11 Heroic Acts In Movies That Changed Absolutely Nothing

10. Vicki Stands Up To Jason - Jason Goes To Hell

Here's an invaluable tip for you from the horror movie vault: if there's a slasher/undead murderer/demonic ghoul on the loose, attempting to kill your friends, no matter how much you fancy yourself a have-a-go-hero, drop everything you are doing and run as fast as you can in the opposite direction.

Forget friendships, forget honour, and forget attempting to impale said killer with any handy kitchen apparatus you might have to hand. All is folly, and you will find yourself on the receiving end of a head squeeze that bursts the top of your head like a ripe zit, as Vicki found in the most ridiculous Friday The 13th sequel. When Jessica and Steven flee the possessed Robert at the diner, Vicki stands up to the monster, despite the fact that the rest of the staff have just been comically tossed aside and casually murdered, in order to buy her friends some time.

Inevitably, despite a heroic stand-off in which Vicki gets a few shots in herself, she goes the way of everyone else not at the top of the bill, and gets her head popped for good measure. But like Duke's attempt to buy Jessica some time later in the film, Vicki's sacrifice counts for precisely nothing. Somehow impregnated with the knowledge of where his victims are always going to be, Jason still finds them, and still faces off with them the same way as would have happened if Vicki had turned coward and ran away with her brains still inside her face.