Line #47 YMMV/HowItShouldHaveEnded


1	* {{Adorkable}}: Superman absolutely geeks out about the trailer for ''Film/TheLastJedi'' and throws tons of questions and theories at an apathetic Batman. He later "fangirls" when meets a real [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]].
2	* AntiClimaxBoss: After being built up as a major villain and nemesis to the Justice League, [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Martha]]]] is [[CurbStompBattle swiftly taken out]] by Superman via NeckSnap.
3	* AssPull:
4	** ''[[Series/{{MightyMorphinPowerRangers}} The Power Rangers]]'' and ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' showing up out of nowhere to back up Beckett and Mako in ''How Pacific Rim Should Have Ended''.
5	** Batman [[spoiler:surviving the Earth becoming crushed]] in ''How The Avengers: Age of Ultron Should Have Ended'', and [[spoiler:shrinking]] in ''How Ant-Man Should Have Ended'', with literally no explanation other than, "Because I'm Batman!" Of course, [[LampshadeHanging Superman already has this reaction]], and it's [[RuleOfFunny completely on purpose]].
6	** Likewise surviving [[spoiler:Thanos' snap]] in ''How Ant-Man and The Wasp Should Have Ended'', just by the sheer awesomeness of being Batman.
7	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Either HISHE's Batman is awesomeness personified or an obnoxious braggart with a stale catchphrase.
8	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
9	** One of the endings to ''Film/{{Logan}}'' is a musical number showing the titular character joining the rest of the X-Men in the afterlife. Even the end credits acknowledged how odd it was.
10	** One of the endings to ''Film/SpiderMan1'' has Aunt May shooting the Green Goblin with two guns. It's not even explained how Aunt May has those guns in the first place aside from a mention of Ben telling her to defend herself.
11	* BrokenBase:
12	** "Because I'm Batman!" is either still absolutely funny after all these years, or it has gone on for too long, and become an annoyance. It's even lampshaded by Superman, who has become increasingly exasperated by the gag, and Batman, who doesn't seem to understand why. The fact you can see it coming also impacts which side you fall on.
13	** The episode they did for ''Film/{{Logan}}''. Some consider it a well-done, touching tribute to the film and Creator/HughJackman's career as Wolverine while others felt the whole ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' parody was a BigLippedAlligatorMoment and the episode didn't have enough humor. Then there are those who felt the [[spoiler:Deadpool cameo]] was either the best part of the video, or a random gag that ruined what was a good tribute to Creator/HughJackman's portrayal as Wolverine.
14	** The increased use of {{Actor Allusion}}s as time has gone on has become divisive with the fans. Some find them funny, but others have gotten tired of how any character played by Creator/AndySerkis is going to have a phase where they scream "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings PRECIOUS]]" or even appear physically as Gollum himself, or how entire chunks of videos are taken up by actor references (such as Vader and Krennic referencing a similar scene in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' during their ''Rogue One'' video, or basically ''half'' of ''It: Chapter Two'').
15	* CatharsisFactor:
16	** Seeing Thanos getting utterly humiliated by HISHE is utterly delightful for MCU fans after he killed off many fan-favorite heroes [[spoiler:along with half of the universe]] in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.
17	** By the same token seeing Mysterio taken out, [[spoiler:as well as exposed thanks to Peter showing the holograms with the water hose as well as EDITH revealing his identity to him when he was about to hand the glasses to him]] is satisfying after he [[spoiler:framed Peter for his crimes as well as set himself up to be seen as a hero after his death]] in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome.''
18	** After ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' has [[spoiler:the Green Goblin killing the MCU version of Aunt May,]] having the Sam Raimi's ''Film/SpiderMan1'' video for this show showcase [[spoiler: [[AlternateSelf this film's version of Aunt May]] shooting down the Green Goblin]] becomes very satisfying to watch.
19	** General Zod punching the [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3 High Evolutionary]] is nothing but satisfying after all that he did in said movie.
20	* CrossesTheLineTwice:
21	** Mowgli getting eaten shouldn't be funny. It then gets funny when everyone tells Bagheera that he murdered a child while singing about how wolves eat babies.
22	** Vanessa in ''Film/Deadpool2016'' getting killed by getting crushed. Darkly funny. Vanessa gets crushed by ''every piece of rubble from the explosion.'' HYSTERICAL.
23	** The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actually using their weapons to murder Krang is morally questionable. But when Michelangelo suddenly '''whips out a random pistol out of nowhere and unloads all of its bullets''' into Krang, that's when it's hilarious.
24	** Having ComicBook/{{Mephisto}} hanging out with Wanda's children from ''Series/WandaVision'' as he sings about wanting to have children's souls could definitely qualify as this. Compounded with Superman and Monica's cringing reaction to this.
25	** The ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' video changes the scene where [[spoiler:the Amazing Spider-Man redeems himself by saving a falling MJ. While he does catch her mid-air, her head hits the floor as soon as he lands. What should be a genuinely shocking and sad scene is made hilarious by the Amazing Spider-Man whining about [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 how he's bad at this]]]].
26	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
27	** Unsurprisingly, Wonder Woman is wildly popular due to being the OnlySaneMan and her happiness at getting to attend the Cafe. At least a few fans found themselves just as attracted to her HISHE counterpart as her film counterpart, and then there's her {{Adorkable}} dancing. Some fans are even clamoring for her to join Batman and Superman as a regular.
28	** The "Here's A Bright Idea" guy from the Spider-Man parodies is deemed a MemeticBadass for showing up to [[StatingTheSimpleSolution state the simple solution]] to the heroes problems, saving them from a ton of trouble later on.
29	* EsotericHappyEnding: One of the endings in ''How Captain America: Civil War Should Have Ended'' has the fight with Iron Man against Captain America and Bucky averted, and the ending plays things as though everything is happy and Zemo's plans are thwarted. This completely ignores that the heroes who sided with Captain America are still fugitives just like in the movie.
30	* HarsherInHindsight:
31	** In their ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' spoof, the scene where [[spoiler: Luke pops up before Kylo can kill Han and skewers him]] becomes somewhat cringeworthy after ''Film/TheLastJedi'' came out, where we learn that [[spoiler: Luke almost did this in ''canon'' because he feared the darkness within a young Ben, and this resulted in Kylo's rise to power.]]
32	** All of Batman's jabs at Superman for killing in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' comes back to bite him after ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', where Batman was shown to have zero problems with using lethal force to defeat his enemies. The "How ''Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'' Should Have Ended" episode had Deadpool lampshade this and gives Batman an IronicEcho about him killing his enemies after Batman stated to Deadpool that killing your enemies is wrong in "How ''Film/Deadpool2016'' Should Have Ended."
33	** In ''How the Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer Should Have Ended'', Ultron terrifyingly quoting Disney films prompts Black Widow to exclaim "You're ruining my childhood". ''Series/AgentCarter'' revealed the Black Widow program used Disney films to teach the girls English, mixed with subliminal messages.
34	** In ''Return of the Jedi'', during the Rebel Briefing scene, one of the rebel soldiers bitterly comments that "all we rebels ever do is die to accomplish things...except for the A-Team (the saga's heroes) over there". Come ''Film/RogueOne'', a story about a group of rebel soldiers who would've been nothing more than side characters in the main films, [[spoiler: who all died in a grueling battle to steal the Death Star's plan, and the only people who survived are the major characters who are guaranteed to make it to other films, aka the 'A-Team' heroes.]] It crosses into HeartwarmingInHindsight as in their own take on ''Rogue One'' [[spoiler:EverybodyLives]].
35	** In ''How Doctor Strange Should Have Ended'', one of Batman's uses for the Time Stone is to save Vision when the Mind Stone gets ripped out of his forehead. In ''Infinity War'', the Time Stone is indeed used on Vision...[[spoiler:by ''Thanos'' to undo his HeroicSacrifice and restore the Mind Stone before ripping it out of his forehead.]]
36	** In ''How Justice League Should Have Ended'', Green Lantern (who now looks like Creator/ChrisPine instead of Creator/RyanReynolds) shows up when the Justice League are battling Martha at the Super Cafe, and Wonder Woman has an AlmostKiss with him because he [[ReplacementGoldfish looks like Steve Trevor]]. Fast forward to ''Film/WonderWoman1984'', where [[spoiler:Diana uses the Dreamstone to wish Steve back to life... by summoning his soul back from the heavens [[GrandTheftMe into a random man's body]], whereupon they continue their relationship in a [[DoubleStandardRapeSciFi way]] that leaves very bad implications.]]
37	** The last ending in ''How Birds of Prey Should Have Ended'' has Harley running back into the Joker's arms (The Creator/JoaquinPhoenix Joker and not the Creator/JaredLeto one). In ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', [[spoiler:Harley kills Luna once he admits that he WouldHurtAChild to avoid for falling somebody like the Joker ever again, and breaks down crying while doing so.]]
38	** ''How Captain Marvel Should Have Ended'' has Nick Fury calling for Captain Marvel to deal with Loki [[Film/TheAvengers2012 in the first Avengers movie]]. Come to Episode Three of ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'', [[spoiler:Fury does exactly that...after all of the initial Avengers (except for Steve) got killed by an evil version of Hank Pym.]]
39	** The main RunningGag of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L8b1zPE0-Y "Empire Strike Back"]] episode is Vader finding out he has a son, and running around being happy and telling everyone. If you've read issue #6 of the canon ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader 2015 series, you know that the InternalReveal doesn't quite happen this way.
40	** In ''How The Amazing Spider-Man Should Have Ended-Bonus Scene,'' Peter responds to the Lizard's claim that Peter is all alone given his father, mother, and uncle are all dead with the fact that he still has his girlfriend and aunt. In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome,'' [[spoiler: his aunt dies while his girlfriend (as well as his best friend) forget about him]].
41	** The ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' trailer HISHE features [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora and Donald]] as among the survivors of the Snap. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', [[spoiler: it's ''Sora'' who disintegrates in a similar fashion to ''Infinity War'' at the end after saving Kairi with the power of waking.]] Ironically, once ''Endgame'' finally came out, it was also easy to compare it to [[spoiler: Iron Man's HeroicSacrifice]].
42	* HilariousInHindsight: [[HilariousInHindsight/HowItShouldHaveEnded Has its own page.]]
43	* HoYay: The Super Café segments involving Superman and Batman. Indeed, in ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' parody, [[spoiler:a deranged Spider-Man extorts Superman to turn back time to bring Gwen to life by pointing a gun to Batman's head and threatening to kill him.]]
44	* IKnewIt: Many fans accurately predicted for the HISHE ''Avengers Endgame'' episode that Batman would somehow defeat Thanos in a possible ending while saying his catchphrase.
45	* ItsShortSoItSucks: Many fans have noted that the length of the Jumanji short is rather... well... short. Most of the recent shorts tend to be 5 or 6 minutes long, while the Jumanji short is about 3 minutes long. To make matters worse, about half the video is spent on advertisement.
46	* JerkassWoobie: Voldemort might be an evil bastard, but in HISHE he gets no respect from the villains. He's often mocked by the ones like the Joker or Khan. In the ''Infinity War'' HISHE, he feels afraid of dying again in the same way he did in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2'' and clings to the Joker for comfort, [[KickTheDog only to be stabbed]] by the Joker [[ForTheEvulz just because he finds it amusing]].
47	* MagnificentBastard: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYWT5Q_R_w How Harry Potter Should Have Ended]]": [[Characters/HarryPotterSeverusSnape Severus Snape]] survives Nagini's attack by ingesting an antidote and healing his wounds. He arrives at Harry and Voldemort's duel, killing the latter with a [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim handgun]]. After explaining how he survived, he asks for Harry's invisibility cloak and Hermione's Time-Turner. [[HeroicSacrifice Acknowledging]] that he wouldn't be able to return, [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong Snape travels back in time]] to Voldemort's youth and kills the young Tom Riddle at Wool's orphanage, saving the lives of countless people in the future, and casts a spell to make his body disappear.
48	* MemeticMutation:
49	** "Here's a bright idea: Why don't you make sure that [logic that could be used to prevent problem from occurring]?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A RunningGag in the Spider-Man episodes where a scientist ensures the others don't overlook a specific detail for something.[[/labelnote]]
50	** BECAUSE I'M BATMAN [[labelnote:Explanation]]The catchphrase of HISHE's Batman, often used to mock Batman's PlotArmor and BatmanGambit tendencies in film and comics[[/labelnote]]
51	* NightmareFuel:
52	** The decimation of all the villains in the ''Infinity War'' episode still has a lot of black comedy, but with the lack of score and distressed reactions of the victims, it’s uncomfortably similar to what actually happened in the movie.
53	** The COVID-19 Villain Pub episode also has ''Palpatine'' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness of all people]] worried and frantic as the world enters quarantine due to the virus, and he hurriedly shoos all his friends and employees out for their own safety.
54	** The ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' episode notably is rather tonally consistent with its source material, accurately capturing the raw, primal terror of the original game with some jumpscares that, while toned down, are still frightening in their own right.
55	* PanderingToTheBase:
56	** People who don't like particularly divisive movies such as the early ones of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse or ''Film/TheLastJedi'' are very likely to love the show's inputs on them. To the others, it looks like it's more about purely roasting these movies than just finding funny alternate endings to them[[note]]It should be noted that Daniel Baxter actually enjoyed ''The Last Jedi'' so make what you will.[[/note]].
57	** ''How Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 should have ended'' ends with Sonic supporting cast from the games, who are [[BaseBreakingCharacter controversial]] and the target of criticism but still having a fanbase in the Sonic fanbase, helping Sonic out and HISHE not taking the piss at them.
58	* RedundantParody: Batman is constantly portrayed a a narcissistic ManChild in this show which makes parodies of his own movies very funny but becomes this in parodies of WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie in which he already acts this way.
59	* RootingForTheEmpire: Quite a few were rooting for the villains against Batman in the Boss Battle episode for Villain Pub. It helps that HISHE's Batman is an incredibly obnoxious fool most of the time, and the video specifically parodies and makes fun of his "Bat-God" CrazyPrepared reputation. The Emperor getting the best of Batman is even a moment of awesome in its own right.
60	* SeasonalRot: As the years have carried on HISHE has become increasingly less funny in the eyes of some, going from actually pointing out flawed logic in movies that could fix a lot of problems very quickly to basically removing 99% of the movie's driving forces while clumsily jamming in retro pop culture cameos and shilling [[BaseBreakingCharacter Batman.]]
61	* {{Sequelitis}}: General opinion of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie The LEGO HISHE 2]]'' is that, while still funny in its own right, it isn't nearly as funny or creative as the first ''The LEGO HISHE''.
62	* SpoiledByTheFormat: "How ''The Jungle Book'' Should Have Ended" credits Jon Bailey as Kaa before Kaa shows up in TheStinger.
63	* {{Squick}}: Grendel's mother in ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf\|2007}}'', um, ''bubbles'' from a wrong location.
64	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Any time you hear an iconic theme in this series it won't sound ''exactly'' like the original, because of copyright rules.
65	* TakeThatScrappy:
66	** Every HISHE for the ''Star Wars'' prequel trilogy always finds a way to slaughter the "lovable" Jar Jar Binks.
67	** After Deadpool gets kicked out of the Villain Pub, he gets back at the patrons by seating [[spoiler:his in name only ''X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' incarnation]] in his place. Everyone promptly runs away in disgust.
68	** Superman and Batman inviting all the DC heroes to join the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse suddenly gets really awkward when Green Lantern shows up. [[spoiler: Even Green Lantern admits it was a joke, switching to Deadpool's costume and saying that "[he's] not doing that anymore."]]
69	** Holdo is hated by many in ''Film/TheLastJedi'' due to withholding information from the rebels, seemingly for no reason. Fans rejoiced when Admiral Ackbar replaced her as the temporary leader and actually tells the rebels of Leia's intentions while simultaneously shoving Holdo aside where she is ignored by the rest of the cast.
70	** The Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse version of Lex Luthor is a very divisive version of the character. Come to ''How Film/{{Justice League\|2017}} Should Have Ended'', Lex Luthor is brought to the Villain Pub, but is immediately kicked out.
71	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
72	** In the ''How Ant-Man Should Have Ended'' video only two scenes from the movie are covered and then it's straight to the café and never goes into Scott's training or even Scott's fight with Falcon. Additionally, viewers wanting to see if Hope really could've outsmarted Cross without help from Scott and his friends might feel disappointed to learn that she does so not as the new Wasp, or by fighting Cross at all; instead she and Hank just exploit Cross' BondVillainStupidity.
73	** In ''How Avengers: Infinity War Should Have Ended'' rather than dealing with the [[spoiler: DownerEnding where Thanos wins]], it's instead changed to a typical happy ending, which many found to be disappointing, especially after having the "Dead Pool" video.
74	*** In that same video, the ending had one hell of a SequelHook: every villain in the Villain Pub was turned into dust, but not before [[Franchise/StarWars Palpatine]] paged Film/{{Deadpool\|2016}} for help. It seemed to lead into a bigger story where Deadpool would have to save all the villains... but this plotline is resolved too quickly in the ''Film/Deadpool2'' HISHE, where Deadpool steals the Infinity Gauntlet and brings them back to life offscreen. Even Deadpool lampshades it.
75	** The ''Endgame Trailer'' HISHE video ends with fictional characters - both superhero and not - from other series coming to the Avengers Headquarters to help them avenge the dusted. None of them show up in the actual ''Endgame'' HISHE video.
76	* UglyCute: Baby Thanos in the ''Infinity War'' HISHE. He still looks like his adult self... except even more adorable.
77	* UnexpectedCharacter:
78	** When talking about the events of ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Creator/TomHolland has a discussion with Creator/AndrewGarfield and Creator/TobeyMaguire, the previous Spider-Men. Holland is completely sure that it was unfortunate for them, but at least ''he'' won't be replaced. And then [[spoiler:ComicBook/MilesMorales]] says "Don't be so sure of that!"[[note]]This was released before the "Into the Spider-Verse" film. At this point, it was only a comic book character, and the death of Peter Parker in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' is a reference that only comic book fans would have understood[[/note]]
79	** Honestly, NO ONE saw [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]] and WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck joining the Avengers in the ''Endgame'' trailer HISHE coming.
80	** Seeing Sonic's friends from the games showing up in "How ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' Should Have Ended" was quite surprising.
81	** No one expected [[spoiler: [[Characters/TheBoys2019Homelander Homelander]] ]] to appear in "The Impostor" episode.
82	** Ditto for Franchise/JohnWick in the ''[=WandaVision=]’’ episode (after Agatha admits to killing Sparky).
83	** The ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' episode takes a peek into the mind of the handsome man, wherein we see his [[WesternAnimation/InsideOut five emotions]] watch in discomfort as he desperately tries to assure Diana [[ItMakesSenseInContext he gives his consent to sleep with her]].
84	** The ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'' episode has the particularly ugly Orgocorp soldier encounter Bob and Larry, the main characters of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' after he was compared to a carrot.
85	** The ''Film/Dune2021'' video has the cast of ''VideoGame/LethalCompany'' show up.
86	** The ''Film/MadameWeb2024'' video features a cameo from [[Film/TheRoom2003 Johnny]] and even '''Creator/RyanGeorge as [[WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings Producer Guy and Screenwriter Guy]] and all!'''
87	** The ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' video features [[WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}} Bluey and Bingo in their grannies personas]].
88	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' and ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' episodes of the show accidentally showed up on the [=YouTube=] Kids app when it first launched, probably due to a mix-up with the HISHE Kids channel, which actually makes child-friendly content. Despite some episodes being based on family-friendly films, the series isn't exactly for kids. For example, the ''Toy Story 3'' episode ends with [[spoiler:Andy getting injured in a car crash when his toys talk to him and going mentally insane over what happened]] and a scene in the ''Wizard of Oz'' episode shows the Wicked Witch being shot with a gun.

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