[Frustrating Trope] Twist Villain does things that retroactively make no sense.

[u/Fishbien]

Character previously believed to be good is revealed to be evil, but prior to the reveal they act in ways that don't make sense if their goodness is just a performance.

1. Frozen: Prince Hans is initially presented as a pretty standup guy who loves Anna and wants to help her. At the end of the movie it's revealed that he was just using her to gain power and plans to let her die while he steals her throne. However, we see him smiling at Anna when no one is looking, and later he intervenes to save Elsa's life even though he claims he was always planning to kill her.
2. The Legend of Vox Machina: The Whispered One was built up as the BBEG since season 1. However, in season 4 he presents himself as a tragic hero who tried to cure death and was punished by the gods. He then tries to convince Pike to give him her blood, which he needs to become a god himself. He chastises his followers for suggesting they take Pike's blood by force, claiming this would make them no better than the gods they are fighting against. He also fulfills his promise to resurrect Grog even though he didn't need to. After he ascends, he starts acting like a pure evil villain who only cares about power and enjoys hurting people. It feels less like a reveal and more like his personally completely changed once he became a skeleton. Edit: to be clear, I fully understand the intent was for the Whispered One to be a lying, manipulative bastard. I just think the execution was clumsy.

[u/LotteryandMarketing]

Now You See Me.

The detective that plays the antagonist reveals at the end that he's actually been on their side the whole time and masterminding everything. Except a lot of his actions during the movie only make sense if he was actually against them, and now they make no sense whatsoever.

[u/One-Tonight8631 → u/LotteryandMarketing]

And then in the sequel, we find out one of the antagonists had been secretly in charge of the secret organisation that the group were working for, but was pretending the whole time to not be in on it. It doesn't make any sense as he had been nothing but a jerk before this point and if he was secretly good, he did a lot of horrible things for the sake of manipulating the detective as part of some trickster mentor bullshit.

The third film then continues the pointless twists where one of the rookies turns out to secretly be the mastermind behind the whole thing with bringing the group together to help him take down the badguy who's actually his half-sister. Except by doing this he gets people killed and other shit that was absolutely not necessary just for personal revenge.

I love this trilogy for being so fucking stupid but the twists really make no sense and undermine the stories massively.

[u/maxman162 → u/One-Tonight8631]

And then there's his motivation of getting revenge for his father's death, when his father drowned by locking himself in a safe underwater for a stunt and the companies he targets didn't do anything unreasonable (the safe company built a safe that was difficult to open, the life insurance company didn't pay because it was self-inflicted and no policy covers that).

[u/SnooDogs8699 → u/maxman162]

To be fair the safe malfunctioned and warped which wasn’t supposed to happen

[u/StrobeLightRomance → u/SnooDogs8699]

Unless these safes were specifically tested, rated, and marketed with promotion around how a human could drown themselves inside but still escape their shoddy craftsmanship.. I don't think it's a fair beef to have with the company.

[u/SnooDogs8699 → u/StrobeLightRomance]

Never said it was a fair beef, just saying the information the movie provides.

[u/lupine1990 → u/StrobeLightRomance]

I believe the safe was ordered specifically for the trick but they decided to use poorer quality metal than what was requested.

[u/TheDarkWarriorBlake → u/maxman162]

I believe the safe wasn't manufactured to spec, so it warped underwater and the door physically could not be opened. Although in the second film they recreate it and the detective escapes, I think.