10 Huge Mistakes Which Doomed Movie Characters

10. "Drei Gläser." - Inglorious Basterds

Hand gestures don't typically seal a person's doom - unless said person just so happens to be a British commando deep undercover in Nazi-occupied France.

The aforementioned officer - Michael Fassbender's Lieutenant Archie Hicox - inadvertently signs a death warrant for himself and his undercover companions in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds when he orders a round of drinks in front of Gestapo Major Dietrich Hellström. Hicox orders "drei gläser", holding up the index, middle and ring fingers of his right hand to represent each glass.

Unfortunately for the Lieutenant, that's exactly where Fassbender's soldier gives the game away. The Western European style of finger counting differs from the English-speaking, where the index finger is used to represent "one" as opposed to the thumb. A true German would have ordered "three" with the index, middle finger, and thumb extended - a fact that Hicox is fatally unaware of.

An error tiny in scope, but colossal in terms of repercussions as Hellström instantly rumbles the Englishman for an imposter. This precipitates a Mexican standoff which soon concludes with a hail of gunfire and a bullet-riddled mess of bodies - amongst them, Hicox and his comrades.