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* Tyler Durden from ''[[Fight Club]]''.

* Bricktop from ''[[Snatch]]'', is really a near miss. He doesn't do much for convoluted planning, but he's a [[Complete Monster]] who nonetheless is [[Laughably Evil|quite funny]], carries himself ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qy4Zv4snI and gives speeches]) with style, is ruthless and willing to kill anyone in a second, and generally always seems to have control of the situation and be one step ahead of other characters. (For example take the following scene: Turkish has failed to come through on a favor to Bricktop and cost Bricktop a lot of money. Turkish runs back to his office, hoping he can get to his safe where he has enough money to flee Bricktop. Bricktop and his goons are already waiting there, they catch Turkish by surprise and [[No Mr. Bond I Expect You to Dine|have a surprisingly civilized conversation]] where Bricktop tells Turkish what Turkish will have to do in order to make things right, all while Turkish expects Bricktop to kill him at any moment. Then, just before leaving, Bricktop stops on his way out the door and says "Now, I know you came back here to open your safe" * Bricktop pushes aside a picture hiding the safe* "Well, now you can open it." The next scene begins with Bricktop counting all of Turkish's savings as he walks out to the car, knowing that he's left Turkish no escape and now virtually owns Turkish). Unfortunately, Bricktop's lack of planning comes back to bite him in the end, as he is badly, badly, [[Out Gambitted]] by the movie's resident [[Wild Card~~|Wild Cards~~]].

* Bricktop from ''[[Snatch]]'', is really a near miss. He doesn't do much for convoluted planning, but he's a [[Complete Monster]] who nonetheless is [[Laughably Evil|quite funny]], carries himself ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qy4Zv4snI and gives speeches]) with style, is ruthless and willing to kill anyone in a second, and generally always seems to have control of the situation and be one step ahead of other characters. (For example take the following scene: Turkish has failed to come through on a favor to Bricktop and cost Bricktop a lot of money. Turkish runs back to his office, hoping he can get to his safe where he has enough money to flee Bricktop. Bricktop and his goons are already waiting there, they catch Turkish by surprise and [[No Mr. Bond I Expect You to Dine|have a surprisingly civilized conversation]] where Bricktop tells Turkish what Turkish will have to do in order to make things right, all while Turkish expects Bricktop to kill him at any moment. Then, just before leaving, Bricktop stops on his way out the door and says "Now, I know you came back here to open your safe" * Bricktop pushes aside a picture hiding the safe* "Well, now you can open it." The next scene begins with Bricktop counting all of Turkish's savings as he walks out to the car, knowing that he's left Turkish no escape and now virtually owns Turkish). Unfortunately, Bricktop's lack of planning comes back to bite him in the end, as he is badly, badly, [[Out-Gambitted]] by the movie's resident [[Wild Card]]s.

* The original working title for ''[[The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' was ''The Three Magnificent Rogues''. If we assume 'rogues' is, here, an [[Unusual Euphemism]] for 'Bastards', it's a much more accurate description of the film's contents than ''The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'' ever was.

* If Mr. White of ''[[Quantum of Solace|Quantum]]'' isn't a [[Magnificent Bastard]], he's getting ''very'' close. In ''[[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]]'' he was an unremarkable "next-link-in-the-money-chain" type, by ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'', he's been upgraded to a [[Wicked Cultured]], total [[Deadpan Snarker]] who laughs in Judi Dench's face while being [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|tortured]], can say "[[We Are Everywhere|we have people everywhere]]" and ''[[Paranoia Fuel|mean it]]'', and [[Karma Houdini|gets away scot-free]] at the end of the movie (though he'll probably get his comeuppance in the next one). Oh, and he was also the only member of Quantum to keep his head down when Bond was pwning all the other Quantum operatives during the [[At the Opera Tonight|Opera scene]].