10 Recent Movie Moments EVERYBODY Was Waiting For

Spoiler culture is more rampant than ever, so much so that audiences can end up going into movies

expecting to see very specific reveals and scenes that just seem nailed on to happen

And sometimes they're bang on the money, and an anticipated moment does end up in the eventual

film, but other times the things that we expected to see end up not appearing at all

With this in mind, today we're talking about the recent movie moments everyone was waiting for

First up, an appearance by Taylor Swift, Deadpool and Wolverine. Everyone knew that Deadpool and Wolverine was going to be stacked with huge cameos from start to finish

Even before entering the MCU, Deadpool 2 managed to bring the entire X-Men team together

even if it was just for a split second. And with the Fox Universe and the MCU to draw from

the third in the trilogy had an embarrassment of riches at its fingertips

That being said, however, there was one rumoured appearance that everyone was waiting for that ultimately didn't happen, namely the appearance of one Taylor Swift

This was a theory that the internet grabbed onto and just ran with, until it felt almost certain that the biggest pop star in the world would show her face in this flick

There have been rumours for a long time surrounding Taylor Swift joining a Marvel film in some capacity, in particular to play Dazzler

And with her being real life friends with Ryan Reynolds and wife Blake Lively, paired with the shirt that Wade wore in Deadpool 2 that actually featured Swift's cats, it seemed like a sure thing

Add to the equation the first footage of Ladypool from the trailers, and there could be no question, right

Well, the female Deadpool was ultimately portrayed by Lively herself, and director Sean Levy has since confirmed that there was never even a single conversation had about bringing the megastar on board

Well, there's always next time. Next up, the death of Ethan Hunt, Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning

Now, as soon as you put the word final into the title of a film in a franchise that has run for as long as Mission Impossible has

it's hard to not think about a permanent end, particularly with someone like Ethan Hunt

who has been dicing with death from the very beginning of this franchise

The marketing for the latest Mission Impossible backed this up as well, really driving home that this was the end of Hunt's story

And with the character himself asking to be trusted one last time in the trailer

it was hard to not picture this as the end of Tom Cruise's legendary IMF agent

Relatively early on in the film, the decision was made to kill off Fing Rhames' Luther

but even this didn't mean necessarily that Ethan wouldn't also suffer the same fate as well

Again, it must have been called the final reckoning for a reason, right

And if no time to die can kill off James Bond in an onslaught of missiles, why not Ethan Hunt

So when Hunt was flying through the sky fighting with Gabriel and when he soared through the air on a parachute that ultimately set on fire

it seemed as though there would be no way that this character would survive

But there he was after landing, walking across the field like he had just travelled by car rather than literally falling through the sky

And hey, if this means the door is still open for more Mission Impossibles at some time in the future, I'm a fan of it

Next up, Batman's cameo, Superman. James Gunn Superman was a real statement of intent for the new wave of DC films to come Despite worries that it was biting off a little more than it could chew by reintroducing not just the likes of Superman Lex Luthor and Lois Lane

but also introducing an assortment of other heroes like The Lanterns, Mr Terrific and Hawk Girl

at least on the big screen anyway, it effortlessly weaved in the wider DC world without losing focus on the Man of Steel himself

One character who was missing, however, was the Dark Knight. Expectation that we'd get our first glimpse of Batman in this movie started to reach a fever pitch in the weeks leading up to release

with some corners of the internet expecting a nod to Andy Muschietti's upcoming DCU Batman film, The Brave and the Bold

while others even hypothesized and started to be convinced that Superman would instead roll Matt Reeves' and Robert Pattinson's The Batman universe into guns' directly

That latter theory reached new highs of confirmation bias as well, with the release of the official soundtrack extremely close to launch

and one track in particular that did admittedly have more than a few similarities to the main theme in The Batman

However, not only did this universe colliding merger not happen, but Batman wasn't directly referenced at all in the finished product

We'll have to wait a little longer before we get that glimpse. Next up, Caesar's Descendant, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Did anyone really expect the Planet of the Apes franchise to continue after Caesar's death in war for the Planet of the Apes

The trilogy was stronger than anyone could have ever hoped for, and it was unequivocally the story of Andy Serkis' Simeon character

However, even after his death, the series carried on with the still-good Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

with a 300-year gap between this chapter and the rest of the story

Naturally, Caesar was never going to appear himself, but it seemed nailed on that the new protagonist, Noah, would be a descendant of his

As said, this was Caesar's story, and it would have felt remissed not to have some sort of presence of his within the fourth film

That, plus the striking similarities between the two characters, certainly suggested a connection

though ultimately this was not something that came to fruition. Caesar's presence was indeed felt, certainly, though more as a sort of messiah than anything else

There were no direct links explored between the franchise's two lead protagonists

and though it wasn't explicitly stated that they weren't related in the film

the filmmakers have since come out and quashed any lingering theories on the subject

Next up, another big twist, Trap. M. Night Shyamalan has made a career for himself out of big movie twists

Could anyone have known that Malcolm Crow had been dead the whole time in the sixth sense

that Mr. Glass was truly the villain in Unbreakable, or that Split was a secret sequel to Unbreakable 16 years later

These were all shocking when they came, but to say that his latest effort trap fell on the other end of the twist spectrum would be a wild understatement

Thanks to the film's marketing and how the film itself played out, absolutely nobody was surprised that Josh Hartnett Cooper was revealed to be the butcher, the film's villain

But since this was a Shyamalan film, there had to be more, right

I mean this couldn't be the only twist, seeing as how it wasn't even really a twist, it's

just set up for the whole movie, and it was the most expected direction that the plot

could have taken Well as for further surprises there was nothing that you can consider a big subversion Was it surprising that Cooper wife planted evidence to get him caught in the first place

Yeah, kinda, but this was more a relatively straightforward plot development than a game-changing twist that we were expecting

Trap was a pretty good movie, but it was missing that extra gear to make it truly great

Next up, Ellen Ripley's daughter, Alien Romulus. When Alien Romulus released 45 years after the original Alien, like with many chapters in a franchise coming so long after the original, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to connect the two with a familiar link

Given the specific time frame of the film being set in between the events of Alien and Aliens

and with Ellen Ripley's daughter Amanda already having led the Alien Isolation video game

it made sense to think that this was exactly who Kaylee Spenny would have been portraying

Such a tie back to the original is probably the easiest way for a film to try and evoke and take advantage of nostalgia

But Romulus avoided such a tactic, introducing this new character instead as Rain Carradine

a person with absolutely no prior connections to the Alien franchise, and it was refreshing

The film wasn't completely free of fan service, of course, as it arguably went too far in this regard with the posthumous inclusion of Ian Holm as Rook

However, at the very least it was led by an original character that needed no ties to anyone else to make her relevant and compelling

Speaking tying back to other movies though, next up we have Adam Scott as Ben Parker, Madam Web

Now for something that everyone was expecting that actually happened. What Sony tried to do with its own shared universe based on its Spider-Man characters was something that was kind of doomed from the beginning

I mean there's the simple fact that you just cannot have a Spider-Man universe, you know, without a Spider-Man

Though in fairness it didn't help that the likes of Morbius and Madame Web were genuinely just terrible films regardless

At least the latter though, the fourth entry in this franchise, tried to tie back to Peter Parker in some way, but it just didn't work

And this came largely in the form of Adam Scott's mystery role

The internet had pretty much figured out that Scott would be playing Ben Parker, Peter's uncle, long before the movie ever came out

And those few who actually got around to seeing the film, yours truly included, didn't have to wait long for it to be confirmed

Just a few minutes into proceedings, Scott's character was referred to directly as Ben Parker

Now, it might not have been on the same level as Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire returning

in Spider-Man No Way Home in terms of worst-kept secrets, but it certainly would have come

to the surprise of pretty much nobody in the audience. After a few more clunky references to Ben's nephew being born and some cringe-worthy teasers

about the baby's name, it seems likely that the SSU will end without ever having properly

the chance to build on Ben's inclusion. And having seen that film, I'm totally alright with that

Next up, Jim's return 28 years later. After 28 weeks later continued the story of the rage virus infected UK

without referencing any of the previous characters who appeared in 28 Days Later directly

the eventual news of a true sequel was welcome. When it was announced, 28 years later was billed as the first of a new trilogy

and something that would see the return of Cillian Murphy as Jim The entire world even thought that they spotted the Oscar winner as a zombie in the trailer though it turned out that literally every single person on this planet

was mistaken. Director Danny Boyle soon began to downplay Murphy's role saying that he

wouldn't appear in 28 years later but would rather make his return in the sequel, The

Bone Temple, before enjoying a far chunkier role for the third in the trilogy, fingers

crossed it gets made. However, Andrew Garfield has kind of made it impossible to believe anyone whenever an actor's appearance is denied, either by themselves or the director

And yet, despite our expectations, neither Jim nor Naomi Harris' Selena made an appearance in 28 years, true to Boyle's word

Back to the SSU now with the death of Eddie Brock, Venom, The Last Dance

In a similar way to Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning, Venom 3's title The Last Dance automatically conjured images of undeniable finality

It felt very much like this was the end for Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock

And this wasn't exactly a theory that was unfounded or baseless. The characters teased entry into the MCU to face off against Tom Holland's Spider-Man was ultimately relegated to a mere post-credits scene before being shipped back home

And with the SSU living on borrowed time, what else was there to do with the character

Well, the entire plot of the third film in the trilogy revolved around Eddie and Venom carrying a codex within themselves

that could unlock Null from his prison and bring about the end of the world

The only way to stop this from happening was for either Eddie or Venom to die

Together then, in the finale, they ultimately made the sacrifice to save the world

But at the last moment Venom spit Eddie out and saved him sacrificing himself in the process

Yes one of them had to die and while everyone thought it would be Eddie Brock expectations were subverted and it was instead Venom who danced his last dance

And finally we're going to talk about the Fantastic Four first steps but consider this a spoiler warning considering it is still a very recent movie from this year

Okay, finally we need to talk about Doctor Doom with the Fantastic Four First Steps

Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom may be taking the reins from Thanos as the MCU's next big bad

but the character has typically been a villain of the Fantastic Four

He is synonymous with Marvel's first family, and in particular Reed Richards

and it felt as though he was always going to make an appearance in their first MCU movie First Steps

Just the association between the characters made this likely, as Doom has appeared in every Fantastic Four film to date, but this isn't the only reason that an appearance from the man felt essential

After all, big bad Thanos didn't just jump straight into Avengers Infinity War in 2018

He was teased throughout the Infinity Saga, and while Marvel Studios has left it late in the game

with less than a year to go until Avengers Doomsday, there was always likely to be a little tease of him first

and naturally, First Steps felt like the perfect choice. It was always likely going to be in the post-credits scene as well

as Galactus, the villain of first steps, was commanding of his own story without being drowned out by doom

and realistically, what else was the film going to tease so close to Doomsday

A quick shot of him speaking to Franklin Richards showing the iconic mask was arguably the most predictable route to go

but honestly, it kind of didn't need to be anything more than that

So that's our list, let me know if you were expecting any of these movie moments in the comments below

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