10 Easily Avoidable Deaths In Sci-Fi Movies

Still, if some characters were meant to jump into the water, Toad would undoubtedly be among them.

Perhaps dated and cheesy by today's standards, X-Men is still a culturally important achievement. While entertaining enough, it sets a decent bar for its successors, paving the way for bigger and better things. One such cheesy moment, though, is the climactic showdown between Storm and Toad. Sure, everyone now groans at Storm's one-liner, and rightly so. But this distracts from the even more stupid part of the scene.

Because nobody watching the film is paying attention to what Toad is doing. Hanging onto a railing via his tongue after being thrown from a window, he chooses to do nothing, which wouldn't be too bad until you consider two vital things. Firstly, it isn't that big of a drop, a height most Olympic divers are comfortable doing. Secondly, he's above a river. If any mutant would be good jumping off into actual water, surely it'll be Toad.

So, rather than going for the far easier option of simply falling into the water, he waits to be struck by lightning. It's a horrifyingly dumb decision that you can't unsee, and it only gets dumber the more you think about it.