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How It Should Have Ended is an Internet parody series depicting alternate endings for popular movies. It was started by Daniel Baxter and Tommy Watson, featuring Tina Alexander. The episodes are hand drawings given animation, and augmented with special effects and music. Each features an original "ending" that ranges from crazy awesome crossovers, to ridiculous and funny developments, to deconstructing it by simply shooting the villain or the hero, or taking a third, sensible action. It also hosts featurettes such as the Super Café Spin-Off, the Hero Swap crossover spinoff and some comics.

The site can be found here , and their YouTube channel is here .

Have in mind that, as a result of their premise, the videos may contain spoilers about the parodied movies, and so does this page.

• 2012


• 300


• Aliens (Twice!)


• The Amazing Spider-Man Series
  
  
  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  
  
  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  
  
  
  


• Avatar


• Back to the Future (Doubles as an alternate opening to Back to the Future Part II, which began with a re-enactment of the BTTF ending.)


• Beauty and the Beast (1991)


• Beowulf


• Borat


• The Bourne Identity


• Braveheart


• Casino Royale


• The Dark Knight Saga
  
  
  • Batman Begins
  
  
  • The Dark Knight
  
  
  • The Dark Knight Rises
  
  
  
  


• DC Extended Universe:
  
  
  • Man of Steel
  
  
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  
  
  • Suicide Squad
  
  
  • Wonder Woman
  
  
  
  


• District 9


• Finding Nemo


• Frozen


• Ghostbusters (1984)


• Godzilla (2014)


• Harry Potter


• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey


• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug


• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies


• How to Train Your Dragon 2


• The Hunger Games (mixed with Slender)


• Inception


• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade


• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


• Inside Out


• It's a Wonderful Life


• Jaws


• The Jungle Book


• Jurassic Park Series
  
  
  • Jurassic Park (1993)
  
  
  • Jurassic World
  
  
  
  


• The LEGO Movie


• The Lord of the Rings


• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  
  
  • Iron Man
  
  
  • Thor
  
  
  • Captain America: The First Avenger
  
  
  • The Avengers
  
  
  • Iron Man 3
  
  
  • Thor: The Dark World
  
  
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  
  
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  
  
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (two parter)
  
  
  • Ant-Man
  
  
  • Captain America: Civil War
  
  
  • Doctor Strange
  
  
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  
  
  
  


• The Matrix Revolutions


• Oblivion (2013)


• Ocean's Eleven


• Pacific Rim


• Paranormal Activity


• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest


• Predator


• Prometheus


• Pulp Fiction


• The Revenant


• Saving Private Ryan


• Saw


• Scream (1996)


• Se7en


• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows


• The Social Network


• Spider-Man 3


• Star Trek
  
  
  • Star Trek
  
  
  • Star Trek Into Darkness
  
  
  • Star Trek Beyond
  
  
  
  


• Star Wars
  
  
  • The Phantom Menace
  
  
  • Attack of the Clones
  
  
  • Revenge of the Sith
  
  
  • Rogue One
  
  
  • A New Hope
    
    
    • Special Edition note A new Episode IV HISHE with new gags and updated art style
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  
  
  • Return of the Jedi
  
  
  • The Force Awakens
  
  
  
  


• Superman


• Tangled


• Terminator (Crossover with another movie series that features time travel.)


• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)


• Titanic (1997) (The 100th video)


• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen


• TRON


• Twilight (So far, the first two films and Breaking Dawn part 1 though New Moon appears to be a Missing Episode now.)


• Top Gun


• The Good Dinosaur


• Toy Story 3


• Underworld


• Weird Science


• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory


• The Wizard of Oz


• X-Men Film Series:
  
  
  • X-Men: First Class
  
  
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past
  
  
  • Deadpool
  
  
  • X-Men: Apocalypse
  
  
  • Logan
  
  
  
  

• Assassin's Creed I


• BioShock


• Halo: Reach


• Mass Effect 3


• Modern Warfare 2


• Mortal Kombat


• Portal


• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim


• Super Mario Bros.


• World of Warcraft


• God of War


• Resident Evil


• Slender (mixed with The Hunger Games)

• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice


• Avengers: Age of Ultron


• Arrival note crossoverforeshadowing Superman's return in Justice League.

• "Super Social Network": Superman and Batman talk about status updates.


• "Bat Phone": Superman and Batman talk about smartphones.


• "Bros Before Marios": Mario shows up at the Café.


• "Pros and Cons": Superman and Batman talk about Comic Cons.


• "Trailer Of Steel": Superman and Batman talk about the Man of Steel trailer.


• "Swingers Tribute": A tribute to the film Swingers, which inspired the Super Café's vibe.


• "Versus": Superman and Batman learn they will appear in a movie together.


• "Who's a Hero": Superman and Batman have a conversation with The Doctor.


• "And The Reboot Goes To": Superman and Batman talk reboots.


• "Batman v. Superman - It's On!": The two superheroes talk (and fight over) the Batman v. Superman trailer.


• "Batman GO": The two superheroes play Augmented Realitygames.


• "The Last Trailer": The two talk about The Last Jedi's trailer.

• "To Battle. ": The Joker, Voldemort and Khan talk about battles.


• "To The Tailor. ": Loki, the Joker and Voldemort talk about villainous fashion.


• "The New Smile": The Joker gets some radical cosmetic changes for his upcoming movie.


• "Zombie Night": A zombie party is held at the Pub.


• "The Boss Battle": Batman finds his way to the Villain Pub and defies the many bad guys there.


• "Penny For Your Fears": The Monster Clown villain from It lands at the pub.

• Gladiator starring Iron Man


• Pinocchio starring Terminator


• Aquaman v Superman


• Home Alone starring E.T.


• The Matrix starring Forrest Gump

Tropes used in spoofs:

• The '80s: The X-Men: Apocalypse episode is rife with '80s Hair, '80s-style civilian clothing, and there's an '80s-sounding synth pop song which plays over Quicksilver's Bullet Time scene and the end credits. Mystique transforms into Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne from the 1989 film at the very end.


• Actually Pretty Funny: After Captain America gets fed up with Superman and Batman making fun of him, this happens:

Superman: I don't hear anything.

Superman: Captain America burn!

Emperor: You see what you did? Who knows how long he'll be running around like that! Do you realize how annoying it is to put up with him this way?!

• In general, all of the villains in the Villain Pub are genuinely friendly with each other and are perfectly willing to have civil conversations and offer advice to each other about various villain-related topics. It's particularly noticeable with the Joker and Palpatine, whose affability in their original films is far from genuine.

Affectionate Parody: Sometimes. They also have a knack of making fun of films but making fans of the film laugh as well as haters. One example of this is their take on The Social Network. While it does change the ending, it doesn't actually point out the many logical problems with the movie, it just presents the events in a funnier way.

Alas, Poor Villain: In-universe, the "I'm just a lonely Zombie" song from Resident Evil.

All Just a Dream: Indy believes his exploits in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to be this.

All-Star Cast: invoked Parodied in the Ocean's 40 trailer.

Always Someone Better: Batman and Groot start a Catch-Phrase duel: "I'm Batman", "I am Groot", "I'm Batman", "I am Groot", and so on for a while. Batman gets the hiccup, and Groot wins.

Alternate Character Interpretation:

• One of Glinda the Good Witch becomes revealed in-universe after one of the Munchkins shoots the Wicked Witch of the West:
  

  Superman: Dude, nobody said you can't come in here.

  
  

  Batman: Yeah, this is a public place.

  
  

  Spider-Man: . I've been hanging around out here for two years!

  
  

  Superman: Ha! Try every girl you've ever dated!

  
  

  Superman: "Oh, I'm Bruce Wayne, and I like you! Let me tell you my big secret!"

  
  

  Jack: [watching General Zod's spacecraft through the window] Oh, you THINK? [. ] You think that's a good idea Mr. Wayne?

  
  

  That other song is gone!

  
  

  then I could save all of the time

  
  

  Captain America: [laughs] None of us are gonna die! That's silly talk.

  
  

  Frodo: It's funny because it's extremely far.

  
  
  
  
  • Failure Is the Only Option: Discussed in "Slender Games"
  
  
  • Faux Affably Evil: Ultron shows up at the Villain pub, to brag with the other villains about the way he messed with the Avengers and built his Floating Continent to destroy all life on Earth while they made pointless searches. When Voldemort asks when the continent is going to fall down and kill everyone, Ultron answers, "Oh, some time about now." Then again, he (possibly) should have gotten out of there himself .
  
  
  • Finish Him!: When Sansa punches Joffrey, in a parody of Mortal Kombat.
  
  
  • First Guy Wins: Katniss backs out of killing herself with Peeta to confess that she actually prefers "hottie" Gale.
  
  
  • For Want of a Nail: Somehow Doc dropping vague hints to Marty and Jennifer about society in 2015 caused it to completely change.
  
  
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: Just like in the film it's based on, The LEGO HISHE contains several split-second cameos from classic LEGO characters in the background, including Johnny Thunder and Rascus.
    
    
    • In the Captain America: The Winter Soldier video, a potted Groot can be seen passing by the window of the cafe for a couple seconds, presumably being carried by Rocket.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Fridge Logic: invoked They often show more common sense or realistic ways for the movies to have ended invoking this trope. Often filling logic gaps and things that could confuse the viewers.
  
  
  • Friendly Enemy: Professor X and Magneto are perfectly happy with their tumultuous love-hate dynamic in "How X-Men: Apocalypse Should Have Ended."
    

    Professor X: Oh no, we will ride this merry-go-round to our graves!

    
    

    Magneto: Just before that, we'll time-travel and start it all over again!

    
    

    (Professor X and Magneto laugh merrily together)

    
    

    Superman: Well it's about ti— wait, is that your new stage voice?

    
    

    Superman: Well, what are you doing, gargling marbles? I can barely understand you.

    
    

    Batman: Why do so many people have a problem with this? I said, it's because. I'm Batma—

    
    
    
    
    • Karma Houdini: Zigzagged with Loki, who failed to steal Odin's throne when his Faking the Dead gambit was foiled by Jane. He manages to escape from imprisonment only to spend his time ruminating and sulking about his failure in the Villains Pub.
    
    
    • Kick the Dog: Superman and Batman love to screw with Spider-Man. When he asks if he can come in the Cafe, they point out he could have at any time, it's a public place.
    
    
    
    

    Spock: Fascinating, I was unaware that we had that.

    
    

    Kirk: It's nice, right? I mean, who designs a starship where lights shine right in your eye from virtually every angle!

    
    

    Superman: *sigh* I walked right into that one.

    
    
    
    
    • Pervert Revenge Mode: The HISHE version of X-Men: Days of Future Past sees go into this after the general she'd impersonate in the film proper says he thinks her true form is also sexy.
    
    
    • Phrase Catcher: Chell becomes this when everyone else in the video tells her, "You are a horrible person! Has anyone ever told you that?!" Even the video description refers to her as "a horrible person".
    
    
    • Pie in the Face: Tony Stark attended the birthday of Pierce's niece, who is not guilty for her uncle being a terrorist, and a birthday promise is a birthday promise! But she asked for Iron Man, not for a middle-aged geek she does not know. So, Tony took a piece of cake, and the girl used a "Cake missile. ".
    
    
    • Plot Armor:
      
      
      • Lampshaded about Lapidus in Lost.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      • After being convinced by Hiccup, Falcor, Daenerys and Draco that some dragons can in fact be friendly, the Dwarves attempt to befriend Smaug. It doesn't work. Smaug was one of the most iconic evil dragons before all those draconic followers started playing around with the concept.
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Pretty Little Headshots:
      
      
      • When one of the soldiers kills the Wicked Witch.
      
      
      • When Snape shoots Voldemort in Harry Potter.
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Reality Ensues: Really, almost EVERY short applies reality to the work and see how much the ending should logically fall apart. The list includes:
      
      
      • In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the tour immediately ends after the scary tunnel, as the adults declare they're going home before things get even worse. Mr. Beauregarde even says Wonka will be hearing from his lawyer.
      
      
      • In 2012, they have John Cusack's character explain the whole plot as his escape plan, showing how many coincidences would be needed to get them that far, let alone a lack of reality. In the end, they just drowned without even making it to the airport.
      
      
      • In one of their "Lego Movie" segments, it is demonstrated that Easily Forgiven doesn't really come into play for President Business, when he's convinced by Emmet to stop his evil plans. After all, it still doesn't negate the fact that he ruined a lot of people's lives in the process and is therefore thrown into prison by a lot of angry people for what he did.
      
      
      • In Top Gun, Maverick punching Iceman for causing the death of his best friend, earlier in the movie.
      
      
      • In the Assassin's Creed parody, they lampshade the sheer implausibility of surviving a "Leap of Faith".
      
      
      • Special mention goes to "How Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Should Have Ended" concerning the " No Russian " mission.
      
      
      • In The Dark Knight Rises, Batman succumbs to his stab wound and is unable to save the day.
      
      
      • In Jurassic World in its entirety. Some examples include:
        
        
        • You can't get a 20+ year-old Jeep back into running usable condition just by changing the battery lampshaded by the Indominus Rex before it eats Zach and Gray.
        
        
        • Wild animals of behavior and size similar to those of the Raptors are really tough to train and control, especially when out of their cages. Sure enough, so are the Raptors in the HISHE.
        
        
        • High heels are impractical for running away hence the reason why the T-Rex ate Claire.
        
        
        • Building a moat to stop the Indominus Rex from escaping, one of the zookeeper even points out zoos have been doing this for ages.
        
        
        
        
      
      
      • In The Jungle Book, Bagheera leaving baby Mowgli in a basket to be Raised by Wolves leads to said wolves eating said baby.
      
      
      • In Captain America: Civil War, Rhodes/War Machine dies from falling 15,000 feet in the air in a metal suit going 400 mph, rather than incapacitating him to the point that he needs a robotic walker to walk.
      
      
      • In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Rocket talking about stealing the Sovereign's batteries inside their throne room gets him immediately caught and executed.
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Reality Is Unrealistic:
      
      
      • In Captain America: The First Avenger, Armin Zola questions the Red Skull why they should label their bombs in English when they are German. The words written on the bombs were names of US cities: New York, Chicago, etc. However, this is a goof: these names are written the same way in both English and German.
      
      
      • In Frozen, the beginning parodies the fact that the chanting from the movie's opening has no place at all in the rest of the movie. It is actually a traditional Sami chant, Sami being a group of indigenous people in Scandinavia - where the movie takes place. (Also, Kristoff was stated in Frozen to be Sami).
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Reality Warping Is Not a Toy: Superman does not want to go back in time and save Gwen Stacy, as Spider-Man requests. He's trying not to do that anymore. But, eventually, he does it.
    
    
    • Red Shirt:
      
      
      • Parodied in Star Trek, when Kirk orders all red shirts on board the Enterprise to be jettisoned to lighten the weight of the ship. Scotty takes time to put on a different shirt before fulfilling the order.
      
      
      • And again in Halo: Reach, where after his big Tempting Fate speech, Carter hands Six a red shirt with the ONI logo on it.
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Retirony: In The Avengers bonus scene, two of the Chitauri discuss their imminent retirement, with one looking forward to spending more time with his wife and kids, and the other planning to follow his dream of opening a fitness center. And then Tony nukes the mothership.
    
    
    • Rhymes on a Dime: The Munchkins.
    
    
    • Robotic Reveal: While shouting "Freedom!" during his torture, William Wallace malfunctions, and reveals himself to be a robot. Then he proceeds to attack the English crowd with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse.
      
      
      
      • Darth Vader/Anakin loves to tell everyone about his children.
      
      
      • The scientists in both Spider-Man movie franchises. They're Genre Savvy enough to prevent each Freak Lab Accident that creates foes of Spider-Man (Sandman and Electro).
      
      
      • Every character played by Samuel L. Jackson will have a "Enough!" rant.
      
      
      • In all 3 Star Wars Prequel videos, Jar-Jar ends up dying in different ways: two instances of being shot to death, and one time getting cut by a lightsaber.
      
      
      • Whenever Captain America appears, Superman and Batman sings his embarrassing theme song.
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Sanity Slippage: Spider-Man got nuts after the death of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. So now Superman must go back in time and save her, or else Spider-Man will shoot Batman in the face!
      

      Xavier/Azazel: I've been shot, you selfish a-hole.

      
      

      [Azazel teleports Xavier]

      
      

      Magneto: Well, great. Now how are we supposed to get home?

      
      
      
      
      • Mace Windu to Darth Jar Jar in Revenge of the Sith.
      
      
      
      

      Batman: Oh, I don't know, probably just—

      
      

      Superman & Batman: [simultaneously] Fly really fast, saving everyone from the bullets and explosions!

      
      

      Batman: Make an incredibly awesome movie! . You know why?

      
      

      Superman: Yeah I just rescued these people while you were reading that.

      
      

      Frodo: Can you imagine what it would be like if we walked the entire way?

      
      

      Boromir: Yeah, one of us would've died.

      
      

      Red Shirt: Yeah, but. even the cannon?

      
      

      Vesper: I love you, James! Now I must kill myself for no reason! [drowns]

      
      

      Bond: But I killed all the bad guys!

      
      

      Emperor: [confused] No, I said Anakin Skywalker has a son. You are Darth Vad—

      
      

      Vader: I have a son! This is wonderful! I must see him! [leaves the room]

      
      
      
      
      • Villains Out Shopping: Villains Out Drinking, actually. Also ribbing each other and complaining about their foiled plans, which is why they need a Villain Pub.
      
      
      • Virtual Ghost: In Man of Steel, Lara is not happy to discover Jor-El only created one of these in his image for their son, instead of making one based on her as well.
      
      
      • Visual Pun:
        
        
        • In Frozen, when Wolverine sings "Let It Go", he grabs Storm at the "Let the storm rage on" part. The reissued version changed the line to, " This girl's named 'Storm' ", eliminating the pun.
        
        
        • The Inside Out video shows Riley enduring a "brain fart", which stinks up headquarters. Later on, headquarters also explodes after Bing Bong "blows Riley's mind".
        
        
        
        
      
      
      • Vitriolic Best Buds: Superman and Batman.
      
      
      • Vocal Dissonance: Any time Jon Bailey voices someone with the same voice he usually puts on for Honest Trailers can seem jarring.
      
      
      • Vocal Evolution: Darth Vader sounds very different in Star Trek compared to the videos about the Star Wars sequels.
      
      
      • Wall Slump: Deadly slump against a wall is how Jules and Vincent meet their end in "How Pulp Fiction should have ended" episode. See it here.
      
      
      • Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere: In Twilight.
      
      
      • Waxing Lyrical: Almost all of Ultron's dialogue in the parody of the Age of Ultron teaser consists of the lyrics to songs from Disney-owned animated movies.
      
      
      • Wham Line: In their Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 spoof, we get a parody of one of the numerous end credits scenes, specifically the one where Ayesha is creating Adam Warlock . However, there are two major twists: first, she makes it her intent to go after the Super Hero Cafe. Second.
        
        
        
        • At the end of How Wonder Woman Should Have Ended, we get a shot of Adam Warlock(renamed "Martha" in this continuity) jumping out of a portal. He then takes out a photo of Batman and Superman at the cafe.
        
        
        • At the end of their Spider-Man: Homecoming video (before the part with Cap), Michelle tries to show Batman a sketch she did of him, but accidentally shows him a sketch of Adam/Martha beforehand.
        
        
        
        
      
      
      • What Happened to the Mouse?:
        
        
        • Jun doesn't even appear in the Halo: Reach short. But the Chief does.
        
        
        • During the Lost short, Lapidus's theme music lampshades that didn't Walt and Widmore used to be important?
        
        
        • In Oblivion, what happens when all the other Jack Harper clones show up, complete with their own pissed off Victoria's?
        
        
        
        
      
      
      • What the Hell, Hero?:
        
        
        • To Jake in Avatar, since he never bothered to tell the Na'vi what the RDA actually wanted from them. You know, the entire point he was sent on that mission in order to prevent them from going to war?
        
        
        • Harry Osborn to his butler after realizing the latter knew the truth about his father, but never told him for 3 whole years.
          

          Loki: I've done it father! I've destroyed all of Jotunheim while you were sleeping!

          
          

          Odin: And that is why you are also banished!

          
          

          Odin: I take from you, your power!

          
          

          [Loki's helmet and spear fly into Odin's hands]

          
          

          [Odin zaps Loki into a portal]

          
          

          Joker: Then I'd blow something up, Idunno, I kinda like to keep people guessing.

          
          

          Scientist 2: Yeah, it's probably just a bird.

          
          

          Scientist 3: Here's a bright idea: why don't you make sure it's just a bird before you mutate the crap out of something just because you were too lazy to safely run this nighttime sand mutation experiment?

          
          

          Scientist 2: Fine. [stops experiment] . That is a big bird down there. Kinda looks like a guy. Oh, wait, it is a guy down there!

          
          

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