Perhaps still searching for the perfect mind-swap role that would finally fulfill him, in 2015, Reynolds starred in Self/less as a man who pays off his daughter's medical bills by selling his body to a company that implants the consciousness of a dying billionaire inside him, artificially extending the billionaire's life. A sort of similar thing happens in 2016's Criminal, only it's Reynolds' consciousness that gets implanted in the brain of a sociopath played by Kevin Costner. Both movies asked complicated questions about the profound connection between mind and body, but only one has a "Please take me seriously again!"-era Kevin Costner, so I guess you know which one you're watching tonight.

A few years later, Mads starred in the Danish film Valhalla Rising, in which he plays a viking warrior called One-Eye -- a nickname he did not get ironically. 2016 then came around and saw the release of Doctor Strange, in which Mikkelsen plays an evil sorcerer with burns around his eyes. It would have been funnier if Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange had been an optometrist in the movie, but I suppose you can't have it all.

2019 did not slow down Mads' weird vendetta against his eyes, as he played Duncan Vizla, aka "the Black Kaiser," in the Netflix action thriller Polar, for which he sported a fashionable eye patch. And what does the future hold for him? Well, we know he's providing motion capture, 3D scans, and vocal performances for Hideo Kojima's upcoming game Death Stranding, and screenshots confirm that even if his face doesn't get mauled, he does smear some shit across his eye for dramatic effect:

I can answer that last one. Based on his previous roles, Dinklage will either build another superweapon or try to kill a royal. Quite possibly both, having done so on at least two occasions. First, on Game Of Thrones, he constructed a medieval nuclear bomb by filling a ship with Wildfire while trying to beat the forces of King Stannis Baratheon. Later, he was accused of killing King Joffrey before fleeing and helping Queen Daenerys fight Queen Cersei.

In Avengers: Infinity War, he basically does the same thing, playing Eitri the Dwarf, who forges the badass axe Stormbreaker for Thor (while almost killing the King of Asgard by having him stand in the energy blast of a star to reheat his forge). It's almost like the Kingslayer Gene is hereditary and transcends time and space. (Hey, that still wouldn't be the dumbest thing in the Marvel Universe. Looking straight at you, Thanos' helicopter.)

In X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Dinklage took a break from fighting kings to focus more on his superweapon hobby by constructing the mutant-hunting Sentinel robots. But that's probably because he'd already had his fill of attempted regicide from The Angry Birds Movie (in which he voiced Mighty Eagle, who fights against King Mudbeard) and The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, where he plays Trumpkin the dwarf, who wants to overthrow the unjust king of Narnia. No, really, that's his actual name. Trumpkin the dwarf. I'm so sorry, Peter. You deserve so much better.

Although you could make the case that this started with Under The Skin, in which she plays a seemingly featureless goo-alien trying to construct a human body for herself, it originated before this with Her, where she's essentially a Sexy Siri. She plays an AI named Samantha who falls in love with her user, Joaquin Phoenix. By the end, she and other AIs upgrade themselves and evolve into beings of pure energy, leaving Earth for a world beyond physical space. Before she does, though, she admits to Phoenix's character that she's also "in love" with hundreds of other people, because isn't that always the case with people claiming to be some kind of a supreme being?

From there, Johansson moved to Lucy, which was a kind of mix between Her and Under The Skin. She gets a kilo of a superpower drug literally kicked into her, and she gains an increasingly number of abilities, including telepathy, telekinesis, an immunity to pain, and whatever the writers felt like at the time, eventually becoming the next stage of human evolution. She then ingests more of the drug and turns into ... a pitch-black, seemingly featureless goo-alien, after which she moves to a world beyond physical space and gives humanity a weird "You can do it!" film-ending pep talk.

Finally, in 2017, Johansson starred in Ghost In The Shell as Mira Killian, the first successful transplant of a human mind into a fully cybernetic body (Ryan Reynolds must have turned this one down). It's a profound example of artificial evolution that allows humans to transcend our physical bodies and limitations. Also the need for clothes.

Technically, you can also mention Movie 43, which has a kid called Kevin, who has a mop with Watts' character's face on it that he calls his girlfriend. But I don't know if this counts, because Watts is the one who made him that way. Through homeschooling. Because she's Kevin's mother. Ha! That's ... comedy?

Cezary is a freelance writer and editor. You should follow him on Twitter.

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