Who needs a villain in their movie when you’ve got main characters as objectively awful as these?

Flawed, complex characters and anti-heroes are staples of cinema. Audiences love to root for a protagonist who is complicated and imperfect — or even a little evil — so long as they’ve got the motive and charisma to back up their misbehavior.

But some fan-favorite movie main characters are such terrible people or do such crappy things to others that they warrant a deeper look, challenging viewers to ponder why they ever rooted for them in the first place.

Let’s look at Mean Girls ’ Cady Heron, for instance. The formerly home-schooled teenage heroine of the 2004 teen comedy is highly relatable, and certainly not a capital-B bad person, but her character arc involves her not-so-nice de

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