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Top 10 Improvised Superhero Movie Moments


you look like an avocado had sex with an
older more disgusting avocado yeah
these heroes played things off-the-cuff
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten superhero movie moments actors
improvised what do they call you wheels
hold up Manny do you like comic books of
course I do
Ricky do you like superheroes absolutely
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below and enjoy for this list we’ll be
looking at the moments from superhero
films that were improvised in the moment
by actors or others we’ll be limiting
our list to specific moments though and
not entire movies that were largely or
partially made up as they went along
like the first Iron Man they must also
be moments officially confirmed to have
been improvised as some scenes like the
Joker’s bombing reaction in the Dark
Knight have been proven to have been
number 10 Godzilla joke the amazing
spider-man mr. Parker whether it’s
malicious alliterative Lee named
newspaper editors or the police
spider-man has a hard time getting
people to believe him granted Peter
Parker’s claims that a scientist has
turned into a lizard man and is
rampaging through the city are a little
incredible but there is something more
dangerous and I know who it is when told
this NYPD captain George Stacy responds
by asking Peter if he looks like the
mayor of Tokyo referencing famed giant
monster Godzilla’s frequent attacks on
the city the line was improvised by
actor Denis Leary and helped lighten up
an otherwise grounded and serious take
on Spidey’s origin story let me ask you
a question do I look like the mayor of
Tokyo to number 9 oh shit
Batman versus Superman dawn of Justice I
gotta get back to city upon realizing
that the demonic creature unleashed by
Lex Luthor is Kryptonian Batman decides
to learn stay back to the port where the
kryptonite spear he planned to use on
Superman still resides
despite his piloting skills the Dark
Knight is unable to evade doomsday in
his personal aircraft for long
eventually getting shot down by the
with doomsday bearing down on him and
nowhere left to run
Batman mutters oh shit which ben affleck
improvised the reaction is a very
relatable one and shows that for all his
wealth and power Batman is still only
human oh shit
number eight a dance with the devil
Batman if you could see inside try from
one Batman movie to another only this
time it’s the villain doing the
improvising arriving at Vicky vales
apartment the Joker and some thugs hold
Bruce Wayne and Vicky at gunpoint
leading to a confrontation between Wayne
and the Clown Prince of Crime the Joker
shoots the billionaire and tells Vicky
sarcastically that he’s sat on the
inside doing little dance as he leaves
before blowing raspberry Jack Nicholson
made up the dance on the spot which adds
even more of the characters manic Glee
to the scene
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number seven fiance dr. strange mr.
Govan while studying at Kumar Taj
Stephen strange meets the librarian Wang
whose single name causes the doctor to
relate him to several famous people with
mono names like Adele and Aristotle just
Wang like Adele in a later scene he
asked for advanced books that Wang says
he isn’t ready for benedict cumberbatch
ad-lib the line try me Beyonce going on
to express his disbelief that Wang
hasn’t heard of her and not ready for
that
try me Beyonce come on
you’ve heard of her she’s a huge star
right this ad-lib clearly influenced
additional parts of the film too as a
later scene shows Wang listening to
Beyonce’s song single ladies while
strange steals books from behind him
number six bunch of jackasses
guardians of the galaxy you might think
that a computer-generated character like
Rocket Raccoon would not be conducive to
improv but you’d be wrong before the
final battle Peter quill tries to
convince his friends to take a stand and
fight Ronan and when each affirms their
desire to stand with them they stand up
rocket is the last to do so and as just
as cranky about it as every other
decision saying Rockets on set standing
director James Gunn’s brother Shawn made
up the line during filming which led to
its inclusion in the final product
number 5 nobody would know Avengers age
of Ultron know the antagonistic
relationship between Clint Barton aka
Hawkeye and Pietro Maximoff or
Quicksilver is a fun through line in age
of Ultron Quicksilver gets the better of
Hawkeye several times due to his speed
though Hawkeye gets some digs in – by
stopping the cocky speedster from
running even after joining the forces
against Ultron the pair still managed to
take shots at each other that’s
Quicksilver picks up his sister and runs
off at one point telling Hawkeye actor
Jeremy Renner improvised Hawkeye’s
that’s nice no I’m an Ultron was sitting
on about yeah I’ll be missed I’m already
number four touching the pecs Captain
America the First Avenger mr. stark the
transformation of Steve Rogers into a
super soldier causes him to grow
stronger faster and develop tremendous
agent Peggy Carter takes a physical
interest in the latter aspect going so
far as to touch his torso very briefly
which actress Hayley Atwell improvised
it’s a small character moment but it
goes a long way towards illustrating how
miraculous Rogers transformation is as
well as showing that agent Carter is
more down to earth than her professional
demeanor would suggest and it’s funny to
boot
number three he’s a friend from work
thor ragnarok arguably the most
memorable scene in the third Thor film
sees the titular god of thunder facing
off against the Hulk in an arena however
far from being worried Thor is happy to
see his fellow Avenger calling him a
friend from work and surprising the
crowd the line was improvised though not
by actor Chris Hemsworth rather it was
suggested to him by a child who was
visiting the set as part of the
make-a-wish Foundation reports say that
as much as 80% of the dialogue in the
film was improvised but this line stands
out for its origin delivery and iconic
place in the film and trailer
[Music]
[Applause]
number two weasel insults Deadpool
Deadpool come on wait it can’t be that
bad
becoming a superhero isn’t always easy
or pain free and Wade Wilson definitely
gets the short end of the ugly stick
when he’s given healing abilities that
also leave him disfigured upon revealing
his face to his friend weasel the
bartender proceeds to come up with a
variety of colorful creative ways to
tell him how unpleasant he looks I’m
sorry you’re haunting your face is the
stuff of nightmares like a testicle with
teeth
all of these imaginative invectives were
invented by TJ Miller and Ryan Reynolds
themselves with even more of their
insults appearing in deleted scenes
outtakes and trailers you you look like
the inside of other people’s assholes
number one shwarma the Avengers I am
Iron Man Robert Downey jr. is no
stranger to improv as most of his
dialogue in the first Ironman was ad
libbed
there’s no doubt that this moment was
the result of this skill after his
near-death experience saving the city
from a nuclear missile he sends through
a wormhole
stark remarks that there’s a nearby
schwarmann restaurant that he wants to
try a line that Robert Downey jr. threw
in after discussing some possible
alternate takes with director Joss
Whedon Richard shwarma there’s a shwarma
joint about two blocks from here this
led to the infamous after credits scene
where the Avengers eat at the restaurant
in silence so what do you think of the
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