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* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Darth Vader, ever since the Revenge Of The Sith, will forever be known as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s&feature=related that guy who screamed] "[[Big No|NOOOOOOOOO!]]" On a lesser extent, in the original trilogy, he has the [[You Have Failed Me...]] trope as his [[Never Live It Down]], despite only doing it twice in the movies. (He would have done it three times, had Tarkin not stopped him.)
** TheHe only did it twice on-screen in the movies. (He would have done it three times, had Tarkin not stopped him.) But he casual manner in which Darth Vader dispatches his incompetent underlings, as well as taking into account [[The Law of Conservation of Detail]], suggests that this is a common occurrence. There's also how the other officers/troopers react to it. They look uncomfortable, but not really shocked or surprised. Their reactions suggest that this is indeed a common occurrence.
*** There's also how the other officers/troopers react to it. They look uncomfortable, but not really shocked or surprised. Their reactions suggest that this is indeed a common occurrence.
** Leia kissed Luke precisely twice, once for luck and once specifically to make a point to Han. There is nothing particularly sexual between them, but some people seem to genuinely believe they were screwing like incestuous bunnies before ''Return of the Jedi''. Wishful thinking? [[Squick]]!
*** The other thing that people conveniently forget is that neither Luke nor Leia ''learned'' they were brother and sister until ''Return of the Jedi''. And neither did the writers.
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*** Lando has never lived down the incident with the Millenium Falcon's hyperdrive, either, simply because he was under the impression that his mechanics would fix it rather than the Imperials sabotaging it further. While he did truthfully claim "It's not my fault!" ([[Ironic Echo|same as Han did]]), in later Expanded Universe works ships he attempted to fly ''never'' worked as intended, with him once again spouting his new catchphrase.
* ''[[James Bond]]'' has become known as the film series where 'The main Bond girl works for the villains until she falls in love with James Bond'. In fact, this has only happened on one occasion; in ''Goldfinger''. Most of the other times, the Bond girl is either an ally of Bond from the first (e.g. ''You Only Live Twice'', ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''), an innocent drawn into the villain's schemes (e.g. ''Dr No'', ''A View to A Kill'', ''Goldeneye''), working with the villains but unaware of the true nature of their plans (''From Russia With Love'', ''Octopussy''), a willing accomplice/BigBad who never changes sides (''The World Is Not Enough'') or effectively a slave rather than an ally of the villains (''Thunderball'', ''Live and Let Die'').
** Complicating matters, several Bond films (such as ''Thunderball'', ''Goldeneye'' and ''Die Another Day'') have genuinely evil beautiful henchwomen ''as well'' as heroines, and Bond will sleep with said evil henchwoman, in almost every single film. Doesn't help that Bond is also a frequent offender of tropes like [[Sex Equals Love]] and [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"]].
* In-universe example in ''[[Superbad]]'':
{{quote| '''Seth''': Hey Greg, why don't you go piss your pants?<br />
'''Greg the Soccer Player''': That was like 8 years ago, asshole!<br />
'''Seth''': People don't forget! }}
** And then there's McLovin.
* Indirectly in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'''s depiction of Jason Biggs, eternally remembered as "[[American Pie|the pie fucker]]".
{{quote| "I'm '''haunted''' by it!"}}
** [[Clerks II]] both plays it straight ''and'' subverts it with Dante and Randall's former classmate Lance "Pickle Fucker" Dowds, who had earned the nickname in an incident of high school hazing. After Randall recounts the incident where Dowds earned the nickname, Dowds replies that nobody but the aimless Randall Graves would remember the incident at all. Cue Jay walking in and referring to saying "Hurry up Pickle Fucker, I wanna get my cow tipper on!" As Jay is leaving, he yells off-screen "Hey, Silent Bob, some pickle fucker just gave us free eats!" revealing that Jay occasionally just randomly calls people 'pickle fucker.'
* The [[Parody]] [[Disaster Movie]] ''The Big Bus'' contains the immortal line "Jeeze! You eat one foot and they call you a cannibal!"
* Invoked in [[David Cronenberg]]'s ''[[The Brood]]'' when Robert Silverman's character intends to sue the psychiatric clinic (run by [[Oliver Reed]]) that he believes to be responsible for his lymph cancer. He knows he's going to lose the case, but he also knows that in a few years, people won't even remember the verdict.
{{quote| All they'll remember is the slogan: "Psychoplasmics Gives You Cancer." Catchy, huh?}}
* In ''[[For Your Consideration]]'', Harry Shearer's character, Victor Allen Miller, a dramatic actor who has been a veteran of stage for 40 years, yet all most people seem to remember of him is being a hotdog pitchman on TV when he was younger.
* [[Joel Schumacher]] is seen by many as the director that killed the 90s Batman franchise with ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]''. A prolific director with interesting films under his belt, yet for the fan(boy)dom he's branded as the director of Batman & Robin.
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* ''[[Joe Dirt]]'': After being abducted by [[The Silence of the Lambs|"Buffalo Bob"]], everyone asks Joe if he was harmed in certain ways, even though nothing terrible really happened.
* Despite the fact that the inexperienced Superman had no real way of preventing all the destruction Zod and his team of ultra-powerful Kryptonian warriors caused while having to simultaneously take out a destructive terraforming machine, ''Man of Steel'' will forever be remembered as the movie where a heartless Superman completely destroyed Metropolis without giving a damn about the civilians in the eyes of the film's detractors.
** To be fair, the most common criticism of ''Man of Steel'' is not that Superman failed to avoid collateral damage but that he ''didn't try'' to avoid collateral damage, which are two entirely separate things. Inexperience is a valid excuse for trying and failing, but its not an excuse for failing to even make an effort.
** Furthermore, there are at least two sequences where Clark has the opportunity to choose where the fight will occur -- when he does a flying tackle on Zod into downtown Smallville, and at the end of the movie when he drags Zod down from orbit into the heart of Metropolis (and Clark is clearly in control of their flight path for at least the latter half of that dive, given that he lands with Zod already in a submission hold) and in both instances Clark steers himself and Zod directly into the center of the nearest city instead of aiming for any one of countless acres of uninhabited land that he could have potentially used instead. The final sequence is particularly egregious because they'd just fallen ''from orbit''<ref>Geosynchronous orbit, no less, given that what they'd just crashed through was a communications satellite.</ref>, and could have potentially landed anywhere in the Western Hemisphere... and Clark still steers them straight back to downtown Metropolis.
 
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