powell reveals that he volunteered for a
desk job after a heartbreaking incident
he shot and killed a child after
mistaking their toy Raygun for a real
weapon that is a super dark backstory
for a supporting character you know when
you're a rookie they can teach you
everything about being a cop except how
to live with a mistake number six Alfred
Pennyworth The Dark Knight trilogy the
most loyal of Butler's Alfred Pennyworth
is Bruce Wayne's confidant and a
surrogate father figure that's a good
thing I left everything that you then
quite so sir and you can borrow the Rose
of your life just bring it back with a
full tank
although Alfred's backstory isn't gone
into in detail in the films he does
indicate a past in the army recounting a
story to Bruce about a bandit only
interested in watching the world burn
some men just want to watch the world
burn
Alfred's actor Michael Caine has stated
that in the backstory he envisioned for
the character alfred was a former
British Special Forces member who was
wounded and met Thomas Wayne Bruce's
father who offered him a job as a butler
while this in itself isn't particularly
disturbing the fact that Alfred lost the
man who gave him a new purpose and
direction in life is still sad I won't
bury you bird enough members of the
Wayne family number five
Rorschach watchman one of the most
prominent vigilantes in the dystopian
alternate timeline watchman to set in
Rorschach is a ruthless fighter a
skilled detective and an uncompromising
antihero
I was investigating a kidnap
Valero a six-year-old girl I was young
then too soft on criminals I like them
to laugh
however beneath his mask and in his past
Walter Kovacs has had a traumatic life
Rorschach's mother was an abusive
prostitute and his home life led him to
take out his anger on others however
even that pales in comparison to the
case that pushed him from a vigilante
into a killer God doesn't make the world
this way what we do after looking into
the kidnapping of a young girl Rorschach
discovers that the kidnapper butchered
the girl and fed her to his dogs leading
the vigilante to snap and butcher the
murderer himself number four Gollum the
Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
franchises the one time bearer of the
precious one ring Gollum is a twisted
and murderous creature who pursues the
object with single or possible double
minded vengeance not loosely loosely
even so Gollum manages to be of great
help to Frodo on his quest to destroy
the ring even if it's unwittingly
subject to Frodo's pity Gollum used to
be a hobbit like him named Smeagol
however when his cousin finds the ring
Smeagol killed him and was cast out for
the deed he then retreats into caves
under the mountains where he spends
centuries in the dark being twisted by
his own madness to the point where he
forgets his own name riddles with Bilbo
must have been a nice break in routine
well shaft is now
if I have to number three Freddy Krueger
a Nightmare on Elm Street franchise the
perpetual antagonist of the and
Nightmare on Elm Street franchise Freddy
Krueger is the terrifying dream demon
who haunts the dreams of the teenagers
of Springwood and kills them
infrequently creative ways
Freddy's origins are as gruesome as and
responsible for his appearance a serial
killer in life Freddy was burned alive
by the townspeople after he got off on a
technicality this whole facility was
shut down in the 40s wasn't it some sort
of scandal as grisly as that is it pales
in comparison to his conception let's
just say that the label son of a hundred
maniacs is kind of literal some say he
was murdered no body was ever found
number two Imperator furiosa Mad Max
fury road a badass one-armed general and
the dictator in Morton Jo's army
furiosa rebels against her leader and
freeze his wives fleeing with them at a
dangerous chase across the desert you
can get in not without them her goal is
to return to the green place once her
former home however what the film
doesn't make explicit is that furiosa
was abducted from her home by immortan
joe and was intended to be one of his
wives due to being barren joe discarded
her her experience in their position no
doubt influenced furiosa's decision to
liberate joe's wives in the first place
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the x-men franchise magneto born Erik
Lehnsherr is a powerful mutant who can
control magnetic forces allowing him to
move metal with his mind
you know this plastic prison of theirs
won't hold me forever the war is still
coming charms and I intend to fight it a
charismatic leader magneto leads a
brotherhood of his fellow mutants with
the goal of establishing supremacy over
humanity given his attitudes it can
often be surprising to remember that as
a boy
Erik endured a Nazi concentration camp
separated from his parents he was
experimented on repeatedly to explore
his abilities worst of all in order to
provoke a stronger response his mother
was murdered right in front of him with
that kind of early trauma
it's no wonder magneto developed into
the damaged man he later becomes
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Magneto's tragic backstory certainly
explains a lot of his sinister actions
but I don't think it excuses them but
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