6 Movies Where The Hero and Villain Never Meet (2 of 4)

The Truman Show

While this isn’t an action movie at all, it does have a clear villain and hero. It’s not your typical trope but the movie does evolve to the point where Jim Carrey’s Truman Burbank becomes more and more aware of his situation which sets up his growth as a hero with a clear goal in mind: leave the TV show that his entire life has become because of the villain, Ed Harris’ Cristof. The two interact briefly, though never actually meet, and this just adds to the idea that Cristof acts like some sort of God hanging over Truman’s life.

The Lord of the Rings

“The Lord of the Rings” has many heroes and villains acting together and seperately from each other, but the main conflict is about Frodo trying to destroy the One Ring and Sauron trying to capture Frodo to regain the ring’s power. Frodo runs into a lot — a lót — of Sauron’s handymen but never actually runs into Sauron himself. The main reason for his of course being that Sauron in the present time isn’t more than just an eye. But even then, Frodo manages to evade the eye’s gaze for most of his quest to Mount Doom, even when right under Sauron’s nose.