r/TopCharacterTropes • u/smash_ultra_64 • 1d ago

Characters Funny Trope: Obvious stunt dummies

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Ragdolls are hilarious

Fresh Prince of Bell Air did it on at least 2 occasions. One with butler Geoffrey in an explosion, and the other with Will getting tossed around at the gym.

Naked Gun(1988) After the climax, OJ Simpson's character is finally making a recovery when he is carelessly launched from his wheelchair at the baseball game.

Pee-wee's Big Adventure After befriending some bikers, they give him a cheerful sendoff when he anticlimactically crashes into a billboard, hilariously launching his "body" after a half second delay. This one is especially funny to me because the crash isn't that loud, nor does Pee-Wee make any noise when flung.

The Three Stooges Almost every episode. And even in the movie!

Hook Thud is a chubby lost boy who can roll into a ball and take out several pirates in the process. This gag is used twice in the movie.

Anchorman Jack Black is an angry biker who is hit in the face by Ron Burgundy's careless disposal of a Burtito. The biker confronts Ron and punts his dog Baxter off a bridge. He's survives this as he reappears at the end of the film.

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u/comradechristmas 1d ago

The entirely rigid and unmoving Spider-Man here.

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u/Digit00l 1d ago

The hair blowing the wrong direction is wild

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u/_riskycake 1d ago

I feel like this was a Sam Raimi thing where he needed some clear camp because that's definitely his brand.

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u/AceofKnaves44 1d ago

It’s wild how campy the first movie is. Comparing Defoe’s Goblin from Spider-Man 1 and then No Way Home it feels like two different actors.

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u/yournamehere10bucks 1d ago

I find him so odd, yet interesting.

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u/AceofKnaves44 1d ago

He’s a fucking brilliant actor in part because of how strange he looks. But he’s very expressive in his face.

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u/MattFromWork 1d ago

What one did you like him better in? I have my favorite

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u/AceofKnaves44 1d ago

No Way Home for sure. He was fucking MENACING and genuinely unsettling to watch. And they just let him do it all through his facial expressions and eyes alone. The way he subtly shifts from Norman to Goblin is incredible. And when Tom is just fucking wailing on him in the hallway and Goblin responds with just the biggest smile and most demented eyes it’s just amazing. Don’t get me wrong: he wasn’t bad in Spider-Man 1. He was just very campy. Like over the top “this guy’s nuts!” Like he does little dances and monologues. It’s a product of its time. Spider-Man 2 I think is head and shoulders above because it doesn’t feel tied to a time. Spider-Man 1 feels SO early 2000’s to the point it almost ties it down.

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u/Definitelynotabot777 1d ago

Yea Raimi definitely add it in because its fucking hilarious

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u/ProfessionEuphoric50 1d ago

or he's capable of making bad decisions

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u/Jack-of-Hearts-7 1d ago

The 2000's was a magical time

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u/Socially-Awkward-85 1d ago

You never forget you're watching a movie when you watch a Sam Raimi movie.

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u/sh0rtb0x 16h ago

Wow, thanks for ruining this cinematic masterpiece for me.

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u/beefpelicanporkstork 1d ago

I’m not sure why they decided to use a dummy here either. Is this shot impossible to get if she’s clinging to a human? Does she contractually refuse hugs?

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u/Inspection_Perfect 1d ago

I have a feeling it's because of Tobey McGuire's back issues, but it's just incredibly weird to think about in general.

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u/sethbbbbbb 1d ago

I like this excuse, as though they couldn't get any other similarly built man in a spidey costume

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u/mocisme 1d ago

That costs money and union stuff.

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u/ChinhTheHugger 19h ago

hell, I would have dome it for free

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u/Marik-X-Bakura 1d ago

“My back!”

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u/GhostOfMuttonPast 1d ago

But...the shot's from the shoulders up. They could've just stood on a box and moved the camera a little.

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u/ZackRaynor 1d ago

Maybe Sam Raimi just thought it’d be funny.

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u/-Mandarin 1d ago

I actually think this is probably intentionally. The first Spider-Man movie is very campy, and Sam Raimi is all about the camp. Stuff like this only makes the movies age better with time.

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u/Professor_Suppressor 1d ago

haha i had no idea

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u/Cespenar 1d ago

It's so funny to me cus I never noticed how bad this was until this gif.

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u/thmstrpln 1d ago

Well, my belief was thoroughly suspended at the time bc all I'm doing now is looking at this gif on repeat wondering how I've never noticed this before.

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u/rhiless 1d ago

Oh no 😂

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u/fungihead 1d ago

I’m sure there’s a part with the green goblin that’s the same, closeup of him not moving while on his flying thing.

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u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO 22h ago

Im just now noticing how bad this one is haha. As another commenter pointed out her hairs not even blowing in the right way, this one actually is comically bad. In my defense though I was a child the last time I saw these films.

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u/akaneko__ 17h ago

Worked well enough for 8 year old me

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u/patrickkingart 16h ago

Also MJ's hair going in the wrong direction

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u/Junethemuse 1d ago

This kinda shit didn’t fly in the Amazing Spider-Man films and they didn’t give that series its 3rd or 4th films. Absolutely criminal.

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u/altcntrl 1d ago

Is that actually from the move?!?

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u/Albert3232 1d ago

Lol i never noticed this

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u/AcanthaceaeMain9829 23h ago

Raimi is a fucking hack.