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• Van Helsing:
  • A werewolf has been trapped and is currently in a cage suspended in the air, but Velkan dropped his gun, which is the only gun that has the silver bullets necessary to kill the werewolf.
    You'd Expect: Everybody to immediately look for Velkan's gun.
    Instead: Most of the people franticly shoot their own guns at the caged werewolf, despite knowing that their ordinary bullets are useless.
    The Result: The hail of gunfire has no effect on the werewolf, but it destroys the ropes, causing the cage to fall and break, giving the werewolf a chance to escape. It is eventually killed, but only after it bites Velkan.
• Venom (2018)
  • The film starts with one of these. Eddie Brock is an investigative journalist that focuses on the homeless and uncovering injustices. He's good at his job but can be a little lacking in social skills. The man's current target is the Better Life Foundation, a corporation that has gone from restructuring gene therapy to launching rockets into space and seeing if life can be sustained in space. They are trying to say that the rocket's re-entry into Earth going wrong was an accident. To assuage these warnings, found and CEO Carlton Drake has asked for the local news to do an interview on him.
    You'd Expect: His editor would put someone else on the beat that won't go for the throat. And ideally, someone who doesn't have a conflict of interest. With Eddie's fiance working at the firm that is representing better life, there are many ethical complications that would ensue from him interviewing the guy. Give him another story and ask him to find the proof.
    Instead: The editor thinks that telling Eddie to play nice and go for the Moral Pragmatist route would work by reminding him that Drake has the power to eliminate all of their jobs in one sweep, and the money to back it up. In fact, it's lampshaded that Eddie should do this since he doesn't have any proof.
    You'd Then Expect: Eddie would play nice, if not for him than for his fiancee Annie. She half-jokingly pointed out that her job is on the line.
    Instead: He hacks into her computer and reads the legal documents about the many court cases that Drake is facing. (This is illegal by the way because lawyer-client confidentiality has to be ironclad.) Eddie thinks it's a good idea to bring up multiple leading questions and confront Drake with the names he saw in the case, showing Drake that he had an inside source. It doesn't take two-and-two to equal four for Drake and his team to figure out that Annie was inadvertently the leak.
    The Result: To cover their butt after Eddie broke many ethical journalism and relationship rules, his boss has to fire him. Said boss points out that Eddie has no proof because he lacks a source, and revealing that source would likely send Eddie to jail.
    To Make Matters Worse: Annie gets fired as well. She confronts Eddie for violating her trust to get a story, tosses away her engagement ring, and kicks him out of their apartment. They both have trouble finding work for about six months because their names are mud with Drake, and Annie moves on with a Nice Guy doctor who reveals he's a big fan of Eddie's work.
    Fortunately: When Eddie finally does deliver some proof — about half a year later and after Venom wrecked the building owing to a SWAT attack — the boss is willing to hire him back. Eddie refuses because he wants to focus on his writing, but he appreciates the sentiment.
  • Another moment from Venom. It's revealed that Carlton Drake truly wants to benefit humanity, but he has a reputation for cutting corners, while showing a lack of regard for human life. He thinks that the symbiotes from space can help a human survive in the distant stars and maybe even contribute to population control. The head scientist Dr. Skirth points out the impracticalities of rushing from the animal trials to the human ones in a matter of weeks: they don't know what spurs the symbiote bond or the key to keeping the hosts alive.
    You'd Expect: Drake would get an actual doctor on staff that can analyze the bodies and monitor the health of those on staff. While he doesn't care about the many vagrants that end up in his lab, he does get increasingly frustrated when the symbiotes start dying out. Since there are no alien scientists, a human doctor may question the ethical practices but a Morally Ambiguous Doctorate could practice Pragmatic Villainy and try to keep the patients alive.
    Instead: He sticks with biologists and literal rocket scientists.
    The Result: No one gets results, and Dr. Skirth becomes increasingly troubled at how Drake keeps calling for the next test subject without at least trying to keep them alive and comfortable. Dan of all people ends up getting to the root of a problem in two days while Drake was banging his head against the wall for six months: he ran several scans on Eddie when the latter barged on his and Annie's date calling for help, finding out that the symbiote is a "parasite". While Venom hates the term "parasite", and Eddie is quite upset to learn that Venom was feeding on him during the whole time that the former was possessing him, it ends up being accurate; Venom needs willpower on his part and a source of living beings to feed on so as to not devour his host. If Drake had known that earlier, he would have had his results much sooner. Let's repeat: a professionally-trained surgeon figured out the real problem in why the symbiotes kept killing their hosts in two days. 
  • Dr. Skirth realizes that in good conscience that she can't support Drake's experiments any longer, after he casually disposes of the human test subjects. She starts fearing for her life, and her kids' lives as well when Drake mentions they're doing this for the children of the future. He apparently settled out of court with the lawsuits for previous subjects, so the law can't touch him. Going to the police is no good because Drake has pockets there, as shown when the SWAT team finds Venom-Eddie quickly and fires on the pair. She can't just take the evidence to the press either  because she doesn't know who would be willing to risk Drake's wrath, apart from Eddie. He's the only person that had the guts (and stupidity) to bring the accusations to light. After Eddie initially rebuffs her, he calls her after getting some perspective from Annie and says that he wants the proof.
    You'd Expect: Dr. Skirth would make multiple backups of the evidence, and hand some of them to Eddie when he says, after initially rebuffing her, that he can't write about the story unless he has proof since accusing Drake was what got him fired in the first place. Sending a few photos over an encrypted connection would probably do the trick, and sending it to a guy who knows a guy who can run the story. As she puts it, Drake is good at making people disappear; it seems to be his primary goal with the homeless vagrants that he poaches off the San Francisco streets. If he does bust her, she could say that she has Betrayal Insurance and that people will know about the experiments if anything happens to her.
    Instead:  She sneaks Eddie into the lab when he asks, at a great personal risk. They barely avoid security checks owing to her knowing the guard rotations. Her strategy is to tell him to hide in the lab, take photos for what he needs, and don't touch anything while she makes sure the coast is clear.
    The Result: Eddie to his credit tries to follow this directive, but he sees his friend Maria begging for help. Instinct and heroism take over common sense, and he causes a Red Alert busting her out of there, not knowing that the symbiote had infected Maria and already killed her. He ends up carrying the symbiote out of the lab and becoming the new host. Despite Skirth having plausible deniability, the security team and cameras figure out that she was the leak. Drake confronts her for a name, pointing out that thanks to her actions a man could die, and then kills her.
    Fortunately: Eddie learned from his mistakes and delivered his phone with the photos he took to his former boss, with Venom's help and a note of explanation. He figures that if they die after this wild night, at least Drake won't get away with his murders and experiments. Sure enough, his boss runs the story now that he has evidence, and offers Eddie his job back.    
  • There is, however, the way that Drake decides to kill Dr. Skirth. She's a liability, and too conscientious for his liking. As soon as she tells him that Eddie Brock was the person in the lab and he is the carrier for the symbiote, Drake has no more use for her.
    You'd Expect: He would have this goons take her to the woods at gunpoint, shoot her, and dispose of the body, as they try to do with Eddie. A gun is less expensive and more common than the weapon he actually uses.
    Instead: He feeds her to the last living symbiote in the lab as soon as he has Eddie's identity.
    The Result: While indeed Dr. Skirth dies, so does the symbiote, whether by bad luck or Dr. Skirth's sheer Heroic Willpower in refusing to give Drake the power that he needs. Drake realizes that it means Eddie is the only living test subject that has handled the symbiote and lived to tell the tale, but he's obviously not going to trust them. 
• Video Girl:
  • The protagonist's older sister is out running errands with her gang member boyfriend and is in a store when she sees some rival gang members begin to beat him up while he's waiting outside.
    You'd Expect: For her to call for help or to stay put inside the store; in love with him or not, they're gang members, after all.
    Instead: She rushes out of the store and attempts to fight them off herself alone, which consists of her average height and build wildly hitting the men, cursing at them and trashing about to "save" her 6'3", 300-pound "defenseless" boyfriend. Predictably, she gets shot dead for her troubles, leaving the boyfriend guilt-ridden and her grandmother and younger sister heartbroken.
    Lastly: As sad as this turn of events are, the woman was known for having a big mouth, a chip on her shoulder and for acting impulsively without contemplating any short- or long-term consequences. It was essentially only a matter of time before something like that happened.
• The '70s cheesefest Viva Knievel!:
  • Evel Knievel's protege-turned-rival Jessie has overheard a plot to kill Evel via sabotaging his his latest stunt, then using the transport of his body to cover for the transport of millions of dollars in cocaine over the Mexico/US border. Jessie clumsily tries to tell Evil this, then knocks Evel out when he tries to blow Jessie off.
    You'd Expect: Jessie to call off the jump and point out the rigged bike to authorities, thwarting the Big Bad's plans without risking anyone's life.
    Instead: Jessie takes Evel's place on the big jump and dies instead. A Stupid Sacrifice that turns into a Senseless Sacrifice, when the bad guys merely claim Jessie's body is Evel's and proceed as planned. Made even worse by an earlier scene, when...
  • Evel sneaks into a Mexican sanitarium to talk to his mentor/mechanic, Will. Will tells Evel that he'd found pictures of their custom tractor-trailer in the possession of the Big Bad, leading to Will's being set up as being a junkie and institutionalized (getting him out of the way so that the bad guys' sabotage of Evel's bike would go undetected.)
    You'd Expect: Evel to postpone the jump - at least until he could get Will out of the sanitarium.
    Instead: He tells Will that he has to stay in the sanitarium until after the jump. Despite the fact that he knows he's been targeted by criminals. The same criminals he knows were Jessie's patrons.
• War for the Planet of the Apes:
  • The Alpha-Omega compound has two enemies: the apes, and the Army of the North. The apes repel a human attack and send some soldiers alive, with their demand: they just want to be left alone. The problem is, Colonel McCullough thinks that the apes must be destroyed, the very future of the human race depends on that, and that he can not accept coexistence.
    You'd expect: He would "accept" the apes' demands, leave some sentries in the borders of the forest just in case, and take his time to prepare for the attack of the rival faction. And then he would betray the apes, after the army of the north had been defeated, with additional surprise factor possibly being at his advantage.
    Instead: McCullough betrays the apes immediately, triggers Caesar's Roaring Rampage of Revenge by killing his wife and son and subsequently has to fight in two fronts which ends very poorly for him and his army.
  • Col. McCullough is doing everything he can to prevent the spread of the Simian Flu, which leaves the sufferers speechless and he fears will render humans as enslaved labor for apes. He even issues orders to kill all infected soldiers in his compound and burn their belongings.
    You'd Expect: In addition to his Salt the Earth approach, he'd take at least basic measures to prevent any further transmission, particular when handling unknown objects.
    Instead: He takes Nova's doll, which he's never seen before and might be contaminated, away from Caesar. With his bare hands, no less.
    Result: The next time we see him, the Colonel has been infected and rendered literally speechless from the same virus his entire compound had been trying so hard to avoid. Expecting to become feral, he is Driven to Suicide.
    Even worse: Nova's ability to learn sign language suggests that he could have survived with all his faculties.
• Willard: In the ending, Willard abandons his pet rat Ben at the scene of the murder and tries to drown his remaining rat colony. Unfortunately, during a dinner with his former co-worker Joan, Willard finds Ben has found his way back to his home and the rats he tried to drown survived.
  You'd Expect: Willard and Joan would leave the house together.
  Instead: Willard makes Joan leave while he stays behind to try and kill Ben. It ends about as well for him as you'd expect.
• As revealed in Willy's Wonderland, Sherif Lund and the town made a deal with the animatronics. They would lure travellers into the restaurant for the animatronics to kill in exchange for the animatronics not going for any of the townspeople. The latest would be victim, the Janitor, however, is more the capable of handling himself and quickly destroys several of the animatronics.
  You'd Expect: Everyone to let him destory them. After all, if the animatronics are gone, it's not like anyone else is in danger. Not to mention, several teens are also in the restaurant, who will die if the animatronics get their hands on them, one of which is the sherriff's adopted daughter Liv.
  Instead: Sheriff Lund attempts to sabotage the Janitor's attempts at destorying the animatronics, down to handcuffing him to the wall so that Willy can easily kill him.
  Result: The Janitor still manages to escape and when Sheriff Lund tries again, Willy decides to finish her off himself.
  • Later, after the Janitor has finished his work and seemingly destroyed all the animatronics, Lund's two cohorts, Tex and Jed, hand the Janitor his keys and car as they promised, and watch as he drives out of town.
    You'd Expect: Them to get out of town, too. Now that they don’t have to deal with the animatronics anymore, and the town seems to be well aware of their crimes, they don’t have any way to bargain if things turn sour.
    Instead: The two men enter Tex's car, and begin discussing how they can revamp Willy’s Wonderland into a new restaurant.
    Result: It turns out the Janitor forgot to finish off Siren Sara, and she uses a lighter to blow the car up, killing the two and also destroying herself in the process.
• The backstory to Wishmaster reveals that if someone makes three wishes of a Djinn, it will destroy the barriers between our world and the Djinn's world and allow their kind to overrun the Earth. One such creature grants two wishes to an ancient sultan, the second of which inflicts all kinds of horrible suffering on his subjects. Just as the sultan is about to make a third wish to undo his previous one, the court sorcerer shows up and tells the sultan what will happen if he makes his third wish.
  You'd Expect: The Djinn to dismiss the sorcerer's accusations as nonsense, and to reassure the sultan into making his third wish.
  Instead: He admits everything the sorcerer is accusing him of, and even goes so far to show the other Djinn that are attempting to break through the now-weakened barriers between the worlds. Naturally the sultan is reluctant to make a wish under these circumstances, and it gives the sorcerer time to imprison the main Djinn inside a jewel.
  • As a corollary to this, the Djinn's plan is dependent on the one who awoke him making their three wishes, and it is in his best interests not to alienate said person.
    You'd Expect: The Djinn would make every effort to grant the wishes as positively at possible, or at the very least sabotage them in ways that don't make him look like a needlessly sadistic prick. Also, maybe hold off on randomly screwing other people who make wishes for yucks. There will be plenty of time for that when his kind rule the world.
    Instead: The Djinn goes about doing his Jackass Genie thing, inevitably causing the heroes to find some way to weasel out of freeing him.
• Wish Upon:
  • Clare finds that when she makes a wish on the box, someone close to her dies, and her wish is granted in ways she doesn't necessarily want. Also, she discovers that everyone who had used all 7 of the box's wishes died shortly after.
    You'd Expect: Clare to realize early on that the wishes are what's causing all the trouble and use a wish to undo everything before never making a wish again, leaving the counter frozen. She could also wish for the box to undo all of its wishes and then destroy itself.
    Alternatively: Clare could also try to exploit the box's rules, such as wishing to reset the counter or wishing that the box would stop killing people after a wish is made. She could also test to see if giving the box to Ryan would reset the counter or if Ryan could make wishes for her that could undo the damage. It might not work, but it would be worth a shot considering what's at stake.
    Instead: Clare uses her very last wish to undo all of the damage.
    Even Worse: Clare gets told that all of the box's wishes would be undone if she got rid of it, and she keeps using the box anyway.
    As A Result: Since she's used all 7 of her wishes, the box kills her and takes her soul.
  • Clare is in love with a boy named Paul. She wants him to love her back.
    You'd Expect: That if Clare would use the box to wish for him to love her, that she would choose her wording carefully. She's already seen how the box interprets her wording at this point to possibly produce outcomes she doesn't want.
    Instead: Clare wishes that Paul would fall "madly" in love with her.
    As A Result: Paul turns into a Stalker with a Crush.
  • Darcie has been bullying Clare and her friends. When she develops necrotizing fasciitis (i.e. she starts rotting) as a result of Clare's wish, her friends/minions set up a GoFundMe for her. They want to ask people to help.
    You'd Expect: For Darcie's friends to ask people that would reasonably support the cause, such as teachers or students that didn't know Darcie very well.
    You'd Also Expect: That when Darcie's friends would ask for support, they would do so in a kind and courteous manner as to gain more sympathy and assistance.
    Instead: They decide to target Clare and her friends, who Darcie had been relentlessly bullying, and act as if they were entitled to the group's support.
    As A Result: Clare and her friends refuse to support the campaign.
  • The box may have been doing some supernatural heavy lifting, but many of the deaths it causes were already accidents waiting to happen. For example, Clare's father is cutting a branch with a chainsaw:
    You'd Expect: For Clare's father to have safety precautions in place so that he wouldn't suffer an injury from the falling branch.
    Instead: Clare's father stands on a chair in order to cut the branch down.
    As a Result: He dies.
• The Wizard: When Putnam finds out he's run across Sam and Nick, he decides to seize the opportunity to slash Sam's tires while they're distracted to make it harder for him to beat him to the kids. Sam catches him in the act, and decides to try and retaliate.
  You'd Expect: For Sam to slash Putnam's tires. He's in no shortage of tools to be able to accomplish this, and if nothing else could do it with his car keys. Or at the very least, do literally anything that would immobilize his car.
  Instead: He does nothing but bash random parts of Putnam's car with a shovel. While that's going to cause obvious cosmetic damage, it does very little to hinder his car and the worst he manages to do is slice off his side mirror.
  The Result: Putnam drives off with Sam and Nick stranded and now at a clear disadvantage in their race to reach Jimmy and Corey.
  To Be Fair: This could have been intentional on Sam's part, as it would have put them in close proximity to each other and forced them to constantly be on alert of each other's presence while either one of them waited for their cars to get repaired.
• The Wizard of Oz: Three guards equipped with spears have snuck up behind Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Lion and are about to ambush them..
  You'd Expect: That they would use their spears and simply stab them while they weren't looking.
  Instead: They THROW AWAY their spears and attack them in a hand to hand fight, which the Guards ultimately lose.
  The Result: Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion are able to take the Guards gear as disguise and rescue Dorothy.
• The World's End:
  • Gary, on a pub crawl with his old school friends, is in a restroom at pub 4 when a teenage boy comes in and starts using the urinals down the room. Gary tries to engage in small talk now that he has company.
    You'd Expect: The boy would add input into the conversation. Note that he and almost the entire town have been replaced by replicant 'Blanks', so a little conversation will have prevent Gary from finding out.
    Instead: He doesn't answer, leading to The Reveal and a fight with Gary and his friends.
    But You'd Also Expect: Gary and his friends to do a Screw This, I'm Outta Here on the town and get out and far from the other locations that have taken over by the Blanks so they won't be targetted.
    Instead: Gary insists that continuing the crawl will lessen the suspicion. Naturally, the Network controlling the Blank colony tries to make them part of their number as a result.
    You'd Then Expect: The group would stick together at all times to avoid being replaced.
    Instead: One of them goes to the bathroom alone and gets replaced. Oh, and then they begin to break apart.
• World War Z: It is a Zombie Apocalypse, and zombies are known to be attracted to loud noise.
  You'd Expect: That A) the utmost importance of keeping quiet would be hammered into survivors everywhere, all the time, and it would be strictly enforced, and B) that the military would immediately weaponize this trait, creating lures to drive the zombies away from survivors and into traps.
  Instead: The second part is merely neglected, but the people of Jerusalem actually go out of their way to violate the first one. While in a city, protected from the undead hordes by a wall, they decide to celebrate their good fortune by singing. All together. Through a microphone. Naturally, zombies cannot pass such a heartfelt invitation and start forming a zombie-pile outside until they scale the wall.
  You'd Then Expect: That since that wall is essential to the city's survival, the military would monitor it. After all, the zombies are not exactly subtle or stealthy.
  Instead: They somehow miss the assaulting horde untill it literally spills over the wall.
• X-Men: The Last Stand:
  • Scott starts hearing Jean's voice in his head, calling his name.
    You'd Expect: That, being the leader of the team, he would (at the very least) go talk to someone about it, especially Xavier (who would be able to read his mind and figure out what's going on).
    Instead: He secretly packs a bag, blows off Logan (who tries to help him) and goes off to Alkali Lake by himself. There, he accidentally(?) awakens Jean/Phoenix, who then proceeds to de-atomize him. As if acknowledging Scott's actions, no one mentions him for the rest of the film.
  • Prior to the events of the film (and the trilogy), Xavier implanted a series of mental mindblocks in Jean's mind to prevent a latent personality (Dark Phoenix) from taking over.
    You'd Expect: That sometime over the last twenty-plus years, Xavier would have at least mentioned this information to Jean for her own safety. Not even when she's brought back to the school from Alkali Lake does he bother to come down and see her (when she's feeling conflicted about her identity) and try to restore the mindblocks. Instead, he's teaching a class.
    Instead: Jean, more pissed off than ever, takes up residence at her old home, and Xavier willingly walks in (with Magneto, no less) to try and reason with her. It ends about as well as you would expect.
  • Magneto wants to kill the mutant whose DNA is being used to create the anti-mutant serum, who is located on Alcatraz Island. Magneto, in a stupendous display of power, lifts the freaking Golden Gate Bridge to get to Alcatraz.
    You'd Think: that since Magneto wants to kill this particular mutant, and doesn't really care about civilian casualties incurred in the process, that while he was lifting an object hundreds of feet in the air that weighs over 1000 tons, he'd just drop it on their heads or turn it into a blizzard of shrapnel to tear every living being on the island into shreds.
    Instead: he uses it to form a bridge, marches across it and digs in for a long, difficult, and unsuccessful siege of the place.
• X-Men: First Class:
  • After successfully preventing the Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating into a full-out nuclear war due to the meddling of a psychotic mutant, mutants are now known to both the Russian and U.S. governments as a powerful force capable of causing hurricanes, flying, blasting people, and lifting an entire submarine out of the ocean.
    You'd Think: Both sides would see the potential for using these people in combat, especially given that they prevented a full-on nuclear war since the CIA was well-aware of the role that the mutants played in the incident. Or at the very least, acknowledging that these are the last people you'd want to provoke and make angry!
    Instead: Both sides just see the potential threat presented by these powerful individuals and try to blow them up with missiles. After just seeing one of the mutants lift a submarine with his power!
  • Moira is fighting against Erik, a guy who she knows can control metal with his mind.
    You'd Expect: That she wouldn't fire a gun at him, given that guns shoot metal bullets. Hell, with the power Erik possesses, he could probably shoot them back at her!
    Instead: He deflects the bullets easily, and one of them hits a bystander.
    Even Worse: Even after Moira sees Erik deflect the first bullet, she keeps shooting, accomplishing fuck-all.
  • Charles Xavier knows everything about Erik Lehnsherr, having read his mind and spoken to him numerous times about the future of mutants and humankind. Erik, being a Holocaust survivor, constantly voiced the view that humans and mutants could not coexist, and that the U.S. government would eventually treat the mutants like the Nazis treated Jews. Then the U.S. and Russian battleships attempt to indiscriminately destroy the mutants with missiles, which Erik catches with his powers and sends back.
    You'd Think: Charles would remember Erik's views on mutant and humankind, especially his past as a persecuted minority, and try to phrase his arguments for not declaring war on humanity to the effect of a.) they were outnumbered and vulnerable and b.) Erik was becoming just like his former enemies in his extremism.
    Instead: He says, "They were Just Following Orders." To a Holocaust survivor. Who is now a member of yet another persecuted and threatened minority.
• X-Men: Days of Future Past:
  • There is no doubt Mystique is a heroic figure in the movie. By the 70s, she is the only one who actively works for the mutant cause and does things like rescuing Alex's unit from being experimented on by Trask. She decides the best way to deal with Trask is to eliminate him.
    You'd Expect: Mystique would kill him in his sleep or in an otherwise covert manner. It's not like she can't reach him, having consistently proven she can sneak into any location with ease.
    Instead: She chooses to attack Trask at very high profile events like the Paris Peace Conference and the Sentinel demonstration in Washington DC, where security is typically tight and she has a higher risk of being killed and/or captured.
    Result: As it turns out, this is exactly what happens in the original timeline when Charles Xavier isn't there to talk her out of killing Trask. This is especially stupid for the first attack, as Mystique has no idea Trask carries around a mutant detector and has no valid reason to resort to such a public assassination.
  • Magneto deciding to try and kill Mystique is hypocritically in-character for him.
    You'd Expect: Like the above example, Magneto would kill her at her most alone and vulnerable.
    Instead: He attempts to kill her right after they've just prevented the assassination of Trask. The stupid part is that Wolverine and Beast, two people capable of kicking his ass, are present and accounted for. Wolverine gets taken out due to some flashbacks, but Beast very nearly drowns Magneto in a fountain.
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Agent Zero is sent to take out Wolverine, discovering that he's been taken in by a couple, and decides to kill the couple as well if only so he leaves no witnesses - armed with a sniper rifle and in possession of the means to blow up the barn.
  You'd expect: Him to blow up the barn first, and then shoot any survivors.
  Instead: He opts to shoot the Hudsons first, and then blows up the barn.
  Result: Logan now has enough time to escape, and the ensuing chase scene ends with Logan blowing up Zero.
• In the film Zombi 2 (aka Zombie Flesh Eaters) Dr. David Menard and his wife Paola are held up on the Matul island where a number of dead patients are rising from the dead as zombies, when one of the zombies ambushes Paola through a broken door with long splintered wood pointed towards Paola's face.
  • You'd Expect: Even as the zombie has Paola in it's grasp that she could just struggle her face away from any hazard and just punch, kick or fling the zombie to the sides, -presumably into one of the splinters- in the hopes that she can get the creature off her and escape.
  • Instead: She never does bugger-all to pull herself away in any effective form, leading to the zombie pulling her all the way towards itself and Paola getting GRAPHICALLY SPLINTER-GORED IN HER RIGHT EYE before the zombie can even bite her!!!

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