"I did it 35 minutes ago" is the coldest line in all of comics.

You missed one of the best ones which is Deadpool 2. they built up X force throughout the lead up to the movie, and then basically killed them all off for a joke. They trashed one of the biggest comic book tropes ever, and it was the best part of the movie.

Watchmen part is very good because Veidt waited till after he'd already won to explain his plan.

I gotta push back hard on your description of easily-shattered glass tables as “unrealistic” there’s more than enough youtube videos out there of large rambunctious housepets and people horsing around instantly turning their heavy glass tabletops into a cloud of tiny razor-sharp glass fragments. It is definitely the resilience of that glass table in Game Night that’s completely unrealistic.

Surprised not to see Steven Seagal's early death in Executive Decision on here

Last American Virgin ending is so spot on and such a gut punch.

A friend of mine once fell off a chair and only slightly leaned against our glass table, and still it shattered... don't believe what Hollywood says folks😂

Mrs. Doubtfire ending was perfect. I'm so glad they spoke up and changed the ending. It was still a happy ending but showed that happy endings come in many different types and not just what we may think they are.

Missed The Fifth Element protagonist and antagonist never meeting.

Just pointing out that David Morse is one of the best character actors out there and has been severely underrated his whole career despite it being long and fruitful. First time I remember seeing him was in Six Against the Rock because I wasn't really into St. Elsewhere at that point. He has elevated everything I've seen him in ever since.

That coffee table one has to be a joke in the movie. I broke my mother's coffee table in a fight with my brother when we were in our early teens (thankfully no one was hurt), and it definitely didn't take much to shatter it. Then there's my neighbor, who's wife just leaned on their coffee table when picking up something from the floor, and she went right through it, slicing her back open like a hot knife through butter! She actually needed over a hundred stitches. So I wouldn't recommend trying anything too wild around one. Glass is very, very sharp when it breaks, and coffee tables don't shatter in to little crumbs like car windows do.

When the parents didn't get back together at the end of Ms. Doubtfire, that was extremely cathartic for me as a kid going through his parent's divorce. I was able to understand that these were two distinct people, not "my parents", they had individual needs that weren't getting met by the other, and that they shouldn't be together.

The Last American Virgin was my first glimpse about being heart broken.

11 Sean Bean survives Silent Hill. He dies in every movie, but not on the obvious one.

The Last American Virgin's ending in my opinion should've done the cliche ending, because ironically the twist ending made it a forgotten teen comedy

Falling Down - that film basically took the "populist vigilante" trope and folded it into origami.

In line with The Other Guys, in 21 (22?) Jumpstreet when they have that high speed pursuit on the freeway and keep thinking gas tankers are gonna blow up but nothing happens until it's a chicken truck that turns into a giant fireball. Because glass tables do break but usually when hit on the side rather than on top

Blue Ruin is such an underdog of a revenge film!! One of my stand out surprises - such a raw and real take on a lay person trying to take on power!

The Hurt Locker was the best example of explosions hurt a lot.

Thank you SO MUCH for mentioning Blue Ruin. That is a phenomenal movie!

"That K isn't the special one." I hate you for that pun while loving you for it at the same time

Did you say the child of Deckard and Rachael is a human-replicant hybrid?! Thems are fighting words…

9:50 Upgrade is extremely underrated!

I think in watchmen people prefer the Squid because is the original story... but the movie ending makes much more sense

The giant squid was stupid and comic booky, and I much preferred the movie ending. After all, what’s scarier than making your own god, and that god judging you wanting.

I've *always* taken delight in when actors typecast as villains get to flip the script, and I hadn't seen the David Morse flip in so long I'd forgotten about the film - but it was soooooo good, thanks for the reminder 😆

At least Wolverine walking away from an explosion makes sense.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Misourey should have been this list.

Also, The 5th Element where the main human antagonist and the protagonist never even meet.

Shutter island? Instead of moving on he just chooses not to.

imagine having an entire crossbow in your leg.... :)

Blue Ruin is one of the most surprisingly brilliant movies I seen over the last few years. Great film!

Best Friend's Wedding - girl doesn't get guy Frailty - I won't spoil this one if you haven't seen it... please watch it! =)

That shattering table siund effect was spot on, Ewan.

Great analysis - loved it.

Are we not going to talk about the brilliance of *The Fifth Element* ? Not only did the good guy *not* confront the bad guy at the end, they didn't even know of each others existence.

No. 9 Lots of films where the “cavalry”was gunned down. Almost as common as “cavalry” saving the day. No. 3 Had a glass coffee table for 20+ years. It recently shattered after dropping the table by 3cm or so while moving it.

5 of these movies are in my top25 all time. I absolutely love having my expectations subverted

This whole list could be just Coen Brothers endings if y’all wanted it to be

This is a great list and great video! And I agree, particularly with the movie *Collateral.* Even though I saw it years ago when it first came out and remembered most of the movie, I randomly watched it again a couple weeks ago and was Shocked when Mark Ruffalo's character was shot. It really does defy the trope expectation.

Ill never forget how they portrayed Jason Stathom's character in Spy

I can personally vouch for how easily glass tables break.

I think 'The Departed' had a great twist toward the end...

I love Collateral, but I never once thought that Fanning would be around long and that Max would be on his own against Vincent. It's still brilliant, though...I haven't finished the video yet, and I'm hoping Falling Down makes your list - Michael Douglas' character arc is definitely deserving of it.

I wanted Francis X. Hummel from The Rock to be here. I like when villains, like the mentioned Ozymandias, avoid being cliches.Maybe that'd make for a good list, no? throw some Magneto just for kicks.

"Deckerd had a girl..." HEART BROKEN

Harrison Ford's gotten more belated sequels 😅😂😂

Maybe glass tables have improved since the late 1970s. My mother dropped me on one as a baby and it shattered and I still have a scar.

Glass tables shatter all the time. Ours exploded when wind blew the umbrella pole against the hole slightly too hard

Watchmen was so underrated

I think it's kind of ironic that David Morse has carved out a career playing villains in recent years, since the first role I remember him in was Dr 'Boomer' in the tv hospital drama 'St. Elewhere,' where he was a soft-hearted, caring doctor who life always seemed to crap on. I remember him more for that role - and maybe the asshole he played in 'house MD'...

Could have included psycho on this list. Were led to believe that the story is going to be following Marion only to have her murdered in one of the most iconic scenes in movie history.

Uncut Gems. The protagonist is murdered and doesn't get to reap the reward of all the risks he took to get it.

Mrs Doubtfire is one of those movies that is fun. If you don't actually pay attention to what's going on

I have seen many girls go back to the wrong guy, the bad boy, the worse/worst option. That ending of _The Last American Virgin_ is very real. It happens all the time. It's very simple, sad, and outrageous: doormats get walked on.

I’ve never seen the last American Virgin but demo thing extremely similar happened to me. I was getting close to a girl after a guy dumped her. Went to her birthday and surprise they got back together. Fast forward to the future he dumped her again and I moved on

Anyone opposite Kevin Spacey looks like a good guy now

Ozymandias claiming he's not a comic book villain when he literally is. Its like the opposite of 4th wll breaking

the "squid" in the Watchman comic is a take on Staro

David Morse is such an underappreciated genius.

The Best Friend Isn't a Complete Douchebag It Came From The Desert great movie I want more even a TV series Animated or not I loved that movie

Glass tables don't break in Game Night, but the front undercarriage leg of an Executive Jet does. Yeah... but No. Those things are built to take a 15 ton aircraft landing at probably 200 mph but a soccer mom van can knock it clean off. Yah. Sure.

Fight clubs twist is all time. The whole film you think they are a team that created a cult. Then to learn that the narrator has a split personality. It was the first of its kind to do that well. Multiple personality twists all started there. Fight club and primal fear. Which is another great twist ending.

You missed the part in Wonder Woman where... Oh wait, that was totally cliche. I forget, why did everyone think this was the bestest movie ever?

Arlington Road tops this list easily

Another interesting thing in Watchmen was getting to know that comic book street seller and the dude reading a comic series only to have them be casualties of that plan

I'm not surprised that they didn't get back together in Mrs. Doubtfire. I rewatched it recently and it really hits different as an adult. He's insane and she was right to divorce him. And even when he's grown a little, he still proves he was a terrible husband with the small detail he didn't know when her birthday was, even after a decade or more of marriage.

Another was The World According to Garp… I was messed up for months. lol

I also liked the clichee killer at the end off Pacific Rim, where the two main charcters didn´t kiss at the end when the "we won" scene happens.

No! Watchmen the movie ending is far better than the original squid ending, with Dr Manhattan framed for the crime.

Alliteration: the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllable

Sergio Corbucci's "The Great Silence" is another example, you think is another western where the young hero gonna defy the odds just because he is a good gunslinger, but in the end is tricked and the villains gun him down.

Departed manages to break a trope by actually following a trope. Leonardo decaprios character dies. Trope He was built up as the hero. So the hero looses, and the side character ends up killing the badguy.

It is rumored to be an NC-17 version of Mrs Doubtfire flouting around, and I it released

One of my favorites is in Terminator 3, when the bombs actually fall for Judgement Day. It's not a great movie, especially compared to the first two, but the end actually being Judgement Day is a nice change.

4:08 thats wolverine tho, he gets a pass

Blue ruin shout out?? Nice

I feel like the movie Death Sentence with Kevin Bacon could also be switched out with Blue Ruin both are VERY similar movies and both are pretty good flicks

Sean Hayes' 1998 gay rom-ish/com-ish _Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss_ also gets great mileage out of subverting its genre-standard fairy tale ending. Instead, it closes on a wistful note: Billy comes to term with his summer fling being just that, and nothing more, as he closes out the film still single, but in a better place with himself.

the explosion that hurts in THE OTHER GUYS is rather stressed as being not like usual cinema explosions, so it's not quite as clever as other examples here

Lol naw in reality some glass is strong and some isnt ive definitely seen lots of glass tables being broken with less force than a person being thrown through it in real life

I literally saw a guy right in front of me fall through a glass table. Was not a pretty sight. So yeah glass tables do break.

about time the Negotiator made it onto a WhatCulture list lmao.

Another cool thing about ozymandias was hownthe heroes got their asses handed to them.

You forgot when Charlton Heston loses the chariot race in BEN HUR. Um….

Glass tables are usually made of tempered glass. It will not shatter like suger-glass but it can break.

Scream. They make a point of calling out and joking about cliches like virginity means you are safe only for the girl who just lost her virginity to say not in my movie and kill the Ghostfaces.

K in Blade Runner 2049 is twin god with Ana Stelline. K is the destroyer, Ana is the creator. K and Ana is the metaphor of the Soul and Spirit. the Soul is perishable, and will be destroyed.

Oops, said the quiet part out loud that Deckard was always human, lol

You wanna talk about movies that subvert expectations you need to talk about the "Feast" trilogy. Gorie horror movies yes but full of unexpected twists

I had glass tables and they infact break if a guy is slammed or shaved on them.

You guys really like to hear yourselves talk.

10:10 the word is 'sturdier'.

How did you not put The Vanishing on here?! Of course I’m talking about the 1988 film.

Neflix's "Ripley" makes fun of the cliche of murdering and getting rid of bodies as "easy." Ripley has a hell of a time both killing people and then getting rid of thier bodies. True to life. Not that I know from experience.

Sicario was also good at fooling the audience into who actually was the protagonist of the movie. We think it’s the female FBI agent as the story starts with her and remains with her until the 3 acts. Then we find out the real protagonist is the Sicario she had been working with all along.

huge watchmen fan, the squid never made any sense, the movie ending was objectively better, also the squid would have still frames Manhattan and caused continued weapons proliferation.

Wait, I thought Chigurh never got the money at the end, but kept his promise and killed the wife...

Chigur almost gets taken down when he has a car accident leaving the scene of his final crime of the movie. But some boys help him in his moment of need. Good is hopelessly overpowered by evil in that story.

#6 that's what would actually happen IRL