The 9 Most Epic Movie Firings

Robocop

Terminated: Dick Jones
Reason: To nullify "Directive 4"
Reaction: Still being scraped off the pavement.

American Beauty

Terminated: Lester Burnham
Reason: He’s just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.
Reaction: Blackmail, which garners him a nice severance and the opportunity to flip burgers and smoke pot.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Terminated: Brad Hamilton
Reason: You’re not allowed to kick 100-percent of a customer’s ass.
Reaction: It sets forth a series of humiliating events, one involves a pirate costume, the other a red bikini which begs the eternal question: “Doesn’t anyone f**king knock any more?”

Goodfellas

Terminated: Spider
Reason: Telling Tommy DeVito to go f**k himself.
Reaction: Shot dead, forcing Tommy to dig a hole all by his lonesome.

Philadelphia

Terminated: Andrew Beckett
Reason: It was 1993 and he had AIDS
Reaction: Sue ‘em, naturally.

Jerry Maguire

Terminated: Jerry Maguire
Reason: His conscious got the best of him
Reaction: Phone frenzy, manic farewell speech, takes Renee Zellweger and some fish to start his own shop.

Fight Club

Terminated: The narrator
Reason: Psychosis.
Reaction: Threats; self mutilation. Like American Beauty, this work outs in his favor.

Back to the Future II

Terminated: Future Marty McFly
Reason: Busted by his Japanese stereotype of a boss after illegally swiping his card across something.
Reaction: He mutters "This is heavy" then tries to play guitar with his cripply hands. There is a silver lining: present McFly alters the past so this may never happen.

Trading Places

Terminated: Louis Winthorpe III
Reason: Framed as part of a social experiment.
Reaction: Confusion, denial, desperation, crime, revenge, success. Somewhere in there he’s saved by a hooker with a heart of gold.