The merchants of death in Micmacs are cynical, immoral and absurd, lethal pantomime villains with friends in high places.
Li made his Hollywood debut in a rare role as the villain in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).
Here the camera pulls back and reveals him to be a rumpled guy sitting on a bench munching a carrot, which he soon uses as a lethal weapon, stabbing a villain through the throat.
Amazingly, Point Break doesn't have a monopoly on surfboard weapon set-pieces: In Lethal Weapon 2, a villain is killed by a flying surfboard, prompting Mel Gibson to quip, "Wipeout!" It's widely believed thatJason Bourne (Matt Damon) is the lefty yin to James Bond's conservative yang: he uses public transport, reads the Guardian and reuses and recyles everyday objects.
Long a favorite of Asian audiences for such classic martial arts films as "Shaolin Temple" (1979) and "Once Upon a Time in China" (1991), the slender but lightning-quick Mr. Li was first seen by mainstream American audiences as the villain in "Lethal Weapon 4" in 1998, and then as the star of "Romeo Must Die" in 2000.
"We have a battery of physicians who come in like elves and fix us every night," joked Lethal Weapon star Gibson, who takes the role of the villain in the latest Expendables instalment.
Goldfinger boasts two of the most memorable villains in movie history, with Fröbe as the jovial but evil Goldfinger and Sakata as his mute manservant Oddjob, who has a penchant for using a lethal bowler hat to decapitate his targets.
The villain is a rather extraordinary fungus, an amphibian version of a case of athlete's foot from hell, with an impossible name, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which scientists call "Bd," a virulent, lethal fungus that has spread around the globe.
Far from a major league villain (he was in a dodgy van with an out-of-date tax disc when he was stopped with two accomplices on the day of the killing) he did possess one lethal expertise.
