10 Dumbest Movie Plot Twists Of 2015

6. Hawkeye Has A Family (Also Quicksilver's Death) - Avengers: Age Of Ultron

The Twist: Hawkeye was the single most boring character of the original Avengers line-up, so Joss Whedon put extra effort into making him an exciting, dynamic, important part of the group in Age Of Ultron. After Earth's Mightiest Heroes were humiliated in Africa, they take refuge at a safe house that holds... Hawkeye's family?! A major reveal by itself, this was also used to set him up for a "one more job" death, only for it to be Quicksilver who bit the dust. Why It's So Dumb: By all means invest time into developing the second-tier heroes, but don't just take fifteen sustained minutes out of the movie to do nothing but that, then have its wider influence be nothing more than set up for some later quips. It drags on far too long, and when you realise that much of this happy family schtick is to make it seem like Clint Barton will die in the finale it feels rather superfluous (especially as Jeremy Renner had already signed on for sequels). Whedon actually had to fight the studio to keep the extended sequence at the Barton farmhouse in the movie, but to be honest I can't begrudge Marvel for wanting it dropped - it's a lengthy run of the movie that stops the narrative dead and adds very little outside of some comic book banter. Heck, Thor's forced-foreshadowing cave dip (which Whedon ironically didn't want in) is better than this.