"Sometimes movies don't finish the way we'd like"

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 taking a third, sensible action. It also hosts featurettes such as "Surviving an Alien Invasion" and comics.

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

Now has a Shout-Out page.


Spoofed films:


Spoofed video games:


Spoofed television shows:


Tropes used in How It Should Have Ended include:

Cap: But wait! Shh! Do you guys hear that?
(Beat)
Batman: Hear what?
Cap: Do I hear the Justice League calling?
(Beat)
Superman: I don't hear anything.
Batman: Yeah, me neither.
Cap: Exactly!
Superman: (laughs)
Batman: Whammo!
Superman: Captain America burn!

Well, this ruins my plan to send you [Dorothy] on a journey, and teach you a lesson, and eventually have you kill the Wicked Witch yourself!
    • One of Bowser becomes revealed in one of the other videos: He witnessed Mario slaughter his people, and so decided to call Princess Peach for negotiations. Unfortunately, Mario always interrupts, and nearly kills Bowser in the process.
    • Bella from Twilight when turned is not a Vegetarian Vampire like the Cullens and is pretty damn happy about it.

Bella: Lets go eat some PEOPLE! Woo!

Iron Man: You mean to tell me you've never revealed your secret identity before?
Batman: Uh, no.
Superman: Ha! Try every girl you've ever dated!
Batman: What?
Superman: "Oh, I'm Bruce Wayne, and I like you! Let me tell you my big secret!"
Batman: Oh, you're one to talk, Mr. Mind Eraser.

  • Canon Discontinuity: Lampshaded in-universe, after Batman has declared that he has the power to "make an incredibly awesome movie!":

Superman: So, we're just going to pretend like those guys never happened? [Points to a table where the Penguin from Batman Returns, Two-Face and the Riddler from Batman Forever and Mister Freeze from Batman and Robin are sitting] Is that what we're doing?
Batman: Yep.

Kratos: Ares? I already killed you.
Mars: Nope, I'm Mars, the Roman God of War... Tooootally different.
Kratos: NO!
Mars: Aww man.

"That wasn't a magic trick! I saw the pencil just went up into his eye, this is lame..."

GLaDOS: Would you like some delicious cake?

"Hey, you guys ever think we should use all this money and technology to actually solve the world's problems? End world hunger? Save the rainforest? No, just me? We'd rather kids fight to the death. Okay... Just thought I'd ask."

"Can you imagine what it would've been like if we had walked the entire way"
(Everybody starts laughing)
"It's funny because it's extremely far."

  • Downer Ending:
    • Since a Munchkin killed the Wicked Witch before Dorothy took her journey through Oz, she went home early, and never took the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion to have their desires granted by the Wizard.
    • Ripley's decision to send the alien through the airlock led to the deaths of her, Newt, and Hicks.
    • One of the segments in Ghostbusters ends with the Ghostbusters dying after trying to cross the streams.
    • Kirk and the Enterprise crew decide to just let themselves get sucked by the black hole. They end up in the Star Wars universe, and get immediately vaporized by Darth Vader.
    • The Pulp Fiction video has Mia get a shot of adrenaline to the face, and Vincent and Jules killed by the man who failed to shoot them in the original movie.
  • "Everybody Laughs" Ending: The Lord of the Rings
  • Every Episode Ending: Each superhero-related episode ends with the heroes talking with Superman and Batman in the coffee shop except for Spider-Man 3, where it appears briefly in the middle.
  • Fridge Logic: They often show more common sense or realistic ways for the movies to have ended invoking this trope.
  • Funny Aneurysm Moment: In-universe. As Six notices in the Halo: Reach short, one way to make an introduction really awkward is if every comment you make only keeps highlighting each character's eventual death.
  • G-Rated Drug: Willy Wonka decided to install the infamous scary tunnel while on a sugar high.
  • Genre Savvy: Spiderman in his final battle with Venom knows full well that he won't die.
    • Six hears Carter's inspirational opening, heavily tempting their fate, and knows immediately how each of the members will die. Then knows that he's a dead man too if he lingers with these guys and runs for the hills.
  • Gilligan Cut: From Darth Vader anticipating the joy his long-lost son will feel when they meet, to Luke Skywalker's Big No.
  • Gosh Dang It to Heck: Pulp Fiction includes one of the many lines containing the f-word, and turns it into gibberish.
  • Groin Attack: The easy way to defeat chainsaw guys from Texas.
  • The Guards Must Be Crazy: Pretty much what the Assassin's Creed parody boils down to.
  • Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Kratos gets played up as this. But not even he can kill Morgan Freeman.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Captain America is determined to invoke this, even though there are other and better options available to him.
  • Hilarious Outtakes: "A Look Back at It's a Wonderful Life"
  • Hypocritical Humor: Megatron jokingly asks if the aliens in Battleship look like the pegs from the game, and proceeds to rant about how some movies completely alter iconic designs.
  • I Choose to Stay: Thor decides to stay on Midgard with Jane Foster instead of return to Asgard and fight Loki.
  • I Love the Smell of X In the Morning: Quaritch in Avatar saying he loves the smell of CGI in the morning.
  • I'm a Man, I Can't Help It: HISHE's interpretation of Arthur, in Inception.
  • In Name Only: Lampshaded at the end of Dead Man's Chest, when Ragetti exclaims, "This ain't anything like the ride at Disney World!"
  • Kill'Em All: Ghostbusters and Jurassic Park.
  • The Jimmy Hart Version: Any time you hear an iconic theme in this series it won't sound exactly like the original, because of copyright rules.
  • Leap And Slash: In Harry Potter, Neville decapitates Nagini while flying sideways through the air and yelling, "I'm awesoooooome!"
  • Lens Flare: Parodied in Star Trek.

Kirk: Computer, I want you to shut down all the lens flare generators.
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!

Dutch: You idiots! There are weapons on the choppaaa!
  • Shout-Out: This page
  • Shut UP, Hannibal: In "X-Men First Class", Xavier gets fed up with Magneto's attempts to perform his Motive Rant, freezes everyone and mind-controls Azazel to teleport him to a hospital.

Magneto: Charles? Wh-what are you doing?
Xavier: I've been shot you selfish a-hole!

  • Smug Super: Superman is very fond of lording all his superpowers -- and the awesome things they enable him to do -- over Batman.
    • Iron Man in spades, his reply to Batman telling him he shouldn't have revealed his identity.

"Why not? Cause I did... and I'm awesome! So... in your face!"
    • Batman gets a chance to have his own back in The Dark Knight:

Superman: But dude, you know what I would've done?
Batman: Oh, I don't know, probably just-
Superman and Batman simultaneously: Fly really fast, saving everyone from the bullets and explosions!
Superman: Exactly!
Batman: Yeah, well, I can't do those things. Because I'm not a super-bulletproof alien from another planet that can defy gravity. But you know what I can do?
Superman: What's that?
Batman: Make an incredibly awesome movie! ...You know why?
Superman: [Resigned] Because you're Bat-
Batman: Because I'm Batman!

    • Batman calls Superman out on his twitter feed consisting of him repeatedly posting;

Batman: "Just saved the day. Just saved the day. Just got back from saving the day. Here I go to save the day. Just saved the day twice. I'm saving the day. Just saved the day tagged with Wonder Woman. Just saved the day" *phone beeps* And you just posted something new, what does it say, ah, "Just saved the day".
Superman: Yeah I just rescued these people while you were reading that.

"I took a grenade to the face, dude!"
    • Also, Bishop and Newt to Ripley after she opens the airlock.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Jun doesn't even appear in the Halo: Reach short. But the Chief does.
  • Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him/Her: Frequently subverted.
    • A Munchkin decides to use his gun against the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.
    • Iron Man uses a tank missile against Obadiah Stane.
    • In Revenge Of The Fallen, they just use the Rail Gun to kill the Fallen.
    • In The Dark Knight, this becomes "Why Don't You Just Run Him Over":

Superman: Woah, hold on a second -- you hit him?
Batman: Yep.
Superman: You hit the Joker.
Batman: Uh-huh.
Superman: You ran over a human being.
Batman: Sure did.
Superman: But... what about your rule?!
Batman: [Smugly] Didn't kill 'im.
[Cut to the Joker, lying in a hospital bed covered in casts, moaning in pain]
The Joker: You wanna know how I got these scars?
Nurse: From Batman?
The Joker: From Batman.

    • In Harry Potter, Snape shoots Voldemort, then uses the Time Turner and Invisibility Cloak to kill young Tom Riddle as well.
  • Within Parameters: Parodied in Spider-man 3:

Scientist 1: There's a change in the silicon mass.
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!

  • Worth It: In Game of Thrones Sansa's head-on-a-spike invokes this after pushing Joffrey of the rampart to his death.
  • Writers Cannot Do Math: When Snape goes back in time with the Time-Turner to kill Voldemort, he turns it over about 262,000 times, which, at an hour per turn, should put him back about thirty years - nowhere near enough to get Tom at the orphanage.
    • Ignoring the amount of time Snape uses to turn the Time turner in the first place.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Venom in Spiderman 3.
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