Happily Ever After?
Toys are saved, Andy goes to college, and the gang finds a loving new home with Bonnie at the end of this 2010 Pixar film—ignoring the horrific fact that these sentient beings are forever trapped in an immortal cycle of being abandoned by growing children.
What is Toy Story 3
This junk-scavenger-turned-Jedi drew intense internet debate in 2015 after she successfully used a Jedi mind trick and defeated Kylo Ren with absolutely zero formal training.
Who is Rey? (or Rey Skywalker) (or Rey Palpatine)
Archeologist Indiana Jones spends an entire 1981 film racing against Nazis to find this golden, biblical artifact capable of wiping out entire armies.
What is the Ark of the Covenant
This 1994 animated masterpiece features a dark, Shakespeare-inspired scene where a main character is trampled to death by a stampede of wildebeests.
What is The Lion King? (or Mufasa's death)
This Iconic Theme is featured in what 1993 film
What is Jurassic Park
This 2023 fantasy-comedy ends with the protagonist embracing her humanity and transitioning into the real world to live as a human woman, though viewers quickly realized her very first human task is a stressful visit to a gynecologist.
What is Barbie
Often criticized as the ultimate literary and cinematic "self-insert," this human teenager moves to a gloomy Washington town and is instantly treated as the flawless, irresistible center of the universe by centuries-old supernatural beings.
Who is Bella Swan
In Pulp Fiction, Vincent and Jules are tasked with retrieving a mysterious, glowing briefcase, the combination to which happens to be this dark and sinister number associated with the Devil.
What is 666
Although he meets a fiery end in the 1996 film, in Victor Hugo’s original novel, this corrupt judge successfully throws Esmeralda from a scaffold before Quasimodo pushes him off Notre Dame.
Who is Judge Claude Frollo
This Iconic trilogy based off a series of books features what is regarded as the greatest siege battle in movie history
What is, The Lord of the Rings
At the end of this 1993 sci-fi classic, Alan Grant smiles as he looks out a helicopter window at birds flying peacefully—seemingly ignoring the fact that a billionaire's corporate hubris just proved humanity is utterly defenseless against resurrected apex predators.
What is Jurassic Park
Some fans leveled the trope at this MCU hero's 2019 debut, arguing that her lack of memory, absence of relatable character flaws, and god-like binary powers left the film with very low narrative stakes.
Who is Captain Marvel? (or Carol Danvers)
In Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 masterpiece North by Northwest, Cary Grant's character is chased across Mount Rushmore over microfilm hidden inside one of these carved art pieces.
What is a Pre-Columbian (or Mexican) statue
In the original, gruesome 19th-century Carlo Collodi fairy tale, this titular puppet murders the Talking Cricket with a wooden mallet early in the story.
Who is Pinocchio
This classic movie featuring a Jesus allegory includes iconic falling green code and has made more than a few people question reality
What is, The Matrix
In this 1998 Jim Carrey film, the world cheers as the main character triumphantly walks through a door to escape his simulated reality, completely ignoring that he is now a penniless man with zero real-world identity, massive psychological trauma, and a global army of stalkers.
What is The Truman Show
This is the name for a male character who possesses the characteristics of marry sue
What is A Garry Stew
The plans for this iconic superweapon in star wars serve as the Mac Guffin for episode IV a New Hope
What is the death Star
Striking terror into children in 1985, this villain is violently stripped of his flesh and consumed by an ancient artifact in Disney's first PG-rated animated movie.
Who is the Horned King (from The Black Cauldron)
This Classic Movie from the former governor of California has the Iconic line "Come with me if you want to live"
What is, Terminator 2
This 1989 Disney classic ends with a romantic beach wedding, completely ignoring the fact that the teenage bride is now permanently stranded in an unfamiliar species, completely severed from her culture, and cannot visit her family without dying.
What is The Little Mermaid
While the 1998 animated original famously focused on a protagonist who overcame her physical limitations through grueling training, this 2020 live-action Disney remake was criticized for turning its heroine into an untouchable prodigy born with boundless, magical "Ch'i."
Who is Mulan
The Trident of the sea God Poseidon serves as the Mac Guffin in this new instillation to a swashbuckling movie series
What is pirates of the Caribbean
In the Brothers Grimm version of this classic fairy tale, the evil stepmother is punished at the wedding by being forced to dance to death in red-hot iron shoes.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Which famous British rock musician mortgaged his own home to finance and save the production of the 1979 comedy Monty Python's Life of Brian?
Who is, George Harrison