10 Movie Characters Destroyed By The Fourth Wall

4. The Vivaldi Gunman - Last Action Hero

Last Action Hero is probably the most under-appreciated film in Arnold Schwarzenegger's entire filmography, and honestly one of the greatest unsung action-comedies films of all time.

Arnie plays Jack Slater, the protagonist of an action movie franchise who eventually comes to learn that he's a fictional character after one of his biggest fans, Danny (Austin O'Brien), is transported into his movie world thanks to a magical cinema ticket.

At this point, we get to see a dumbfounded Danny hanging out in the back of Slater's car while he tackles his latest fleet of goons.

This leads to the gloriously over-the-top sequence where Slater, while driving a car with no hands, shoots a pursuing gunman, sending him implausibly flying into a conveniently placed ice cream truck, which then explodes.

The exploding ice cream truck than catapults a freaking ice cream, cone and all, into the head of another rent-a-thug (played by 90s action mainstay Al Leong), killing him instantly. And the best part? Arnie then quips, "Iced that guy, cone a phrase."

In the service of lampooning OTT 90s action flicks, we got one of the greatest - and absolutely the most ridiculous - kills in Arnie's entire filmography.