# Scenes we'd like to see **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510 "2014-04-19T22:08:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/61 "2014-04-22T20:40:28Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > I couldn’t find a youtube clip, but **Orphan Black** did this on the season premiere last Saturday. Yeah, TV producers are much more willing to be darker with their heroes. In the first four minutes of the first episode of Luther, [spoiler]he chases a serial kidnapper/killer up to the top of a factory where the guy falls and is hanging on by his finger tips. Luther stalls, demanding to know where the girl is. When he gets the information, he walks over and steps on the guy’s hands, causing him to fall. (He didn’t die, he was just severely injured.)[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/62 "2014-04-22T21:55:40Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Hero shoots zombie/ super villain nothing happens, then shoots at eyes. > > Hero cuts immortal villain into pieces using sword. I so agree. Whenever there’s a vampire/evil wizard/godzilla that is said to be immune to normal weapons so there’s no point in calling in the army, I at least want to SEE what happens when a minigun fires 6000 uranium depleted-slugs a minute at it. Being hard to kill with a Glock is a WORLD away from being un-damageable by the full might of the US Military. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/63 "2014-04-22T22:07:20Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Yeah, TV producers are much more willing to be darker with their heroes. > > In the first four minutes of the first episode of Luther, > > [spoiler]he chases a serial kidnapper/killer up to the top of a factory where the guy falls and is hanging on by his finger tips. Luther stalls, demanding to know where the girl is. When he gets the information, he walks over and steps on the guy’s hands, causing him to fall. > > (He didn’t die, he was just severely injured.)[/spoiler] In DARKMAN, \ …the superhero starts dangling the villain off the side of a building and promptly gets the usual if-you-kill-me-you’d-be-just-as-bad-as-me speech. _"I’m learning to live with a lot of things,_ says our hero, as the dropped villain dies. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/64 "2014-04-22T22:57:09Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I saw this in an anime. This particular villain was virtually unkillable, even beheading him wouldn’t take him out unless you kept the pieces apart. So one of the heroes sets a trap, blows him into small pieces that are spaced out in a large pit. Then he fills in the pit with rocks and dirt. Then he sets a guard on the covered pit. There’s also the anime movie _Ninja Scroll_, where the immortal bad guy is defeated by immersing him in molten gold, then sinking him to the bottom of the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/65 "2014-04-23T12:05:48Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I so agree. Whenever there’s a vampire/evil wizard/godzilla that is said to be immune to normal weapons so there’s no point in calling in the army, I at least want to SEE what happens when a minigun fires 6000 uranium depleted-slugs a minute at it. Being hard to kill with a Glock is a WORLD away from being un-damageable by the full might of the US Military. In an issue of Justice League, somebody was facing off with Captain Atom (incredible cosmic fusion powers)… Bad guy: “Hah! You can’t hurt me, I can absorb energy!” Atom: “Neat power. DOES IT HAVE A LIMIT???” Atom opens up and shows the guy the surface of the sun at point-blank range. As it turns out, yes, there was a limit. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/66 "2014-04-23T15:09:45Z")
SF movie where a hostile life form is encountered- **Senior Scientist** : “It would be a tragic loss to science… but you’re right, it’s just too dangerous to keep alive.” The End. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/67 "2014-04-23T15:56:27Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > The way I’ve always interpreted that whole thing is… they build the death star, and assume it’s awesome and perfect and has no weaknesses. And if it did, it would be versus very large starships, so they build their defenses to defend against very large starships. Then rebels show up in x wings and start flying towards the trench. So the Death Star engineering department gets back out their schematics of the trench and looks around and, oh shit, notices the unshielded exhaust port. At that point, it’s too late to go out and weld some steel onto it, and it’s too late for a mass evacuation, plus Tarkin is still confident that his guys can beat the X-Wings, plus it’s a tiny target, they don’t know Luke has the force, etc. “we gonna plug up that hole?” “Yeah we can get it done tomorrow if price is no object” [Family Guy reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcL6DwSufMI) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/68 "2014-04-23T19:44:47Z")
Cute girl and new boyfriend are walking down the street and encounter old boyfriend. The breakup between cute girl and old boyfriend was hard on both of them, but it has been some time. Cute girl wants to show that she’s ‘over it’. **Cute Girl** : We should all have dinner together! **New Boyfriend** : Uh…I think I’ll pass. **Old Boyfriend** : Me too. I think that would be kinda weird for no good reason. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/69 "2014-04-24T22:47:15Z")
I’d like to see Van Damme or Segal play an action hero who folds up and whimpers at the first sign of danger. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/70 "2014-04-24T23:09:15Z")
A: How could you not tell me that secret!!?!?!?! B: (Lengthy explanation of how knowing that secret would put A in danger) A: That’s a surprisingly reasonable explanation, sorry I got so upset ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/71 "2014-04-24T23:55:38Z")
Haunted house movie: 1. Skeptic declares “There’s no such thing as ghosts!”; whereupon a straight razor levitates itself and castrates him. Then as he’s crouched in agony clutching his bleeding groin he gasps “I’m sure… there’s a… perfectly… logical… explanation”. 2. The ghost appears. Everyone else runs away screaming; the skeptic declares “What are you scared of? What can it DO- scare you to death by going ‘Boo!’?” Whereupon the ghost reaches through the skeptic’s chest and draws out his bloody heart, instantly draining him to a withered corpse. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/72 "2014-04-25T00:05:58Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Haunted house movie: > > 1. Skeptic declares “There’s no such thing as ghosts!”; whereupon a straight razor levitates itself and castrates him. Then as he’s crouched in agony clutching his bleeding groin he gasps “I’m sure… there’s a… perfectly… logical… explanation”. > > 2. The ghost appears. Everyone else runs away screaming; the skeptic declares “What are you scared of? What can it DO- scare you to death by going ‘Boo!’?” Whereupon the ghost reaches through the skeptic’s chest and draws out his bloody heart, instantly draining him to a withered corpse. I watch relatively few haunted house movies, but… aren’t those the things that DO happen? I feel like “skeptic learns that the supernatural is real” is a much more likely trope IN A HAUNTED HOUSE MOVIE than “skeptic ends up being right”. Or are you saying that what usually happens is that the skeptic somehow keep just not being in the room when the scary stuff happens? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/73 "2014-04-25T00:07:13Z")
[ul][li]Hero slowly walks away from explosion; is killed by the concussion blast[/li][li] “Give me your badge and gun. You’re fired.” “Don’t you mean suspended?” “Nope.”[/li][li] “I’ll have a beer.” “Uh…we have THIRTY beers on tap.”[/li][li] Hero gets knocked unconscious - movie waits several weeks for him to recover[/li] Hero is out of bullets - rather than tossing gun aside, carefully puts expensive firearm back in its holster[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/74 "2014-04-25T00:15:08Z")
[quote=“Morbo, post:73, topic:686510”] [ul][li] “Give me your badge and gun. You’re fired.” “Don’t you mean suspended?” “Nope.”[/ul][/li][/QUOTE] IRL, NO police officer can be summarily fired by his immediate superior; it’s a civil service matter and it has to go through channels. He can certainly be suspended pending almost certain dismissal but there are hearings and appeals. Usually they’ll offer him the chance to voluntarily resign and avoid losing his pension for malfeasance. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/75 "2014-04-25T00:40:06Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > 1. The ghost appears. Everyone else runs away screaming; the skeptic declares “What are you scared of? What can it DO- scare you to death by going ‘Boo!’?” Whereupon the ghost reaches through the skeptic’s chest and draws out his bloody heart, instantly draining him to a withered corpse. I’d like to see the opposite. Scooby and the gang are running away from a ghost that can go through walls. They get cornered, the ghost takes a swipe, and goes right through the good guys and the walls behind it. He keeps trying, while our heroes chuckle and go home. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/76 "2014-04-25T01:00:06Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > “Give me your badge and gun. You’re fired.” “Don’t you mean suspended?” “Nope.” “Fuck you, asshole. This is MY gun. Police departments haven’t issued guns in 40 years.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/77 "2014-04-25T16:45:01Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > IRL, NO police officer can be summarily fired by his immediate superior; it’s a civil service matter and it has to go through channels. He can certainly be suspended pending almost certain dismissal but there are hearings and appeals. Usually they’ll offer him the chance to voluntarily resign and avoid losing his pension for malfeasance. Notice there’s no police union (er, “benevolent association”) in any of these cities. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/78 "2014-04-26T06:09:39Z")
“What’s your phone number?” _“It’s 555-4728”_ “OK, thanks. Hey, waitaminnit, there’s no ‘555’ exchange, that’s why they always put them in movies so some schmuck doesn’t get called for real and ends up suing the studio. Why are you giving me a fake number?!” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/79 "2014-04-26T16:07:32Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > “What’s your phone number?” > > _“It’s 555-4728”_ > > “OK, thanks. Hey, waitaminnit, there’s no ‘555’ exchange, that’s why they always put them in movies so some schmuck doesn’t get called for real and ends up suing the studio. Why are you giving me a fake number?!” I give you [The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine.](http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M45334037e4/The+Adventures+of+Ford+Fairlane/Wait+a+minute.+555%27s+not+a+real+number.) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510/80 "2014-04-26T16:23:49Z")
Hero and villain get into a fight above a river of molten lava. Both are almost instantly killed by the fierce radiant heat and superheated air. A band of cunning dwarves resolve to immerse a dragon in molten gold. The dragon floats like a cork on the absurdly dense liquid. The perky but plain heroine of a romantic comedy carries on a phone relationship with the hot guy from the floor below, who believes he is relating to her hot friend who she has got to front for her. When he finds out, he is furious with the pair of them and shuns them both permanently. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-wed-like-to-see/686510.md?page=5)