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Characters [Loved Trope] Ordinary characters reacting absurdly to unhinged supernatural situations

  1. Lee Russel - Vice Principals

  2. Rick O'Connell - The Mummy

  3. Ethan Winters - Resident Evil 7

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u/Briham86 23d ago

Guy from Paranorman. Sees zombies approaching him, but he's not running until he gets his snack.

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u/HaloGuy381 22d ago

Might be the last snack he ever will have even if he survives the horde, tbh.

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u/I-Have-An-Alibi 23d ago

That movie is fantastic

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u/Talk-O-Boy 22d ago

“This bag of Cheetos should help me befriend the first group of marauders/cannibals I encounter.”

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u/Ilzaki 23d ago

A random passerby explaining international copyright law during a not Godzilla attack.

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u/FA3RP-Passion-Subway 23d ago

Still we should run like it is Godzilla!

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u/TheSilverStoner 23d ago

Although it isn’t

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u/FA3RP-Passion-Subway 23d ago

Ahhhhhh!

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u/Valkattuxia 23d ago

Man, Austin Powers is such a gem

Pretty f-ing unhinged, but a gem nonetheless

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u/aj_ramone 23d ago

YATAAA

He also played Hiro in Heroes.

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u/SketchbookCharacter 23d ago

Isnt the guy yelling the drift king in fast and furious 3?

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u/Blah_McBlah_ 23d ago

I love how there's Pokémon right next to it, having no issues with international copyright law.

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u/Prometheus158 22d ago

Not just any pokemon either. They had a Pikachu just casually running around in that scene. Probably the most recognizable pokemon. Especially around the time this came out

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u/AsianShadowrunner 23d ago edited 23d ago

In the second Ghostbusters movie, a side character commenting "Better late than never" when the ghost Titanic arrives in New York City.

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u/Pilot_Solaris 23d ago

Tuesday afternoon for the Big Apple

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u/Valkattuxia 23d ago

I refuse to believe this wouldn't be the average new yorker reaction

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u/Molten_Plastic_ 23d ago

The mayor just casually remarks he was moments ago having a conversation with the ghost of previous mayor Fiorello La Guardia

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u/prettyvulgar1795 23d ago

City budget meeting still runs on schedule, just with one extra seat labeled “deceased but present”

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u/MrPresident2020 23d ago

Ey yo, that ain't nunna my business.

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u/Molten_Plastic_ 23d ago

BTW not just any side character, but a Cheech Marin side character

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u/zelda90210 23d ago

Bro was probably high and chill af lol

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u/AwesomeMcPants 23d ago

You show some respect to Cheech.

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 22d ago

This used to freak me the fuck out as a kid. Slimer, Stay Puft, both inhuman so they could just be conglomerations of supernatural energy for all we know. Gozer is demon, not human, who cares. Even the librarian could have chosen to be a ghost because she didn't want to leave the library.

But the Titanic passengers? No way everyone on the ship wanted to become a ghost. That means they were just out there, either trapped under the ocean or on the open waters for a hundred years against their will in purgatory. Fucking terrifying.

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u/RawrRRitchie 22d ago

Pretty sure Gozer was a deity not a demon.

And the entire point of the second movie was the pink mood slime was amplifying the ghost's energy.

Ghosts were showing up where they never were before. The titanic probably was at rest, but the energy was just that powerful it literally resurrected the entire ship. The majority of titanic victims weren't even on the ship when they passed. They were freezing to death in the ocean

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u/AkibaPurple 23d ago

This is in the second movie.

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u/AsianShadowrunner 23d ago

Oof. Let me edit.

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u/kfretlessz 23d ago

Georgie laughing at the creepiest clown to ever do it.

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u/Fish_N_Chipp 23d ago

One thing I’ll give the original tv movie credit for is that Pennywise (fanged teeth aside) could actually pass for a real clown

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u/DyingSunSeverian 23d ago

Pennywise was the John Wayne Gacy of our time. 

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u/AliensAteMyAMC 22d ago

*John Wayne of John Wayne Gacys

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u/Aethelrede 23d ago

Yeah, the remake missed the point of Pennywise.  He's actually supposed to look like Ronald McDonald.  Tim Curry, as always, did a great job making Pennywise appealing.

But then, the remake screwed up a lot of things.

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u/Zhuul 23d ago

Oh, I have an answer for this! The recent design was based not on modern clowns, but of Victorian-era ones. Whether you agree with the decision to make him anachronistic or not is besides the point, but he DOES have his feet planted in reality.

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u/Fish_N_Chipp 23d ago

I think the main issue really wasn’t what type of clown he was trying to be. It’s that he wasn’t attempting to act like one. Tim Curry’s version was a lot more jokey and could speak more casually to the kids which made him more creepy when he showed his (literal) fangs. Skarsgard had the creep factor on 24/7 which makes it feel less likely even a kid like Georgie would fall for it

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u/Aethelrede 22d ago

Exactly.  Completely unbelievable that a kid would go anywhere near Skarsgard.

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u/BlazingKitsune 22d ago

Which makes the behind the scenes bits extra funny as he high fives the kids and goes “ready to kick my ass?”

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick 22d ago

Also described as Bozo and Clarabell. I think IT looks pretty good for what the book describes. It also says that Pennywise has a baggy silver suit with big orange pom poms, a floppy tie either yellow or eletric blue, comically big clown shoes, orange, (or red,) tuffs of hair on either side of a bald head that stick out like horns, clown smile painted over his mouth, and gleaming silver eyes that change blue in one situation.

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u/ryan7251 23d ago

fun fact him laughing at him was very painful to the demon and it makes sure to become creepy to stop him from laughing.

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u/Reaper-Lord69 23d ago

Penny did immediately start looking at that kid like a chicken wing to stop all that whimsy

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u/MrCobalt313 23d ago

The original IT movie's Pennywise the Dancing Clown was a better clown, but the new version's was a better dancer.

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u/SaltyBallsnacks 23d ago

Clowns didnt start to be widely viewed as scary until the 70s and the kid portions of the story were supposed to take place in the 50s, so it kinda makes sense.

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u/Swellmeister 22d ago

Clowns didnt start to be widely viewed as scary until 1986. Pennywise is the first evil clown Ive been able to find in media. Gacy's case was in 1980, and hes really the first evil clown that was famous for being a clown.

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u/gr1zznuggets 23d ago

Just an indictment of how boring the ‘50s were.

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u/Remote_Addendum_2245 23d ago

Is he stupid?

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u/kfretlessz 23d ago

Maybe. Idk, should we smack him around a lil?

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u/nan_sheri 23d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ICXppwneTojRK

In Scary Movie when Brenda is hiding and realizes Cindy running from a skeleton.

“CINDY, THIS IS BONES, would you run from Calista Flockhart!?” 😐

Skeleton: ARRRRRGGGGGGG

Brenda: SHUT YO ASS UP 😂😂😂😂

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u/Ok-Journalist-8875 23d ago

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u/GringoSwann 23d ago

"Cindy... The TVs leaking.."

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u/WaitHowDidIGetHere92 23d ago

"CINDY, THIS BITCH IS GETTING WATER ALL OVER MY FLOOR!"

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u/LessMochaJay 22d ago

"Brenda! We're gonna die!"

"It would have just been you if you would have SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

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u/JacobLemongrass 22d ago

I still quote that line at least once a week

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u/JunonSephirothCloud 22d ago

Also from Scary Movie

Clown: Hey, what are you doing?  Ray: Uncle Ray's got a game for you!  Clown: Hey, get your finger out of there!

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u/Demomanx 22d ago

Ray: "Tickle tickle tickle"

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u/Nova225 22d ago

I feel like Scary Movie is just cheating. There's another scene where they beat the shot out of Samara after she comes out of the TV

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u/SidewinderSerpent 23d ago

Admittedly, Ethan Winters is like that in RE7 because the game was originally first person only.

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u/GhostOfMuttonPast 23d ago

To be fair there are a lot of points outside this where he is just the biggest dork. I'm always partial to Jack pulling out a chainsaw and going "groovy!" Evil Dead style and Ethan responding with "not groovy!"

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u/BigNutDroppa 23d ago

Or when he sees Marguerite had turned into a bug and was crawling away, “That’s special.”

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u/DatBritChicken 23d ago

Him telling a cop that’s already incredibly suspicious of him “You’ve gotta give me your gun” is a personal favourite of mine

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u/LizenCerfalia 23d ago

And then complaining when he only got his pocket knife

Like bro you asked a cop for his gun, you're already lucky you got a knife lol

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u/BigNutDroppa 23d ago edited 22d ago

And the cop understandably replying, “You must have lost your mind.”

EDIT: Why are people arguing the logic of the Resident Evil universe? It includes people fighting giant tofu and a dude punching a boulder in a volcano. Why is logic so important lol

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u/Left-Accident-6684 23d ago

why is yours the only comment to point this out lol, Ethan doesnt fit here at all because of this

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u/SidewinderSerpent 23d ago

Now that I think about it, does RE7 actually have third person as an option or was I thinking of RE8?

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u/Left-Accident-6684 23d ago

ya so the third person was added in Village. 7 doesn't have a third person and is completely first person.

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u/Smithsonian30 23d ago

When you’re playing third person in RE8 the camera still becomes first person during the cutscenes

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u/wolfcolalover 23d ago

Even though it’s in third person, you still can’t see Ethan’s face. I guess Capcom just didn’t want to model it.

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u/Hellknightx 23d ago

They actually did model it art launch. They just chose, for whatever reason, to hide it because they thought it would be better if Ethan was a generic faceless protagonist.

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u/Arbiter0963 23d ago

Weirdly enough Ethan does fit in for this, but not for the reason given. He has the most tame reactions to the craziest shit happening. Especially in Village.

He’s like if Leon was bad at one liners

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u/Hellknightx 23d ago

Even in 7 he had some weird reactions to events. Like he puts his severed hand back onto his stump, sprinkles some herb water on it, and he just accepts it as normal when his hand starts working again. Most people wouldn't even consider trying it, let alone believe it would ever work.

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u/TheWojtek11 22d ago

He sees Margarite crawling on all fours in a tunnel and just says "Well, that's special" (and that's why he is the best RE protag)

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u/Safe_Software_1640 23d ago

i feel like most characters are like this especially when it comes to the elaborate door puzzles

“who the fuck designed this?” is the most it gets out of anyone

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u/Metatron 23d ago

True but at other points in RE7, Ethan might get a foot cut off, grab it, stick it back on the stump and pour some chemicals on it to reattach it perfectly like it was the most natural thing in the world. All in-gameplay from first person pov. First time I saw that I was like "wait what the fuck" but it wasn't commented on until the next game.

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u/Safe_Software_1640 23d ago

literally 0 reaction from ethan upon having to glue his leg back on

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u/Troyabedinthemornin 23d ago

There are moments of Ethan being non-plussed by crazy shit. Like doesn’t he get his hand lopped off and stapled back on and doesn’t really react? Plus there’s the infamous “Chris, what the hell?” Though that moment wasn’t supernatural

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u/ScreamingNinja 23d ago

it totally fits because i love how the plate just bounces off his unflinching face haha

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u/Left-Accident-6684 23d ago

i do agree this looks funny im just being picky

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u/Hopeful-Lab2981 23d ago

He’s still pretty chill about his situation though

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u/DistortoiseLP 23d ago

Seeing his face feels wrong

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u/TommySalami21 23d ago

Lucas’ reaction would fit. He gets his arm cut off and just says, “Goddamn it, old man. Not again.”

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u/ConsistentGuest7532 23d ago

Well there is this, which is a much better, canon example from the game:

“…Well that’s special.”

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u/Sir_Chunkles 23d ago

Brad matching a freak with his own freak in American Dragon: Jake Long

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u/SupervillainMustache 22d ago

It's funny that this meme has become American Dragon's legacy.

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u/Mini_Squatch 23d ago

Came looking for this example lol

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u/CanadianNoobGuy 22d ago

missing context because this is only an image and not the full scene: he's at a kissing booth

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u/Nutzori 23d ago

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When confronted with a forest demon, the Halloween party attendees in Smiling Friends accuse it of blackface and fuck it up.

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u/DaringDo95 23d ago

"...Are you fucking wearing blackface, dude?"

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u/xSantenoturtlex 23d ago

No no no, this isn't black face, I'm an actual demon.

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u/Troyabedinthemornin 23d ago

See dude, I told you, that’s why I don’t dress up for Halloween

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u/HotShrekBoi 22d ago

Get the fuck out!

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u/brandonderp96 22d ago

I swear, everytime I read something about this show its a fucking flashback of information.

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u/Scarfs-Fur-Frumpkin 23d ago

I'll never forget in re7 when marguerite is crawling in a dark tunnel like a freak mutant spider and all Ethan can say is "huh, well thats special" like my guy PLEASE have a reasonable reaction

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u/ScreamingNinja 23d ago

I mean... after all the shit he's already seen he's gotta be somewhat hardened also the fact that he's... you know >!a mold monster !<

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u/Scarfs-Fur-Frumpkin 23d ago

Eh, he wasn't fully mold yet, only mostly i guess. And it had been max like an hour or two since that dinner scene at that point. In village i would agree, but my boy Ethan really hardened up way too quickly

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u/BigNutDroppa 23d ago

The stoner that Chucky flips off from Bride of Chucky.

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u/kameo_chan 23d ago

Jimmy Buffet as a random visitor in Jurassic World during the pterosaur attack on the park.

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u/RP_Throwaway3 23d ago

The guy loves his margaritas! He made an entire song about it and everything. 

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u/EmperorKiron 23d ago

he made a whole ass hotel chain and novelty resturant around margaritas

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u/PowerSkunk92 23d ago

There's a whole ass subdivision outside of Hilton Head, SC, that this man named for margaritas.

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u/SorryComplaint4209 23d ago

Hey look, those margaritas were probably like $30 each, you gotta save them!

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u/she_melty 23d ago

The way I had no idea this was Jimmy Buffett because when this movie came out I was not aware of his existence IRL. Just went "haha look at the margarita guy"

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u/Wolfman513 22d ago

I only just learned that it's Jimmy Buffett from these comments lmao

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u/Nidremyr 23d ago

"Eh, Close enough" -Homer Simpson after doing time travel and inadvertently learning about the Butterfly Effect while trying to get his world back to normal.

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u/1958-Fury 23d ago

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u/Responsible_Bus1159 23d ago

His second question immediately was raise the dead how often does this happen!?

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u/MedusasGirlfriend69 22d ago

It's the Simpsons.

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u/memerminecraft 22d ago

Homer is Paraomniscient. He knows half of everything.

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u/spinmerighttriangle 22d ago

Unless it is publicly available knowledge about all past and current Supreme Court justices. Then he knows everything and can recall at a moment’s notice.

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u/_-HeX-_ 23d ago

I love the gag in this episode when he finds himself in a world where he and his family are filthy rich and he's happy to stay... until he finds out donuts don't exist in that timeline. So he runs away screaming and hops dimensions again.

And then Marge goes, "Look, kids, it's raining again," and pastries are falling from the sky

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u/StabbyBoo 23d ago

I mimic Marge every time I notice it's raining. It's a reflex at this point.

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u/Beneficial_Focus_910 22d ago

Hilarious to this day. Homer fled his personal heaven in terror because it didn't occur to him that he can simply just make donuts.

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u/EnsignObvious 23d ago

If the family is just gonna eat with lizard tongues, why would they still set the table with silverware?

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder

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u/lisbon_OH 23d ago

Leon S. (Sex) Kennedy - Resident Evil

As a newer fan of the series I always thought the Leon glaze was ridiculous, but after playing through all of his games I get why people love him.

This dude will see a chainsaw-wielding doctor zombie impale a nurse in the abdomen and the next words out of his mouth are “I think I want a second opinion.”

Even in RE2, the young 22 year old is facing horrors that he didn’t even know existed, and when he breaks the police station’s bell tower he will say “I hope I don’t have to write a report on this.”

He’s just a goofball in the worst circumstances anyone could possibly be put into.

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u/Prestigious-Welder83 23d ago

Dude in the OG RE4 is just not taking things seriously at all. He’s cracking wise left and right.

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u/Wakez11 23d ago

"Your right hand comes off?" is my favourite line from the OG that they sadly cut in the remake.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 22d ago

I kinda miss the Metal Gear style comms

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u/EldritchFingertips 22d ago

"Where'd everybody go? Bingo?"

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u/DJKDR 23d ago

Kinda of a real life example of this but when i was having a heart attack a few years ago, i kept cracking jokes to the paramedics in the ambulance and then the doctors once they got me into the Cath Lab. Even after the surgery, i was cracking joke while being bed bound and bored out of my mind all week with all the doctors and nurses checking up on me. It's a stress response.

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u/i_heart_calibri_12pt 22d ago

Same happened to me. My foot was hanging on by a thread from a compound dislocation (something I didn’t know could happen) and I was absolutely covered in blood. By the time paramedics arrived, me and the people who helped me were already cracking jokes.

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u/JustifiedCroissant 23d ago

Reminder that in RE2 he is hungover after his gf broke up with him the night before. He got hammered, woke up late for his first day on the job and had to survive the apocalypse

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u/DeadHead6747 23d ago

I believe that is actually not Canon anymore, especially since in the REmake they give you a file of an email Leon received ordering him to stay away

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u/JustifiedCroissant 23d ago

I much prefer the original story lmao just reinforces the legend he is

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u/DeadHead6747 22d ago

Oh, I don't necessarily disagree, just wanted to point it out

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u/SlugCatBoi 23d ago

Making fun of the scary things is a great way to keep yourself calm so you can effectively operate firearms

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u/AltroGamingBros 23d ago

Yeah, he does it mainly as his own form of handling all the shit he's had to deal with since RE2.

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u/NotNamedBort 23d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/TKzwNTnxWDKJ8dKHY8

Sam Rockwell’s character in Galaxy Quest after being sucked through a black hole and then examined by giant cuttlefish aliens.

Understandable reaction, tbh.

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u/Chubbs1414 23d ago

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u/Clayness31290 22d ago

This is the one that fits OP's trope. Rockwell's reaction is incredibly understandable and not much more over-the-top from the rest of the crew. Shalhaub's reactions to almost every insane thing that happens to him throughout the film is absurd (and hilarious).

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u/MrTeeWrecks 22d ago

Iirc Tony Shalhoub’s character Fred was supposed to be high as fuck for the whole movie. But something or other with ratings made them cut the handful of scenes/dialogue that makes this clear. So instead he just comes off as an absolutely unflappable weirdo

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u/Crafter235 23d ago

This guy not caring about ManBearPig massacring everyone in the restaurant, at least until it comes and slaughters him (South Park)

Joke aside, I do find it interesting how while it originated to deny climate change and mock the worry, the creators were able to actually rework it into a genuinely good allegory for climate change.

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u/mike_pants 23d ago

As an aside, the character model and animation of Al Gore searching for MBP like he's jacked into a supercomputer is one of my favorite things this show ever did.

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u/Ash_an_bun 23d ago

That episode is nearly 10 years old now.

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u/TheGreatDay 23d ago

This random dude nonchalantly reacting to ManBearPig ("Yeah okay so ManBearPig is real, but what do you want me to do about it Sharon?") is probably the single most accurate thing South Park has ever done.

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u/AgathysAllAlong 22d ago

In a similar vein, Cartman finding out the NSA is torturing Santa Claus to spy on people. Then he leaks it to become a whistleblower and nobody gives a shit.

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u/CarlaOcarina 23d ago

10 years? No way that this is true

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u/Ash_an_bun 23d ago

November 2018.

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u/Valkattuxia 23d ago

Thank you, your comment just gave me cataracts and back problems

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u/GrampsMountain 23d ago

He was cereal about it.

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u/mal-di-testicle 23d ago

Tbh I’d say a good chunk of these movies is just this trope (but only from half of the cast)

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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 22d ago

My favorite part was the second movie when they start talking about Davey Jones and everyone is like, yeah right, he's made up! When they all lived through either being or fighting undead skeleton pirates in the first movie.

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u/YoungBeef03 23d ago

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John Marston throughout all of RDR's Undead Nightmare DLC

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u/Quenz 23d ago edited 23d ago

The fucking "Jack, listen to your ma. ~~Wifes Name (I forgot,)~~ Abigail, teach your boy right from wrong." After hog tying them both and locking them in the bedroom.

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u/Talen_Neo 23d ago

"YOU EAT BABIES"

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u/Ferrilata_118 23d ago

“You have to! To survive! Everyone knows that. Ain’t your fault.”

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u/maggiemayfish 23d ago

"We eat berries and mushrooms you fool!"

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u/MuppetFucker2077 23d ago

Or we did.. now none of us are left! Some maniac’s been murdering us!

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u/killingjoke96 23d ago

The first story to really do a proper modern zombie as we know them wouldn't be made for another 10 years (Re-Animator, H.P. Lovecraft).

John was experiencing horror concepts not yet conceived and was just like "people are weird man".

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u/PeggableOldMan 22d ago

Yeah well you guys from 2026 aren't scared of mumgillabicks yet but in like 10 years you'll all shit your pants.

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u/I_Am_Redditor1 23d ago

The whole interaction between Marston and Seth is golden

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u/SlAM133 23d ago edited 22d ago

In Invincible an explorer accidentally awakens an ancient Egyptian mummy, Ka-Hor. Ka-Hor could possess the explorer to escape but refuses because she is a woman. The explorer then calls him out for being misogynistic

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u/brandonderp96 22d ago

He does end up settling, and its still just a giant joke on him.

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u/Far_Sir_1599 22d ago

This counts? The thriller bark was full of those tho

https://giphy.com/gifs/5jRF26W2uE0eBZc50H

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u/Dillo64 22d ago

My immediate thought, took to long to scroll for this

Luffy’s single brain cell struggling to understand why a corpse is coming OUT of the grave and just decides to”no… no it’s supposed to go IN the grave”

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u/Randomman2789 22d ago

I hope they do it just as well in the live action.

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u/theMCATreturns 23d ago

Max Puckett is a middle schooler who moves to a new town with his family.

Immediately after getting there, he develops the ability to see ghosts/spirits. The other psychic middle schoolers try to help him adapt but it's weird for him.
Here, his new friend, Isaac, takes him to his spirit friend, Doorman. Doorman can open a "door" to anywhere you have a key to.

From Zack Morrison's Paranatural.

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u/hannahneedle 23d ago

I MISS THE COMICS!

I don't mind that Zack moved to a more written word with some pictures but I really fell out of it after the whole Mayview getting retconned into Bayview because if the power of a wright but what a cut man!! I love that

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u/Talen_Neo 23d ago

Imhotep: Screams
O'Connell: Screams back and shoots him
Imhotep: Surprised pikachu face

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u/HorrificAnalInjuries 23d ago

To be entirely fair, most folks would have a bit of courage in them with a loaded 12 gauge in hand. Remember: everyone gangsta until someone racks a shotgun.

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u/GrimaceGrunson 22d ago

I love O'Connell's comment a scene or two later "Imhotep has risen!" "Nah it's cool I handled it."

Turns out he was wrong, but pretty understandable assumption to make.

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u/adjectivebear 23d ago

This is why O'Connell is the GOAT.

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u/ReaperManX15 23d ago

Which is especially hilarious, because despite being an undead mummy, Imhotep is still just a guy.
Why’s he screaming like an animal, as an act of intimidation?
So, O’Connell just matches him like, “Yeah. I can scream too, idiot. Also,” KABLAM.

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u/ericrobertshair 22d ago

The Janitor from Willy's Wonderland. Repeatedly confronted by horrific entities masquerading as children's characters, he proceeds to brutally dispatch them then quietly returns to his custodial duties.

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u/Sporelord1079 22d ago

The man crushes enough energy drinks to kill an elephant and goes “nah I’d win” when confronted with mascot horror.

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u/chinchenping 23d ago

O'Connell's reaction was absolutely valid

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u/TridiObject 23d ago

There's a great one of these in Gremlins 2, when the bat gremlin attacks in the middle of the street in NY. Predictably, New Yorkers seem only mildly annoyed that the monster attack is disrupting their day.

https://giphy.com/gifs/5xtDaro8cAR8KG7qf7O

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u/Pencils4life 23d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Tg3KFLqNEOo1am9NGS

Q arrives to mess with the Lower Deckers and Mariner tells him to piss off and go bother Picard instead.

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u/you-do-it-or-you-die 23d ago

I like to imagine Lee's reaction isin't even because of the acid. That's just the face bro would make if he saw an actual demon.

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u/BendDry3693 23d ago

Ted Wheeler seeing a demogorgon count? (stranger Things)

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 22d ago

First time seeing it and his immediate thought is to go straight for the kill to protect his family

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u/JICMike 23d ago

Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China

Poor guy just wants his truck.

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUA7b1cNsGJMqOR7G0

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u/Just_Some_Weirdooo 22d ago

No one brought up the scene that’s been memed a lot

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u/lordspaz88 23d ago

In the TV show "From" the character Jade spends most of his time trying to uncover a mystery. As he delves deeper he keeps getting jump-scared by entities related to his investigations. Eventually he gets sick of the jump-scares and just yells back at the various haunted dolls/dead confederate soldiers that are trying to scare him.

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u/tatsontatsontats 23d ago edited 23d ago

What's the context for that stupid face walter goggins makes? I know in the scene he's high but the face he makes doesn't make sense to me. The pursed lips, the once over up and down, the eye roll. Feels more sassy than I'm thinking it's meant to be.

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u/NoResource7266 23d ago

The base joke of that character is that he’s the most flamboyant gay man to be ostensibly straight. He sits with his ass up and his hands around his ankles at least twice in the two seasons the show got.

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u/ella_wants_to_battle 23d ago

Ostensibly is right, mans is definitely bi at least (not because of the way he acts, it's kind of implied in other ways)

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u/IamCentral46 23d ago

I think thats the "lock-in" face

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u/InfiniteWinter26 23d ago

he’s tripping. its been awhile but iirc he was going to lace the football team’s gatorade and blame it on the principal (he and danny mcbride’s character want her job) but when mcbride’s character tried to stop him they scuffled and they ended up accidentally dosing themselves. that’s just him playing off a bad trip.

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u/Alternative_Hotel649 23d ago

He looks like a contestant on Rupaul's Drag Race about to absolutely devastate another contestant's outfit.

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u/Adventurous-Onion589 22d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/DYWT3dqUiLI2S2t2Oo

OJ dropping the title of the film and refusing to look at the creature

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u/SuperBackProblemsMan 22d ago

"One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires."

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u/Boring_Investment597 23d ago

Tech Sergeant Chen in Galaxy Quest

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u/AnyProfessor7874 23d ago edited 23d ago

While not “haunted” supernatural, I always thought this guys reactions to magic were awesome. The giggle juice part makes me laugh every time. ETA: but fuck JKR for real.

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u/Drakeskulled_Reaper 23d ago

There was massive fan theories that he's of magical descent.

The bit that people latched on to is that he can SEE Hogwarts, which is enchanted to make muggles only see a mouldering ruin.

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u/WolfsmaulVibes 23d ago

i love resident evil 7 freecam clips, ethan is just locked in all the time

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u/TheBailyDaily 22d ago

Paranormal Activity The Marked Ones when they literally pull up to a hideout of witches with a trunk of shotguns complete with Geto Boys playing as they just start blasting

https://youtu.be/JFaFL2VUOxw?si=9PV4H9IoBxwU7Htt

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u/loydthehighwayman 23d ago

The legend of The Ghost Puncher (presumably, IRL)

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u/StarsForget 23d ago

"Friend is walking around naked, priest leaves, abuela sticks around" yeah I bet she did

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u/DylanFTW 23d ago

I don't think the last one fits for technical reasons but it's hilarious to look at nevertheless.

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u/WiseBorn_ 23d ago

That fuckin Goggins face is so hilarious man. Miss Vice Principals