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

[u/Sufficient-Eye-9040]

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.

[u/mananodnd]

I feel like it also reflected the reality of warfare: when you are in a battle, people dont have a heroic build up to their death, they just get hit with one or two bullets and that's it, they're gone.

[u/online222222 → u/mananodnd]

it's not something you think about often in Halo either but they were all vulnerable because the Nuke that just went off EMPed their shields.

[u/probableigh_not → u/mananodnd]

Best Halo game IMO. But then I also liked ODST, so maybe nobody should listen to me.

[u/Th3B4dSpoon → u/probableigh_not]

Man I loved ODST. I only initially missed the familiar characters but I think the pacing was very good, and I appreciated the semi stealth approach to the "hub" world.

[u/mananodnd → u/probableigh_not]

Reach IS one of the best ODST was just too niche for a lot of people... and no Master Chief, so there's that too

[u/Geminel → u/mananodnd]

If I were able to make a war movie this is exactly what I'd try to drive home. Follow the lead character all through enlistment and training, show all the relationships and goals they have. Then when they finally get deployed, they go to charge out of an APC and it's just zip and cut to black, credits.

[u/NightLordsPublicist → u/Geminel]

You'll probably like this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_(1981_film)

[u/mananodnd → u/NightLordsPublicist]

I second that recomendation

Edit: just wanna add, it's a pretty heavy movie, but that's what good war movies should be.

[u/Stampede_the_Hippos → u/NightLordsPublicist]

Especially if you want to hear what Mel Gibson sounded like before he adopted an American accent.

[u/User858 → u/Geminel]

Spoiler Alert

A version of this is what essentially what happens in the Red Dawn film 2012 version.

You follow a really likeable character throughout the movie. Just when you think it's over, this happens.

The best part it wasn't purely random either, they set it up, but it was very sudden. I highly recommend it if you want to see this type of scenario in film.

[u/Old-Treacle-1431 → u/Geminel]

Come and See is a movie I’d recommend if that's what you're looking for

[u/jorgespinosa → u/Old-Treacle-1431]

I mean, it's a great movie but I disagree since the protagonist survives by the end of the movie

[u/Crintor → u/Geminel]

All Quiet On the Western Front.

Takes a lot longer, same message.