20 Suspiciously Similar Movie Scenes You Never Noticed

5. Pacific Rim/The Avengers

Pacific Rim and The Avengers belong in the same bracket of blockbuster movies, but they aren't particularly similar when it comes down to the finer details. The Avengers is a day-glo comic book adventure, populated by colourful superheroes, and Pacific Rim is a love letter to Japanese monster films. Perhaps they're distant cousins, but they certainly aren't close. But at the end of both films we are treated to a similar scene that feels a little too close for comfort, considering how big The Avengers was, and how consciously it affected the cinematic landscape for everything that followed. In The Avengers, we see Tony Stark's answer to accusations that he is all style and no substance as he flies a government fired nuclear warhead through the rip in the fabric of time, to save New York and the world. His hero shot isn't quite as cliched as you might expect, as he ultimately falls back through the fissure, escaping the shockwave, and falling into the welcoming arms of the other Avengers.

In Pacific Rim the scenario and outcome is almost exactly the same, only with the setting changed to the bottom of the ocean. Here we also have a pilot in a robot suit delivering a nuclear payload into a rip in space to destroy an invading alien force, and in both films the characters understand that they are likely on a final mission of self sacrifice. It's a fairly stereotypical hero shot - but the fact that The Avengers was such a big event adds a suspicious tone to Pacific Rim's very similar sequence.