The Indiana Jones films are good at making the bad guys die. My idea is to have a guy holding a crossbow, aiming at the hero, then, the hero kicks the crossbow, causing it to fire into the bad guys head. Good huh? If not, come up with something better...

That wouldn't work at all.... the logistics of it just don't make any sense... if you kicked a crossbow as someone was about to fire it it would just be fired upwards at an angle, it would still be fired away from the holder of it, not towards.

How about the "hero" as you call him grabs hold of the arrow shaft before it fires (probably better with a longbow than crossbow) and steps to the side so that when it fires he spins on the spot and stabs him with the arrow..... as ludicrous as that sounds it is more plausable than what you said.

No no no... He kicks the crossbow, which hits its owner in the chest, causing it fire prematurely (sexual innuendo...) into the guys head.

Yeah, and that wouldn't work.... you said he was aiming at the "hero" if you kicked it it would just go above his head. It wouldn't work.

The only way I can see it possibly working is if the assailant was holding this crossbow like the automatic in scarface (really low by the hip)... which 1. you wouldn't do with a crossbow, they fire from the shoulder. And 2. would involve the hero being in an odd position to be able to kick underneath it.

Shh.... My brain is retarded.

Make somebody eat their own butt.