10 Disturbing Backstories Behind Your Favourite Movie Characters

4. Forrest Gump's Dad Was Crushed To Death...By A Crate Of Bananas

Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is perhaps one of the most likeable characters in cinema history, played to Oscar-winning perfection by Tom Hanks as a sweet testament to the fact that brains aren't everything.

And while Robert Zemeckis' film has plenty of fringe darkness to it, it's a decidedly more sentimental and easy-going story compared to Winston Groom's 1986 source novel of the same name.

This is especially true in terms of Forrest's youth and the curious case of his father, who in the movie is simply said to be "on vacation" by Forrest's mother (Sally Field).

But in the book, Mr. Gump is killed in an industrial accident while working on the docks, being crushed to death by a half-ton crate of bananas. While explaining the incident, Forrest says his father was "flat as a pancake" and "a helluva mess."

On one hand, that's totally horrifying, and on the other? Mildly hilarious.