10 Most Out Of Place Scenes In Gaming History

10. Chris Redfield Vs. A Boulder - Resident Evil 5 

As much as the Resident Evil franchise started out with two feet planted firmly in the realm of survival horror, it's never really taken itself all that seriously, what with the campy, B-movie-inspired tone of the earlier games before the shift into Michael Bay-on-steroids action schlock.

Resident Evil 5 might well feature the single most infamous moment of the entire series, though, an action beat of such preposterous, thigh-slapping absurdity that even the franchise's most permissive, action-hungry fans deemed it a bit much.

We're talking of course about the scene where, during the final battle with Wesker in a volcano, Chris finds himself blocked by a gigantic boulder. A QTE sequence follows, resulting in Chris hilariously punching the boulder until it finally agrees to move out of his way.

Even with Chris getting a yoked redesign for the game, it was still absolutely implausible that he'd be able to shift such a large object with his mere fists, leading to widespread ridicule that the series had well and truly, finally, jumped the shark.

Despite this, the incident was unexpectedly referenced in the recent eighth main game, Resident Evil Village, where villain Heisenberg referred to Chris as a "boulder-punching a**hole."

No other moment in the series is more emblematic of its frustrating departure from horror to action which, thankfully, has been rectified in recent installments.

Even for how generally action-heavy Resident Evil 5 is, this is a sheer cartoon.