"Woah; I did NOT see that coming" moments in movies.

Just what it says on the tin: scenes in movies that just caught you out of nowhere. Either lines spoken or actions taken, something that you never saw coming.

My example would be Starscream's death in Transformers The Movie. For years, Megatron kept Starscream around as a combination of punching bag and stress ball and to constantly remind Starscream that he's a complete and utter failure at everything ever.

Did anyone see Megatron/Galvatron finally pulling the pin on him?

I realize this example is from an animated movie, but it's meant only as an example.

edited 14th Sep '15 11:24:59 AM by HextarVigar

'Hail Hydra.'

"who the hell is Bucky" (one of the peeks of not knowing the comics that well).

I am usually hard to surprise...though The Sixth Sense and The usual Suspects und Psycho (yeah, I actually managed to watch the movie without getting spoiled beforehand) got me, too.

Two from Tarantino:

First off, he killed Hitler! For all the WWII films decrying the Kraut, none that I know of has ever had the guts to actually go that far. Not that I wouldn't have liked for the guys to do it to be Russian, it'd be at least somewhat more historically accurate, but still, great cinematic moment.

Second, having Django shoot the unarmed miss Lara, complete with her getting Blown Across the Room in the most ridiculous manner imaginable. Given how films tend to be somewhat squeamish around male heroes even fighting female villains, let alone killing them in such a fashion, I can imagine the overall audience attitude going for a split second from "behold the noble slave fighting for freedom" to "holy sh!t n****r's out for blood"... which I'm pretty sure was quite intentional on Tarantino's part. Well played, sir, well played.

edited 14th Sep '15 12:39:25 PM by indiana404

While watching Blade, I was genuinely surprised when it's revealed that not only is Blade's mother still alive, but she's also been working with Frost. I thought she was a typical dead parent who was there only to motivate the hero; so the fact she's a vampire and has been the lover of the Big Bad is such a kick in the balls moment for Blade. Keep in mind, I first watched this film a couple of months ago, so the fact a twist like that wasn't spoiled for an 18-year old film is a pleasant surprise.

edited 14th Sep '15 12:48:09 PM by chasemaddigan

"I'm gonna make this pencil disappear. Ta-da! It's gone..."

The T. rex's final appearance in the original Jurassic Park.

edited 14th Sep '15 4:01:57 PM by Bk-notburgerking

The third Pirates Of The Carribean film starting by hanging a child. A disney film does that, really?

The Departed: The hero is unceremoniously shot in the head right when he's got the villain at his mercy, and there wasn't a damn thing he could do to stop it (he'd already taken precautions by alerting Dignam to what he was doing, hence why the latter turns up at the very end).

Layer Cake: Same as above, protagonist gets shot at the very end out of nowhere by a guy whose girl he'd stolen.

Benny's reappearance at the end of Carlitos Way.

edited 14th Sep '15 6:06:11 PM by Boston

Zoeller and soshanna in inglorious bastard, at first it looks like a typical story of punkly heroine dealing with dogged nice guy(who is a nazi war hero to boot) until the very end when she shoot him in the back, them feel sorry...only for Zoeller to shoot her in a mutual kill while "un amico"(a friend) play in background, is....just....I dont know what was the intention in that scene but I really like it, so its another one from tarantino

I can't say I really remember it happening as I watched it as a small child, but "Duck Amuck" certainly goes in a weird direction.

...although now that I think about it that isn't a fitting example for the Live Action Film forum.

edited 15th Sep '15 9:07:06 AM by gallium

Billy actually being one of the murderers in Scream.

He waved the Red Herring flag so hard that I was completely blindsided when it turned out he really was (one of) the killer(s). Hell, I never even guessed there were two of them.

I think at one point when Stu and Randy were both pointing fingers at each other (which might have been purposeful on Stu's part to make Randy look crazy now that I think about it), I might have started thinking one of them was the killer, maybe I even considered both of them, but I never suspected Billy even once.

I mean, it's like having the Butler actually do it (which is also possible to be fair).

edited 15th Sep '15 7:15:40 PM by HandsomeRob

Gut Punch would probably cover this, but there actually aren't a lot of examples listed on that page for Film.

How about [Wham Line]?

edited 16th Sep '15 3:19:24 PM by denimjo

Shawshank redemption. I thought that he wanted the rope to hang himself, too.

And Hawkeyes family.

edited 17th Sep '15 4:12:51 AM by Swanpride

Looking over the Wham Line list is a good reminder of how badly the trope Wham Line is misused and shoe-horned. That needs some major clean-up.

Anyway...

"She's my sister AND my daughter" is a pretty good one.

Not that much of a shocker, but Max's plan that results into the climactic chase scene was pretty surprising, in an awesome way.

Am I the only one who has no idea what this is referencing?

In that case, here's an elaboration. The heroes start their escape from the main villain's base and spend most of their time running away from the villain and his army. But at the end, one of the heroes, Max, comes up with the idea to turn and go back to where they came from. It works.

I think he means what movie are you referring to.

Oh God, I'm getting really bad at this.

The movie I was talking about was Mad Max:Fury Road.

Watchmen.

I saw the movie before I read the book. Book is much better. But still:

"Do you think I would be telling you my plan if you had any chance of stopping it?"

http://vocaroo.com/i/s11cqINqX4wQ

Frozen, I know some people claim the betrayal of Hans was foreshadowed a mile away but I was completely clueless about it at the time. Disney, at the time, was not in the business of introducing villains early as friends/primary protagonists or side characters only to have them, last second, turn out to be the real villain. Some could say the rushed romance with Anna was cliched or even telling but I just chalked it up to sloppy storytelling or a way to get some romance into the kids film just for its own sake and so it was shoe-horned in....in which it was! But for a reason! So yeah, that blew me away the first time.

However, with Big Hero 6 and another movie I can't remember of theirs, I spotted Zootopia's villain a mile away because now they're overdoing this tactic.

That appears to have expired.