History NeverLiveItDown / LiveActionFilms

** Hermann Fegelein is a SmugSnake who cowardly went AWOL, only to be caught and unceremoniously executed by Hitler's goons. He's not even important to Hitler as he initially wanted to punish UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler, Fegelein's boss, instead. But ever since Hitler pounded his table shouting Fegelein's name, [[MemeticBadass Fegelein is remembered to as the man that Hitler cannot find and thus the subject of all the dictator's ire]].

** James Bond isn't held in very high regard among feminists due to a single scene in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' where he makes unwanted advances towards, and all but rapes, a nurse. It doesn't help that Bond as written by Ian Fleming was much worse in regards to the whole rape thing, particularly in ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.

* ''Film/TheMummy2017''[='s=] proving to be such a critical and commercial failure that it prompted Creator/UniversalStudios to shut down their much-vaunted Film/DarkUniverse after just one film has cemented the legacy of the latter as a punchline, only brought up to mock other {{Stillborn Franchise}}s. The film itself, meanwhile, has been overshadowed by [[https://youtu.be/kRqxyqjpOHs a version of its first trailer]] with the sound effect and music channels accidentally muted, turning what was supposed to be an intense plane crash scene into [[{{Narm}} a well of unintentional comedy]].

** Hermann Fegelein is a SmugSnake who cowardly went AWOL, only to be caught and unceremoniously executed by Hitler's goons. He's not even important to Hitler as he initially wanted to punish Heinrich Himmler, Fegelein's boss, instead. But ever since Hitler pounded his table shouting Fegelein's name, [[MemeticBadass Fegelein is remembered to as the man that Hitler cannot find and thus the subject of all the dictator's ire]].

** During the opening battle of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Captain America reprimands Iron Man for swearing, later saying "it slipped out". After the second joke about it ''during that battle'', Cap mutters "That's not going away any time soon." [[RunningGag And it doesn't]]. Many fans have then latched on to that joke, with many fanworks depicting Cap as a straight-laced prude who wants to censor anyone who swears.

* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'': There's the infamous "Bat-nipples" on Batman and Robin's costumes. Sort of a DoubleStandard when you consider all of the flattering outfits female superheroes tend to wear without comment.
* For better or for worse, ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' is best remembered in pop culture as "that movie where Batman and Superman stop fighting and team up after Batman finds out their mothers are both named Martha". Fans of the movie have argued there's more to the scene than the shared name (namely that it shows how Batman realized that the man he painted as a monster has loved ones like he does), but detractors complained it was [[{{Narm}} inherently ridiculous]] that their burying the hatchet hinges on Batman doing a total about-face when Superman says the name "Martha".
* ''Film/CanCan'' is known primarily as the film that prompted USSR Premier Nikita Khruschev's infamous and widely mistranslated "WE WILL BURY YOU!" speech. Even the Widescreen Museum acknowledges that fact when the film comes up in its Todd-AO section on page 12, which begins by mentioning his reaction to the filming of a scene featuring Juliet Prowse as the Serpent for the InUniverse ballet adaptation of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve.

* Most of the comedians from the first half of the 20th century like Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/BusterKeaton, Creator/LaurelAndHardy, the Creator/MarxBrothers, Film/TheThreeStooges are often dismissed for being nothing else besides people [[PieInTheFace throwing pies into each other's faces]]. Despite the fact that most of these comedians, like Keaton and The Marx Brothers, never made a film featuring pie fights. And even with the other comedians the amount of films with pie fights can be counted on one hand.
* ''Film/AmericanPie'': Jim will be forever known as the guy who [[ADateWithRosiePalms fucked]] an [[UnconventionalFoodUsage apple pie]]. In ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', Creator/JasonBiggs laments his decision to do that scene.
-->"I'm '''haunted''' by it!"

* For better or for worse, ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' is best remembered in pop culture as "that movie where Batman and Superman stop fighting and team up after Batman finds out their mothers are both named Martha". Fans of the movie have argued there's more to the scene than the shared name, but detractors complained it was [[{{Narm}} inherently ridiculous]] that their burying the hatchet hinges on Batman doing a total about-face when Superman says the name "Martha".

* ''Film/AmericanPie'': Jim will be forever known as the guy who fucked an apple pie. In ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', Creator/JasonBiggs laments his decision to do that scene.

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** The little pirate of Jack's crew has on multiple occasions proven himself to be capable and talented. But he'll always be the dwarf in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' who got blown back into the very hole he had just worked his way out of... by the recoil of a large gun he was toting. Later on in the film, he uses the same gun without the comical effect.
** Barbossa is an unmovable monster who led his crew to reclaim every last piece of stolen gold they'd "frittered away" and undo the curse set upon them. He performed the marriage ceremony between Will and Elizabeth. He also rocks a fancy wooden leg in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''. But he's still 'that guy who eats apples.'
* Film/JamesBond has become known as the film series where 'The main Bond girl works for the villains until she falls in love with James Bond'. In fact, this has [[DeadUnicornTrope only happened on one occasion]]; in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Most of the other times, the Bond girl is either an ally of Bond from the first (e.g. ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''), an innocent drawn into the villain's schemes (e.g. ''Film/DrNo'', ''Film/AViewToAKill'', ''Film/GoldenEye''), working with the villains but unaware of the true nature of their plans (''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''), a willing accomplice/BigBad who never changes sides (''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'') or effectively a slave rather than an ally of the villains (''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'').
** Complicating matters, several Bond films (such as ''Thunderball'', ''Goldeneye'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'') have genuinely evil beautiful henchwomen ''as well'' as heroines, and Bond will sleep with said evil henchwoman, in almost every single film. Doesn't help that Bond is also a frequent offender of tropes like SexEqualsLove and NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization.
** The stereotypical Bond plot structure can have up to three girls in each film, and usually has at least two. The archetypes are the "good" one who gets killed off early on as a SacrificialLamb, the "evil" one who also gets killed off, often after [[HighHeelFaceTurn changing sides]], and the third, main one who survives until the end.
** Arguable in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. She did believe she was working for the Russian government against the British, so she'd still qualify as working for an enemy. She just didn't realize which enemy she was really working for.
** Messrs. Albert Wint and Charles Kidd will forever be known chiefly as not just early examples of blatant gay villains in a mainstream motion picture, but also pyromaniacs, never mind that only their first attempt to kill Bond involved burning him alive, hence the fairly infamous "[[SignatureScene Hot Coffin]]" bit near the tail end of the Slumber Inc. scene. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:they both ended the film dying in flames after their third and final attempt literally blew up in their faces, with Kidd catching fire entirely and Wint being literally hoist with his own petard]].
** Goldfinger and the laser deathtrap, to the point where, when he appears on ''Midday with Jennifer Hicks'' alongside Blofeld and Largo, Blofeld brings it up early on during a discussion on what not to do when you capture James Bond. You know, the discussion that spawned the EvilOverlordList.
** James Bond isn't held in very high regard among feminists due to a single scene in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' where he makes unwanted advances towards, and all but rapes, a nurse. It doesn't help that Bond as written by Ian Fleming was much worse in regards to the whole rape thing, particularly in ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.
* ''Film/{{Superbad}}'': [=McLovin=], to the point that nobody even remembers the character's real name (Fogell) or that of Creator/ChristopherMintzPlasse.

* Look at all the ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' fanworks that include Jareth saying "precious" or "precious thing". He only said that phrase ONCE in the whole film.
** Also, Music/DavidBowie's rather tight pants that draw the eye no matter how much you try to resist.

* Most of the comedians from the first half of the 20th century like Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/BusterKeaton, Creator/LaurelAndHardy, the Creator/MarxBrothers, Film/TheThreeStooges are often dismissed for being nothing else besides people throwing pies into each other's faces. Despite the fact that most of these comedians, like Keaton and The Marx Brothers, never made a film featuring pie fights. And even with the other comedians the amount of films with pie fights can be counted on one hand.
* Creator/JimCarrey has put in some well-developed, nuanced performances (''Film/ManOnTheMoon'', ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'', ''Film/TheTrumanShow'', ''Film/TheMajestic''), but to many folks he's still the guy who [[Film/AceVentura bends over and talks out of his rear end]].
* ''Film/{{Hypothermia}}'' combines splatter flick elements with the character study found in atmospheric horror. It contained a less than convincing man-in-suit monster too - which was onscreen perhaps ''three minutes.'' A comparitively large number of reviews say positive things to say about the character-driven portion which the first ''forty minutes of the movie,'' have little to no negative things to mention beyond the ''barely-seen'' unconvincing suit - the ratings accompanying these reviews would at first glance give the impression the reviewer hated the entire movie!
* In ''Film/TheInnkeepers'', Claire, while drunk, plays an immature prank on drunk colleague Luke, putting a bedsheet over her head, thus playing a "ghost" as comic relief. At least one review cites "the bedsheet ghost" as a reason the film is bad - suggesting the filmmakers tried to scare the audience, and that the scene is genuinely intended as scary.
* Creator/WilliamAtherton has had a quite respectable career spanning several decades, but it'll always come back to being called "dickless" in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''. On the film's DVDCommentary, Creator/IvanReitman recounts the time a quite angry Atherton talked to him about a tour bus that pulled up beside him so everyone could shout "Yo, dickless!"

* ''Film/StandByMe'': Creator/WilWheaton said in an interview on the DVD extras that the line "Suck my fat one, you cheap dimestore hood" is one he'll never live down.

* ''Film/CanCan'' is known primarily as the film that prompted USSR Premier Nikita Khruschev's infamous and widely mistranslated "WE WILL BURY YOU!" speech. Even the Widescreen Museum acknowledges that fact when the film comes up in its Todd-AO section on page 12, which begins by mentioning his reaction to the filming of a scene featuring Juliet Prowse as the Serpent for the InUniverse ballet adaptation of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve.

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** During the opening battle of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Captain America reprimands Iron Man for swearing, later saying "it slipped out". After the second joke about it ''during that battle'', Cap mutters "That's not going away any time soon." [[RunningGag And it doesn't]]. Many fans have then latched on to that joke, with many fanworks depicting Cap as a straight-laced prude who wants to censor anyone who swears.
** Clint Barton as Hawkeye will forever be known by fans as [[MemeticLoser the most useless superhero]] ever since ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', which was his first major exposure to mainstream audiences. In that entry, he spends most of his screen-time as the brainwashed lackey of Loki and his archery skills aren't seen as practical or impressive as Iron Man's power armor, Thor's lightning powers and hammer, or even Captain America's indestructible shield. Not helping matters is that he was absent from more grounded installments in like ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' and ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' that could've shown off his fighting skills without being compared to other superpowered heroes. His poor reputation is even referenced in the movies themselves with Black Widow joking about how he actually keeps the team together because the other Avengers all have to work hard to pretend he's useful, and Ant-Man calling him "Arrow Guy" because he didn't even bother to know his name. Marvel Studios seems to have given up on Hawkeye's reputation so Clint ditched his Hawkeye persona and became a vengeful vigilante known as Ronin in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. In contrast to his stint as Hawkeye, Barton is well-received by fans as Ronin, who quickly became a MemeticBadass even with his stupid haircut.
** A minor, more comedic example: in the first ''Film/{{Thor}}'' film, Darcy makes a comment about the titular character scarfing down a box of pop tarts. The fandom has been treating pop tarts as Thor's TrademarkFavoriteFood ever since.
* ''Film/TheField'' is best known as the "death by cow" movie due to Creator/SeanBean dying yet another gruesome death courtesy of a bovine stampede that drives him off a cliff.
* ''Film/ManOfSteel'' has Superman killing Zod, despite [[ShootTheDog only doing it as a last resort to save a family and he was obviously anguished about having to take a life it]] and before he adopted his ThouShallNotKill rule. It is still cited and brought up by DCEU detractors as emblematic of everything they consider wrong with the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, even more than [[InferredHolocaust the massive destruction of the city caused by the fight prior]].
* For better or for worse, ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' is best remembered in pop culture as "that movie where Batman and Superman stop fighting and team up after Batman finds out their mothers are both named Martha". Fans of the movie have argued there's more to the scene than the shared name, but detractors complained it was [[{{Narm}} inherently ridiculous]] that their burying the hatchet hinges on Batman doing a total about-face when Superman says the name "Martha".

* ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' is known amongst many DC fans to be the film where Wonder Woman rapes a man while Steve Trevor was possessing his body.

* ''Film/SupersonicMan'' is best known to casual film junkies as the film that was shown on the final episode of ''Son of Svengoolie'', where Svengoolie sung about the show having been cancelled.

* The original ''Film/TheLittleRascals'' shorts will never live down having several stars who died untimely deaths [[PopCultureUrbanLegends supposedly brought upon by a curse.]] If one were to really analyze their fates, [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/our-gang-death-curse/ 76% of the stars that appeared in at least fifteen shorts lived the average lifespan at the time]]. Since there were dozens of stars appearing in over a hundred shorts, it was inevitable that some (especially considering they grew up in the 1920's) would die like this. Also, creator Hal Roach himself lived to be 100.
* The people behind ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog'' would like to forget that they ever tried to unleash the horrible abomination that was [[https://asset.vg247.com/sonic_movie_teeth_horror.jpg/BROK/thumbnail/1600x900/quality/100/sonic_movie_teeth_horror.jpg their original character design for Sonic]] upon an unsuspecting and non-consenting public. Ever since the film redeemed itself by having Creator/TysonHesse take Sonic back to the drawing board and make him much more faithful to his original appearance in the games, the filmmakers have developed a self-deprecating sense of humor regarding their original misstep, with the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCzqO6SPgnk Fastest Trailer]]" for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2'' featuring a FreezeFrameBonus in the form of the original Sonic design with a big general prohibition symbol slapped over it. What's more, "Ugly Sonic" makes a cameo in Disney's ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'', where he's come to terms with his infamy and became a minor celebrity out of it.

* ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' will forever be remembered as the film that cursed [[VideoGameMoviesSuck any movie based on a video game from getting a positive critical or commercial reception]], and the film that turned both Creator/BobHoskins and Creator/DennisHopper into laughingstocks. It also caused a deep rift between Creator/{{Nintendo}} and film co-producer/distributor Creator/{{Disney}}, a rift they have yet to fully bridge.
** In fact, the experience so soured Nintendo to films that they didn't allow another film to be made with any of their [=IPs=] for five years until the first ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie movie]], and to this day it is the ''only'' Nintendo franchise that still puts out films.
* The writers of the 2007 film adaptation of ''Film/IAmLegend'' are never going to live down giving in to ExecutiveMeddling and changing the ending to exactly the opposite of the original book, even though the original ending is now on the DVD. It's often brought up as the perfect example of everything that is wrong with focus testing.

Live-action movies that will NeverLiveItDown.
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* The only reason why ''Film/{{Manhattan}}'' ever entered into the public consciousness as the first letterboxed home video release is because Creator/WoodyAllen made such a stink about insisting the cinematography of the great Gordon Willis be preserved across all media; with the sole exceptions of CED releases of ''Film/{{Amarcord}}'' and ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', older letterboxed home video releases of other films were barely even noticed at all until the home video community really sprung to life in UsefulNotes/TheNewTens and dug up letterboxed tapes of ''Don't Give Up the Ship'', ''Auditions'', ''Hooper'', and ''S.O.S. Titanic'', all released on videocassette between 1978 (the year before ''Manhattan''[='=]s ''theatrical'' release) and 1981. And Allen wasn't even the first to successfully push for exclusively letterboxed presentations of his film, either--Creator/StanleyKubrick did it first, with ''Film/BarryLyndon''.
* Both ''Film/DragonBallEvolution'' and ''Film/DeathNote2017'' became this for any LiveActionAdaptation of anime, as proof that no matter who is directing, who is writing, and what the budget is, that said adaptations are doomed to fail by default. This despite several rather well-received adaptations of light novels, manga, and anime that were released after them, such as the ''Film/RurouniKenshin'' film series and ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel''. As far as the fans of any property set for an adaptation are concerned, live-action adaptations begin with ''Evolution'' and end with ''Death Note''.

* The biggest example concerns the horror genre - whether direct-to-video or low budget in general, no matter how many are respected by the fandom, there is a stigma that these things are bad, even though most big-budget horror movies are - and have been for a long time - [[FollowTheLeader riding the coattails of low-budget independent films]] like ''Film/SawI'' and ''Film/ParanormalActivity'', and despite Hollywood films that are respected by the fandom, such as ''Film/{{Sinister}}'', often having much lower budgets than their usual horror films.
** A lot of classics from the seventies and eighties were low-budget too, making the stigma even more irrational.

* The people behind ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog'' would like to forget that they ever tried to unleash the horrible abomination that was [[https://asset.vg247.com/sonic_movie_teeth_horror.jpg/BROK/thumbnail/1600x900/quality/100/sonic_movie_teeth_horror.jpg their original character design for Sonic]] upon an unsuspecting and non-consenting public. Ever since the film redeemed itself by having Creator/TysonHesse take Sonic back to the drawing board and make him much more faithful to his original appearance in the games, the filmmakers have developed a self-deprecating sense of humor regarding their original misstep, with the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCzqO6SPgnk Fastest Trailer]]" for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2'' featuring a FreezeFrameBonus in the form of the original Sonic design with a big general prohibition symbol slapped over it.

* The writers of the 2007 film adaptation of ''Film/IAmLegend'' are never going to live down giving in to ExecutiveMeddling and changing the ending to exactly the opposite of the original book, even though the original ending is now on the DVD. It's often brought up as the perfect example of everything that is wrong with American cinema and focus testing.