Times where you were surprised that an actor's character survived the events of a movie

One of them died though. The action of killing one’s old self was quite the arc.

If you'd have told me in 1990 that in 30+ years there would be a connected 20+ movie Marvel movie series I would think you were full of shit.. if you also told me that in that series one of the most important and well written characters with the some of the most satisfying character growth was Nebula I would have called you insane.

Good point. I think this is one of the many factors of Dr. Strange's one victory criteria. She was critical to that victory (despite also being the inadvertent source of there near defeat again by Thanos) - if the snap had happened any sooner or any later, the folks who were pruned or not might have randomly shifted in some array of ways that it wouldn't have worked out.

And in GOTG 3, I feel like she was the female co-lead more than Gamora.

Meh. She was a guardians of the galaxy character and they already fucked with Gamora.

This is the one I thought of for what the character does in the film, but it's not really what OP is asking about which is specific to the actor. To be honest, not sure if their prompt is applicable to anyone BUT Sean Bean which they added as the example.

Man so much about that movie is so good. The main characters and everything to do with them are one of the worst bits though. "I have to see this" *runs over the top of a hill to look at an army of tripods and then apparently dies* *Ok apparently not* He wants to go look at the tripods? And it's a positive step in Ray's character arc that he doesn't slap his kid and drag him to his feet to run away?

It's genuinely far and away my least favorite part of that movie. And makes it one of my most hated endings in movie history. Cause outside of that it's a f****** great movie. But having him at the house at the end entirely unharmed and okay is just too Hollywood for me. Like you have to at least mildly explain how that's possible. He shouldn't have been there. It makes zero sense logistically and they don't even try to explain it. And it would've been more emotionally effective for someone you care about in the movie to have died. It almost ruins the movie for me how dumb it is the son is there happy at the end. All that said...I think there is a somewhat legit interpretation, due to the lighting and how "perfect" everything seems in that scene, that perhaps they all died and that is the main characters version of "heaven." That is the only read of that scene that doesn't ruin the movie. If taken at face value it's f****** idiotic

I ambushed you with a cup of coffee!!

Came here to say this. Very surprising he was paid off to forget them and that was that. Like "he bullshitted you all with his fake credentials, and threw up on an actual mission." but I like the whole "Sean Bean somehow survives" nod. "Almost in a bit of raspberry jam back there!"

I saw recently Possesser and even though he gets stabbed in the mouth, he lives!

One might say DeNiro murdered him with words, however.

Fantastic movie

Love the film, but as someone who doesn't live too far from Hereford, quite how the f*** no one on set corrected De Niro murdering its pronunciation, heh-ru-fud not here-fud, I've no idea.

In I think a deleted scene it’s implied he’s murdered later.

Came here to say this as well! I kept expecting him to come back at the end to fight the main group and be defeated. Nah, he just left.

I was shocked he survived Pixels, being a character who was rude to Adam Sandler and all, all the pieces were there and then he lived and I saw awwwwww nuts

He also didn’t die in National Treasure. So many opportunities for him to fall down a bottomless shaft but he makes it out and is arrested by Garvey Keitel.

Similar bit with Danny McBride in pineapple express

But we saw you get eaten!

Dude. One of my favorite movies.

Well he was dead inside as a person in rat race. Then became alive when he was dragged into som form of money gamble hitler thing.... does that count?

Bit of a shit ending to an otherwise fantastic movie though.

TBH, I was surprised most of the people in the last couple of Jurassic movies survived. When they had the OG cast alongside Chris Pratt and co., I turned to my brother and said, "If all of them survive, I will actually be disappointed." Needless to say...

The key to his survival is that his Hat is like a Shark Fin

I've heard it's something to do with wanting to atone for his past criminal history and showing people that being a bad guy doesn't pay.

I still love most of the Scream movies but they have some bad moments for this. Spoilers for Scream 7 >! Chad and Mindy are in the bar with all the “suspects”. Ghostface shows up and slices Chad and Mindy once each. They fall over and are out of the rest of the movie. The rest of the characters in that scene get absolutely obliterated. One gets beat up and has their neck sliced. The other gets stabbed then impaled. For some reason Ghostface thinks Chad and Mindy need one slice and everyone else gets a Mortal Kombat fatality.!<

I was just gonna say Scream 7 and then saw your comment, and then the comment responding to you about scream 7. That one character…. Should 1,000% be dead

Of all freaking characters to kill in dumb ways they kill the one whose power is adaptative evolution.......

Well in the book, >!three!< of them do die.

There is another Sean Bean one but if I say it here it will be a huge spoiler.

The real punchline is that he plays a character who has died thrice in the franchise. Sean Bean is the canonically strongest Harry Mason.

You underestimate the power of the darkside.

In that same vein, Leia Organa. They blew up your ship in the vacuum of space. The f*** you mean "force levitate back to safety"?

And then it blew up!

Actually, as far back the early 90’s, he came back by force-transferring his essence into a clone body. George Lucas was any happier about that than about the movie.

But they visually explained it. His force ghost lingered and he had failing clone bodies. He didn’t not die from being thrown down that shaft.

Same actor that plays Carol in the walking dead right? She was so annoying and it irks me that she lives 🤣

Harry was more likely to die than Gay Perry. Perry could handle his business.

You were surprised that they didn’t kill off Indiana Jones in the first 30 minutes? Come on now. I get that you think it’s a dumb scene and that he wouldn’t have survived in real life, but that’s not what’s being asked.

He DOES die in that (after they say “nobody could’ve survived that!”)

I believe the factoid goes: Danny Trejo has the highest *number* of on screen deaths, but Sean Bean has a higher percentage of his works where he dies. It's just that Danny does a LOT of movies.

Except Arnold characters pretty much never die except in Terminator, so I don't know if this fits the prompt.

It's ambiguous as to whether he actually dies or not.

In my head canon, he did die. The rest of the movie is just his dying hallucinations as the black hole rips him apart. Otherwise the ending of Interstellar is a prime candidate for the most ridiculously unscientific plot point in a high profile science fiction movie.

He’s invincible

It had already been established that the shark didn't like dark meat.

I agree. But also disagree. It felt like the movie trying to show Norman's counterparts exist even amongst the most vicious of military units. Had the SS trooper clearly been a older, hardened veteran, yeah that would've rang absolutely untrue. But the movie goes to show the SS trooper as just a kid. Maybe not even older than 18. (the SS were conscripting troops by the end of the war in which Fury took place). I viewed that scene as the SS trooper being brand new and unwilling to kill, just as Norman was brand new and unwilling to kill at the start of the film up until Wardaddy forced him to. Ultimately, perhaps the scene signifies that humans don't inherently want to kill, but are driven to do so for a variety of reasons. As an aside, I've read some other interesting thoughts about this final scene, to include a religious interpretation.

Everyone dies in that movie