11 Heroic Acts In Movies That Changed Absolutely Nothing

5. The Hero Train Passengers - Spider-Man 2

When Doc Ock has the upper hand on Spidey and has set him on a one-way train journey designed to kill him, despite knowing that Harry Osborn wants to exact his own revenge for the death of his father, the web-slinger once more relies on the kindest of New York's residents to save him from his enemy, as he did in the first movie.

New Yorkers being New Yorkers, the residents muster as much pluck as they possibly can and attempt stop the returning Octavius from taking the exposed, maskless Spidey away to Harry. Unlike in the first film, when the angry citizens are able to at least partly put Green Goblin off his stroke and buy Peter some time, in the sequel, the interaction goes something like this:

Citizens: "You'll have to go through us first!"

Octavius: "Fine."

The point of that sort of heroism is symbolism of course, but at some point you should probably weigh up the likely outcome, and just stay sitting down quietly, especially as the concerned citizens achieved precisely nothing.