7 Happy Movie Endings That Are Totally Ruined By Science

2. Fight Club: Everyone Gets Cancer

It's a scene that has stuck with a generation. It's not often that the destruction of multiple buildings could be seen as uplifting, but it gave the latest crop of angsty teenagers something to find, like,so deep.

Despite the fact that there was no one in the buildings at the time, the fallout from that level of unplanned demolition would have been catastrophic. You can't just reduce an entire district to rubble and not face consequences.

Duringthe 9/11 attacks in 2001, the towers' collapse released a colossal, toxic dust cloud that thunderedthrough the city. By 2010, just nine years on, over 900 responders to the attacks weredead from related health problems, 2,500 now have cancer and 15,000 are thought to suffer from chronic diseases caused by inhaling the death dust.

This was all from the collapse of two buildings, the narrator flattens at least five. So there weren't people in them, you're still just condemning everyone in the surrounding area to a much slower, more painful death.

Ah well, cue The Pixies.