10 Moments That Literally Stopped Action Movies

Speaking of laughing in the face of the sacred fourth-wall, has there ever been a more prolific smasher of big-screen walls than the Merc with the Mouth?

Setting the tone for the hijinks to come, Ryan Reynolds' iteration of the hilarious smack-talking superhero managed to deliver a Wolverine testicle-fondling quip directly to those innocent souls in attendance within the opening five minutes of 2016's Deadpool.

This cheeky soliloquy would kick off the film's first real dose of simultaneously savage and side-splitting action, too, with Wade Wilson taking it to a bunch of unfortunate bad guys speeding along a freeway. Right when it looked as though this hilariously creative vehicle assault was reaching its catastrophic climax, though, the action slowly grinds to a halt.

With cars suspended in mid-air, bodies soaring through the sky, and glass scattered across the frame, Wilson takes this particularly stressful moment to wonder aloud whether he'd actually remembered to turn the stove off.

We've all been there.

The chaos is only paused for a second or two there. But it's that brief suspended joke that ultimately makes the comically horrific follow-up of baddies being decapitated and splattered into road signs to come in real-time that little more impactful to behold.