10 Greatest ‘I’m Dead And I Know It’ Moments In Movie History
5. Cole’s Heroic Death Goes Wrong - Kong: Skull Island
They say not all heroes wear capes, but where’s the representation for those heroes who meant well but whose heroism failed terribly?
As the island expedition crew carry on to the next leg of their perilous journey, Captain Earl Cole hangs back for a second and looks out at the landscape ahead. He looks hopeless, seemingly releasing in that moment that not everyone is going to make it out alive and that he wants his death to mean something.
He drops his gun, pulls the pins on two grenades and stands with his arms out waiting for the approaching Skullcrawler to consume him. As his friends and colleagues shout after him in the background, he gets teary eyed as he accepts his death is nigh. It’s just not quite the death he was aiming for.
Instead of being chomped on like he planned (the explosives then going off inside the monster and taking one less threat out of the equation for his mates), the beast looks him dead in the eye, screams, and then uses its tail to punt him across the water to an adjacent mountain, where he smashes into the rock and explodes.
This is objectively one of the funniest deaths I’ve ever seen, and I only wish we could’ve seen the exact moment he realised he was going to be batted like a human baseball, destroying his heroic plan.