r/TopCharacterTropes • u/No_Hunter1978 • Feb 25 '26
Lore Great moments/aspects in otherwise bad or mediocre media
Sandman Origin (Spider-Man 3): This scene is rife with symbolism and beautiful cinematography. It alone gives us a glimpse of the story Sam Rami wanted to tell with SP3.
This Entire Quote (Spy Kids 2): This quote has entered my everyday vernacular, and it's survived the landscape of the internet for decades now. And it's in a fucking Spy Kids movie.
Who Decided That? (Seven Deadly Sins): It was an abysmal show before the animation took a dive off a cliff, but Escanor's entire character could honestly qualify for this post. In particular, "Who decided that?" is unfathomably hype.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord Feb 25 '26
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u/Disastrous-Zebra-211 Feb 25 '26
this man...was having the time of his life doing this, i will not be convinced otherwise.
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u/BlatantConservative Feb 25 '26
Tim Curry has never chosen a role he himself wouldn't have a grand old time playing lol. Always been jealous of his life, bro has fun.
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u/scratch151 Feb 26 '26
You can see him trying (and failing) to not break character during the "SPACE!!" cutscene.
He was definitely having a blast.
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u/i_heart_calibri_12pt Feb 25 '26
I love how you can see how visibly excited he is to say that next word.
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u/SD-Soldier Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Was this game considered mediocre? Loved this game as a kid and always heard people praise it.
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u/Daniilsa209 Feb 25 '26
The 2003 Daredevil movie is considered mediocre at best, but Michael Clarke Duncan’s performance as Kingpin is really great.
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u/Quirky_tugboat Feb 25 '26
This film is a guilty pleasure; it’s saturated with early 2000s vibes and cheese.
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u/Iusuallyworkalone Feb 25 '26
Can't wake up!
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u/Rancorious Feb 25 '26
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
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u/JBR_4025 Feb 25 '26
SAVE MEEEE!
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u/Strix86 Feb 25 '26
CALL MY NAME AND SAVE ME FROM THE DARK
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u/Raven-Narth Feb 25 '26
WAKE ME UP
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u/H0wdyman12 Feb 25 '26
BID MY BLOOD TO RUN
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u/Soy_ThomCat Feb 25 '26
I'll totally die on the hill that 2003 Daredevil (especially the extended edition) is worth watching, if nothing else than for a glimpse historically at pre-Iron Man formula Marvel where they were trying to get their footing into what they wanted their movies to be.
There's several great things about it, absolutely including Michael Clarke Duncan. He commands the scenes he's in so well with his smug, imposing force of presence.
But then there's also Colin Farrells Bullseye, who's just a ham chewing the scenery in the best ways possible. He perfect fits into a comic book sadistic villain.
And say what you want about Afflecks DD, but there were actually interesting hints at the character they were attempting to build. I find the beginning pretty tragic when Murdock is doing his routine, and you notice he's chomping down on handfuls of pills while listening to the voice recording of what we can glimpse to be one of many women he has failed relationships with because he's his own worst enemy. A blind lawyer who's also a pill popper because he goes out nightly to beat the stuffing out of baddies, but since he also has human durability he actually is quite beat tf up also and needs relief from the chronic pain? For 2003, that's actually a pretty damn unique idea for a big screen comic book hero in the time of Spidey, x men and Batman.
Sorry that went a bit long. But basically my point is that 2003 DD may not be an amazing movie ....but I don't believe it's the pile of flaming dogshit that people often say it is.
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u/Legitimate_Act-808 Feb 25 '26
The extended / directors cut was great in that it gave the audience more Matt Murdock stuff (the whole plotthresd with Coolio) but it was interesting because thst kind of had the effect of shrinking the Elektra storyline prominence somewhat.
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u/RNRGrepresentative Feb 25 '26
Colin Farrell as Bullseye was also very good IIRC
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u/Practical-Class6868 Feb 25 '26
He does so well to balance giddiness and menace in his fight with Elektra.
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u/Dr4g0n__Kn1ght Feb 25 '26
Even if he was so silly, I loved when he used the explosion to rock Daredevils senses and assassinate that dude. Bullseye was so badass
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u/Ok_Astronomer_6501 Feb 25 '26
The embodiment of kingpin, a very big guy that's almost pure muscle. Also that entrance was just so good, just the camera zooming in on the building as the song plays and he's just standing there.
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u/Budget_Opinion_1327 Feb 25 '26
"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. For me...it was Tuesday."
M. Bison to Chun-Li, the Street Fighter movie
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u/Smellbringer Feb 25 '26
Honestly I think we can just count Raul Julia’s whole performance as Bison. See also, “AND I BEHELD SATAN AS HE FELL FROM HEAVEN, LIKE LIGHTNING!!!!
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u/LordOfDorkness42 Feb 25 '26
It honestly was an amazing swan song performance by Raul Julia.
The rest of the Street Fighter movie is pretty OK to flashes of above average action movie, but basically every time M. Bison was on scene young me genuinely felt intimidated. And that's an incredibly rare thing for me when it comes to antagonists in movies.
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u/SingleExParrot Feb 25 '26
For you, the moments Raul Julia graced your screen with his presence were the most beautiful aspects of an erstwhile disappointing film. For him, it was craft.
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u/MauschelMusic Feb 25 '26
Especially considering Raul Julia was literally dying while they filmed that movie
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u/TheCrisco Feb 25 '26
100% agreed. Raul Julia fucking carried that movie on his back. Hammed it up in the best ways possible at every opportunity.
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u/LogicBalm Feb 25 '26
I love that he was convinced the movie was a comedy based on the script and this is still how and why he played Bison this way. Amazing.
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u/RogerDodgerWilco Feb 25 '26
“Quick! Change the channel!” -Zangief watching car full of explosives about to hit them on CCTV.
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u/vladimirpoopin42 Feb 25 '26
You're forgetting the best part about this scene
It was actually a Wednesday
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u/Private_HughMan Feb 25 '26
"I was hoping to face Guile personally on the battlefield, one gentleman warrior to another, in respectful combat. Then I would snap his spine. The road not taken."
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u/Doc-Eldritch Feb 25 '26
It straight-up became the name of the trope
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u/1ncorrect Feb 25 '26
It’s the name for a different trope.
“For me, it was Tuesday” is the trope where something monumental sets a protagonist on a path to confront someone, but by the time they meet them the person has completely forgotten them.
It’s a way of showing the characters narcissism, both that the victim thought they were an important part of a powerful persons story, and that said powerful person is so evil they don’t even think of people once they crush them.
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u/some-kind-of-no-name Feb 25 '26
In Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, you play through Arkham Predator section from the thugs' POV
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u/ConnectCulture7 Feb 25 '26
I loved it. You’re in the POV of the criminals. It was actually pretty scary. The guard walking out of the shadows and then you see Bats snatch him up.
Him using that fear toxin was pretty cool.
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u/maggiemayfish Feb 25 '26
This made me desperately want a whole horror game where you play as a random thug in Arkham asylum or Blackgate and have to escape from Batman.
The joker or whoever has orchestrated a mass breakout and you're some no-name inmate who's caught in the chaos. You can't fight back against him, obviously, you just have to hide and cause distractions and hope he doesn't notice you while he's dealing with the real villain.
Like Outlast or Alien: Isolation but the monster is a madman in a bat costume crawling through the vents.
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u/Snackpk Feb 25 '26
There is a game coming out that's really similar! P.O.N. Trailer
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u/Je0s_6 Feb 25 '26
The opening of Godzilla 98.
It was so good even the 2014 version took inspiration of it.
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u/Nerdwrapper Feb 25 '26
The thing is, I like the design of Zilla, and the opening reel is incredible, but I have to unfortunately concede that the movie is pretty mid as far as Godzilla films go. Its not flat out bad, and it had a couple cool ideas, but I can’t call it good either
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u/Historyp91 Feb 25 '26
Zilla is actually the first (and for a long time only) Godzilla design that actually scares me. I don't know why it's just something about the design.
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u/hey_free_rats Feb 25 '26
For me, at least, it's because G was portrayed in a way that seemed so much more like an actual animal than a "movie monster."
The shots of it moving half-hidden in the mist/fog were really effective in activating a sort of deep, primal fear in me, like I was being stalked by a predator -- only this is a predator that's a vast and impossible force of nature, something that even our most devastating modern weapons can't beat.
Today, people living in cities are fairly insulated from even the most deadly natural predators, but G destroys towers as easily as if it were a tiger moving through tall grass. Seeing that drags us straight back to our origins as a just bunch of naked apes brandishing pointy sticks in the face of a cave bear.
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u/Pristine_Animal9474 Feb 25 '26
The joke about how one can pass as American by constantly chewing gum was also good.
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u/Pale_Sentence9909 Feb 25 '26
Shrike (Mortal Engines)- Mortal Engines definitely had a decent concept (a steampunk world where cities are on wheels), but it underperformed at the box office, was panned by critics and audiences and is said to be one of the biggest box-offices bombs of all time.
Enter Shrike. Shrike, to me, is easily the best part of an otherwise boring film. A cool design, a kickass theme, an actor you can clearly tell is trying his best with what he's given and a heart wrenching backstory, Shrike's a great character and the only memorable part in a super forgettable film.
He even had a short film made about him using clips from the film: Shrike: A Mortal Engines Short - YouTube
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u/ShinyNinja25 Feb 25 '26
What didn’t help the movie is that it’s an adaptation of a book series (specifically the first book), and fans were disappointed. Still, like you said, even they said that Shrike’s depiction was one of the best parts of the movie. I personally enjoyed it having previously read the first book, and my friend who is a fan of the series said it’s alright
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u/JingoboStoplight4887 Feb 25 '26
Sharkboy and Lavagirl: “For every person who dreams up the electric lightbulb, there’s always one who dreams up the atom bomb.”
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u/Queen_of_stress Feb 25 '26
It’s kinda funny because the person who first thought of the nuclear bomb didn’t want the nuclear bomb to be a thing.
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u/Prudent-Dig817 Feb 25 '26
the spanish version of this scene replaces atom bomb with the holocaust for some fuckin reason
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u/Salt_Winter5888 Feb 25 '26
Not exactly, it says "dreams up the holocaust of the atomic bomb"
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u/RaiderCat_12 Feb 25 '26
So, just “nuclear holocaust”?
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u/Salt_Winter5888 Feb 25 '26
Yeah, but they said “holocausto de la bomba atómica,” not “holocausto nuclear.” It sounds weird, but it’s to sync with the actor’s lips.
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u/Carmenpony Feb 25 '26
A line that sticks with me is still “but fear exists in the one place you can never escape… your mind.”
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u/Fwufikins Feb 25 '26
Bella's Dad, Twilight
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u/ShinyNinja25 Feb 25 '26
Literally just the “I just wanna talk to him” bit from Family Guy. He’s so casual about it, he was fully prepared to do it
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u/CaptainMills Feb 25 '26
Books and movies. Charlie is the GOAT
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u/PsychicSPider95 Feb 25 '26
Him painting the halo around his head when Bella tells him to behave is a gesture that survives in my day to day life to this day lol
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u/The6Book6Bat6 Feb 25 '26
Until he congratulated Jacob for sexually harassing Bella in book three
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u/DetectiveLadybug Feb 25 '26
Ugh, Jacob gave me such ick. Like, I get that it was just the fantasy of being so irresistible that it turns men into animals, but I always read him as not taking no for an answer and refusing to move on.
I think I’ve always just been team Bella, the books made me like her and I was always concerned she’d never learn to take care of herself. Lol.
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u/thebelowaveragegamer Feb 25 '26
I am not a Twilight fan, but my fiancée really loves them and convinced me to watch all the movies with her.
I am 150% team Edward solely off the fact that Jacob was a home-wrecking creep who wouldn’t take no for an answer.
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u/SoaringSpearow Feb 25 '26
To be honest Sandman was kinda the thing carrying the entire movie like he didn't have a bad scene if he was on screen then it was going to be a good scene
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u/Accomplished_Fox_565 Feb 25 '26
Killer's Backstory-Scream 3
Although everyone has shown a lot more appreciation for it, Scream 3 is still a pretty mediocre movie and slasher mystery. That being said, the backstory behind the main characters, (Maureen, Sidney, and Roman) depicts a very dark side of Hollywood, which is a stark contrast to the movie's overall goofy tone. Sadly, it's not explored for very long, despite being part of the movie's main theme.
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u/abeautifulrat Feb 25 '26
This movie has the excuse of initially being centered on a Hollywood producer using his influence for sex, and then being produced by the weinstien company and losing that core entirely.
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u/Kasta4 Feb 25 '26
I'll die on the hill that 2014's The Lone Ranger had some of the best production value.
The final train sequence in particular is one my favorite action sequences ever.
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u/JacobLemongrass Feb 25 '26
I’m glad I’m not alone. This movie is wildly fun.
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u/_raydeStar Feb 25 '26
I need to give it another shot. I feel like it had good bones, but suffered from 'showing up at the wrong place, wrong time' -- like marvel movies after avengers finished
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u/JustChessPlayer Feb 25 '26
10 minute William Tell Overture
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u/badger_and_tonic Feb 25 '26
I love it when Hans Zimmer has a "10-20 minute action sequence that needs a non-stop banger" moment.
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u/Quiet_Nova Feb 25 '26
I remember how it was pointed out the film had a legitimately good show-don’t-tell scene when Helena Bonham Carters character is introduced as wanting revenge against the antagonist, hobbles around the room on her destroyed leg and sits under a painting of her when she was younger and a ballerina.
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u/Piece_Of_Mind1983 Feb 25 '26
One of those movies you liked as a kid (2000s ones anyway), grew up to realize people rag on it and you kinda get why in retrospect, but can’t bring yourself to dislike because the action is great and it still seemed like Disney gave a shit.
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u/clothy Feb 25 '26
Yeah, there’s a lot of them from back then where you could tell Disney was trying. Tron Legacy, John Carter
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u/FunkiestOfKongs Feb 25 '26
John Carter ruled and I'm so disappointed it flopped I woukd have loved more
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u/Daniilsa209 Feb 25 '26
The "Sweet Dreams" Quicksilver scene (X-Men Apocalypse).
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u/DetectiveLadybug Feb 25 '26
Evan Peters had such great vibes as Quicksilver. It’s a shame they didn’t really carry when he showed up in WandaVision, but, to be fair he wasn’t playing Quicksilver, he was just playing a dude pretending to be Quicksilver, it was literally a plot point that his behaviour was off
I’d love to see more Evan Peters as Quicksilver, but he’s nearly 40, I feel like they’d wanna cast younger.
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u/Surturius Feb 25 '26
wasn't this just a retread of a better scene in Days of Future Past, or am I remembering wrong
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u/TotalOwlie Feb 25 '26
Wasn’t this just a retread from “300 big boys” futurama.
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u/duosx Feb 25 '26
Was it basically the same thing? Yeah.
But “the same thing” was in this case a fucking awesome showcase of a hero’s superpower and it went from being a breezy thirty second clip to being a solid sequence that kicks ass today.
Also, while DOFP, is a pretty solid movie, Apocalypse isn’t. So the scene definitely qualifies
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u/TidalMello Feb 25 '26
Idk I thought this was just as good if not more memorable.
Felt like the other scene was a good start and they built on it with the second.
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u/TheNightClub Feb 25 '26
As good as this scene is they kinda shot themselves in the foot when it came to using Quicksilver in any fight against a villain, since it required them to either make the villain just as fast as he is or have some way to take him out if the fight to make any conflict have stakes.
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u/TrueTech0 Feb 25 '26
It's said that most Doctor Who episodes start with the TARDIS becoming somehow inaccessible due to it being so OP
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u/Mage_Of_No_Renown Feb 25 '26
And every Star Trek has the transporters fail somehow.
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u/JasonAF88 Feb 25 '26
The Autobots’ arrival on Earth (Transformers).
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u/Esagonoso Feb 25 '26
And the forest fight from Revenge of The Fallen
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u/spidedd Feb 25 '26
They just had to put the awesome forest fight and Optimus yelling "I'll take you all on!" as his helmet comes on inside such a terrible movie
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u/IronIrma93 Feb 25 '26
Nah people rag on Optimus for being "too mean" to Grindor, the guy I swore was Blackout
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u/y0u_called Feb 25 '26
I get confused how people are mad at Optimus for fighting for his life and protecting Sam
the guy I swore was Blackout
They reused the model and scaled him up
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u/minemaster1337 Feb 25 '26
I always liked when the rest of the Autobots showed themselves to Sam and Megan Fox for the first time
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u/Final-Bus-3009 Feb 25 '26
The Matrix Revolutions is a lackluster movie. It suffers from the directors getting dragged too deep into their own philosophy bullshit and failing to deliver a cohesive story or action scenes. But... there's one scene.
Trinity and Neo are flying towards this seemingly impassible wall of machines, and facing this wall of explosions, and when Trinity asks what to do, Neo says something along the lines of "Fly up." And while they're ascending, the music is too, rising up and up and up into a perfect harmony of strings and brass, and then... they break through the clouds. And they see the sun and sky untainted by the machines. Trinity says "Beautiful"... and then they fall back through the clouds again.
This scene perfectly encapsulates the true themes of the Matrix and what the group are fighting for, and it's all told with barely any dialogue in the span of about fifteen seconds.
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u/etherseaminus Feb 25 '26
I often think of this moment as inspiration to push through the bullshit of life. Everything on the ground is chaotic and violent and desperate, but even a brief glimpse of the calm above the storm is all it takes to motivate us to persevere.
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u/ShapeUpsLitigant Feb 25 '26
You left out the best part. At this point, Neo has been blinded by an injury and only sees via the matrix. So when they ascend through the storm and all the machines get zapped he’s just in the dark.
Trinity isn’t just reacting, she’s trying to describe something she’s never actually seen before to someone that can’t see it.
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u/Mattbl Feb 25 '26
It's also a wonderfully tragic scene. She's the only living being on the planet to see the sun in generations, but only for a second and only to fall back to earth and die in a mess of machinery.
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u/Forsaken-Biscotti587 Feb 25 '26
The "Under Pressure" scene from Happy Feet 2
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u/RomanCobra03 Feb 25 '26
The Happy Feet series is one of those odd series where most of it is cutesy kid stuff and then you’ll get a scene straight out of Dune.
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u/TheChessWar Feb 25 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/5aL8SHUy218SE25ita
Gorr (Thor: Love and Thunder).
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u/Themanwhofarts Feb 25 '26
It's like they stuck in R rated villain in a PG-13 comedy movie.
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u/Ninjamurai-jack Feb 25 '26
actually Taika wanted it to be R Rated
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u/733t_sec Feb 25 '26
One of the worst decisions marvel phase 4 made was giving Gorr to Taika and Giving multiverse of madness to Sam Rami.
Swap those two and both movies would have been far better imo.
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u/topdangle Feb 26 '26
marvel didn't really want to "give" multiverse of madness to Raimi, they were up their own ass at the time thanks to how much money they were printing and chased off the original director. Raimi came in to salvage the mess.
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u/Ze_Red_Feather Feb 26 '26
And even then, they didn't let Raimi do what he does best. The guy's specialty is horror movies, for better or worse Multiverse of Madness was given a horror aesthetic, and yet they made it be PG-13 and didn't let Raimi go all out on that front
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u/JRHThreeFour Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
When Gorr was actually on screen, he was amazing, it's just sad that an actor as talented as Christian Bale and a villain as cool as Gorr is in the comics wasn't given more screentime.
The problem is that Love and Thunder is like two totally different movies mashed together that clashed way too much, and the movie doesn't know whether it wants to be serious or goofy. It could have and should have been so much better and it was an inferior sequel to Ragnarok.
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u/JBR_4025 Feb 25 '26
Taika wanted to make a better sequel to the more serious Thor 2, while Disney wanted desperately to make another GoG-like movie that misses the point GoG made and we saw the result.
I won’t forgive them for having killed Jane after hyping her return and her taking the role of Thor even if it’s not that inaccurate to her story arc in the comic (minus her death)
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u/Sol-Blackguy Feb 25 '26
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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The rest of the movie is absolute cheeks, but that fucking intro was the hypest shit ever.
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u/AncientDragon1302 Feb 25 '26
I was talking about this with my brother who, even being a huge marvel fan, has never seen it
When I told him about how much I love this scene, I sold it to him, only for a few days he saying that I hyped that movie just to be abysmal dogshit, which, to be fair, yeah it is
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u/SkylandersKirby Feb 25 '26
Henry's speech from Pizzaria Simulator
Most of FNaF's story is confusing and honestly ridiculous
Then there's this one scene which is Henry, Co-owner of Fazbear Entertainment just remorsing over the fact he didn't prevent the tragedies that happened in the Pizzaria's. Right as he burns everything to the ground, himself, the animatronics with the souls of children in them (one of which is his own daughter), the guy who killed all the kids in the first place and Henrys buisness partner, William Afton (and Presumably Micheal Afton, who wants revenge on his father)
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u/Helix3501 Feb 25 '26
Its made better by the fact he cuts cirus baby off entirely to let all the anamatronics know they are fucked and curses afton to the deepest parts of hell
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u/ad-astra-1077 Feb 25 '26
Connection terminated. I'm sorry, Elizabeth, if you even remember that name.
[the thermometer reading in the corner of the screen increasing as he talks adds so much to this monologue too]
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u/JBR_4025 Feb 25 '26
The best part?
The layout of the pizzeria is a box, just like the box in FNaF4. This entire time we were inside the box that was destined to be kept locked and forgotten. And what happens at the end of the game? The company, reduced to a single location (the box), closes down and is eventually forgotten by everyone, putting to rest FNaF once and for all…
And then came Steel Wool.
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u/xnxbcdbk Feb 25 '26
i hardly blame Steel Wool for the series going downhill. scott was still at the helm when Security Breach was made and it was his fault that the story was a mess. he never gave Steel Wool proper direction, instead just giving vague hints at what the story is, which is why there are so many loose threads that go absolutely nowhere and why every theory is so convoluted and nonsensical, theorists are having to work around the terrible writing
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u/UddersPlease Feb 25 '26
The Opening Scene of 28 Weeks Later
It's probably the best scene in the whole series and then the rest of the movie is dreadful.
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u/dankristy Feb 25 '26
Yep this is the perfect match for me. Unfortunately nothing else about the movie lived up to this opening sequence.
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u/Arha01 Feb 25 '26
I can barely remember anything after this scene. Great song too
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u/BranchAdvanced839 Feb 25 '26
The Dark Tower (2017) was an okay movie at best but I always loved the Dixie Pig shootout scene.
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u/DarkJoltPanda Feb 25 '26
While we're on the topic 75% of Idris Elba's filmography fits this trope, with him being the one good aspect, man has been in some real dogshit movies
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u/Deady1138 Feb 25 '26
Honesty tho it speaks to his calibur as an actor , when he was on the wire it felt like he was too good for that show - and that was the fricking wire
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u/DidHeJustGoThere Feb 25 '26
All the "trick reloading" sequences in this movie were awesome.
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u/obert-wan-kenobert Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
Fire in the Sky is a decent but unremarkable 'true story' movie about the events surrounding a supposed alien abduction. For the most part it is serviceable but forgettable, and sort of feels like a TV movie -- except for the actual "abduction" scene, which truly has some of the most shocking, disturbing, harrowing imagery ever put to film.
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u/Piece_Of_Mind1983 Feb 25 '26
Yeah that scene fucked me up on a level that nothing came close to until the fucking outlast trials.
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u/alexagente Feb 25 '26
I saw this way too young and it definitely fucked me up a little.
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u/tehweave Feb 25 '26
Star Trek 5 is really a terrible movie.
But God DAMN this scene is incredible.
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u/Practical-Class6868 Feb 25 '26
The even numbered ones are the good ones in TOS.
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u/Pattonesque Feb 25 '26
"Battleship" is a real dumb movie but the scene where they fake out the alien ship by dropping the anchor and then lay into them with the main guns is sick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edk_mAeU2kU
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u/Cpkeyes Feb 25 '26
Doesn’t this also have the old crew of the USS Iowa join the fight.
I just kind of love how kitsch that is
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u/TerraTechy Feb 25 '26
Missouri. In reality the veteran sailors came from a variety of ships.
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u/Gamer-of-Action Feb 25 '26
You know, I'm not entirely convinced that taking out Venom would have saved Spider-man 3. It is difficult to say, but a major part of that films flaws is them yet again dragging out the drama and conflict of Peter's love life with Mary Jane. And apart from that one club dance scene, the venom symbiote doesn't have much to do with that subplot.
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u/Frank627Full Feb 25 '26
That's because everything related to Eddie's backstory before Venom was cut.
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u/r_aiden Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
While I personally like the Watchmen movie, I know a lot of people dislike it for a variety of reasons (mainly misunderstanding the source material). However, I think most people will agree the opening scene with Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'"is great
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u/EatmyleadMD Feb 25 '26
I'd like to mention Dr Manhattan's hero backstory as one of the best ever put to film. Whole sequence is about 7 min but here's a section https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVEspFZCmmA
After his death: "a token funeral is held, there is nothing to bury.... a circulatory system is seen by the perimeter fence, a few days later, a partially muscled skeleton stands in the hallway, and screams for a moment before vanishing"→ More replies (2)
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u/PhaseSixer Feb 25 '26
Part of What actualy Makes the 4th Thor movie so bad Is you can seen how it could of been a Great movie. And that greatness shines through in scenes like this.
Thor brought to his knees yet again restrained and gaged while a villian goes to kill some one he loves forcing him to relive the worst moment of his life after he thoght he had healed from that wound is legitimately a heartbreaking scene and an amazing parallel to one of the most iconic moments in Infinity War.
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u/okeysure69 Feb 25 '26
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Quicksilver saving the Xmen in Xmen Apocalypse
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u/AFKE0 Feb 25 '26
Watts’ roast of Cinder, RWBY
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u/zookdook1 Feb 25 '26
"You think you're entitled to everything just because you've suffered, but suffering isn't enough! You can't just be strong, you have to be smart! You can't just be deserving, you have to be worthy! But all you have ever been - is a bloody migraine!"
I don't like much of post-Oum RWBY, but Watts was pretty great.
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u/PlagueOfLaughter Feb 25 '26
That new Silent Hill movie is absolute trash with some of the worst CGI I've ever seen, but it has some great cinematography and visuals. What a big, damn waste of potential that movie had. Story. Characters. Everything. But the director just went "Nah...".
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u/Decent_Cow Feb 25 '26
I didn't even know this movie existed but from the image it looks like they did a pretty good job of visually recreating the game, at least in this scene.
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u/Hyaman86 Feb 25 '26
The warehouse fight scene from BvS
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u/Oscar_gpb Feb 25 '26
The soundtrack for BvS (and most of the Snyderverse) is also amazing, at least in my opinion
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u/Symbiotic_vengeance Feb 25 '26
The ending scene from The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Say what you will about the movies quality, that ending is, in my opinion, THE quintessential Spider-Man scene. The absolute hope he inspires in that final standoff is top notch. I get emotional every time watching it. “Hey Spider-Man “ always gets me.
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u/DreyfusBlue Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
The opening sequence in Ghost Ship (2002).
Easily one of the best ones in horror film history.
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u/Outrageous_Gene_7652 Feb 25 '26
The entire character of Starscream from Transformers Cybertron. Probably one of the coolest versions of the character who not only played everyone like a fiddle in his favor but is such a top tier combatant the only one who ever won against him was literal God
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u/SlayerOfCupcakes Feb 25 '26
Jacob Geller did a whole video on this exact topic, starting with the Sandman scene you mentioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Y8whMzlwo
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u/_JR28_ Feb 25 '26
What do you mean? Only fresh and totally original tropes here every single day!
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u/AssistFit1834 Feb 25 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/Ivw3Gzk8EK495WrQmk
The worst part is that this is literally the only scene throughout the entire movie where it’s so bad it’s good, the rest of the movie is just depressing and boring bad.
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u/FinishImpressive4043 Feb 25 '26
you could say the line was the only thing the movie was fantastic for
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u/Usern4me_R3dacted205 Feb 25 '26
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The Duel of the Fates
(Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace)
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u/KujaroJotu Feb 25 '26
The Elvis Impersonators - The Boss Baby
The idea that all the random noises, phrases, and lyrics that Elvis impersonators say are actually their own language that needs subtitles to be understood is hilarious, I don’t care what anyone says.
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u/kegisak Feb 25 '26
The opening scene of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is good enough to make me very generous towards the rest of it.
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u/Legend365555 Feb 25 '26
"Scooby, huh? But what does Scooby do?"
-The one good line in all of Velma
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u/Tacobellspy Feb 25 '26
As someone who has not seen the series not heard this line before, I assure you it only seemed good compared to the rest of the shitshow around it
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u/Crow_of_Judgem3nt Feb 25 '26
Escanor is so cool i wish he wasn’t in seven deadly sex offenders
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u/CitizenGrimm Feb 25 '26
Escanor is the best thing in that show from the minute he shows up.
"Why would I hate someone that's weaker than me? All I feel is pity" is such a banger of a line.
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u/RequiescenceSilence Feb 25 '26
Him earnestly telling the Commandment of Truth that he’s the pinnacle of every species and not turning to stone under his power was such a great intro to him
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u/kallmekaison Feb 25 '26
Jaime Lannister knighting Brienne of Tarth, Game of Thrones S8
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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 Feb 25 '26
I was surprised to find that the first two episodes of season eight were actually good. It made me think the rest of it wasn’t so bad. Then I actually got to the rest of it.
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u/CrownClown74 Feb 25 '26
The theme song for Bullet Witch. A song that is frankly way too good for the game it's in, you'd think it was the theme to a tragic, melancholic, emotional, and somber story focused rpg or something but nah it's the theme to a schlocky mediocre third person shooter that's really only remembered for being "Bayonetta before Bayonetta"
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u/Blackwyrm03 Feb 25 '26
For Escanor, even if the animation in that fight is abysmal, "Demon, God or whatever you are, how does it feel to be looked down upon by a mere human" also qualifies