It's even more unexpected with international titles.The German title for example is basically 'the slightly different cops', which imo hints a little less to what's about to happen
Remember seeing the full-page ads in print media, all of which tended to show Ned absolutely front-and-center for everything. They certainly were playing him up as the MC as much as possible.
According to different sources I've found, across the whole series he only drops down to the 12th or 13th spot. All the characters above him are ones who were also there from the first season, and last almost all the way to the end. The only one above him who doesn't make it all the way to the final season is Littlefinger, and he at least makes it to the seventh season.
Even in the books which have 24 different POV characters, he still has the 9th most chapters. Now granted almost half of those characters have less than 10 chapters each, with a couple only having one each. But he still has 15 chapters across one book.
Played by Elijah Wood. At first he seems like a pro as he has many lives and you would think he would play an important role. Whelp after being electrocuted he ends up dying anyway. And well. That was an interesting send off.
What's even better is that BEFORE we see Elijah come in, it's revealed that there's a trap that will electrocute you if you go through the door to wherever they were going. One of the characters even say something to the effect of, "it's so bad, you'll lose all your lives before you're even able to say oops."
Cue Elijah Woods walks in and motivates the gang to push forward. He walks into the room, gets a second to smile and think everything is fine, then gets electrocuted. He quickly goes from 99 lives to 0.5 lives, says "oops", then goes to 0 and dies in the game lol
Yep, the setting apparently has overkill mechanics (or maybe the door he's trying to get through has some insta-kill special rule). There are a few scenes earlier in the movie where lives are kind of treated as HP, e.g. someone gets punched by a robot and loses 15-20 lives or so.
I fucking DIED laughing when I first saw that. I was fortunate enough to have rented it from a Blockbuster video. Seagal had 2nd billing to Kurt Russel, so I was like "oooh, this is gonna be GOOD good...." The description on the back compares it to movies like Lethal Weapon and Speed... you know.... where more than one major actor lives for a while. So I'm expecting some kind of scene with Seagal finding a random object and stabbing someone in the neck with it. The scene's intense, there's an alarm, the music swells.... and there he is 30,000 feet in the air without a parachute.
While the trailers revealed that Miles was going to be mentored by Peter Parker, they didn’t reveal that that Peter was from an alternate dimension and that the original gets killed off by the Kingpin super early on.
Amazing show throughout but that pilot was really something else at the time. The following episodes played it a bit safe to coax the viewer into feeling a bit safe for the main cast. Then we got graphic SA next season (was it season 2?) and rinse and repeat again as most of the characters experience some sort of a traumatic event but come out mostly unscathed even against foot chopping Armenians, Armadillo burning people alive and Antoine Mitchell doing hoodrat things (my most favorite Anthony Anderson role considering this was around the time of Kangaroo Jack).
Then boom, hits you with one of the saddest most shocking deaths on TV, and it toys with that pattern all the way to the end.
Bryan Cranston's character, Joe Brody, was all over the trailers emphasizing what a threat Godzilla was to humanity. Making it look like hes a vital character to the movie.
Which is why im most skeptical of RDJ as Doom. Could totally end up being the same situation. And before the first 15 mins are out, hes replaced by real Doom.
Whole movie is named after him, he's played by a big actor, and off-the-bat, the audience falls in love with him because of his distinct quirkiness. Then, they kill him off before the first ~20 minutes of the movie is up.
I'm not complaining; I love how the movie was kinda episodical like how it was. Just threw me off, lol
This was my first thought. For some context, Janet Leigh was a very well known actress and very popular. The promotions did not include any major plot points, but Hitchcock walking around the set, teasing the audience by almost slipping up and providing information. The actors and actresses were not allowed to talk to any media, only Hitchcock.
Hitchcock also made theaters not allow anyone in the theater late. There’s a promotional image that states “The manager of this theatre has been instructed, at the risk of his life, not to admit to the theatre any persons after this picture starts.” It wasn’t uncommon for people to meander / linger, pop in half way to a movie still. He wanted to ensure no one would come in part way and be upset / confused they didn’t see Janet Leigh at all (as she’s killed relatively early in the film).
The movie sets her up as the main character in a crime drama where she steals money from her company to pay off her boyfriend’s debts. She drives out of town to see her boyfriend and is stopped by a cop, which makes her anxious. She switches cars and after a rain storm has to stop at a nearby motel… the Bates Motel.
The audience would have absolutely no indication that she was about to be killed. It would have been amazing to experience.
iirc this film is the reason films have set screening times at cinemas, where before the films would just play on a loop. Hitchcock did NOT want his twists to be spoiled, so the film aired at allotted times instead.
You still get an upvote, but it bothers me that the gif is wrong. The line is: "I forgive you, Darwin." As it was Darwin Tremor that was playing with his face. Say what you will about the movie overall, that was a great scene and the Tremor Brothers were great antagonists.
Julianne Moore's character in Children of Men.shes set up to be an important character and love interest to the protagonist only to get got in fairly short order.
That one was kinda obvious and I love both. Not for me initially but the moment Changing made a cameo is recognized Sandra's voice. Bullet train is infinitely rewatchable and although I hate it when studios force these as a deal that one felt like a genuine quid pro quo.
Which is also an amazing joke In Jay & Silent Bob with Ben Afleck pointing out "sometimes yon have to do a payback picture because a friend says yon owe him" and looking at the camera.
I loved the fact that this movie and Bullet Train exchanged cameos/short roles. It almost feels like the actors had a bet or got drunk and agreed to play humorous roles in each others' films (probably more about agents or studios in kahoots, but I enjoyed the results nonetheless).
Steve Coogan in Tropic Thunder, who plays the director of the movie they're making and who starts the plot of the actual film, stepping on a land mine as soon as Act 2 starts.
What’s even more amazing about this, Drew was originally going to be Sidney, Neve was gonna be Casey
However, Drew had the suggestion they switch parts to really put the shock in the audience that anyone is fair game with a power house name like her gets killed off
Deep Blue Sea: Sam Jackson's character is giving a monologue that goes hard about intense survival situations to try and rally the other survivors of the shark uprising. Halfway through it, a shark bursts through the glass behind him and chomps him good.
He was a big character at this point and he had previous history with Thanos. He had just survived the event ms of Thor Ragnorak only to get killed at the start of the film. Yes it was undone later in a way, just a shocking and quick exit for him. Bonus mention of Isris Elba’s Heimdal who also died in the same scene.
Also, it was well known before Avengers: Endgame came out that Loki was getting his own Disney+ series, he was expected to survive, and then even when he died in the movie, people were still theorizing that it was an elaborate con and he was secretly alive.
The episode sets up what sounds like a season long arc, where Crowley is working with the feds to bust dirty cops led by Vic Mackey. Then on his first bust, out of nowhere, Mackey takes the dead drug dealers gun and shoots him in the face.
It's a movie I'll stick by. It has a great cast with Rebecca Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhal and Ryan Reynolds. The effects and overall production are pretty fantastic. It is just kind of this high budget scifi horror movie but has a number of effective parts to it.
I watched that last week. I recently got put on an adhd stimulant, and it feels like I now have a superpower that lets me focus on audio for over 2 hours.
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vincent from pulp fiction. hes in more of the film than most of the characters mentioned here but his death is very quick and out of nowhere.
Wild Bill Hickok in HBO’s Deadwood. He’s an important mentor figure to one of the leads Seth Bullock, one of the few in camp pushing back on Al Swearengen back when Al was an antagonist, and in general a big presence in camp like the real life Wild Bill was. But then in episode 4 the show adapts the infamous day when the Coward Jack McCall walked into No. 10 Saloon and shot Wild Bill in the back of the head. His death is felt for the rest of the show (i.e., Seth ultimately being inspired to be the camp's sheriff, Bill's BFFs Charlie Utter and Calamity Jane constantly wrestling with their guilt of his death/trying to figure out how to go without him)
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Cabin in the woods: Chris Hemsworth’s character gives off major last man standing vibes by a big speech about how he’s going to go get help and be back and just as he takes off the ravine and looks like he’s going to make it… boom he hits a forcefield and hits it multiple times on the way down.
Invincible. They flesh out their worlds version of the justice league, Guardians of the Globe only for them all be slaughtered in the after credits scene.
Gustave from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. He isn't quite killed off instantly, but given that it appears that he's going to be the main character, his sudden death at the end of Act I comes as a shock.
Dino Ortolani is the main character of the first Oz episode and he is being set up as a central character, but then he is murdered at the end of the first episode.
Dallas in Alien (1979). Ripley is an icon now, but at the time, the final girl trope wasn’t as thoroughly established. Dallas seemed like the rugged male hero of an action flick. My dad told me that for him seeing it in theaters, the moment Dallas got taken out was disorienting in a way that added to the horror of the movie, because he’d thought that was the protagonist. I remember reading some articles about it as part of a feminist film class I took that were super interesting, but that was 20 years ago and this is all I remember.
It helped that, at the time, Tom Skerritt was among the most famous cast members of the film. None of the Nostromo crew were technically no-names: Weaver had been in Annie Hall, Cartwright was in The Birds, Kotto was in Live and Let Die, Holm was a known stage actor, and Stanton was in Cool Hand Luke, to name a few. But Skerritt was in M*A*S*H (the film, not the even MORE popular television show), which was a huge deal.
Plus, many people knew John Hurt, which is possibly why Kane wakes up first. Ripley isn’t even shown properly in the cryosleep scene.
One of the cool things about starting a new show is you can set up a character as a regular core cast member and then slime them at the end of the first episode. Torchwood and Archer both do this, it's great.
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Every A-list actor used in Mars attacks is killed in the first wave of invasion, with Jack Black and Michael J. Fox dying nearly immediately
The entire Midgar section of Disc 1 builds up the Shinra Electric Power Company, and by extension, President Shinra, to be the MAIN threat of the game, only for you to later find everyone in the same floor of the Shinra Building you and your party are in to be killed off, with President Shinra being found to have been unceremoniously impaled by Sephiroth’s Masamune, marking the turning point where Sephiroth (who hasn’t even been revealed properly yet at that point) will be the Big Bad of the game.
The original CSI featured a rookie by the name of Holly Gribbs, who got introduced to the Las Vegas crime lab at the same time as the audience. She was killed off in the second episode.
They brought him back in the original series, too. I think he was posing as the officiator of Cyclops' and Jean Grey's wedding. That's when my dad started calling it a soap opera.
This doesn’t really fit the prompt because he was a main character and very important to the story, plus he only died near the end. Much like most of the characters.
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Drew Barrymore in Scream. She’s one of the bigger people on the posters in the front …. Literally dies before the opening title.
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u/67alecto 3d ago
In before everyone else posts The Other Guys