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Do you ever feel bad about the poor bastards in films that get killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Well, do you?

  • Nah, nothing of value is lost.

    Votes: 25 12.4%

  • Yeah, that could have been me.

    Votes: 133 66.2%

  • Are you seriously asking that?

    Votes: 43 21.4%
  • Total voters
    201
FernandoRocker

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I'm doing my annual rewatch of Terminator 2, and I always feel for the poor bastard in the hallway with the can of Pepsi.

Poor guy. He never knew it was going to be his last day on this Earth... He probably rolled out of bed, putting on his new pair of Bugle Boy jeans, his suspenders, and driving to work in a car that he was still paying. He was just doing this job... repairing a light fixture here, lose a few cents in a vending machine there. Never did he think that he would be put smack dab in the middle of a gunfight between two robots.

I'm gonna drink a Pepsi in your honor today, Mr. Handyman.

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the thing about that dude is for some reason he jumps right into the line of fire instead of idk ducking and covering or something. Never understood why he'd move away from the wall into the middle of the corridor into the gunfire.
 
DrArchon

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"Woman that gets torn apart in Jurassic World: The Thread"

Seriously, what the fuck was up with that?
 
808s & Villainy

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I think I felt worse about that secretary in Jurassic World. She had a crazy death for someone who just didn't like kids
 
WedgeX

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The Austin Powers outtakes actually did a great job of humanizing the people who get got during action scenes.
 
Grouch Douglass

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Oh man, this thread is Pulp Fiction for me. I always laugh when this innocent bystander gets shot trying to help Marcellus Wallace.

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BennyWhatever

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I just watched Captain America: Civil War last night, and I feel like it addressed this very well. Lots of innocents are taken in some movies that just got really unlucky.
 
Based0ne

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Would the security guard at the mental institution where Sarah Connor was locked up in T2 count? Poor dude thought it was his lucky day but boy was he wrong.

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mrmoose

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I always feel bad when the nice guy gets killed. Like the guy who stopped to help or was otherwise being a good samaritan, and I always wondered what kind of message that sent (don't get involved, basically).
 
grang

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Yeah there's a particularly cruel instance of this in Dragged Across Concrete

A new mother has been putting off going back to work due to intense separation anxiety, her husband finally convinces her it's alright and to go. She works at a bank that ends up getting robbed that day, she is trying to comply and tries to stop a coworker from hitting the silent alarm button, but they think it was her and execute her.

She's played by Jennifer Carpenter too (Deb from Dexter, Quarantine, etc) so it seemed like they were introducing another main character. Nope, just brought her in to kill her.
 

VAD

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I remember being upset at random highschoolers in a house party getting killed by vampires in a Buffy episode. They just wanted to have fun and drink disgusting beer!
 
JangleLuke

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Kaori in AKIRA will always be the most infamous example for me.

How she barely has any plot relevance and gets crushed into a pulp in the finale leaves a really bad taste in my mouth

At the very least she does have more time in the limelight in the manga, but I have yet to read it, so yeah, shit sucks.
 
BlackFyre

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Dishwalla said:
the thing about that dude is for some reason he jumps right into the line of fire instead of idk ducking and covering or something. Never understood why he'd move away from the wall into the middle of the corridor into the gunfire.
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This is actually not uncommon. It's a personality trait. It's the same reason some people scream and get scared while others stay level headed and alert during a robbery.

You mind can make you think that if you put yourself in the line of fire, you're announcing that you're no threat and they would stop shooting as they have no reason to kill you.
 

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People always talk about Claire in Jurassic World but Eddie in TLW got ripped apart by two T. rex to save the idiot main characters. At least Malcolm acknowledges the sacrifice but it never should have happened and Julianne Moore directly leads to the death of dozens of people by being an absolute moron.
 
Tetra-Grammaton-Cleric

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I was watching Deadpool 2 yesterday and that scene where Domino (who I love) drops down onto the street and her 'luck' causes a Prius to crash into fuel pumps and explode, causing a beneficial chain of events.

Yeah, that Prius driver is dead.
 

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Can't find an image, but when the bombs go off in Inglourious Basterds, a cyclist gets blown the fuck away as they're passing by the theater. Dunno if they died, but it's highly probable.

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she is not a random bastard tho
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To be fair, I think she could be said to be on the level of random bastard for the fact that she died because of things entirely out of her control and her death was particularly cruel and unusual
 
pillowtalk

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Yes. I usually pay attention to background characters and notice the fucked up things happening to them.
 
Christor

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Dat poor cyclist passing by a theater full of Nazis getting blown off his bike in Inglorious Basterds
 
cognizant

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First thing that came to my mind is the innocent people who get taken over by agents in The Matrix. Like the dude who gets his phone swiped by Neo during the climax of the movie. Every agent shot dead is a random human. Fucked up!
 
Chopchop

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This is why I don't really feel any draw for any sort of "what if you were in a movie world" isekai sort of thing. I'd definitely be some poor bystander who gets killed to make a point about another character.

I feel this way a lot about the One Punch Man world. Cities get wiped out on a regular basis in that series.
cognizant said:
First thing that came to my mind is the innocent people who get taken over by agents in The Matrix. Like the dude who gets his phone swiped by Neo during the climax of the movie. Every agent shot dead is a random human. Fucked up!
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The Matrix world is generally pretty fucked up. It's not just the agents. All those guards that Neo and Trinity killed in that lobby were just doing their jobs. Same goes for the cops that Trinity killed in the opening sequence.

I think Morpheus mentions this halfway through the movie. He does mention that people still in the Matrix will defend it and its rules because they just don't know any better, and that operatives hacking into the Matrix have to fight and kill these people if necessary. Doesn't make it right, but that's what they have to do sometimes.
 
Croc Man

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TV but The Americans made a huge point of highlighting various randoms killed for the cause.
 
Heshinsi

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Colin Trevorrows rampant misogyny is what was up with that. It's sadistic in a way that in no way fits the tone of the rest of the movie.
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I'm still perplexed how in a scene where there are dozens if not hundreds of small children, the flying reptiles are able to only pick up that one character. That whole sequence is so off. Then the main villain is killed off screen in seconds.
 
Kmonk

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FernandoRocker said:
I'm doing my annual rewatch of Terminator 2, and I always feel for the poor bastard in the hallway with the can of Pepsi.

Poor guy. He never knew it was going to be his last day on this Earth... He probably rolled out of bed, putting on his new pair of Bugle Boy jeans, his suspenders, and driving to work in a car that he was still paying. He was just doing this job... repairing a light fixture here, lose a few cents in a vending machine there. Never did he think that he would be put smack dab in the middle of a gunfight between two robots.

I'm gonna drink a Pepsi in your honor today, Mr. Handyman.

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Way worse than this is the dude that Arnold uses as a human shield on the escalator in Total Recall.

The guy could not be more oblivious as he heads to Mervyn's or whatever, when a gunfight breaks out. After he takes a bullet in the crossfire, Arnold holds the man up in front of himself to adsorb more enemy fire.

Then when more gunmen come from the opposite direction, Arnold pivots the body to take more rounds, before throwing it at the gunmen!!

Truly a bad day to be a mall shopper.

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zma1013

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I always wondered if anyone was in any of those parked cars Batman blew up as he was chasing the Joker in The Dark Knight. Like, imagine a dude who got drunk at a bar and decided to pass out in the backseat of his car because he didn't want to drink and drive and Batman just rolls through and explodes him.
 
Aranjah

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I haven't seen Jurassic World, but I'm still sad about that dog in The Lost World. Poor dog, and poor family who lost their pet. :(
 
GMT Master

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Nah.
Kmonk said:
Way worse than this is the dude that Arnold uses as a human shield on the escalator in Total Recall.

The guy could not be more oblivious as he heads to Mervyn's or whatever, when a gunfight breaks out. After he takes a bullet in the crossfire, Arnold holds the man up in front of himself to adsorb more enemy fire.

Then when more gunmen come from the opposite direction, Arnold pivots the body to take more rounds, before throwing it at the gunmen!!

Truly a bad day to be a mall shopper.

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This is graphic? jfc
 

Zache

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Imagine how many innocents were killed by the "heroes" during the climax of Fast Five
 
W-00

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I generally cheer for minor, obviously fodder characters to survive. So yeah, it bugs me when people with even less connection to the plot are just randomly killed.
 
Percival Sparkletrout

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Ever see Dark Soldier D? It's a short live action tokusatsu series from Japan that was released direct to video in the early 2000s. It's about an amoral drunken asshole mercenary who stole a power armor from the Soviets and uses it fight monsters. The series is known for its gratuitous violence and the fact that every single character in it is an irredeemable piece of shit. Anyway, the main character happens to not care about collateral damage during his fights. In at least one instance while fighting a monster with an anti-material rifle, a stray shot is shown to penetrate the ground and blow the head off a random mother holding her kid's hand on a subway platform. I should note that isn't an exaggeration. The mother's head is shown exploding in extreme detail. It's pretty fucked up and disturbing, especially since that's not the only bystander that gets gunned down or eaten over the course of the series.
 
Siggy-P

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Kmonk said:
Way worse than this is the dude that Arnold uses as a human shield on the escalator in Total Recall.

The guy could not be more oblivious as he heads to Mervyn's or whatever, when a gunfight breaks out. After he takes a bullet in the crossfire, Arnold holds the man up in front of himself to adsorb more enemy fire.

Then when more gunmen come from the opposite direction, Arnold pivots the body to take more rounds, before throwing it at the gunmen!!

Truly a bad day to be a mall shopper.

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That's bad but to be fair the guy was shot and fell back onto him first, then he started using him as a shield.
 
IDreamOfHime

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That poor lady in Jurassic World that's killed in the most horrid way always rubs me the wrong way.
 
ThereAre4Lights

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Fringe or The X-Files - some poor bystander always get killed horribly in the first five minutes. Death by bees or exploding heads, some nasty thing or another. I feel bad for about 20 or so minutes!
 
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