10 Movie Battles The Heroes Only Won By Fluke

7. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace - The Battle Of Naboo

The Battle of Naboo is the climactic action set piece of the The Phantom Menace, and continues the tradition started in The Empire Strikes Back where the climax takes place on several different fronts simultaneously. In Episode I this format involves a land battle - where the Gungans rumble with Trade Federation's droid army - and a space firefight, where several Naboo pilots desperately attempt to take on the Federation's droid command vessel. What is funny about both different battles is that the outcomes are decided largely by accidental behavior. During the land battle the notorious Jar Jar Binks takes down scores of battle droids, but not through his own volition. Consider the scene where he gets his foot tangled in a partially destroyed battle droid (which can still fire) and begins destroying droid after droid, or when he brings down an entire tank through his bumbling, clumsy idiocy. Similarly, the cherub known as Anakin Skywalker - who mistakenly gets inside a Naboo fighter - helps turn the tide of both battles. After spinning around on the celestial battlefield for awhile, he inadvertently finds himself inside the control ship. There, he accidentally unleashes his ship's main weapons, provoking a cataclysmic explosion which ends up not only destroying the command ship but immediately deactivating all the droids on the Naboo surface. This blatant stroke of luck couldn't have come at a better time, as all of the film's heroes were moments away from being routed. Of course, with one of those heroes being Jar Jar Binks, maybe that wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world.