20 Ridiculous Coincidences That Saved Movie Heroes
Sometimes it turns out that saving the day is less based on skill and more based on having fortune on your side.
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We like a movie good guy who's quick on his or her feet, knows how to kick ass, can deliver a witty quip in a moment of impending doom, and can save the day//planet/drugs/etc. Sometimes, though, it turns out that saving the day is less skill-based and more fortune-based.
To help illustrate this, we asked our readers to comb through our favorite films and find the worst offenders. The winner is below, but first the runners-up ...
![IRON MANBC TONY STARK has crash-landed and needs a place to hide and repair his suit. Thank goodness, the first building he finds is a FULLY EQUIPPED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/0/4/411404.jpg?v=1)
![In TRAINING DAY. good cop Jake saves a random young woman from an attack After she leaves. he finds her wallet Latere his partner Alonzo sets him up A](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/0/6/411406.jpg?v=1)
![At the beginning of X-Men: First Class. mutants Charles Xavier and Raven Darkholme meet as kids when Raven just SO happens to break into Charles' hous](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/1/4/411014.jpg?v=1)
![In THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Bane's men surround Selina on a rooftop following her confrontation with pawn Daggett. Luckily for her, of all the buildings](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/6/4/410964.jpg?v=1)
![At the end of A New Hope, Han abandons the rebels, only to return at the exact moment Luke needs saving from Darth Vader, allowing Luke to destroy the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/9/0/410990.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKEDCON When Merry and Pippin escape into Fangorn, not only do they climb up the one tree around that happens to be the leader of the Ents..1 But h](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/6/6/410966.jpg?v=1)
![PIRATES CARIBBEAN CRACKED COMT OF THE CURSE BLACK PEARL OF THE Ten years after being mutinied on by the cursed crew of the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrowju](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/0/6/411006.jpg?v=1)
![THE BOONDOCK SAINTS Mob boss Papa Joe Yakavetta hires notorious hitman IL Duce to kill the anointed vigilantes, the MacManus brothers. As he's about](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/4/0/411340.jpg?v=1)
![Moments after Buzz and Woody are separated from Andy and stranded at a gas station, Fizn LIGHTYEAR a clearly-labeled truck heading to the same destina](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/9/8/410998.jpg?v=1)
![Hey, remember how Dorothy melted the Wicked Witch by throwing a bucket of water on her? That was completely by accident. Dorothy was trying to extingu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/7/8/410978.jpg?v=1)
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![CRACKED COM Early in Goldeneye, Q provides James Bond with a pen that doubles as a class 4 grenade. You have to click the pen three times in order to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/8/0/410980.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED.COM Thankfully The Goonies managed to convince a girl who played piano when she was four to join them on their quest, because otherwise they w](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/7/2/410972.jpg?v=1)
![SUPEEI MOVIE THE Lex Luthor's henchman, Otis, puts the wrong coordinates in a nuclear missile because he's an idiot. Those coordinates send the missil](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/5/8/410958.jpg?v=1)
![In blonde Eue fumbles IEGALY through her first court case. Luckily the key witness's testimony hinges on details of perm care, in which ELlE is well i](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/0/8/411008.jpg?v=1)
![DRUNKEN GRANDPA DRIVES HIS JEEP INTO THE LIVING ROOM FOR NO GOOD REASON. JUST HAPPENS TO KILL THE HEAD VAMPIRE BEFORE HE CAN BITE LUCY ON THE NECK. TH](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/0/0/411000.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED.C COM Lpisoce TTHEEMPIRE STRIKES Luke, you will go to the Dagobah System. There you will learn from Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed me.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/1/0/411010.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKED.COM In harbour a this big... And weather this bad... It's pretty amazing that att the main characters end up this close together...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/1/2/411012.jpg?v=1)
![WITH NO WAY of KNOWING IF HIS FRIEND WAS IN THE FIGHT TO BEGIN WITH AND WHILE STUMBLING AROUND THE HUGE BATTLEFIELD LITTERED WITH CORPSES OF CLOSE TO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/8/6/410986.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKEDco COM Hikaru Sulu. uably the best pilot in the galaxy, forgot to turn off the emergency brake. This delayed their leaving with the rest of the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/8/2/410982.jpg?v=1)