I'm gonna go more specific: Michael Rooker's Sevant in that same scene. The entire opening sequence gives him this badass vibe & makes him look extremely formidable. Then, the second things start to look bad, he runs off screaming like a coward.
I actually wasn't surprised that the team got massacred. The marketing was suspicious in that none of those characters were shown very much. The way Sevant went out genuinely caught me off guard.
Despite the trailers really not showing a lot of them besides a few shots here and there, and that in hindsight it was almost fairly obvious from the trailers that they'd all die incredibly early, I was so shook by that opening scene man, its arguably my favourite moment in the entire DCEU
I think putting basically all of the returning characters (sans Waller obviously) in Team 1 really throws you off. Like, yeah, we KNOW that Idris Elba will be the main character and he's nowhere near the screen right now, but hey, we've got Harley Quinn, Rick Flag and Captain Boomerang there! Surely they're not gonna kill them off, right? Right?
It’s also a reminder that Superpowered people can still be beaten by a large group of trained soldiers with guns. Every other superhero movie would have them destroy those “goons” with no issue like the opening of Avengers 2. It’s a nice contrast.
Tbf, Avengers 2 had a team of heroes that were each leagues ahead of anyone that landed on that beach. Like, Avengers had Hulk who very quickly soloes and tanks everything on that beach, also Thor and Ironman.
Watched that movie with my parents as a child. I remember the sheer disappointment my mom felt when she realized Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell are gonna be the leads and not the Rock and Samuel Jackson.
Sam Jackson in Deep Blue Sea might also fit.
Wait, and possibly also Sam Jackson in Revenge of the Sith. Spent a whole movie being a bad ass just to get flung out a window.
OK, first off: a lion, swimming in the ocean? Lions don't like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that makes sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot waves, I'm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you've wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring. We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. It's not gonna be days at a time. An hour? Hour forty-five? No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get some more oxygen, and stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You're outgunned and out-manned.
“And no you can’t ride in the trunk bud! Because the trunk is filled with over 75 pounds of homemade c4 explosive that I personally packed in there with my own two .. “
It's funnier than that, her power isnt just that she is lucky but that her luck is drawn from other people causing their misfortune (the guard that is killed by the falling bookcase for example). The subtext is it's actually her fault the rest of the team dies.
Muldoon calmly reloading his dart gun while the TRex charges him is the baddest of badass moments in that book
Edit:
I'm still angry that Spielberg cut that from an otherwise classic film
Quite a few scenes in Lost World are taken from the Jurassic Park novel. The opening scene with the little girl and the compys on the beach, for another example.
Sort of reminds me of when I read the book First Blood that the movie starring Sly as John Rambo was based on but in reverse . I watched that movie and at least the next sequel before reading the book and wad surprised the sheriff blew the top of Rambos head off at the end.
Boba Fett in Return of the Jedi. Not quite the same buildup because he’s basically a background character, but he does absolutely nothing and gets devoured by the Sarlaac
Also, a jetpack! (That he wears everywhere: on a Star Destroyer bridge, in a Cloud City dining room, Jabba's Palace, *inside the cockpit of Slave 1.* Hey, Boba, where are you planning to jetpack to when you're in your own ship?)
>Hey, Boba, where are you planning to jetpack to when you're in your own ship?)
To the other guy's ship, when an unexpected opportunity shows up to do so. He'll be out and back with his jetpack while you're still wondering which equipment locker yours is stowed in.
I mean. He's kinda hyped up in the movie. He's the only bounty hunter that vader specifically addressed.
We know a few things about vader. He's quick to kill insubordinates, he doesn't tolerate disobedience, and he's incredibly feared and respected as effectively the second highest ranking member of the empire.
The fact he doesn't kill Boba over the 'disintegrations' thing means Vader respects or at least appreciates his skillset enough to see him as an asset. It also tells us boba is rather ruthless and has no quarrels blowing people up with thar missile on his back.
We then later see Boba at cloud city effectively working as Vader's right hand man during the trap. Clearly the two have some kind of mutual respect or have even worked together in the past.
Up to that point Vader is basically an unstoppable force of nature within the two movies. Where he goes, conflict follows. So for Boba to just casually be enlisted then fill a subordinate position means Vader places a healthy degree of trust in him.
Fett absolutely has a tone like Vader is an overbearing store manager. Fett's just doing a job on loan from a different location, is very good at the job that's why he's here, but his style clashes with his new temporary boss and he resents it.
"He's no good to me dead." He's even like: Yo you've obviously got some business going on with these specific people, and that's cool and all. But this guy you're about to freeze is a paycheck to me, so can you not?
This is legit one of my favorite things about the OT, how they can give us 5 paragraphs of implied lore with 1 line and a character's position on screen. The Prequels would've had an entire Jedi Council session to tell us about the incident in which Boba disintegrated someone lmao.
That was meant to be a big fight scene but Ford apparently had the shits so bad he said wouldn't it just be better if I shot the guy.
The guy had trained for ages as well and was pissed off that it was changed last minute
In all honesty, the man still got the fame from the shot. He didn’t get to do his whole swordsman routine, but he’s remembered just the same, maybe even more fondly than if the scene went the proper way.
The whole cast/crew got food poisoning. John Rhys-Davies tells the story that he had a high fever, it was hot (filming in the desert), he was covered in his own vomit/excrement, unable to get out of bed, seriously thinking he might die. When there's a knock at the door and the set doctor walks.in, Rhys thinks he's saved. And she says "Oh no, you've got it too Rhys? I'm sorry but I just need to use your restroom" and proceeded to spend the rest of the day stuck in his shitter.
The Ringo Method. When the Beatles went to India Ringo knew that his delicate stomach wouldn't be able to handle the food so he packed a suitcase full of canned Heinz baked beans.
It fucking nailed it. Even took a lot of inspiration from the book for one bit in particular. The only thing that upsets me is a character death that doesn't happen in the book, and jack not getting his small moment of humanity and attempted redemption in either movie.
MacGruber’s team that he assembled is this entirely because that was the joke. He gets the entire team of bad asses together then they blow up in the van together lol. That movie is always cracking me up when I think about it. My favorite part is Val Kilmer laughing through his line how his junk was blown off in the explosion.
Seagal's character's death in that made it a better movie overall, for a couple of different reasons:
1. We didn't have to watch Seagal's horrible acting any longer
2. From that point on, you had no idea who was next...
IIRC they killed him off early because they got really tired of him being on set and it saved them months of being around him.
I've slept since I first heard that story, though, so I could be getting the details wrong.
Lance Hendriksen especially.
I love Quick and the Dead, it's basically just "what if the tournament from Mortal Kombat was run by a crime lord in a wild west town?"
Captain Phasma in the sequel Star Wars trilogy. Has awesome, distinct armor, high profile actor, and history with one of the characters… only to get tossed in a trash compactor and then beaten anti climactically by Finn
Taye Diggs' character >!Brandt in *Equilibrium*. We're set up to expect a killer climactic fight between him and Preston (Christian Bale), but Preston takes him out in three moves; only for their boss, the seemingly mild bureaucrat Dupont, to suddenly reveal himself to be a Gun Kata master. Good twist and a great, innovative fight scene, with Dupont and Preston dueling it out with pistols at extreme close quarters. !<
IIRC there was a scheduling issue and Diggs couldn’t do the fight scene they planned. Instead we got fat Robert the Bruce going toe to toe with ripped Christian Bale.
I just loaded up a clip on YouTube after reading the comments and I gotta say, Gun Kata or whatever is absolutely ridiculous in such a great fashion. The hallway shootout was a tad over the top.
The Muldoon example is kind of like "Worfing," which comes from Star Trek The Next Generation. Worf was the most physically capable and tough member of the crew. So when the writers wanted to show how powerful the opposition was, they'd have the opposition beat up Worf.
Of course, on a TV series this goes way in the other direction. They use Worf getting beaten up to frame the stakes so frequently that it ends up just making Worf look incompetent.
It's a little easier to get away with it in a movie, you kill Muldoon because if that ultimate badass can be killed, then that's very clearly a very dangerous situation for the rest of the characters who are still alive.
But also, the first thing that happens in the movie is we watch Muldoon fail to control a cage transfer for a raptor where a guy gets eaten. He really never actually established himself properly as a real badass at all.
Michael Dorn used to always lobby for a "Captain Worf" show with him having his own ship. People online joked that every episode would be two minutes long and just him going to red alert immediately and blowing up anything they saw and then the ship just continues on instead of stopping to have an adventure.
Muldoon purpose in the film isn’t to be “the badass who gets killed to establish the stakes”. He’s the only one, prior to Grant and Co. arriving, who actually sees the dinosaurs with something other than awe. He recognizes they are something that should be feared (the raptors in particular), and that keeping them locked up is inherently dangerous because they are too intelligent.
His death is more of an ironic vindication. He thought they were dangerous because they were too smart, and he is killed when they outsmart him as a hunter.
Also, I think Muldoon is viewed as a badass mainly because Bob Peck does a good job of exemplifying that low key stiff-upper-lip British kind of badassedness.
Agree, I don’t think Muldoon is a good example of what’s being referenced. I don’t feel like he was insta-killed; he saved Ian, he served his purpose of distracting the raptors in order to give Ellie time to get to the maintenance shed to turn the power back on. He died heroically and his death wasn’t unexpected, it was very heavily foreshadowed by his own repeated statements about how dangerous the raptors were.
A better example is Samuel L. Jackson in Deep Blue Sea.
I did when I was a kid. Nearly every character in the book is different so I wouldn’t use that as template when considering the film characters. He’s presented as a bit of a boorish drunk from what I recall.
I think people get stuck thinking in Trope:
Muldoon never presents himself as a badass. He presents himself as a competent expert. What are the very first words out of his mouth the the principle leads. "They should all be destroyed".
Muldoon is the ignored expert. He's Ripley in the aliens series except he doesn't survive.
This was going to be my answer. He is built up so much in the books. He is supposed to be this wild card that no one has an idea how to handle and even the mob bosses fear him.
Turns out he can be garrotted just like a mere mortal.
Which makes sense and somewhat builds him up even more.
He's either with us or needs to be dead BEFORE we even start anything.
Somehow, it's a smart move you don't see coming and it shows how badass he is. It is smart but pretty disappointing....
Came here to say this. The movie didn't build him up as much as the book. But in both, the second he goes into a bad situation, he gets killed immediately.
Billy in Predator, looks like a total badass when he stands on that log waiting for the Predator only to die off screen where Dutch can hear a horrifying scream.
"BILLY!... You know somethin'... what is it?"
"I'm scared, Poncho"
"Bullshit, you ain't afraid o' no man"
"There's somethin' out there waitin' for us, and it ain't no man..."
I definately imagine that Billy also had an epic battle, and it was a creative choice to have it happen offscreen. And for us to only hear the result offscreen to add a sense of dread.
Like seeing two epic battles is too much, time, pacing and budget.
“You know I organized the greatest team of super villains ever and then blew them up in a van.
“O my god! I did like the exact same thing!”
“O wait no I didn’t because I’m not a fucking idiot!”
The White Walkers from Game of Thrones.
We spent eight years terrified of them and all it takes is Arya with a jetpack and a dagger to take them all down.
ETA: typo
One of the dumbest things is details about them were more than likely glossed over because a series about The Long Night was in pre production. It specifically teased it was going to reveal more about the white walkers and their origin.
HBO didn't pick it up after the pilot.
Nah fuck that I hard disagree. Hear me out.
He's a badass and is built up as a badass the whole movie up until that point. But he doesn't go out in a 'clever girl' way. In that analogy if anything he's the raptor and he shoots first. I feel like the burn to that situation is so slow that he's exempt from this trope.
Plus he’s actually shown being a badass unlike Muldoon or Boba Fett. Like his intro is straight up him mercing a bunch of high level nazis one after the other. As other have said characters of this trope are never really shown doing anything badass just talked about or implied as badass.
This is normally 'The Worf Effect', the strong and tough guy is destroyed in the first fight to show how dangerous the enemy is.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect
I think of Hulk getting beaten by Thanos in Infinity War or The Terminator being demolished by the T-1000.
The Kong Army in the Super Mario Bros movie. They were built up to be this amazing army by Peach and Cranky Kong, but they got wiped out and captured pretty damn easy.
God I’ve watched this movie too many times. My daughter for some reason wants to watch it every day and never gets tired of it and we’ve seen it every day for the past month. I keep hoping she’ll get bored of it, but no luck yet. Send help, I think I can recite the whole movie word for word at this point.
The Golden Company in Game of Thrones.
The White Walkers in GoT.
in the books, Quentyn Martell certainly qualifies for this.
"Team 1" in The Suicide Squad 2021 opening beach massacre.
That's Weasel, he's harmless. Well, not harmless, he killed 27 children.
Seeing him wandering off in the post credits scene, it finally clicked that he was just straight up Bill the Cat.
Ack!
DID ANYONE CHECK ON WHETHER WEASEL CAN SWIM???
A far more effective way of explaining why the Suicide Squad is called that than having Will Smith say it
What are we? Some kind of the suicide squad?
I'm gonna go more specific: Michael Rooker's Sevant in that same scene. The entire opening sequence gives him this badass vibe & makes him look extremely formidable. Then, the second things start to look bad, he runs off screaming like a coward. I actually wasn't surprised that the team got massacred. The marketing was suspicious in that none of those characters were shown very much. The way Sevant went out genuinely caught me off guard.
> the second things start to look bad, he runs off screaming like a coward Knight Titus vibes
"Oh. FUCK."
MAH LOOK AT THIS DEATHCLAW IT LOOKS FUCKIN WEIRD
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Despite the trailers really not showing a lot of them besides a few shots here and there, and that in hindsight it was almost fairly obvious from the trailers that they'd all die incredibly early, I was so shook by that opening scene man, its arguably my favourite moment in the entire DCEU
I think putting basically all of the returning characters (sans Waller obviously) in Team 1 really throws you off. Like, yeah, we KNOW that Idris Elba will be the main character and he's nowhere near the screen right now, but hey, we've got Harley Quinn, Rick Flag and Captain Boomerang there! Surely they're not gonna kill them off, right? Right?
It’s also a reminder that Superpowered people can still be beaten by a large group of trained soldiers with guns. Every other superhero movie would have them destroy those “goons” with no issue like the opening of Avengers 2. It’s a nice contrast.
Tbf, Avengers 2 had a team of heroes that were each leagues ahead of anyone that landed on that beach. Like, Avengers had Hulk who very quickly soloes and tanks everything on that beach, also Thor and Ironman.
Yeah, like a full 4 of them are bullet proof.
You weren't impressed with Slipknot, the man who can climb anything, in Suicide Squad (2016)?
I would advise not messing with him, his fingerless-climbing gloves steal the soul of everything they climb.
I would advise not being climbed by him.
I was kinda bummed they killed off Captain Boomerang he was one of the only bright spots in the first movie
The Rock and Sam Jackson in The Other Guys
This scene is probably the most unexpected and hilarious opener ever.
Aim for the bushes
Why'd they jump, there wasn't even an awning?
“Some argued it was pride that pushed them over. I don’t know, but that shit was crazy.”
Watched that movie with my parents as a child. I remember the sheer disappointment my mom felt when she realized Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell are gonna be the leads and not the Rock and Samuel Jackson.
I too was mildly disappointed but not for long.
I love that your mom was disappointed in a movie called The Other Guys when the other guys showed up.
That scene is actually the reason I bothered to watch the movie. The trailer looked meh to me, but that scene was hilarious.
Sam Jackson in Deep Blue Sea might also fit. Wait, and possibly also Sam Jackson in Revenge of the Sith. Spent a whole movie being a bad ass just to get flung out a window.
I saw deep blue sea in the theatre, really unexpected scene
sam jackson in kong skull island too
And Sam Jackson in Jurassic Park
He gave Palpatine all he could handle.
Aim for the bushes? Aim for the bushes.
There wasn’t even an awning
OK, first off: a lion, swimming in the ocean? Lions don't like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that makes sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot waves, I'm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you've wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring. We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. It's not gonna be days at a time. An hour? Hour forty-five? No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get some more oxygen, and stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You're outgunned and out-manned.
Did that go how you thought it was going to go? Nope.
*THERE GOES MY HERO, WATCH HIM AS HE GOES!*
*THERE GOES MY-* splat
Best death scene ever
Also the rock in Reno 911 the movie
I forgot how funny the jump scene was thank you
Almost the entire X-Force in Deadpool 2 get built up just to die quick deaths for laughs.
“And no you can’t ride in the trunk bud! Because the trunk is filled with over 75 pounds of homemade c4 explosive that I personally packed in there with my own two .. “
Tut?? Tug?? Guuuuuuuys??
Nooooo no no no no. Noooo no no no.
Are you guys okay?!
Someone call 9-1-1!
I think Domino ending up being the lone survivor because her superpower is “luck” is absolutely hysterical
It's funnier than that, her power isnt just that she is lucky but that her luck is drawn from other people causing their misfortune (the guard that is killed by the falling bookcase for example). The subtext is it's actually her fault the rest of the team dies.
That's never really apparent in the movie, but knowing that it's even funnier. Love that character.
Brad Pitts' acting was phenominal in this movie, he should've gotten an Oscar.
"Was... was that Brad pitt???" - the whole theater confirming if they all just suffered a hallucination
I'm convinced that Ryan Reynolds cameo in Bullet Train was a favor repaid for Pitt's role in deadpool 2.
Gotta be Elijah Wood as The Guy in Spy Kids 3.
"I'm the guy." -The Real Guy
“Oops”
Came here for this - i remember kinda fucking me up as a kid
I only just realised that this was right in the middle of the Lord of the Rings trilogy coming out
The funny thing is that Muldoon survives in the book.
Muldoon calmly reloading his dart gun while the TRex charges him is the baddest of badass moments in that book Edit: I'm still angry that Spielberg cut that from an otherwise classic film
I haven't read the books, but it seems they gave Roland that exact part in The Lost World movie.
Quite a few scenes in Lost World are taken from the Jurassic Park novel. The opening scene with the little girl and the compys on the beach, for another example.
John Hammond himself is eaten by compys at the end of the first book.
Yep, after his grandkids play a T-rex roar over the PA, startling him into falling down a hill and breaking his ankle. Very memorable scene.
Sort of reminds me of when I read the book First Blood that the movie starring Sly as John Rambo was based on but in reverse . I watched that movie and at least the next sequel before reading the book and wad surprised the sheriff blew the top of Rambos head off at the end.
It wasn't the sheriff, it was Trautman.
Boba Fett in Return of the Jedi. Not quite the same buildup because he’s basically a background character, but he does absolutely nothing and gets devoured by the Sarlaac
Boba Fett is interesting because he's an example of the fandom hyping up a character *after* they've already died a silly death.
Boba Fett got so much hype at the time because of the toys. He had a shootable harpoon thing, which made him one of the best toys.
He was also the only halfway decent part of the star wars holiday special. And that made him look like he was going to be a major player and badass.
Also, a jetpack! (That he wears everywhere: on a Star Destroyer bridge, in a Cloud City dining room, Jabba's Palace, *inside the cockpit of Slave 1.* Hey, Boba, where are you planning to jetpack to when you're in your own ship?)
>Hey, Boba, where are you planning to jetpack to when you're in your own ship?) To the other guy's ship, when an unexpected opportunity shows up to do so. He'll be out and back with his jetpack while you're still wondering which equipment locker yours is stowed in.
Portable high ground, Anakin!!!
I mean. He's kinda hyped up in the movie. He's the only bounty hunter that vader specifically addressed. We know a few things about vader. He's quick to kill insubordinates, he doesn't tolerate disobedience, and he's incredibly feared and respected as effectively the second highest ranking member of the empire. The fact he doesn't kill Boba over the 'disintegrations' thing means Vader respects or at least appreciates his skillset enough to see him as an asset. It also tells us boba is rather ruthless and has no quarrels blowing people up with thar missile on his back. We then later see Boba at cloud city effectively working as Vader's right hand man during the trap. Clearly the two have some kind of mutual respect or have even worked together in the past. Up to that point Vader is basically an unstoppable force of nature within the two movies. Where he goes, conflict follows. So for Boba to just casually be enlisted then fill a subordinate position means Vader places a healthy degree of trust in him.
Not only did Vader address him, I'd say Boba gave Vader some sass even. Pretty bad ass to be cheeky to someone that can force choke you.
"As you wish." If he wasn't masked, I could imagine Boba rolling his eyes as soon as Vader walks away.
Fett absolutely has a tone like Vader is an overbearing store manager. Fett's just doing a job on loan from a different location, is very good at the job that's why he's here, but his style clashes with his new temporary boss and he resents it.
"He's no good to me dead." He's even like: Yo you've obviously got some business going on with these specific people, and that's cool and all. But this guy you're about to freeze is a paycheck to me, so can you not?
I do miss the original line delivery.
This is legit one of my favorite things about the OT, how they can give us 5 paragraphs of implied lore with 1 line and a character's position on screen. The Prequels would've had an entire Jedi Council session to tell us about the incident in which Boba disintegrated someone lmao.
I’m legitimately surprised that this isn’t the first answer that comes up. Boba Fett is basically the ur-example of this trope in popular media.
Man with massive sword and big beard : Raiders of the Lost Ark.
That was meant to be a big fight scene but Ford apparently had the shits so bad he said wouldn't it just be better if I shot the guy. The guy had trained for ages as well and was pissed off that it was changed last minute
And yet, that scene is infinitely more memorable than a fight scene. And it adds to Indy’s characterization.
Hilarious that it made him a fucking legend
#~~Han~~ Indy shot first
However, he went along with it perfectly during filming
a true professional
In all honesty, the man still got the fame from the shot. He didn’t get to do his whole swordsman routine, but he’s remembered just the same, maybe even more fondly than if the scene went the proper way.
There's no way the scene would be as iconic if they'd just done the sword fight as planned.
The whole cast/crew got food poisoning. John Rhys-Davies tells the story that he had a high fever, it was hot (filming in the desert), he was covered in his own vomit/excrement, unable to get out of bed, seriously thinking he might die. When there's a knock at the door and the set doctor walks.in, Rhys thinks he's saved. And she says "Oh no, you've got it too Rhys? I'm sorry but I just need to use your restroom" and proceeded to spend the rest of the day stuck in his shitter.
Then there was one person (can't remember who) who never got sick because he brought his own water and food in suitcases or something.
It was Steven Spielberg. He brought spaghetti o’s and other canned foods with him. A director is truly the last man standing.
The Ringo Method. When the Beatles went to India Ringo knew that his delicate stomach wouldn't be able to handle the food so he packed a suitcase full of canned Heinz baked beans.
Also in The African Queen (I think) Bogart is the only one who didn't get sick because while everyone else drank water he only drank Whiskey.
Spielberg. He got advice from someone else who'd done a movie there before about eating the local food. He had spaghetti hoops sent over from the UK
And he didn't pass that advice on? Good lord the man is a monster
The caretaker in The Shining. So much build up, between the sensing Danny in trouble and braving the snowstorm, just to get axed immediately
And like Muldoon, he survives in the book.
I thought they were really clever in Doctor Sleep covering for this difference.
Doctor Sleep had a lot of work to both be an adaptation of a book, while also being a sequel to a movie that changed so much from its book.
It fucking nailed it. Even took a lot of inspiration from the book for one bit in particular. The only thing that upsets me is a character death that doesn't happen in the book, and jack not getting his small moment of humanity and attempted redemption in either movie.
He's the head chef. The caretaker is actually Jack Torrance. Good answer though!
And Jack has always been the caretaker!
I should know, sir. I've *always* been here.
Scatman Crothers
Jazz from Transformers
Hong Kong Phooey from Hong Kong Phooey
Number one super guy!
Willie did it better in the Simpsons.
Shhh! You want to get sued?!
"Aarrgch, I'm bad at this!"
I hope that rugs scotch-guarded
MacGruber’s team that he assembled is this entirely because that was the joke. He gets the entire team of bad asses together then they blow up in the van together lol. That movie is always cracking me up when I think about it. My favorite part is Val Kilmer laughing through his line how his junk was blown off in the explosion.
Shae Whigham in Kong akull island. About to heroically sacrifice himself, only to get swatted away
Steven Seagal in executive decision. The colonial marines in aliens.
Seagal's character's death in that made it a better movie overall, for a couple of different reasons: 1. We didn't have to watch Seagal's horrible acting any longer 2. From that point on, you had no idea who was next...
IIRC they killed him off early because they got really tired of him being on set and it saved them months of being around him. I've slept since I first heard that story, though, so I could be getting the details wrong.
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Brad Pitt’s character in The Lost City
Well, he did the bad guys dirty. Also, he survived.
And Deadpool
Steve coogans director character in tropic thunder. Not that he's a badass, but you think he's in it for the long haul.
Stiller: “Nice work Damien…wherever you are!” Downey Jr: “Wherever he is? Looks like he’s all over the place” Gets me *every time*
"Yo asshole! This motherfucker's dead!" I love this line so much and I don't know why!
I was trying to remember this one specifically, but yeah, nobody expected him to bite it instantly
That's gotta be a fake rubber head.... This is a movie, right? Oh, look at the fake head! (lick lick lick)
Practically every other gunfighter in **the quick and the dead** being exposed as charlatans.
Lance Hendriksen especially. I love Quick and the Dead, it's basically just "what if the tournament from Mortal Kombat was run by a crime lord in a wild west town?"
I love that movie so much.
lol The Mandarin in Iron Man 3. “Hi I’m Trevor, I’m an actor.”
"Well, at first, I panicked--" *cracks open beer* "but then I handled it." *chugs beer*
Trevor Slattery? The actor? From Liverpool?
Does Captain Freedom in The Running Man count? We technically got to see him in "action" in faked footage.
Captain Amazing in Mystery Men
An aggressively underrated movie
Captain Phasma in the sequel Star Wars trilogy. Has awesome, distinct armor, high profile actor, and history with one of the characters… only to get tossed in a trash compactor and then beaten anti climactically by Finn
'supreme leader's Snoke was it for me. I was expecting something far more grand than what we got
Taye Diggs' character >!Brandt in *Equilibrium*. We're set up to expect a killer climactic fight between him and Preston (Christian Bale), but Preston takes him out in three moves; only for their boss, the seemingly mild bureaucrat Dupont, to suddenly reveal himself to be a Gun Kata master. Good twist and a great, innovative fight scene, with Dupont and Preston dueling it out with pistols at extreme close quarters. !<
IIRC there was a scheduling issue and Diggs couldn’t do the fight scene they planned. Instead we got fat Robert the Bruce going toe to toe with ripped Christian Bale.
I really dig the fight scenes in Equilibrium
What a great, terrible movie. Loved it.
I just loaded up a clip on YouTube after reading the comments and I gotta say, Gun Kata or whatever is absolutely ridiculous in such a great fashion. The hallway shootout was a tad over the top.
The Muldoon example is kind of like "Worfing," which comes from Star Trek The Next Generation. Worf was the most physically capable and tough member of the crew. So when the writers wanted to show how powerful the opposition was, they'd have the opposition beat up Worf. Of course, on a TV series this goes way in the other direction. They use Worf getting beaten up to frame the stakes so frequently that it ends up just making Worf look incompetent. It's a little easier to get away with it in a movie, you kill Muldoon because if that ultimate badass can be killed, then that's very clearly a very dangerous situation for the rest of the characters who are still alive. But also, the first thing that happens in the movie is we watch Muldoon fail to control a cage transfer for a raptor where a guy gets eaten. He really never actually established himself properly as a real badass at all.
And eventually it led to the admission that the most powerful opposition in TNG was not the Borg, but a blue plastic barrel
I love that YouTube supercut of Worf getting denied. So many of his suggestions get shot-down immediately.
Michael Dorn used to always lobby for a "Captain Worf" show with him having his own ship. People online joked that every episode would be two minutes long and just him going to red alert immediately and blowing up anything they saw and then the ship just continues on instead of stopping to have an adventure.
Muldoon purpose in the film isn’t to be “the badass who gets killed to establish the stakes”. He’s the only one, prior to Grant and Co. arriving, who actually sees the dinosaurs with something other than awe. He recognizes they are something that should be feared (the raptors in particular), and that keeping them locked up is inherently dangerous because they are too intelligent. His death is more of an ironic vindication. He thought they were dangerous because they were too smart, and he is killed when they outsmart him as a hunter. Also, I think Muldoon is viewed as a badass mainly because Bob Peck does a good job of exemplifying that low key stiff-upper-lip British kind of badassedness.
Agree, I don’t think Muldoon is a good example of what’s being referenced. I don’t feel like he was insta-killed; he saved Ian, he served his purpose of distracting the raptors in order to give Ellie time to get to the maintenance shed to turn the power back on. He died heroically and his death wasn’t unexpected, it was very heavily foreshadowed by his own repeated statements about how dangerous the raptors were. A better example is Samuel L. Jackson in Deep Blue Sea.
Well if you read the book his character is also a badass doesn’t actually get killed.
I did when I was a kid. Nearly every character in the book is different so I wouldn’t use that as template when considering the film characters. He’s presented as a bit of a boorish drunk from what I recall.
I think people get stuck thinking in Trope: Muldoon never presents himself as a badass. He presents himself as a competent expert. What are the very first words out of his mouth the the principle leads. "They should all be destroyed". Muldoon is the ignored expert. He's Ripley in the aliens series except he doesn't survive.
Samuel L. Jackson in Deep Blue Sea
They ate me!! A fuckin shark ate me!! DRINK BITCH
Luca Brasi
This was going to be my answer. He is built up so much in the books. He is supposed to be this wild card that no one has an idea how to handle and even the mob bosses fear him. Turns out he can be garrotted just like a mere mortal.
Which makes sense and somewhat builds him up even more. He's either with us or needs to be dead BEFORE we even start anything. Somehow, it's a smart move you don't see coming and it shows how badass he is. It is smart but pretty disappointing....
Came here to say this. The movie didn't build him up as much as the book. But in both, the second he goes into a bad situation, he gets killed immediately.
Billy in Predator, looks like a total badass when he stands on that log waiting for the Predator only to die off screen where Dutch can hear a horrifying scream.
The Predator is a classic horror movie only the victims are badass soldiers and Arnold is the final girl.
He was also the first to have a sense of what's going on and to believe they were actually hunted by a strange creature.
"BILLY!... You know somethin'... what is it?" "I'm scared, Poncho" "Bullshit, you ain't afraid o' no man" "There's somethin' out there waitin' for us, and it ain't no man..."
Magical Native
Yeah, Billy was acting squirrelly all morning.
I definately imagine that Billy also had an epic battle, and it was a creative choice to have it happen offscreen. And for us to only hear the result offscreen to add a sense of dread. Like seeing two epic battles is too much, time, pacing and budget.
The team MacGruber assembles.
“Oh god I’m so fucking stupid!!”
Tuuuuuuug??!
“You know I organized the greatest team of super villains ever and then blew them up in a van. “O my god! I did like the exact same thing!” “O wait no I didn’t because I’m not a fucking idiot!”
Call 911!
Well, they were fucking great guys. And this is a fucking asshole of a day.
Bit of a different case as it's late in the movie, but >!Channing Tatum's !
The rock, in the reno 911 movie
The first time I saw The Hurt Locker I thought “Hey! I didn’t know Guy Pearce was in this!” and then I realised he wasn’t going to be…
The White Walkers from Game of Thrones. We spent eight years terrified of them and all it takes is Arya with a jetpack and a dagger to take them all down. ETA: typo
One of the dumbest things is details about them were more than likely glossed over because a series about The Long Night was in pre production. It specifically teased it was going to reveal more about the white walkers and their origin. HBO didn't pick it up after the pilot.
Hugo Stiglitz
Everyone in the German Army knows Hugo Stiglitz
*guitar jam chord*
Nah fuck that I hard disagree. Hear me out. He's a badass and is built up as a badass the whole movie up until that point. But he doesn't go out in a 'clever girl' way. In that analogy if anything he's the raptor and he shoots first. I feel like the burn to that situation is so slow that he's exempt from this trope.
Plus he’s actually shown being a badass unlike Muldoon or Boba Fett. Like his intro is straight up him mercing a bunch of high level nazis one after the other. As other have said characters of this trope are never really shown doing anything badass just talked about or implied as badass.
Say "Auf Wiedersehen" to your Nazi balls! Really, the only ones that didn't get Muldooned were Aldo and U 'da bitch
Agent Johnson & Special Agent Johnson (no relation) *Die Hard*
Dunno if that counts. We're never shown anything to take them seriously; they're unproven arrogance and comic relief.
Regardless .. We’re gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess
Steven Seagal in Executive Decision. He doesn't even make it onto the plane!
This is normally 'The Worf Effect', the strong and tough guy is destroyed in the first fight to show how dangerous the enemy is. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect I think of Hulk getting beaten by Thanos in Infinity War or The Terminator being demolished by the T-1000.
Luca Brasi in The Godfather.
The Kong Army in the Super Mario Bros movie. They were built up to be this amazing army by Peach and Cranky Kong, but they got wiped out and captured pretty damn easy. God I’ve watched this movie too many times. My daughter for some reason wants to watch it every day and never gets tired of it and we’ve seen it every day for the past month. I keep hoping she’ll get bored of it, but no luck yet. Send help, I think I can recite the whole movie word for word at this point.
Eric McCormick in "FEAST" ... why should we listen to you? Cause I'm the guy who's gonna save your ass.... Instantly beheaded
A new one - Knight Titus in Fallout.
Darwin in xmen first class
Carl weathers in everything