10 Movie Characters Who Ruined EVERYTHING
9. Cadet Douglas Fackler - Police Academy
Police Academy may be a gut-busting comedy, but that doesn't make it any less true that Cadet Douglas Fackler (Bruce Mahler) ruined everything with the mere act of tossing an apple.
In the third act of the movie, the hilariously accident-prone Fackler is handed an apple by his partner which he immediately tosses out of the cop car, where it hits a passerby on the head.
Said passerby believes that the apple was deliberately thrown by another person on the street and starts a fight with them, which swiftly escalates into a city-wide riot as more and more people get inadvertently pulled into the chaos.
Basically, Fackler is responsible for the film's entire third act conflict, seemingly causing a whole lot of property damage as the cops race to bring the disorder under control.
Even more hilariously, a blissfully unaware Fackler off-handedly asks one of his colleagues amid the mayhem, "Who knows how these things get started?"