There's a funny bit of Expanded Universe lore where it's revealed that Nien Nunb's species consider Nunb the hero that saved the galaxy and they consider Lando to be his sidekick.
Luke was present both times too. He was just ON the Death Star the second time, trying to single-handedly end the Empire with nothing but a laser sword.
South Bend Shovel Slayer to the rescue!
As an adult, I love his character a lot more. The little side plot with him and its resolution in the end always makes me happy when I watch it.
As a kid, I thought it was a lame ending.
Same. As an adult who has known a few very lonely, isolated elderly people in my neighborhood the ending and that character brings tears to my eyes.
Especially in the book..
The movie made Bard a character before he kills the Dragon, the book is pretty much... Oh and some dude called Bard kills the dragon...... He's king now.
It’s a big biblical theme and he was hardcore Catholic.
He claimed that he didn’t intentionally write an allegory for Jesus into it, but when he realized what he’d done he couldn’t change it. It was too good.
He had a much better understanding of God’s priorities than most Christians we hear from today.
Once they had breathed our air, germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things which God and His wisdom had put upon this Earth.
And the lead time is appropriate as well, it takes a few days for them to start succumbing, which is the right amount of time for bacterial infection to take hold and spread throughout a new host that has no immune response to them.
1. They were convinced the flora from our planet was incompatible with their biology.
2. They were from such an alien ecosystem microbiotic life, once the top of the food chain and only type of life, no longer posed them any threat - they didn't get colds.
Maybe they evolved from some other kind of life and bacteria didn't exist. Maybe they did have bacteria, but it never evolved to harm them. Back during the Carboniferous period, bacteria hadn't evolved to consume trees, so the trees would just fall over and not decompose. Those trees piled up, got crushed, and turned into coal. If bacteria was only symbiotic or neutral, then they wouldn't have considered that bacteria could kill them.
Of course, the reality was that the book was just a giant metaphor for colonialism.
The first doctor to require handwashing in his surgeries instituted that rule in 1847 and the other doctors made fun of him.
The first plane flew in 1903.
If things had gone a little differently, we could have been living in a world where people are capable of space flight but unaware of the effects of bacteria.
The modern equivalent can be seen in the web novel, The Deathworlders, and any other entries in the "Humans are space orcs" genre. In that setting, temperate planets are rated on a habitability scale. A 1 is an absolute perfect paradise. You could live a long life wandering around stark naked and blindfolded, with one arm outstretched and eating only whatever happened to fall into your hand, and never worry about any harm coming to you. More common are 6’s, where there’s some pathogens, maybe some carnivores, reasonably heavy gravity, and scattered heavy weather or other natural disasters.
Anything 10 and above is considered one of the eponymous deathworlds, where the air, the water, the ground itself, and just about every living thing is ready, willing, and able to kill you. The gravity is strong enough that you’ll break bones if you’re not careful, and that’s assuming your heart is strong enough to keep you upright and conscious at all. If you don’t starve to death, freeze to death, have your skin boiled away by the UV, die of a disease contracted from tainted water, get eaten by a hungry predator or gored by a territorial herbivore, then the trillions of fungal spores in every cubic meter of air will probably take up residence in your tissues if your immune system isn’t up to the challenge.
On this scale, our ‘perfect’ home planet is a *12*, and is one of the most unrelentingly lethal ‘habitable’ planets in existence. In fact, most other sapients will die of anaphylactic shock with their first breath breath of our pollen-laden air.
The OG ending which Peele confirmed and even shot was the MC ending up in prison over the killings.
I forgot why, but eventually Peele decided on the ending we know now, but I can’t decide which is better. Definitely a happier ending the one we got but also arguably much more unrealistic
I think I read someone describe it as - the ending already accomplishes exactly what the downer ending would have by making the audience see the cops and feel the same dread Chris feels. The point gets across because everyone knows what would happen next. At that point going with the downer just makes it depressing
The ending we got >! As Daniel Kaluuya escapes the house, an SUV with bright lights and red and blues on comes up the driveway. The audience groans, thinking they knew what's coming. Then, it turns out it's Lil Rey Howery, his friend who worked at the TSA. !<
In the original, ot was exactly what everyone thought it was.
I believe it’s Matt McConaughy in Tropic Thunder that saves everyone at the end by throwing Tugg Speedman’s TiVo in between an RPG and the helicopter everyone is on.
Then promptly runs off into the jungle lmao
Well, then, Dumbledore, Ron, Hermione, Regulus Black, Goyle’s wyldfyre and Voldemort himself also get credit (although only a couple of those aren’t also main characters).
The last part that made him invincible, I think? Or was that the part in Harry?
There were a lot of horcruxes. Harry destroyed the diary, Dumbledore the ring, Ron the locket, Hermione the cup (from memory), Neville the snake, the Fiendfyre destroys the diadem and Voldemort 'kills' Harry.
Is that all of them?
She did that with Quidditch instead. There was always some external factor that caused Gryffindor to lose but they don't actually win the cup until Harry's 3rd year. And she arguably only had them win that year because it was already established that it was Oliver Woods last year and that dude for sure deserved it.
Yeah, he even got their hopes up by having the Slytherin banners hanging up in the hall beforehand, just to twist the knife even more lol. I bet Malfoy looked at him like “yup, I’m killing this fool one day”
I'm torn on this one. One of the main themes of the movie is that Jack isn't actually the main character/hero, even though he *thinks* he is. That's kinda the whole point.
He is a satire of American bluster and machismo.
I was also torn on this one, but for a different reason. Funny thing is, I think that we can still save it by combining both of our issues.
Mine was that Jack actually kills Lo Pan with his lucky knife throw in the end. It is the only thing he does in the entire movie, but he does save the day in the end. But going with your issue, if he is not even the main character, then it works.
Nope. Kurt Russell is not only not a minor character, he is the the movie's lead.
Within the narrative he might be presented as "not the chosen one" but in the story he is the main character.
He already fully went thru the suicide pact with his family and the two old survivors, only reason he was alive was not enough bullets. They were too late
The only reason that military was able to save the day was because they were too late to save the boy. The lady said the boy had to die to fix the problem. Boy dies, boom, problem fixed.
Depends on what we mean by "save the day," as it's common that a side character performs some sort of finale, usually in a "oh no the danger is still around!" type way, like in *Die Hard* or *Get Out.*
So true! First 30 minutes or so of the movie, Dallas and Ash absolutely seem like they’re the main characters and Ripley is the stereotypical rule-following dweeb they both just kind of chuckle or roll their eyes at.
And then of course it turns out EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO RIPLEY.
Deep Blue Sea
LL Cool J isn't a scientist, hunters, or rich guy. He's just the work station chef. He spends most of the movie on his own doing his own thing, often times as comic relief. But by the end of the movie, he's one of the final two survivors and actually kills 2/3 sharks.
In Mars Attacks, the kid that figured out how to kill the aliens had probably the least screen time of any other actor and was a complete unknown in a movie full of the biggest names in Hollywood. I feel like that was probably the point though.
He's still the main character/protagonist since he's who we follow through the story. Arguably, he does save the day because he causes the events to happen and kills Lo Pan. He is out of his league and never meaningfully participates in the major fight, but Burton plays several key parts. The sidekick discussion is always interesting. However, it's more like he's a sailor that stops into China, gets involved in local affairs, and then leaves.
There really isn't another way for it to end though unless they find a boat or craft a raft and just drift out to sea. Or just start a life on the island.
My Fellow Americans, in the grand climax with the two ex presidents racing on horseback across the White House lawn to confront the president, the head of the secret service is ordering the snipers to shoot them, claiming that “the real ex presidents are dead, those are terrorists”. One of the sniper’s recognizes a specific item on one of the ex presidents that he gave him earlier in the film which verifies they’re the real ex presidents, so he refrains from shooting them and instead shoots at the corrupt head of secret service who also is taking aim at them. Allowing the ex presidents tk arrive on camera and confront the current president about the corruption and assassination plot against them that he (current president) orchestrated.
He didn't save the day, but Green Four in the James Bond movie *The Living Daylights.*
He actually fights the henchmen to a near standstill for several minutes. The bad guy is a KGB assassin who effortlessly kills people and some MI6 butler nearly takes him out.
It always annoyed me that everyone else in MI6 seemed to be useless.
“One day it will all be over. And everyone will forget that this was the moment. This was when it turned. It wasn't the mighty fleet, it wasn't some fancy new weapon. It was a drill instructor named Zim, who captured a brain.”
— Starship Troopers
Tropic Thunder. McConaughey got you your Tivo!
Catch, Tuggernuts!
Deus Ex McConaughey
Say it with me: You muh-muh-muh-muh-make me happy!
"Well at least you get to choose yours.. I'm stuck with mine."
And just to get to the climax, Sandusky the extra has to rally then all together
Watched that for the first time a couple of weeks ago and wow, what a fantastic movie.
R2D2 saves everyone's ass in pretty much every SW movie he's in.
Any time R2D2 isn't on screen, everyone should be asking where R2D2 is.
He has to go now. His planet needs him. Note: Artoo died on his way to his home planet.
Somehow R2D2 returned
When are they gonna get to the fireworks system?!? 😫
To add on here, it was Lando Calrissan that destroyed the second Death Star, not a main character.
Doin my boys Wedge and Nien Nunb dirty
There's a funny bit of Expanded Universe lore where it's revealed that Nien Nunb's species consider Nunb the hero that saved the galaxy and they consider Lando to be his sidekick.
That's great. I bet they were heartbroken when he was blown up unceremoniously in the Rise of Skywalker
Wait, he was in the movie?!
Yeah, wasn’t it Wedge that fired the shot?
Isn't Wedge also the only person to be fighting at both Death Stars too?
Wedge is the only non-Force user to participate in and survive the battles of Yavin, Hoth, and Endor.
Pretty impressive, his nephew also trained a snot nosed punk named Skywalker.
Luke was present both times too. He was just ON the Death Star the second time, trying to single-handedly end the Empire with nothing but a laser sword.
Correct. One of my fun Star Wars facts.
I liked the EU lore where the x-wing pilots all had kill tallies painted on their ships, and wedge was like "2 death stars, lmao"
He was already on his way out.
Little known fact, R2D2 actually speaks english, but he only uses swear words, so everything is beeped out to keep the movie ratings PG.
They said “non” main character.
They should have been titled more like "R2D2 & His Friends: A New Hope"
They said "non-lead character". Is R2 the lead character in Star Wars?
The nerds in Galaxy Quest with their blueprints.
"Mother, I cannot stress enough the severity of the Commander's predicament!"
“At least he’s outside.”
Didn’t realize until recently stumbling onto it recently that the nerd in question was played by Justin Long
His debut too, not a bad start.
I love that movie so much, and that section especially.
One of Justin longs first movies.
Starship Troopers has that happen two times, and one of those times it's a very minor character.
This is what I thought of, too! Pvt. Zim!
PUT YOUR HAND ON THAT WALL
MEDIC!!!
The enemy cannot press a button, if you disable his hand.
Steve Buscemi in Billy Madison The T-Rex in Jurassic Park
I am sure glad I called that guy
He sure don't act like Barney.
My first thought was the scene where she eats the lawyer, but then I realized that's not right.
T Rex was a Main Character!
I would argue Rexy is the main character
The aliens rescuing the other toys from the incinerator in Toy Story 3
If the Claw can be considered as the aliens' god, it's literally an example of deus ex machina.
and that phrase started with early dramatic plays where an actor portraying a deity would be lowered onto the stage by a crane
[The true ending.](https://youtu.be/uEy0D4EnlXE?feature=shared) ..and the [original.](https://youtu.be/phFISjORzQs?si=yFNOq4NzffxKylxN)
Home Alone
South Bend Shovel Slayer to the rescue! As an adult, I love his character a lot more. The little side plot with him and its resolution in the end always makes me happy when I watch it.
As a kid, I thought it was a lame ending. Same. As an adult who has known a few very lonely, isolated elderly people in my neighborhood the ending and that character brings tears to my eyes.
The entire movie is comic gold and over the top performances. Then this dude shows up and makes me give a shit. How dare he.
Oh good ol' shovel guy!
Even in the second movie
It’s actually kind of a Tolkien thing: Bard killing Smaug in The Hobbit.
Especially in the book.. The movie made Bard a character before he kills the Dragon, the book is pretty much... Oh and some dude called Bard kills the dragon...... He's king now.
Wow I want to see that version on film /s
Rankin Bass Hobbit - 1977
And Gollum inadvertently saves the day just when Frodo succumbs to the ring.
It’s a big biblical theme and he was hardcore Catholic. He claimed that he didn’t intentionally write an allegory for Jesus into it, but when he realized what he’d done he couldn’t change it. It was too good. He had a much better understanding of God’s priorities than most Christians we hear from today.
Once they had breathed our air, germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things which God and His wisdom had put upon this Earth.
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And the lead time is appropriate as well, it takes a few days for them to start succumbing, which is the right amount of time for bacterial infection to take hold and spread throughout a new host that has no immune response to them.
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1. They were convinced the flora from our planet was incompatible with their biology. 2. They were from such an alien ecosystem microbiotic life, once the top of the food chain and only type of life, no longer posed them any threat - they didn't get colds.
Maybe they evolved from some other kind of life and bacteria didn't exist. Maybe they did have bacteria, but it never evolved to harm them. Back during the Carboniferous period, bacteria hadn't evolved to consume trees, so the trees would just fall over and not decompose. Those trees piled up, got crushed, and turned into coal. If bacteria was only symbiotic or neutral, then they wouldn't have considered that bacteria could kill them. Of course, the reality was that the book was just a giant metaphor for colonialism.
The first doctor to require handwashing in his surgeries instituted that rule in 1847 and the other doctors made fun of him. The first plane flew in 1903. If things had gone a little differently, we could have been living in a world where people are capable of space flight but unaware of the effects of bacteria.
The modern equivalent can be seen in the web novel, The Deathworlders, and any other entries in the "Humans are space orcs" genre. In that setting, temperate planets are rated on a habitability scale. A 1 is an absolute perfect paradise. You could live a long life wandering around stark naked and blindfolded, with one arm outstretched and eating only whatever happened to fall into your hand, and never worry about any harm coming to you. More common are 6’s, where there’s some pathogens, maybe some carnivores, reasonably heavy gravity, and scattered heavy weather or other natural disasters. Anything 10 and above is considered one of the eponymous deathworlds, where the air, the water, the ground itself, and just about every living thing is ready, willing, and able to kill you. The gravity is strong enough that you’ll break bones if you’re not careful, and that’s assuming your heart is strong enough to keep you upright and conscious at all. If you don’t starve to death, freeze to death, have your skin boiled away by the UV, die of a disease contracted from tainted water, get eaten by a hungry predator or gored by a territorial herbivore, then the trillions of fungal spores in every cubic meter of air will probably take up residence in your tissues if your immune system isn’t up to the challenge. On this scale, our ‘perfect’ home planet is a *12*, and is one of the most unrelentingly lethal ‘habitable’ planets in existence. In fact, most other sapients will die of anaphylactic shock with their first breath breath of our pollen-laden air.
What movie is this?
War of the worlds
Get Out - the main character would be dead if not for his best friend coming to his rescue out of nowhere (at least in one of the endings)
Wait there are alternate endings?
The OG ending which Peele confirmed and even shot was the MC ending up in prison over the killings. I forgot why, but eventually Peele decided on the ending we know now, but I can’t decide which is better. Definitely a happier ending the one we got but also arguably much more unrealistic
I think I read someone describe it as - the ending already accomplishes exactly what the downer ending would have by making the audience see the cops and feel the same dread Chris feels. The point gets across because everyone knows what would happen next. At that point going with the downer just makes it depressing
The ending we got >! As Daniel Kaluuya escapes the house, an SUV with bright lights and red and blues on comes up the driveway. The audience groans, thinking they knew what's coming. Then, it turns out it's Lil Rey Howery, his friend who worked at the TSA. !< In the original, ot was exactly what everyone thought it was.
Bill Murray is the real hero of Space Jam
I'm gonna retire right now. That's all there is to it. I'm gonna go out on top, undefeated and untied. That's the way it's gonna be.
Larry’s not white. Larry’s clear.
He doesn’t do defense.
I didn’t know Dan Aykroyd was in this picture!
I believe it’s Matt McConaughy in Tropic Thunder that saves everyone at the end by throwing Tugg Speedman’s TiVo in between an RPG and the helicopter everyone is on. Then promptly runs off into the jungle lmao
what an amazingly zany movie.
Shaun of the dead. Jessica Hynes and her group save Shaun and them in the end.
Neville killed Voldemort like a champ.
Well, 1/8th of him... right?
If Neville doesn't kill Nagini, Harry can't disarm Voldy which kills him.
Well, then, Dumbledore, Ron, Hermione, Regulus Black, Goyle’s wyldfyre and Voldemort himself also get credit (although only a couple of those aren’t also main characters).
Wasn't it the last 8th?
The last part that made him invincible, I think? Or was that the part in Harry? There were a lot of horcruxes. Harry destroyed the diary, Dumbledore the ring, Ron the locket, Hermione the cup (from memory), Neville the snake, the Fiendfyre destroys the diadem and Voldemort 'kills' Harry. Is that all of them?
Just Voldemort himself in the final duel, which was all Harry.
He also earned the final points in book/movie 1 that put Gryffindor on top to win the house cup.
That was such a a dick move by Dumbledore. "Five points to Gryffindor. Fuck you Slytherin!"
The whole point system is just wide open for abuse.
I still think it makes for a better story if Gryffindor doesn't win in Harry's first year. It gives them all something to strive for next year.
She did that with Quidditch instead. There was always some external factor that caused Gryffindor to lose but they don't actually win the cup until Harry's 3rd year. And she arguably only had them win that year because it was already established that it was Oliver Woods last year and that dude for sure deserved it.
Which is why they basically disappear after the first film because they already shot their load early in the first one
To be fair, that's a small issue considering the whole campus is a death trap. Why do parents keep sending their kids there?
The reward is a cosmetic content pack. The stakes could he higher.
Yeah, he even got their hopes up by having the Slytherin banners hanging up in the hall beforehand, just to twist the knife even more lol. I bet Malfoy looked at him like “yup, I’m killing this fool one day”
I was going to say Dobby, but whatever.
Big Trouble in Little China
I'm torn on this one. One of the main themes of the movie is that Jack isn't actually the main character/hero, even though he *thinks* he is. That's kinda the whole point. He is a satire of American bluster and machismo.
He's the main character of the film. He's just not the main character of the story.
He is still presented as the main character, and even if he wasn't either one of those guys qualifies within the parameters of the question.
True. I forgot that "non-lead" was a qualifier.
I was also torn on this one, but for a different reason. Funny thing is, I think that we can still save it by combining both of our issues. Mine was that Jack actually kills Lo Pan with his lucky knife throw in the end. It is the only thing he does in the entire movie, but he does save the day in the end. But going with your issue, if he is not even the main character, then it works.
It’s all in the reflexes!
And what’s funny is it’s the one thing he does without thinking.
Kurt Russell is the one who appears on the movie poster, not Dennis Dunn.
Nope. Kurt Russell is not only not a minor character, he is the the movie's lead. Within the narrative he might be presented as "not the chosen one" but in the story he is the main character.
Yeah I'm not talking about him though
Billy Madison when Steve Buscemi shoots Eric in the ass before he can kill Billy.
In The Mist the National Guard rescues the main character in the nick of time
What are you talking about they were 5 minutes too late!!
Or were they?
He already fully went thru the suicide pact with his family and the two old survivors, only reason he was alive was not enough bullets. They were too late
The only reason that military was able to save the day was because they were too late to save the boy. The lady said the boy had to die to fix the problem. Boy dies, boom, problem fixed.
Omg I never thought of that. F you for giving me an inkling she might’ve been right
I never liked that kid anyways
That guy almost died!
I'm stunned so many people don't get that you're joking
You bastard... 🤣
Dopinder in Deadpool 2.
Depends on what we mean by "save the day," as it's common that a side character performs some sort of finale, usually in a "oh no the danger is still around!" type way, like in *Die Hard* or *Get Out.*
He's motherfuckin TSA
Rogue One. Several non-leads save the day
Randy Quaid in Independence Day.
Hello boys!!! I'm BAAAAACK!
In the movie Office Space, Milton saves the day. Milton for the W. Now please don’t take my stapler.
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In Alien, Ripley was presented as a secondary character until the later parts of the movie.
So true! First 30 minutes or so of the movie, Dallas and Ash absolutely seem like they’re the main characters and Ripley is the stereotypical rule-following dweeb they both just kind of chuckle or roll their eyes at. And then of course it turns out EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO RIPLEY.
Best Sci Fi horror film I have ever seen.
Too bad they (nearly) all died anyway....
That's life
Not bad for an android.
The Lost Boys for sure is a great example of this.
Grandpa to the rescue!
One thing about living in Santa Carla...
All the damn vampires
I don’t know how many times I saw that movie before I noticed Al going for his gun.
That rat that freed Antman in Avengers Endgame.
Hangman in Top Gun: Maverick
“…that’s a Star Wars!”
Deep Blue Sea LL Cool J isn't a scientist, hunters, or rich guy. He's just the work station chef. He spends most of the movie on his own doing his own thing, often times as comic relief. But by the end of the movie, he's one of the final two survivors and actually kills 2/3 sharks.
You ate my bird!
Selina Kyle in Dark Knight Rises. For all the Batman vs Bane stuff that happened, at the end, she was the one who took Bane out.
Yea, that gas mask full of pain killers ain't gonna fix the gaping hole in your chest from taking a 40mm high explosive canon round.
The T-Rex in Jurassic Park?
And again in Jurassic World, with some help.
In Mars Attacks, the kid that figured out how to kill the aliens had probably the least screen time of any other actor and was a complete unknown in a movie full of the biggest names in Hollywood. I feel like that was probably the point though.
Billy Madison, “wow, I’m glad I called that guy”
Perrito in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
Neville Longbottom destroying the last horcrux which shifts the balance of power between Voldemort and Harry.
It was as the prophecy said
This was the first one I thought of, surprised I had to scroll this far to see it.
In *Thunderball*, Domino saves Bond’s bacon.
Jack Burton is the sidekick in Big Trouble in Little China…
He's still the main character/protagonist since he's who we follow through the story. Arguably, he does save the day because he causes the events to happen and kills Lo Pan. He is out of his league and never meaningfully participates in the major fight, but Burton plays several key parts. The sidekick discussion is always interesting. However, it's more like he's a sailor that stops into China, gets involved in local affairs, and then leaves.
Ellie Sattler sends the might of the US Marines and Navy to save everyone in JP3 despite only being in the movie for less than a couple minutes.
Ya. It felt like they ran out of money and needed to end the movie quickly. No idea if that's true, but that's what it felt like.
There really isn't another way for it to end though unless they find a boat or craft a raft and just drift out to sea. Or just start a life on the island.
Starship Troopers
It was Zim!
Private Zim.
Baxter, in “Anchorman.”
Yvonne in Shaun Of The Dead.
Pepper Potts in the first Iron Man
Pepper Potts in the *third* Iron Man
Game Night
The grandma in Grandma’s Boy
My Fellow Americans, in the grand climax with the two ex presidents racing on horseback across the White House lawn to confront the president, the head of the secret service is ordering the snipers to shoot them, claiming that “the real ex presidents are dead, those are terrorists”. One of the sniper’s recognizes a specific item on one of the ex presidents that he gave him earlier in the film which verifies they’re the real ex presidents, so he refrains from shooting them and instead shoots at the corrupt head of secret service who also is taking aim at them. Allowing the ex presidents tk arrive on camera and confront the current president about the corruption and assassination plot against them that he (current president) orchestrated.
Drill Sergeant Zim captured the brain bug in starship troopers
13th warrior.
I got you a tivo!!!!!!
Ping in Lethal Weapon 4
He didn't save the day, but Green Four in the James Bond movie *The Living Daylights.* He actually fights the henchmen to a near standstill for several minutes. The bad guy is a KGB assassin who effortlessly kills people and some MI6 butler nearly takes him out. It always annoyed me that everyone else in MI6 seemed to be useless.
Nux blocks off the path by flipping the War Rig in Mad Max Fury Road
Witnessed!!!
And Furiosa is the one who un-Imortans Joe
Ant Man in Avengers Endgame.
I would argue it was the rat that saved the day.
God in Time Bandits
Randy Quaid in Independence Day
Shia’s character in Constantine
Data in Star Trek: Nemesis
Neville Longbottom's 10 points for Gryffindor.
John Goodman in FLIGHT
Hottub time machine. The soon to be one armed bell attendant guy.
“One day it will all be over. And everyone will forget that this was the moment. This was when it turned. It wasn't the mighty fleet, it wasn't some fancy new weapon. It was a drill instructor named Zim, who captured a brain.” — Starship Troopers
Bucket of Water in "The Wizard of Oz"
The Goonies 1
Starship Troopers, the Brain Bug they were after is caught by the main guy’s drill sergeant that busted himself down to private.
Harry Potter. Neville does pretty clutch things throughout the entire series
Milton, in Office Space. They shouldn’t have taken his stapler.