16 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The X-Men Franchise

15. Joss Whedon Wrote That Totally Awful Toad "Joke" From The First Movie

The most infamous line of dialogue in the entire X-Men series comes during the first movie, when Storm (Halle Berry) battles Toad (Ray Park), while making the quip, "You know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning?" During this pause, Toad is struck by Storm's lightning, and she follows up with, "The same thing that happens to everything else." Everything about the moment is wrong. For starters, it's one of two lines in the film that actually survived from Joss Whedon's wit-heavy original draft (surely Whedon had better gags than this!?), then there's Berry's delivery, which is infinitely too dramatic and serious for what is supposed to be a silly throwaway line. It's a quote that's been widely-ridiculed ever since the movie's release, and though it does have its defenders, it's pretty cringe-worthy for most fans.