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« on: March 10, 2008, 12:19:58 AM »

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What are some good examples of minions outliving the main villain(s)? Whether they themselves die or not needn't matter. Sequels where they return don't count, rare as that is - i.e. Darkman II: The Return of Durant.

Jaws from the Bond films must surely be the king. He survived two different bosses in two different films. There's also Karl in Die Hard, and, in Live Free or Die Hard, Emerson outlives Gabriel....by about four seconds.

What are some others? And how do you feel about it? Me, it depends on how it's handled. If a henchman outlives his boss because the hero knocks him out before the final big fight, and is forgotten about/arrested afterwards, I don't mind it, but I dislike it when henchmen return as remaining challenges and then die. As much as I love Die Hard, I hated Karl popping up at the end again like that. At least it was brief, though, and served a story purpose (Powell found the courage to draw his gun again, etc.), and the same goes for The Spy Who Loved Me - Jaws surviving is fine, I just wish Bond's fight with him occurred before his confrontation with Stromberg.

So, anyone?
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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2008, 04:16:46 PM »

I can think of quite a few. First, do femme fatale characters count? White Heat's Verna predictably escapes unscathed in a comic relief moment. Con Air has some transgender comic relief surviving whilst Cyrus the Virus dies. In a classic yet not as condescending example; Even though she does end up dying later, Irma Vep out of Les Vampires outlives all three of her head vampire bosses.

In another silent film; Dr. Mabuse's henchmen (From "The Gambler") outlive the titular doctor, at least where sanity is concerned. (I guess this doesn't count at all though since the remaining men both seemed to be quite suicidal following their defeat TongueOut)

How about the giant octopus/gate guardian thing in hellboy? Surely Rasputin was the main villain even though the guard was more powerful.

Two of "The Three Storms" out of Big Trouble in Little China I believe fall into that category that you hate, reappearing after the main baddie dies as another challenge (Unless you meant the "not quite dead" cliche where they actually seem to die before coming back).

The crawling hand in Waxwork returns in the sequel, though we already see it lived in the original I find it happily amusing that Anthony Hickox actually followed through on his original "sequel window" instead of ignoring all continuity in the inferior Waxwork II (Say what you will about Hickox, he knows his continuity unlike some in the B-Movie world Wink)

I would think "Chop-Top" from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 counts even though he is family with his bosses. He is ceratainly the black sheep of the family after Drayton's (Relative) intelligence, Granpa's authority, and Leatherface's strength.

Fox, henchman to antihero-type Cholo from Land of the Dead simply disappears.

Does it count if a henchman outlives their boss by being their undoing? Dracula's Renfield lives, (in "Dead and Loving it" Wink) after accidentally disintigrating him, letting a beam of light shine through a hatch in the roof. Slightly similar example, 1964's Phantom of the Opera's dwarf assistant lives, though he accidentally kills his master anticlimactically. Something happened in The Rock where the mastermind was killed by his henchman, because the mastermind was being too soft on his targets. Depending on your point of view, Gaear Grimsrud kills Carl Showalter in Fargo even though Grimsrud was apparently more experienced, Carl seemed (Comparatively) smarter and more devious, not to mention he acted like the one in control up until his death.
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« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2008, 08:08:49 PM »

Nick Nack outlived Scaramonger in The Man with the Golden Gun  He survived the movie too.

Technically, Silver Surfer outliving Galactus in the Fantastic Four movie was a henchmen outliving his boss.
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« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2008, 02:25:23 AM »


First I thought that a arguably more dramatic variety of this theme would be the creature surviving it's creator, like in Frankenstein. But then, this seems more to be the rule than the exception....

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« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2008, 01:00:27 PM »

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« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2008, 03:12:36 PM »

Jaws was the first one I thought of.

Another good one is Darth Vader. He outlived Tarkin in Star Wars, and the emperor in Return of the Jedi. Of course, he wasn't a typical henchman.
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« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2008, 09:56:17 PM »

That long-haired blonde guy outlived his boss...who was street pizza at the time in Die Hard
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