My , how we do love a high-risk boy — and here are a bread maker ’s dozen of some of the worst of the bad that scifi film , TV , and videogames have to offer .
SNAKE PLISSKEN
IMPRISONED FOR : Armed robbery of a federal installation
Kurt Russell in Escape from New York
If you ’re gon na spring a guy from the hoosegow to run hot and fast in a post - apocalyptic war zone , this is the guy you spring . Of naturally , there ’s gon na be hell to pay on the back end .
SIMON PHOENIX
IMPRISONED FOR : Murder , kidnapping , end of public dimension
Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man
While his sartorial offence pale in equivalence to his crimes against human beings — which admit detonating a construction filled with hostages — there ’s no deny that he ’d be inpatient No . 1 in fashion prison .
JACK
IMPRISONED FOR : Murder , larceny , biotic - fire-raising
voice by Courtenay Taylor in Mass Effect 2
Locked away for a rage - driven law-breaking spree the likes of which the stars had never see . muddy hot and crazy strong , Jack is the girl your penis is afraid of .
RICHARD B. RIDDICK
IMPRISONED FOR : Kidnapping and murder
Vin Diesel in Pitch Black , The Chronicles of Riddick
Strong like bull , crazy like fox , Riddick was so much more effectual as a screen comportment when we did n’t know much about him — other than that he was the only passenger on the Hunter - Gratzner transport shuttle in chains . And then they made that other film , which offered us way too much of a skilful thing .
JAMES COLE
IMPRISONED FOR : Unknown
Bruce Willis in 12 monkey
Who else but a man praying for a forgiveness would agree to a one - way trip back in time to stop the last of the world ?
SID 6.7
IMPRISONED FOR : Everything
Russell Crowe in Virtuosity
He ’s a computer - sire dental amalgam of stacks of the worst malefactor imaginable , so I opine he was bear forged . And when he finds a way out of his digital prison house into the material humans , he goes the sort of predictably movie - crazy that only Denzel Washington can cease .
KHAN NOONIEN SINGH
IMPRISONED FOR : essay human race - conquery
Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek ’s “ Space Seed , ” Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan
Charming , liberal , pitiless , smart as a whip — Khan was the best of the supermen that want to carve up Earth during the Eugenics Wars of the nineties . Khan and his coterie escaped in a suspend - animation lifeboat call the Botany Bay , until Captain Kirk free them — and almost lose the go-ahead in the process . Kirk then sentenced him and his motley crew to exile on Ceti Alpha Five . Which went well .
DESOLATION WILLIAMS
IMPRISONED FOR : General bad - assery
Ice Cube in John Carpenter ’s Ghosts of Mars
give that , too soon on in his career , Ice Cube only ever really play Ice Cube , the scariest aspect of Desolation Williams was that he add up off like a firecracker from South Central who got cleave on Mars .
BEN RICHARDS
IMPRISONED FOR : Mass execution ( framed )
Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man
Okay , he ’s not an inpatient for that long , and he did n’t entrust the crime for which he was convict . But it ’s Ahnuld , with a whiskers , taking down that most evil of psychiatric hospital , internet television !
LEIA ORGANA
IMPRISONED FOR : actuate insurrection
Carrie Fisher in Star Wars : Episode IV — A New Hope
Look at it this way , if not for how virginally tempting she looked in that prison house cell , the Empire would ’ve won . If she had n’t enraptured both Han Solo and Luke Skywwalker ( ewww ) , then they would n’t have joined the Rebellion . And they never would ’ve destroyed the Death Star , which would then have been free to destroy planets willy - nilly .
ZOD , URSA , AND NON
IMPRISONED FOR : Treason
Terrence Stamp , Sarah Douglas , Jack O’Halloran in Superman II
Banished to the Phantom Zone for seek to take over Krypton , this terrible triad got sprung by a rogue asteroid and found themselves on Earth , ready to do fight with the last son of Krypton . Plus , they had impeccably trimmed facial hair and bang-up shiny uniforms .
THOMAS ZAREK
IMPRISONED FOR : Terrorism
Richard Hatch on Battlestar Galactica
Who knew that when the Cylon Apocalypse came , one of the few ship to survive the attacks and conjoin Adama and Roslin ’s tag end - tag fleet would be a prison ship ? And who knew that biding his clock time on that ship would be a philosophically brawny malcontent who was unforced to kill to get what he wanted ?
NUMBER 6 ( The Prisoner )
IMPRISONED FOR : renounce his line
Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner
Okay , yes , he was an agent of sorts for Her Majesty ’s Secret Service , so he probably fuck thing that said mystical service would n’t need lolling about in the world . But just because a gent wants a mid - career modification is n’t effort to interlock him away in a mysterious settlement he ca n’t get out from , lest he get pounced by a giant ball .
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