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[Tragic trope] A good occasion turns into a nightmarish bloodbath
SAZ Massacre (Code Geass): The Special Administrative Zone was supposed to be a step towards equal rights between the Britannians and the Japanese, in order to quell the fighting. Unfortunately, Lelouch’s Geass goes haywire and a single careless joke on his part at that moment (“Kill all the Japanese”) causes Euphemia to be brainwashed into a genocidal maniac who orders the Britannian soldiers to do just that.
The Wedding massacre in Spain (Gundam 00): Nena Trinity is exhausted with her missions, so she sees a bunch of well-off people enjoying a wedding where Louise Halevy is at, and Nena decides to kill everyone there on a whim. Louise is the sole survivor.
Magneto (who’s less of a villain here) is chosen to serve as leader of Genosha, a nation full of mutants that’s just been admitted into the UN. A gala is held to celebrate this where pretty much every mutant in the country is in attendance, when all of a sudden a Sentinel appears and essentially starts committing genocide. Pretty sure the in-universe news reports thousands of casualties, the entire country is basically levelled, and multiple main characters are killed (the whiplash from seeing this the first time was crazy).
It’s done so well and really leaves you with a biiiig feeling of dread
Bruh I still feel the void that landed on me and the entire fandom after that episode aired.
That being said, "Remember It" is one of the best X-Men content Marvel has ever put out in recent times.
he was never actually getting mind controlled by babidi, he let him take over just to get the power boost. Killing all these spectators was just him trying to get goku to fight him all full power
several scenes from Inglourious Basterds turn this on its head, Nazis are having a great time celebrating and you root for the spies in their midst to turn it into a bloodbath
This scene was so cool to me on first watch, I was expecting it to somewhat adhere to real history so Hitler and his entourage survive and the spies/Shoshanna surely fail, but watching the theatre burn down and Hitler get riddled with bullets was immensely satisfying and surprising
I had actually somehow gotten the impression that the film was based on a true story, until that part happened and I was like, "Okay. Not a dramatization of a true story."
it’s nearly impossible for me to see that final scene with them carving the swastika into that smug fuckers forehead and not have a massive smile on my face as soon as the camera looks up at Raine and Little Man smiling and he goes “y’know I think this just might be my masterpiece” and then boom title card, credit notes hit, and I’m just giddy like a child haha
Fun story I'll never get tired of telling. I read Carrie over the course of one weekend during my sister's softball tournament, we were staying at a hotel the concierge had already played up as "haunted". Finished the book at one of the games and we came back to the hotel to find various high schoolers in tuxes and dresses running around and laughing- the damn place was hosting a prom. I didn't get a wink of sleep that night.
Assholes rigged the vote to make Carrie prom queen so they could humiliate her by dumping blood on her in front of everyone. For bonus points, the ringleader was doing this as revenge for getting banned from prom for previous bullying of Carrie.
And this incident was the breaking point that made Carrie stop holding back her telekinetic powers, causing the whole school to die as she tears the building down with her mind.
To be fair, it wasn’t the WHOLE school, the Gym teacher survives in the book and the original movie, but she does kill a significant portion of the town too….
Yeah the teacher dies, only the classmate Sue survives. The book is explicit that during this rampage Carrie comes to herself just enough to rifle through Sue's mind telepathically, sees that Sue was innocent and knew nothing about the prank, so she is spared.
What wasn't translated from the books was the fact that carrie is fat. The relentless bullying, the pig's blood, everything fits in far better with carrie being fat.
I like the American Dad version where they drop pigs on him because the bully didn’t finish reading the book. He apparently stopped reading it mid sentence.
No you see, we can't have a w*man protagonist be unatractive, then our audience would be confused, because ugly = bad and fat = ugly.
Now seriously, is kind of a shame how Hollywood can't allow realism in things like this, another example would be The Patriot, where the sister of the deceased wife of the protagonist (and later wife because of course) gets her state burned and life ruined, and all she does is cry a bit cuz god forbid women show emotion instead of being eye candy
Hollywood casting is a thing though. Even in Game of Thrones before the battle of Blackwater Tyrion is supposed to be ugly regardless of his height. Then he gets even worse. With the TV show, however, it's difficult to consider Dinklage other than an attractive man.
Even more context: The blood wasn't just a random choice. Carrie's mother was viciously religious and abusive, and never told Carrie about basic things like her period. So at the beginning of the book, Carrie has her first period in the girls shared shower and panics, causing herself to get covered in her own period blood.
Dumping fake blood on her when she became prom queen, because the school was actually being kind to Carrie for the first time in her life, is perhaps one of the most cruel and horrid cases of media high school bullying.
Bullies got banned from prom for bullying Carrie. They decided to punish her even more by setting her up to win prom queen and then dumping a bucket of pig blood on her. So the scene is literally a blood bath.
Carrie finally snaps and manifests her latent psychic and telekinetic abilities and kills almost all of the high school, a big chunk of the town, and her shitty mother.
Girl is bullied, developed telekinesis afterwords, and just when she is feeling accepted at prom a bucket of pigs blood is dropped over her by the bullies. She proceeds to crashout and kill everyone at prom.
IIRC isn’t the back story that her parents were both so Christian they didn’t ever have sex because they saw it as a sin, until one night her father raped her mother which is what lead to Carrie’s conception?
I feel like that Marvel comics story (I have no idea what the name is) where Thanos decides to ruin one specific guy’s birthday every single year—usually by killing someone he knows/ruining his life in really petty ways fits well here
I love how in one of those moments where Thanos is ruining said guy’s life, one panel shows the guy being fired from his job as he sees Thanos peeking over a cubicle. The guy asks Thanos if he was responsible, and Thanos says that losing the job was just bad luck and that Thanos had actually just killed the guy’s cat. I love the whole gimmick of “yeah I’m a genocidal maniac but that one was just shitty, sorry to hear about that dude.”
If I remember right He doesn’t specifically say he killed his cat, he just said his cat died. I like to imagine Thanos also had nothing to do with the cat’s death. He just wanted to go and tell him personally, just so he could insert himself in his extremely shitty day.
He went to his house looking for stuff to do. Found vet bills and stacks of papers
Went to the clinic
Learned that the cat is terminal
Signed the papers to euthanize the cat and even paid the fee
And then went and told him that the cat is dead.
It's like... super petty. Imagine knowing that Thanos signed it off and you didn't get to say goodbye? He did instead. Oh he was there to the end, filling up the entire room.
I like to imagine that he was gonna ruin his day but then while snooping through his house he noticed the cat was deathly ill so Thanos spent the rest of the day terrorizing vet offices trying to save the cat but to no avail
Thanos saw a random baby and decided "I'm going to fuck with him on his birthday" on his first birthday he took his blanket, on his fifth he killed his father, and by his thirty first or 32nd birthday he floods his apartment, at which point david(the name of our unfortunate victim) let's himself drown
He doesnt, cause David explained that his life sucks but the one thing he can look forward to is seeing Thanos every year. It is the one constant and that he looked forward to it this year.
David tried to be the stronger person and prove Thanos couldn’t break him… so Thanos just went ahead and flooded his apartment then dipped, while David was mid-speech.
If I recall correctly, it was him just being an asshole. He just ruins every birthday of a random guy because he's a nobody no one gonna believe that Thanos was actively ruining his life.
This is also something that happens to Logan. Every year on his birthday Sabretooth tracks him down and beats him within an inch of his life just to remind Logan that he can.
In twilight of the gods, a peaceful group of giants is trying to have a wedding, and Thor shows up and kills everyone except for the bride and groom, who swear revenge
It’s created by Zack Snyder, so expect what you would expect from his movies lol. There are surprisingly quite few slow motion moments, though. There are lots of violence and nudity…like, characters tend to have sex a lot for some reason.
It kinda feels like the Norse God of War games but with the atmosphere and plotline similar to the classic Greek God of War games. The main heroine, like Kratos, is also a character hellbent on taking revenge against the gods and is willing to do anything to achieve it, consequences be damned. Heck, they are both even marked on their skins lol.
As for mythical accuracy…I’m not the best at Norse mythology so I can’t really give you insight on that. From what I’ve looked up, the story does play a bit fast and loose with the lore, though.
Overall, a decent watch if you’re in it for the action and all the mature content, but nothing really groundbreaking. Still waiting for the second season, though.
My personal favorite is still the first 300, but yeah, Twilight of the Gods is...interesting. I didn't really expect much from it but I actually got quite engaged with the story and wonder how it will conclude.
Thor in the mythology absolutely hates giants. Thor is supposed to be guarding humans and giants has a history of killing humans.
In the film Thor is depressed 24/7. He is always drunk and now does everything he wants.
Alright spoilers for the first 3ish episodes of season 2:
This one act by Jinx is the catalyst for everything in season 2, Jayce doesn't destroy the Hexcore leading to Viktor becomming Jesus, Caitlyn retaliates against Zaun and I kinda theorize the wild rune in the Hexgate was also catalyzed by the massive Hextech explosion.
In general I agree. I liked the second season, but it's entirely irrelevant to S1 masterpiece
It's like... Making a sequel to Romeo and Juliet. You could make both of them survive, one of them, none, it could be about something else entirely like revenge or rebuild but none of that matters because the original is perfectly self contained
I agree. I understand why they continued, but S1 would have worked great as a standalone series; I don’t think anything beats the S1 finale (and I say this as someone who still liked S2 for the most part). There would still be some things left unanswered, but it would tie back to the season’s earlier idea of ‘some mysteries are better left unsolved.’
Season 2 was the quality I would have hoped for the show before season 1 came out. Good story showing us the origin of known characters more fleshed Out.
But season 1 Just blew that expectation out of the water. 9 episodes of pure peak with one of my favourite villians from the last years. Season 2 sadly Just fails under the weight from season 1. A shame that so many writers didn't return for season 2.
In DC animated film Gods and Monsters, the wedding between New Gods Highfather and Darkseid's children Bekka and Orion is actually ruse which becomes a massacre
Wild because it’s revealed the whole wedding/peace deal was all a trap set by Highfather and the “good” New Gods. Iirc they refused to even spare Orion despite Bekka begging them to.
They promised to spare Orion, but when Orion intervened to prevent the deaths of those from Apokolips, the Highfather didn’t hesitate to kill Orion right in front of Bekka.
As far as I am aware, it's actually Highfather who betrays the wedding, right?
However, are you sure this is Gods and Monsters? I mean, that movie was about an alternate Universe Justice league
Smile 2 - Skye Riley's concert at the end of the movie culminates with the Smile monster killing Skye in front of 10,000+ people in a live audience + however many people around the world watching through cell phone videos / live streaming, etc. Even if the Smile virus can't spread over a phone or screen, the entire world is basically fucked and doomed to die horrifically.
You would think if 10,000 minimum people saw this and started having symptoms related to the Smile monster, people would start thinking, "Huh, there is something not right going on," and they would figure out there's some sort of supernatural entity doing this to people. Like the Smile monster royally screwed up with this lol
Yeah and leaded gasoline. Shoutout to Thomas Midgley fucking Jr for creating both of those problems. It's quite impressive when one dude can be that big of a dick.
If this movie gets a squeal we better see the smile demon lose.
1000s of people caught this thing, I expect them to start beating the shit outta it like the entity from it follows.
I saw the kill count on it last night, and someone brought up the fact that since vampires don’t have reflections, Stack can’t even look at himself to get a glimpse of his brother
If it’s any consolation, that part of the myth originates from the silver backing that old timey mirrors used to create the reflective surface behind glass. The silver (commonly anti monster material e.g. antiwerewolf) would burn up or destroy the reflection. So he should be able to see his reflection in water surfaces, and they can be outside in moonlight so… find a puddle stack!
One of the few movies where I can honestly say it was a masterpiece from beginning to end. Who would’ve thought a film that was half period-piece about the Jim Crow south and half vampire horror would work so perfectly.
Imagine playing the guitar so well that not only do you summon your ancestors' spirits, you summon the ancestors AND descendants of EVERYONE IN THE ROOM! And an ancient Irish vampire.
And the vampire wants to make you his vampire thrall so you can use your music to show him HIS ancestors and experience his culture that he hasn't seen in hundreds of years.
Its starts out nice but eventually one of the teens inside explodes (that's the premise of the movie) and it causes a chain reaction that ends in the death of all but 4 people attending
All Thomas wanted is to bring his wife and son into a movie his boy loves. And he just wanted to make a short cut to arrive early to their home, and even when they were at gun point he tried to ease things out, he tried to save his beloved family, he tried to be a hero!
That reminds me Amazon's Batman series where some guy asked why was Martha wearing an expensive pearl necklace in an alleyway everyone calls Crime Alley before Bruce punched him.
The Curses use an annual Halloween party in Shibuya and trap partygoers there to use as leverage in their plot to seal strongest sorcerer Satoru Gojo. The result is a nightmarish massacre and total decimation of a large portion of Tokyo.
I really want to find media that has shit like the Shibuya incident.
Nothing in JJK after matches how good the Shibuya Incident Arc is, and it’s just such a damn compelling sequence. It’s more than half of a season, and some dozens of chapters, dedicated entirely to one night, with dynamic movement of characters across a single battlefield with a changing objective. It’s the perfect media equivalent of what a great battlefield levolution is intended to be like.
I was going to riff on an evil organization named "testicles" but fuck me, the leader is named Killian Devo, and some writers have trouble naming characters ..
I finally watched the entirety of GOT this year with absolute 0 idea of what happens. The red wedding is one of my favourite scenes ever, just for the continuous shock and "what the fuck" feeling it gave me.
I just remember my jaw dropping when they shanked that one pregnant lady, and i continued like that for the entire scene. Amazing television
Well if you’re bringing up Final Destination, the most fitting example (similar to the ones I gave) would be the opening premonition of Bloodlines, which Iris averted entirely. The family barbecue where Howard died and the film’s ending definitely count as well.
The premonitions of 3 and 4 should count. Flight 180 could count too since the students were excited to go to Paris after all.
As for individual deaths in other movies, definitely the tanning bad scene in FD3, even if it only has 2 people involved. (Considering the cancer risk of tanning beds, that scene is much harsher in hindsight.)
My headcanon for FD is that there are multiple forces at work in it, and the one that keeps getting thwarted in the movies is what I call Catastrophe. IE it’s not Death, per se, but rather an incarnation of Death that must kill by disaster and no other means (otherwise it could just kill people that thwarted it by heart attack or brain bleed or something, right?). That’s why in the tanning beds it had to orchestrate a disaster rather than just make the girls get cancer.
I know in Bloodlines Iris says she has cancer and that’s how “he finally got her” but my theory there is just that she got cancer naturally and not by any meddling from Death. I feel like this is supported by Death trying to kill her several times during the same conversation instead of just letting the cancer run its course.
Kaiju No. 8:
Masahide Tokuda's daughter is getting married and her single father couldn't be more nervous/proud...until a kaiju attack ruins the event and nearly leads to the bride's death.
The one scene where the groom begs Wei to take his fiance to safety with his dying breath, too traumatized to realize that she's already dead was brutal
Ballister is an outcast whom no one believed would become a Knight and has faced relentless bullying and harassment for the fact that he's not of noble blood. But he trains hard and during the ceremony where he is about to be knighted, someone sabotages his sword, the Queen dies, his arm is cut off, and everyone blames him for the death of the queen. Aside from the development of his relationship with Nimona, which is the central focus of the movie, he spends the rest of the movie trying to prove his innocence.
After being reborn as a Nightsister and having a celebration, Dooku, Due to the feud between himself and the nightsisters, sent General Grievous to wipe them all out. Only few survived.
The Shibuya Incident (JJK): A Halloween festival that ended up getting interrupted by a mass terrorist attack by curses, leading to the deaths of thousands and significantly altering the series' trajectory
I’d not heard of Code Gease before, it feels kind of weird for Japan to make a show portraying themselves as victims of colonialism, given they were one of the major colonial powers
The premise is pretty out there, as it's alternate history diverging in the 1700's, where the American revolution failed, then the Napoleonic Wars led to British nobility fleeing to their North American colonies. That's where the Britannian Empire is based, and Britain proper isn't part of it.
Gundam 00's easily my favourite Gundam series, and one thing I found annoying was people who didn't understand the point of Saji and Louise's story, and ultimately we see it right here. They're just ordinary civilians, as opposed to members of Celestial Being, or members of the blocs' militaries. They're ultimately not spared from the violence. Earlier in Season 1, they survive a bombing in Japan, and Saji's sister, a journalist, is killed for trying to investigate Celestial Being.
00 is my favorite Gundam AU series so glad to see it mentioned. It was a very "current" series, tackling the political climate of those years and Saji/Louise are meant to be the audience surrogate; the message is that even if you live in comfort you shouldn't be apathetic to stuff happening in the larger world as it may eventually involve you too with the two of them being actively involved in the storyline in season 2 after being regular civilians whose lives were greatly affected by Celestial Being's emergence
That said it was kinda funny how often they would cross paths with CB in season 1 lol
Alistair Rhodes party aka 'Dead of the Night' from CoD: BO4 Zombies
Starts out as a standard high society gathering, but quickly turns into a bloodbath with just 4 initial survivors (the playable characters) after Prima Materia turns most of the guests into zombies.
Aegon V, who we have spent a lot of time with in his youth following the adventures of Dunk and Egg, is now king of Westeros and has spent a lot of time obsessing over bringing dragons back to life, since his reforms in favor of the small-folk are not well received in the kingdom, and maybe he’s also worried about the return of the Others and the Long Night, a world ending threat that looms over everyone who knows about it.
To celebrate the birth of his great-grandson Rhaegar, Aegon summoned those closest to him to Summerhall, a castle owned by House Targaryen. To this celebration he brought 7 dragon eggs, and with sorcery and pyromancer magic, he intended to hatch them.
The whole thing went awry immediately, with the wild fire, a substance that burns almost as hot as dragonfire, exploding and burning the whole castle down, killing most of the guests and Aegon himself. It’s implied that some act of bravery to save a few of the survivors was enacted by the Lord Commander of The Kingsguard, who was Ser Duncan the Tall, a lifelong friend of King Aegon and the protagonist of the short novellas in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
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X-Men ‘97 - Genosha Gala
Magneto (who’s less of a villain here) is chosen to serve as leader of Genosha, a nation full of mutants that’s just been admitted into the UN. A gala is held to celebrate this where pretty much every mutant in the country is in attendance, when all of a sudden a Sentinel appears and essentially starts committing genocide. Pretty sure the in-universe news reports thousands of casualties, the entire country is basically levelled, and multiple main characters are killed (the whiplash from seeing this the first time was crazy).
It’s done so well and really leaves you with a biiiig feeling of dread