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Everyone makes mistakes, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating when a character in a movie makes a mistake. Sometimes the user we’re intended for does something that angers us more than anything the bad guy is guilty of. See what we mean by reliving those moments that turned heroes into accidental villains in their own stories.
In 1980’s Superman II, Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) believes he can only have a general life with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) through human adaptation, which he achieves by entering a device in the Fortress of Solitude. Soon after, he realizes the error of this resolve when General Zod (Terrence Stamp) and his allies take the White House.
In the second Star Wars film (in chronological order), when Padmé Amidala’s (Natalie Portman) life is threatened, the Jedi Council chooses none other than apprentice Anakin Skywalker to be her bodyguard. They knew this, given their apparent emotional connection to her, which would eventually lead to a forbidden affair and marriage. The bright side: the birth of Luke and Leia in the next movie.
One of the most intense moments in one of Quentin Tarantino’s most productive films, 2009’s Inglourious Basterds, sees a disguised lieutenant Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender) accidentally reveal to Major Hellstrom (August Diehl) that he’s not German by simply lifting the wrong fingers. . ordering 3 glasses at the bar. Perhaps the British Army is blamed for not teaching him that the German 3 is made up of the thumb, index finger and middle finger, but who knew when it would come in handy?
Wanting to create a “suit of armor for the entire world,” Tony “Iron Man” Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) teams with Bruce “Hulk” Banner (Mark Ruffalo) to develop a powerful computer program that could do their work for them. Little did he know that this creation would become the eponymous villain of 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (voiced by James Spader), providing another cautionary lesson against relying on AI.
Minutes after condemning the slasher movie trope of women running upstairs away from the killer instead of out the front door, Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) does the exact same thing after Ghostface attacks her for the first time. The star of the Scream movies is still one of our favorite horror girls, but we almost wonder how she manages to endure so long with such an imperfection in her record.
Ridley Scott’s 2012 Alien prequel, Prometheus, is one of the most debatable sci-fi films ever made, but not even its staunchest supporters can argue with a character’s vociferous miscalculation. Why Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) doesn’t gently move out of the way of the alien spaceship moving toward her and instead keep running straight until it crashes into her is a mystery that may remain unsolved.
In 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, a few drinks make Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista) enough to combat Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace) himself, so he sends the tyrant to his current location. As a result, he gets his ass back and Ronan gets his way with The Power Stone.
If there is one downside to Shrek (Mike Myers) finding love with Fiona (Cameron Diaz), she may have made him more willing to let his guard down a bit, potentially leading to his disastrous decision in 2010’s Shrek Forever After. His nostalgia for his swamp-dwelling days clouds the ogre’s judgment when speaking with Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn), who convinces him to wish himself into an alternate reality where the trickster rules Far Far Away.
Writer Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie stars the comedian as an insect named Barry B. Benson, who becomes angry at humans profiting off of their honey and seeks legal action. He succeeds and bees no longer work in favor of the human race but it ends up causing an environmental disaster.
We are not sure if we can count Juno (Natalie Mendoza) as a hero of 2005’s The Descent, due to the idiotic stunt she pulls in the otherwise great horror movie. Her friends learn that she chose an unexplored cavern for their spelunking trip only after they get trapped inside with man-eating, nocturnal mutants.
By putting Thanos (Josh Brolin) under the trance of Mantis (Pom Klementieef), Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr. ), Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and the remaining Guardians are ready to take the Infinity Gauntlet out of his hand. However, Peter “Star-Lord” Quill (Chris Pratt) learns that the Titan killed Gamora and enrages Thanos, breaking the trance and allowing him to escape. It’s a moment from 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War that, understandably, prevents some enthusiasts from calling it one of the Marvel movies.
It is revealed in Hancock that Will Smith’s eponymous superhuman gets weaker the longer he stays in contact with Mary Embrey (Charlize Theron), who turns out to be part of his kind, too. That does not stop him from engaging in a cataclysmic fight with her near the end of the superhero movie not based on a comic book from 2008.
It’s not unusual for horror movie characters to make questionable decisions, however, when Mike (Michael C. Williams) drops the map of the Black Hills Forest in The Blair Witch Project, it’s simply inexcusable. He claims in the mysterious video discovered in 1999 that the map was ultimately useless, and he may have been right, but ignoring the only chance one can have for protection is never the right decision.
There’s an explanation for why they say you deserve to go through computers before investigating suspicious gadgets in the workplace yourself, and Q (Ben Whishaw) demonstrates why in 2012’s Skyfall. Perhaps the older TA edition of previous films James Bond would have been smarter. connecting Silva’s (Javier Bardem) computer to MI6’s main system, causing the organization to lose its generation to the villain.
Bruce Campbell’s Ash Williams becomes increasingly dumber in each of the Evil Dead movies, leading up to his absolute worst mistake while trapped in the Middle Ages in 1992’s Army of Darkness. He does not even bother to properly memorize a set of words that will take him back to modern times when he finds the Necronomicon and, in attempting to fake his way through it, ends up unleashing more evil forces.
Suspecting that teenager Larry Sellers used the stolen ransom money to buy a fashionable Corvette, Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) continually runs him over with a crowbar, only to realize that it belongs to Larry’s angry neighbor. It’s certainly one of the funniest moments in one of the most productive films of the 1990s, The Big Lebowski, but it also makes us feel sad for The Dude (Jeff Bridges) because he’s the best friend of such an impulsive idiot.
In Jeepers Creepers, witnessing the Creeper (Jonathan Breck) shoving dead bodies down a large pipe sticking out of the ground, Darry (Justin Long) tries to investigate by looking down the pipe himself but ends up sliding right into the killer’s lair. If only he had listened to his sister, Trish’s (Gina Philips), meta warning: “You know the part in scary movies when somebody does something really stupid, and everybody hates them for it? This is it.”
While Michael Keaton returns as Batman in 2023’s The Flash, in a not-so-stellar moment, he tries to save the day by crashing the Batwing into Zod’s ship. Unfortunately, this valiant effort caused very little damage to the ship and only the Black Knight was fatally killed in the crash.
The opening scene of Disney’s popular 2016 animated film Moana explains how Maui (Dwayne Johnson) stole and misplaced the heart of Te Fiti, which he believed was the good of humanity. Array. It is not until he meets the main character (voiced by Auliʻi Cravalho) that he realizes that the artifact’s absence has caused harm to the Hawaiian Islands and their inhabitants.
In the original 1995 adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s children’s book, Jumanji, Peter (Bradley Pierce) tries to end the wild board game’s reign of terror by dropping the dice at the right number to finish. Unfortunately, the game knows better and punishes him for trying to beat it by reverting the evolutionary process, turning him into a monkey.
One of the major issues fans have with Iron Man 3 is Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) rash decision to challenge The Mandarin to a one-on-one duel, going as far as revealing where he lives on a video recorded by a press member. Well, the fearsome terrorist clearly got the message, based on the violent attack on Stark’s home, which forced him to jump ship and get stuck in Tennessee.
If we had to make a list of the worst close calls in horror film history, there would definitely be a spot for Micah (Micah Sloat) from the first Paranormal Activity movie, released in 2009. Exhibit A: After a psychic warns that objects to a Ouija board as it would make his and Katie’s (Katie Featherston) haunting scenario much worse, Micah makes the decision to bring one into space and his haunting scenario worsens.
In 1959’s Sleeping Beauty, Aurora’s fairy guardians want to make a dress just for her but Flora wants it to be pink and Merryweather is dead set on making it blue. Despite being advised not to, they use magic to change the dress’ color over and over, which ends up alerting Maleficient of their location and putting Aurora in danger.
Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead is considered one of the best horror movie remakes of its time but is certainly not without its flaws. In fact, the demonic carnage is caused when Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci), for no reason at all, reads aloud from the Necronomicon, ignoring blatant warnings written into the flesh-bound, blood-inked book to leave it alone.
Twice in 2016’s Deadpool, the Merc with a Mouth (Ryan Reynolds) leaves behind a large duffel bag full of weapons that would have actually been very useful against his enemies. Instead, he is forced to rely on “best effort”. . . and his immortality, of course.
In 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, feeling that he has discovered a trusted friend in Quentin “Mysterio” Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal), Peter Parker (Tom Holland) makes the decision to give him full EDITH. – an augmented truth formula of security, defense, and synthetic tactical intelligence designed by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr. ). Unfortunately, that’s precisely what the disgruntled former Stark Industries worker wanted him to do, making plans to use it to launch an attack on London.
Whether or not you know the stories behind the Conjuring Universe movies, we believe that no one needs to be stuck dead where Ed and Lorraine Warren keep their collection of haunted relics. However, Daniela (Katie Sarife) braves the forbidden room in hopes of making contact. with her late father but ends up freeing the demon who owns the doll of the same name in Annabelle Comes Home.
Everyone makes mistakes, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating when a character in a movie makes a mistake. Sometimes our intended user does something that infuriates us more than anything the bad guy is guilty of. See what we mean by reliving those moments that turned heroes into accidental villains in their own stories.
It’s hard for them after what they did.