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Halle Berry<\/a>\u2018s tenure as a movie star hasn\u2019t been smooth sailing. Sure, she made history when she won the Oscar for Monster\u2019s Ball in 2002 and attained an undying legacy when she appeared as a Bond girl in Die Another Day that same year, but she also made history for the catastrophic failure that was the Catwoman movie in 2004. She\u2019s taken it all in her stride, though, and even had the good grace and humour to accept her Razzie in person while holding her Oscar. A peak pop culture moment. <\/p>\n Even before these points on the rollercoaster, Berry had her fair share of challenges in Hollywood. Some challenges were big, like the box office losses from Catwoman, and others were very, very small, like the single line of dialogue in 2000\u2019s X-Men that is still infamously silly. In one scene, Berry, who plays the weather-controlling mutant named Storm, murders the villain Toad (Ray Park) with a bolt of lightning. First, she utters the immortal line, \u201cDo you know what happens to a toad when it\u2019s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n This line\u00a0was written\u00a0by Joss Whedon, the writer and director behind\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who went on to shepherd the\u00a0Avengers\u00a0franchise to billions in box office returns. He regrets writing it, but wants to make it\u00a0absolutely\u00a0clear that he still takes no responsibility for how dumb it is. For that, he blames Berry.\u00a0<\/p>\n