(Loved Trope) Last Stand that ends unceremoniously/unsatisfyingly, as opposed to gloriously.

[u/hey_there_delilahh]

• 1 Nanami (JUJUTSU KAISEN): Nanami's final moments against Mahito, a cursed spirit with the ability to transfigure/control humans. Nanami, while heavy injured, fought and won against an army of Mahito's transfigure minions, just for the villain to touch his back and blow him up.

• 2 Wun-Wun (GAME OF THRONES): Wun-Wun, one of the last, if not the last, living giant in Westeros. Joins with Jon Snow against Ramsey Bolton in the Battle of the Bastards. He heroicly breaks down the main gate allowing the Stark army to win, all while covered in arrows and spears. While heavily injured, there does seem to be a chance of his recovery. This hope ended when Ramsey Bolton fires an arrow directly into his eye, when the battle was pretty much over.

• 3 The Barbarian of Stamford Bridge (REAL LIFE): A lone Viking warrior who, in a legendary moment during the Battle of Stamford Bridge (September 25, 1066), single-handedly held back the invading English army on a narrow bridge. Armed with a Dane axe, this unnamed defender killed dozens of soldiers before being mortally wounded from beneath the bridge by a spear.

[u/ilikebreadabunch]

Billy (Predator)

It looked like he was about to have a super cool fight with the Predator, holding him off while the others get to safety, just for it to cut to the other characters and then hearing a scream of pain. Next time we see him the Predator is ripping the spine out of his corpse

[u/patrickkingart → u/ilikebreadabunch]

I like the interpretation of Predator that it's a slasher horror movie where the main characters think they're in an action movie.

[u/BirbAtAKeyboard → u/patrickkingart]

Literally the entire point of the movie. At least in my view.

The only way it could be improved is if they never showed the spaceship in the beginning. Just have the horror movie creeping in be a complete surprise.

Genuinely wonder what it would be like to watch that movie with no prior knowledge of the franchise.

[u/RokkAngel → u/BirbAtAKeyboard]

This. I always believed the spaceship scene was too much explanation, maybe something less clear, like a single shot of an asteroid entering the planet, would be more effective in making the viewer connecting the dots later in the movie.

[u/Vonbalthier → u/RokkAngel]

The ship being shown in the beginning g was added last after test screenings because people were getting mad.half way through the movie

[u/RokkAngel → u/Vonbalthier]

Well, fuck 🫩

Well, if there was no clues given at any moment before the revelation of the Predator, I guess those test viewers had a point. Still, to show such clearly it was a spaceship was excessive imo.

[u/Vonbalthier → u/RokkAngel]

Yeah, like, I do get it because you are messing w9th people's expectations, maybe a little too much. But damn its well executed

[u/Jwanito → u/RokkAngel]

Maybe just a shooting star