How It Should Have Ended is an Internet parody series depicting alternate endings for popular movies. It was started by Daniel Baxter and Tommy Watson, featuring Tina Alexander. The episodes are hand drawings given animation, and augmented with special effects and music. Each features an original "ending" that ranges from crazy awesome crossovers, to ridiculous and funny developments, to deconstructing it by simply shooting the villain or taking a third, sensible action. It also hosts featurettes such as "Surviving an Alien Invasion" and comics.The site can be found here, and their YouTube channel is here.Now has a Shout-Out page.
Actually Pretty Funny: After Captain America gets annoyed at Superman and Batman annoying him, this happens:
Cap: But wait! Shh! Do you guys hear that? (Beat) Batman: Hear what? Cap: Do I hear the Justice League calling? (Beat) Superman: I don't hear anything. Batman: Yeah, me neither. Cap:Exactly! Superman: (laughs) Batman: Whammo! Superman: Captain America burn!
Affectionate Parody: Sometimes. They also have a knack of making fun of films but making fans of the film laugh as well as haters.
Alas, Poor Villain: In-universe, the "I'm just a lonely Zombie" song from Resident Evil.
One of Glinda the Good Witch becomes revealed in-universe after one of the Munchkins shoots the Wicked Witch of the West:
Well, this ruins my plan to send you [Dorothy] on a journey, and teach you a lesson, and eventually have you kill the Wicked Witch yourself!
One of Bowser becomes revealed in one of the other videos: He witnessed Mario slaughter his people, and so decided to call Princess Peach for negotiations. Unfortunately, Mario always interrupts, and nearly kills Bowser in the process.
Bella from Twilight when turned is not a Vegetarian Vampire like the Cullens and is pretty damn happy about it.
Bella: Lets go eat some PEOPLE! Woo!
Art Evolution: The animation became livelier as the show progressed.
Award Snub: In-Universe. For the 2012 Best Picture Summary where Harry, Snape, and Voldemort wonder why their latest effort didn't get a Best Picture nomination.
Breakout Characters: The episodes with Superman and Batman at the cafe are considered by many to be the best shorts. As a result, they grace the icon for the HISHE YouTube channel, and even have their own show: Super Cafe.
Canon Discontinuity: Lampshaded in-universe, after Batman has declared that he has the power to "make an incredibly awesome movie!":
Superman: So, we're just going to pretend like those guys never happened? [Points to a table where the Penguin from Batman Returns, Two-Face and the Riddler from Batman Forever and Mister Freeze from Batman & Robin are sitting] Is that what we're doing? Batman: Yep.
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: In the Hunger Games parody, one of the random techs wonders this...
"Hey, you guys ever think we should use all this money and technology to actually solve the world's problems? End world hunger? Save the rainforest? No, just me? We'd rather kids fight to the death. Okay... Just thought I'd ask."
Since a Munchkin killed the Wicked Witch before Dorothy took her journey through Oz, she went home early, and never took the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion to have their desires granted by the Wizard.
Ripley's decision to send the alien through the airlock led to the deaths of her, Newt, and Hicks.
One of the segments in Ghostbusters ends with the Ghostbusters dying after trying to cross the streams.
Kirk and the Enterprise crew decide to just let themselves get sucked by the black hole. They end up in the Star Wars universe, and get immediately vaporized by Darth Vader.
The Pulp Fiction video has Mia get a shot of adrenaline to the face, and Vincent and Jules killed by the man who failed to shoot them in the original movie.
Every Episode Ending: Each superhero-related episode ends with the heroes talking with Superman and Batman in the coffee shop except for Spider-Man 3, where it appears briefly in the middle.
Fridge Logic: invoked They often show more common sense or realistic ways for the movies to have ended invoking this trope.
"Funny Aneurysm" Moment: In-universe. As Six notices in the Halo: Reach short, one way to make an introduction really awkward is if every comment you make only keeps highlighting each character's eventual death.
G-Rated Drug: Willy Wonka decided to install the infamous scary tunnel while on a sugar high.
Six hears Carter's inspirational opening, heavily tempting their fate, and knows immediately how each of the members will die. Then knows that he's a dead man too if he lingers with these guys and runs for the hills.
Mayfly December Romance: Points out that without transforming Bella from Twilight into vampire, in 60 years or so Bella would be an old lady whilst Edward was still forever young.
Odd Friendship: Their take on Skyrim has The Dragonborn form one with the Big Bad, Alduin, after discovering that the Thu'um renders him completely unable to talk to regular people, without completely destroying them.
In Top Gun, Maverick punching Iceman for causing the death of his best friend, earlier in the movie.
Reality Is Unrealistic: In Captain America, Armin Zola questions the Red Skull why they should label their bombs in English when they are German. The words written on the bombs were names of US cities: New York, Chicago, etc. These names are written the same way in both English and German.
Red Shirt: Parodied in Star Trek, when Kirk orders all red shirts on board the Enterprise to be jettisoned to lighten the weight of the ship. Scotty takes time to put on a different shirt before fulfilling the order.
And again in Halo: Reach, where after his big Tempting Fate speech, Carter hands Six a red shirt with the ONI logo on it.
Set Right What Once Went Wrong: In Harry Potter, Snape uses Hermione's Time-Turner (which Harry convinced her to keep) to kill Tom Riddle when Dumbledore's talking to him in the orphanage.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: In "X-Men First Class", Xavier gets fed up with Magneto's attempts to perform his Motive Rant, freezes everyone and mind-controls Azazel to teleport him to a hospital.
Magneto: Charles? Wh-what are you doing?
Xavier: I've been shot you selfish a-hole!
Smug Super: Superman is very fond of lording all his superpowers — and the awesome things they enable him to do — over Batman.
Iron Man in spades, his reply to Batman telling him he shouldn't have revealed his identity.
"Why not? Cause I did... and I'm awesome! So... in your face!"
Batman gets a chance to have his own back in The Dark Knight:
Superman: But dude, you know what I would've done?
Batman: Oh, I don't know, probably just-
Superman and Batman simultaneously: Fly really fast, saving everyone from the bullets and explosions!
Batman calls Superman out on his twitter feed consisting of him repeatedly posting;
Batman: "Just saved the day. Just saved the day. Just got back from saving the day. Here I go to save the day. Just saved the day twice. I'm saving the day. Just saved the day tagged with Wonder Woman. Just saved the day" *phone beeps* And you just posted something new, what does it say, ah, "Just saved the day".
Superman: Yeah I just rescued these people while you were reading that.
Superman counters that Batman isn't much better, as he keeps posting "I'm Batman!" on twitter.
Stolen MacGuffin Reveal: In the Sherlock Holmes 2 parody, Holmes and Moriarty try to one up each other in this regard with an air tank and life vest, respectively.
Stupid Sacrifice: Captain America's Heroic Sacrifice is parodied to be this in HISHE. Why couldn't Cap turn the plane around, circle for a while, find warmer water to crash land into, fly one of the bomb-planes as an escape, or try to find some other way to avoid crashing into freezing arctic water? The film proper never explains, and HISHE has a field day with it.
Tempting Fate: Kat refuses to put on her helmet in the Halo: Reach short, and Jorge talks abut "going down with the ship" while playing with a miniature Covenant Corvette toy. Carter goes on about how he'll "fly right into the heart of the enemy" and Emile is obsessed with sharp objects. Gee, I wonder what happens?
A Munchkin decides to use his gun against the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.
Iron Man uses a tank missile against Obadiah Stane.
In Revenge Of The Fallen, they just use the Rail Gun to kill the Fallen.
In The Dark Knight, this becomes "Why Don't You Just Run Him Over":
Superman: Woah, hold on a second — you hit him? Batman: Yep. Superman: You hit the Joker. Batman: Uh-huh. Superman: You ran over a human being. Batman: Sure did. Superman: But... what about your rule?! Batman: [Smugly] Didn't kill 'im. [Cut to the Joker, lying in a hospital bed covered in casts, moaning in pain] The Joker: You wanna know how I got these scars? Nurse: From Batman? The Joker: From Batman.
In Harry Potter, Snape shoots Voldemort, then uses the Time Turner and Invisibility Cloak to kill young Tom Riddle as well.
Scientist 1: There's a change in the silicon mass. Scientist 2: Yeah, it's probably just a bird. Scientist 3: Here's a bright idea: why don't you make sure it's just a bird before you mutate the crap out of something just because you were too lazy to safely run this nighttime sand mutation experiment? Scientist 2: Fine. (stops experiment) ...That is a big bird down there. Kinda looks like a guy. Oh, wait, it is a guy down there!
Worth It: In Game of Thrones Sansa's head-on-a-spike invokes this after pushing Joffrey of the rampart to his death.
Writers Cannot Do Math: When Snape goes back in time with the Time-Turner to kill Voldemort, he turns it over about 262,000 times, which, at an hour per turn, should put him back about thirty years - nowhere near enough to get Tom at the orphanage.
Ignoring the amount of time Snape uses to turn the Time turner in the first place.
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