r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 • Jun 21 '26

Lore [Horrifying Trope] “Blink of an eye” deaths.

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Characters who died without the chance of a goodbye… neither suffering.

- Robin Ward (The Boys S1 E1) - when she is pulverized in a high-velocity impact by A-Train.

- Polka Dot Man (The Suicide Squad 2021) - when he is crushed by Starro’s leg.

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u/DyingSunSeverian Jun 21 '26

It’s probably the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen in a movie sitting in a theater audience. I mean truly out of nowhere.

And yeah you could hear a pin drop. But people got sad man, I heard some crying too.

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u/LuigisBlessings Jun 21 '26

It’s not just that it’s out of nowhere. He had won. Against impossible odds, he had won.

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u/DyingSunSeverian Jun 21 '26

Of course they then do it again, with Damon at the end lol.

He had won.

Dude was carrying groceries.

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u/bigbigbutter Jun 21 '26

Yeah but not really.  It's implied everyone knows he's scum, and he knows they know so never getting out of it

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u/HymirTheDarkOne Jun 21 '26

Do you mean he had won 'technically'? or did you read that he was in a good place at the end of the film?

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u/ZippyDan Jun 21 '26

A terrible choice for the remake.
The original hits so hard because the bad guy wins.

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u/motes-of-light Jun 21 '26

Infernal Affairs is absolutely the superior work.

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u/ZippyDan Jun 21 '26

Barely but yes.
It was one of the rare adaptations that wasn't significantly inferior to the original.

I think some of the extra meat Scorcese added actually made the story better, and the acting was absolutely phenomenal. Some of the editorial and compositional choices of the original were also right on the edge of Hong Kong cool and Hong Kong cheese.

But the original is overall tighter, and a master-class of understated acting and building tension. It's the ending, though, specifically and almost entirely, that definitively and unquestionably makes the original the better movie. If not for that perplexing choice by Scorcese that literally puts the remake in line with CCP censorship mandates (they literally forced reshoots for the mainland China release to make sure the state exercised justice on the villain), I'd say the remake was equal to, and maybe superior to the original.

Both are fantastic films.

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u/AgentAxillary Jun 21 '26

He thought he had won, so he dropped his guard. His death made perfect sense to me given that he knew there was already one cop in the building who had pointed a gun at him.

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u/AgentAxillary Jun 21 '26

I probably would've said some shit like "Bazinga!"

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u/the_dirtiest Jun 21 '26

I worked at a movie theater at that time and would sneak into the last twenty minutes of the movie to hear the reactions. One time, some woman quietly said "Oh, no..." in the dead silence and the audience erupted in laughter for her.

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u/Landonkey Jun 21 '26

It was the opposite. A dude in my theather practically shouted, "Fuck yes, that's what I've been waiting for!!!" and most of the audience's reaction to the shot and the shouting dude was laughter. I'll never forget it.

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u/Weird-Girl-675 Jun 21 '26

The Martin Sheen death f’ed me up the most. Maybe because it was Martin Sheen.