10 Most Exciting Heroes and Villains of May

As May comes to a close, ET looks back at the 10 most exciting heroes and villains that hit the silver screen.

From the metal-manipulating might of Magneto to the building-bashing brute force of Godzilla, this month, the theaters were filled with the exciting roar of heroes vs. villains and good vs. evil. Who's your favorite hero and/or villain currently on the big screen?

On May 16, 2014, one of the most familiar monsters in movie history returned, destroying the world while also fighting various other marauding behemoths. Is he the bad guy? Is he the good guy? Or is he just an unstoppable force of nature hell bent on doing whatever he wants?

Currently starring as fan favorite Tyrion Lannister on HBO's Game Of Thrones, Peter Dinklage goes to the dark side in the sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past, released on May 23, 2014. He plays Bolivar Trask, the inventor of the Sentinels, a type of mutant-hunting killer robot. In the comics, Trask was an anthropologist who believed that the human species was threatened by the existence of mutants, and creates the Sentinels as a way to protect non-mutant humans from what he saw as the mutant threat, but things spiral out of his control.

These remorseless killing machines created for the sole purpose of protecting mankind against a supposed mutant threat are one of the X-Men's greatest recurring enemies. In this world, the Sentinels hunt and kill mutants left and right, and eventually turn on humans, turning the world into a bleak dystopia.

There's no need to explain why Wolverine makes the list of heroes we're excited to see. First of all, Hugh Jackman is back working with director Bryan Singer, who originated his portrayal of the character in the first X-Men film and improved it in X-2, but it's also the seventh time the Australian superstar has played the claw-popping mutant. It's unclear if this will be one of the last times, but Jackman looks more ready than ever to dish out serious pain.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past takes place across multiple points in time, and so the film shows both the old and the young versions of this infamous villain that we have come to love and hate in equal measure. However, in the Sentinel-destroyed future, it seems that Professor X and Magneto have put their differences aside in order to save mutants and humankind from total annihilation. It will be an interesting twist to see Ian McKellen's Magneto fighting for the good guys, and to see Michael Fassbender's Magneto struggling with his inner hatred and traumatizing trust issues.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past takes place across multiple points in time, and you get to see both the old and the young versions of this legendary leader. In the future, Professor X, now working with his former arch-rival Magneto, sends Wolverine back in time to convince his younger self, who has spiraled down a deep well of depression and drinking, to come back and become the man and the leader he needs to be to lead a rebellion against the terrifying might of the Sentinels.

Seth MacFarlane wrote, directed and stars in A Million Ways To Die In The West, out May 30, 2014, in which he plays a cowardly sheep herder who is obsessed with all the ways people die in the Wild West. He falls in love with a Anna (Charlize Theron), and soon becomes a target of her sinister gun-slinging husband. MacFarlane finds his courage and attempts to learn how to be a gunfighter. Seth's quick wit and brilliant observational skills-- along with his anachronistic line delivery-- could make his character one of the funniest Wild Western heroes in decades.

Liam Neeson brings his unrelenting action-star skills to Seth MacFarlane's comedy western, out May 30, 2014. Of course, his gunslinger character is one of the most exciting bad guys of the month.

Princess Aurora is a challenging character to play, especially in this long-awaited "untold version" of the classic Disney fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. She's a wonderfully innocent young girl who is put in the middle of a conflict she couldn't possibly comprehend, being manipulated and cursed for reasons beyond her control, which could lead to a very layered and complicated character. Also, actress Elle Fanning has proven herself to be an immensely talented and magnetic actress. Just look at her scene-stealing performance in Super 8. This could be one of the best Disney princesses in quite a long time.

Angelina Jolie, who has not starred in a film since 2010's The Tourist, returns for a show-stopping performance as the eponymous evil fairy. Maleficent, a once pure hearted woodland fairy, turns cold and bitter by what she believes are betrayals by the humans. She places an irrevocable curse on a newborn human princess that will lead to tragedy. It's a sympathetic retelling of the villain's origins and could prove to be another of Disney's instant classics.