Poll: Which villain performed the best prison break?

Results of 3,203 votes:

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   Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

    

   He escaped by making a "mask" fromSPOILER: the face of one of the killed officers, donning the officer's uniform and pretending to be his own still-living victim so that he would be hurried…
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   Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008)

    

   The Joker tricked a cop SPOILER: and holds him hostage, and he told the other cops he just wants his phone call. Upon getting a cell phone and dialing a number, the large man that was in the cell with…
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   Ian McKellen in X2 (2003)

    

   Magneto notices "something different" about him - it seems Mystique SPOILER: put iron into his blood, which Magneto pulls out with his powers and kill Laurio. He forms the iron taken from th…
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   Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

    

   In 10 years, Shelton SPOILER: had dug the tunnel system from his garage to the prison and when it was finished, he deliberately had himself arrested and sent to solitary confinment in order to sneak o…
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   Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Strong in Sherlock Holmes (2009)

    

   He escaped from the hanging SPOILER: because the man doing the hanging placed a hook which somehow displaced the weight of the rope tightening on the neck and thus he didn't die from the hanging. The…
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   Tom Hiddleston in The Avengers (2012)

    

   Loki use his powers to SPOILER: disorder everyone, then escapes after killing agent Coulson and ejecting Thor from the airship.
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   Javier Bardem in Skyfall (2012)

    

   He escaped from the MI6 HQ holding cell SPOILER: by hacking their security systems with his encrypted laptop.
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   John Malkovich in Con Air (1997)

    

   Shortly after the flight takes off SPOILER: , Grissom is able to free himself with the help of a distraction by another prisoner, then the prisoners quickly subdue the guards and take control of the c…
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   Jemaine Clement in Men in Black³ (2012)

    

   Boris the Animal, stages a jailbreak SPOILER: (along the way killing Obadiah Price, a fellow inmate he'd made a deal with) from the LunarMax prison situated on the moon.