10 Most Out Of Place Scenes In Sci-Fi Movie History

10. Amerika Gets Torn In Two – CHAPPiE (2015)

You can always rely on Neill Blomkamp to offer up a creative sci-fi flick that balances societal ills, future tech and plenty of laughs. And 2015's CHAPPiE is no exception. Long-time Blomkamp collaborator Sharlto Copley voices the titular character, a decommissioned enforcement robot and the first true AI, who falls in with Die Antwoord of all people, reluctantly turning to a life of crime on the streets of Johannesburg.

On this journey, Amerika (Jose Pablo Cantillo), one of Chappie's teachers and co-conspirators, teaches the young robot to wear bling, walk with attitude and "put people to sleep". At least until the third act that is, when Hugh Grant's villainous engineer Vincent Moore stomps him using his remote-controlled MOOSE robot. In a sequence better suited to a Saw movie than this edgy yet frequently happy-go-lucky genesis story, the MOOSE grips Amerika with a robotic claw and tears him in half before splatting his torso on the building behind.

Little in the film up until this point prepares you for such a grim and sudden death of a supporting character. Tonally, it doesn't match any of the action, emotion or visuals surrounding it, and it leaves the audience reeling. The end of CHAPPiE may bring the wholesomeness around again, but there's no denying how out of place this moment is.