10 Comic Book Movie One Liners That Were Unintentionally Hilarious

The original X-Men paved the way for the superhero genre as we know it today, but it also features one of the most toe-curlingly terrible gags the genre has ever seen.

Moments before Storm (Halle Berry) annihilates Toad (Ray Park) with a lightning bolt, she asks him, "You know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning?"

We wait a beat while the storm front forms in the sky, before she continues, "The same thing that happens to everything else", and that's all she wrote for Toad.

There's probably a version of this scene that plays as intentionally funny, but Berry's ultra-serious, stoic delivery renders the line humourous only in the perverse sense. Joss Whedon, who wrote the line, condemned Berry for misinterpreting the one-liner and rendering it "like she was King Lear", and you can't really argue with that assessment.

Clearly the blame lies mostly with Berry and especially director Bryan Singer, who probably should've appreciated that the line needed a more playful take to actually, you know, work as intended.