Best movie "comeuppance" scenes (Spoilers)

[Morbo]

What are some of the best scenes in which the bad guy gets his satisfying comeuppance? Of course we can pick where the bad guy just dies horribly, like, say, Rob Roy, but I'd prefer the eternal humiliation / disgrace angle.

My nominations:

Ever After. What can I say, I actually liked this movie. Espacially the scene at the end where the evil stepmother and daughter think they're arriving "in style" so the daughter can be named queen, but then the tables are turned. I even didn't mind the over-the-top ending where they get tossed in the vat of steaming hot laundry water. (Although they got a little carried away with the purplish tint to their faces).

Absence of Malice. The scene where Wilford Brimley comes in and cleans house. "You weren't no pres-ee-dential appointee, Elliot. Th' one that hired you is me. You got thirty days."

Trading Places. "Turn those machines back on!!!!"

[Purd Werfect]

Quigley Down Under, in which Alan Rickman's character discovers that even though Quigley doesn't care for pistols, it doesn't mean he's not handy with one.

[Ludy]

Ever After. What can I say, I actually liked this movie. Espacially the scene at the end where the evil stepmother and daughter think they're arriving "in style" so the daughter can be named queen, but then the tables are turned. I even didn't mind the over-the-top ending where they get tossed in the vat of steaming hot laundry water. (Although they got a little carried away with the purplish tint to their faces).



I didn't see that as laundry water, but as a vat of dye.

Thus the purple face.

[Sampiro]

The arrest of the KKK member deputy in Time to Kill.

Sal Tessio realizing he's screwed in The Godfather, which of course also had Paulie, Turk, the Irish cop and a variety of mob bosses getting comeuppances.

The warden realizing just f*cked he is in Shawshank Redemption (a scene that wasn't in the book but should have been).

Tony Goldwyn's character (movie name eludes me) typing in the account information and finding $4 million of mob money gone in GHOST.

[Morbo]

I didn't see that as laundry water, but as a vat of dye.

Thus the purple face.

:smack:

Tony Goldwyn's character (movie name eludes me) typing in the account information and finding $4 million of mob money gone in GHOST.

Didn't seem to elude you for very long. :)

Another one: Julian Glover's demise at the end of 52 Pickup.

[mr. jp]

The best comeuppance ever is in Dogville. The whole movie was a build up to it, and it was sweet.

[Ethilrist]

Sleeping with the Enemy. Julia Roberts has a gun pointed at the bad guy. Picks up the phone, calls 911, gives them her name and address, and says she's just shot an intruder. Fade to black.

Cinderella. "But, Your Excellency, I have the other glass slipper..."

Ladyhawke, when Ysabeau walks up to the priest and hands him her jesses...

[Ethilrist]

Oh, and I forgot my favorite ever...

Wizards. "Here's a spell Mom never showed you..." pulls out a gun... "I'm glad you changed your last name, you son of a bitch..."

[Push You Down]

Diggstown.
Burce Dern, Louis Gosset Jr. and James Woods.
For the ending-
Earlier in the film Bruce Dern shows his power in the town during a boxing match by calling out to one of the boxers and giving him a thumbs down. The boxer takes a dive.

At the end of the movie, Bruce Dern has called in a tough prison boxer as a wringer for the finale of the marathan boxing match(es) that Gosset is fighting. James Woods just got out of the same prison with this guy and there may or may not be some bad blood.
Dern thinks he's just won because there is no way the beaten and tired Gosset can beat this fresh prison brawler. As the match begins, Woods calls out to the prisoner and gives him a thumbs down. The prisoner takes a dive and Woods and Gosset win the boxing marathon and a huge bet.

Its one of the few times I'm been in a theater where EVERYONE cheered. About 25% of them stood up and cheered even.

[ianzin]

There's a nice one in Superman III, even though the 'bad guy' concerned is just an incidental character. Thug in a diner picks on a temporarily non-super Clark Kent and beats him up. At the end of the movie, being 'super' once more, Clark returns to the same diner, and allows the same thug to pick on him again. It's very nicely done.

[silenus]

Magneto getting his in X3.

Jan Michael Vincent starting Charles Bronson's car in The Mechanic.

[Kalhoun]

Slingblade, baby.

[Push You Down]

There's a nice one in Superman III, even though the 'bad guy' concerned is just an incidental character. Thug in a diner picks on a temporarily non-super Clark Kent and beats him up. At the end of the movie, being 'super' once more, Clark returns to the same diner, and allows the same thug to pick on him again. It's very nicely done.


Its actually Superman 2. It always struck me as a little vindictive for Superman to do that.

But hey the line "Funny, I've never seen garbage eat garbage." is pretty good.

[Ol'Gaffer]

Ethilrist's post reminded me of my favorite scene - the six-fingered man and Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride.

"I want my father back you sonofabitch."

[corkboard]

The Untouchables- scene in the train station when Ness chases the baby carriage down the steps while Stone comes running across the room, tosses a pistol to Ness, slides to the bottom of the steps & stops the carriage, while taking a bead on the thug holding Capone's accountant:

Ness: One--

Ness: Two!--

Ness, to Stone: You got him?

Stone: Yeah, I got him. (shoots thug in forehead)

Stone: Three.


[I forget the movie]:
Bully: I eat shits like you for breakfast!

Protagonist: You eat shit for breakfast?


Caddyshack:
Noonan putts, ball stops on edge of hole-
Bad guys cheer-
Carl depresses plunger and explosions ensue-
Ref stares at hole-
Ball drops-
Crowd erupts!

[Skald the Rhymer]

There's a nice one in Superman III, even though the 'bad guy' concerned is just an incidental character. Thug in a diner picks on a temporarily non-super Clark Kent and beats him up. At the end of the movie, being 'super' once more, Clark returns to the same diner, and allows the same thug to pick on him again. It's very nicely done.

[geek]
That's in Superman II. He'd given up his powers to be with Lois and gotten them back to deal with the Phantom Zone villains.

[cormac262]

"Nighthawks" - Rutger Hauer, after having his kidnapping plan thwarted, seeks revenge on the girlfriend of the cop who messed up his plans - helpless Lindsay Wagner doing the dishes.

[Sampiro]

Reese Witherspoon's "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior" moment in Speedway, and later the courtroom scene ("look who got beat with the ugly stick!"). (To say more would be spoilerville.)

[The Hamster King]

Captain Blood -- The evil plantation owner who has been making life hell for Errol Flynn for most of the movie returns to Port Royal at the end of the movie only to discover that he has been disgraced, Captain Blood has been named governor of the colony in his place, and ... the Captain is marrying his niece! The look on his face is sooo satisfying ... .

[Max Carnage]

[I forget the movie]:
Bully: I eat shits like you for breakfast!

Protagonist: You eat shit for breakfast?




Happy Gilmore.

[ululate]

Happy Gilmore.

Which, of course, brings to mind the reverse-comeuppance from Billy Madison. "Man, am I glad I called that guy."

[SpartanDC]

"A History of Violence" is practically one comeuppance scene after another, with ridiculously bloody, over-the-top carnage in each one. Yeah, the movie clearly blurs the line between hero and villian, but, hey, who's gonna root against Aragorn?

[Mayo Speaks!]

Which, of course, brings to mind the reverse-comeuppance from Billy Madison. "Man, am I glad I called that guy."
Not to mention "O'Doyle rules!" Those guys definately had it coming.

[Askia]

Celie's curse on Mister in The Color Purple.

[Steve MB]

There's a nice one in Superman III, even though the 'bad guy' concerned is just an incidental character. Thug in a diner picks on a temporarily non-super Clark Kent and beats him up. At the end of the movie, being 'super' once more, Clark returns to the same diner, and allows the same thug to pick on him again. It's very nicely done.
That was in Superman II. Frankly, it struck me as a bit petty on Supes' part.

[Askia]

Superman is a more likeable character when he's occassionally a dick.

[betenoir]

There's a nice one in Superman III, even though the 'bad guy' concerned is just an incidental character. Thug in a diner picks on a temporarily non-super Clark Kent and beats him up. At the end of the movie, being 'super' once more, Clark returns to the same diner, and allows the same thug to pick on him again. It's very nicely done.

Hell, you're going to pick that over the comeuppence of the real villians (has anyone mentioned it was really Superman II :D )? Where they have him on his knees kneeling before them...only to have him crush the main villian's hand, and have them realize they were the one's made, er, un-super. Definiate "Oh shit" moment.

[Alias]

The very end of "Dangerous Liaisons" when Glenn Close wipes her makeup off after the incident at the opera. Great scene.

[Spoke]

Speaking of Bruce Dern, his death in The Cowboys has to rank pretty high on this list.

[Lute Skywatcher]

The Untouchables- scene in the train station when Ness chases the baby carriage down the steps while Stone comes running across the room, tosses a pistol to Ness, slides to the bottom of the steps & stops the carriage, while taking a bead on the thug holding Capone's accountant:

Ness: One--

Ness: Two!--

Ness, to Stone: You got him?

Stone: Yeah, I got him. (shoots thug in forehead)

Stone: Three.Yeah, great scene, but isn't it the thug who counts?

[Sefton]

My favorite is The Scarlet Pimpernel (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025748/) with Leslie Howard. He walks away from his firing squad execution and casually addresses his enemy:

"I never would have dreamt of depriving you of your moment of triumph. Alas, a moment was all I could spare."

Priceless.

[Ranchoth]

Ditto for the Warden in Shawshank–though I'll add Boggs finding the captain waiting in his cell.

The Count of Monte Cristo had at least two really good ones. ("You didn't think I'd make it that easy, did you?" :D )

Gladiator—Commodus getting it.

Star Trek III—"I...have had...enough of you!"

:D

[astro]

Superman is a more likeable character when he's occassionally a dick.

Now why would you say that? (http://www.superdickery.com/galleries.html)

[don't ask]

Put me down for a talky one. The scene in the bar in Good Will Hunting where Will takes down the smug student.

[FriarTed]

Reese Witherspoon's "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior" moment in Speedway...


OMG, YES!!!! Because a Southern girl with any sense of decency would do just that before doing the rest!

[Little Nemo]

Maybe not the same league as other movies mentioned here, but the come-uppance ending in Dodgeball was great.

[SpazCat]

I've always been partial to the fate of the rapists in Titus. Ah, savory revenge.

[Sampiro]

David Carradine's character in Kill Bill.

Lucy Liu's character in Kill Bill.

Darry Hanna's character in Kill Bill

Viveca Fox's character in Kill Bill.

Every other character in Kill Bill (parts 1&2 counting as one).

Reverend Parris in The Crucible- left penniless by his niece and terrified to go outside his house. I actually find this more viscerally satisfying that an ass kicking that would have left him in pain for a month but then had no real lasting effects- it's how I'd want my enemies to end up rather than just with temporary pain and swelling.

Speaking of, the real Al Swearengen (who inspired the character in Deadwood but was very different and actually far nastier in real life) made as great a fortune as his TV counterpart but died a feeble and penniless hobo after business reversals, the death of the gold rush, embezzlement by flunkies, etc., took his money and health and age denied him the ability to recoup it. Deadwood ends this year and I'm curious if they're going to incorporate that (though I'd much prefer to see the fictional Cy Tolliver [who from what I've read is actually more like the real Al Swearengen] end up bankrupt and begging on the street).

[Smeghead]

The TV series Hustle has a lot of satisfying endings. The one from the episode where they steal the crown jewels (or attempt to, anyway) had me laughing out loud.

[Quartz]

How about Benny's demise in The Mummy?

[Happy Clam]

I've always been partial to the fate of the rapists in Titus. Ah, savory revenge.
I always though that what Aaron gets was more appropriate. I actually thought the death of the Queen of the Goth's sons was relatively merciful, considering the bloodthirstiness of the rest of the play.

[Banquet Bear]

...way back in the golden age of the mini-series, there was a brilliant mini called Chiefs. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084997/) It was the story of three generations of Police Chiefs, and their hunt for a serial killer. At the start of the third episode, Tyler Watts (Billy Dee Williams) is pulled over by one of the local sherrif deputies. The deputy smashes Watts tail light, and then arrests Watts for resisting arrest. As Watts is led through the police station, he is subjected to a few taunts from some of the other deputies in the station. One of the officers pulls out Watt's wallet, and as he flicks through it, he is hit with a sudden realization.


Bobby Patrick: So, what's your name, high roller?
Tyler Watts: Tyler Watts, but you can call me CHIEF!


Police Chief Watts then proceeds to kick butt for the rest of the episode...

[Skald the Rhymer]

That was in Superman II. Frankly, it struck me as a bit petty on Supes' part.

Well, he wasn't being Supes when he did it, or when he was beat up. He was humiliated as Clark, and he administered rough justice as Clark (and paid for the damages out of his own pocket). Except in scale, it was little different from what he did to the Phantom Zoners--exacting just vengeance on bullies.

[Tully Mars]

Yeah, great scene, but isn't it the thug who counts?

Yep. Actually, he shot him in the mouth while he was counting.

[Shirley Ujest]

Lethal Weapon the fight scene with Gary Busey and Mel Gibson. I thought that was a lovely in-your-face-come-uppence for Busey.

[Don Logan]

Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl.

[Zeldar]

"Nighthawks" - Rutger Hauer, after having his kidnapping plan thwarted, seeks revenge on the girlfriend of the cop who messed up his plans - helpless Lindsay Wagner doing the dishes.

In a flip-side role as good guy, Rutger in Wanted: Dead or Alive has captured terrorist Gene Simmons and has a grenade crammed in his mouth. He's supposed to get some major bonus for bringing Simmons in alive, but since Simmons has been so disreputable all through the movie

Rutger just says, "Fuck the bonus" and pulls the pin. Splatter ensues.

Catharsis.

In a less bloody comeuppance, it's hard to beat the Robert Shaw outcome in The Sting.

[FriarTed]

In parallel to Glen Close's final scene in Dangerous Liasons, the conclusion of
Cruel Intentions in which Sarah Michelle Gellar is destroyed while giving the eulogy for step-brother Ryan Phillippe.

[ivylass]

Ethilrist's post reminded me of my favorite scene - the six-fingered man and Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride.

"I want my father back you sonofabitch."

Absolutely. I never get tired of watching that scene. The music adds that extra element to it to get your heart pumping. The first whisper, then Inigo collapsing against the table as a wave of faintness comes over him, then the strings whipping up as he regains his strength and goes after Ruger.

Question...he was stabbed in the stomach, yet at the end of the movie, he seems well enough to jump out a window and consider a new career of piracy. Aren't stomach wounds very serious?

[ululate]

Well, he wasn't being Supes when he did it, or when he was beat up. He was humiliated as Clark, and he administered rough justice as Clark (and paid for the damages out of his own pocket).

Plus, we have to give him a pass for breaking the guy's bones by standing there while the assailant throws the first punch.

[Mississippienne]

Tombstone. When Wyatt Earp sees a man beating a horse viciously with a whip, he takes the whip away from him and gives the guy a good belt across the face. "Hurts, doesn't it?"

[Corporate Hippie]

The end of Léon (or the Professional) when Léon, after almost sneaking out of the SWAT filled apartment building, get's shot by the psychotic, corrupt DEA agent Stansfield. As Stansfield leans down to savor Léon's death throes, Léon puts something in his hand and whispers that it's "from Mathilda." Stansfield opens his hand to see a grenade pin, looks at the several grenades hooked on Léon's SWAT team uniform, gets out a last "oh shit", and then gets his!

[carnivorousplant]

The Wrath of Kahn:

"Here it comes."

[Morbo]

Khan's was pretty good too, from his point of view.

[BrainGlutton]

[geek]
That's in Superman II. He'd given up his powers to be with Lois . . .

Very sensible of him. (http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html)

[Scissorjack]

Pulp Fiction: Butch escapes from Zed's basement, and is on his way out of the shop when he realises he can't leave Marsellus like that. He tests and rejects a variety of weapons before selecting the samurai sword, and goes all Toshiro Mifune on their arses. And then, "Step aside, Butch." Marsellus Wallace gets some payback, with the promise of worse payback to come: even more satisfying because we can only imagine what his pipe-hitting n*****s are going to do with their pliers and blowtorches...

[Askia]

They're gonna get medieval on his hillbilly ass.

PULP FICTION TRIVIA: Using your VCR and advancing it frame by frame, if you slo-oo-oo-ow down the part where Marsellius Wallace shoots off Zed's dick, you can actually see his manchunk flying off.

[carnivorousplant]

Khan's was pretty good too, from his point of view.

Which one, "buried alive", or "From hell's heart I spit my last breath at thee!"?

[Linty Fresh]

Johnny Depp's character in Once Upon A Time in Mexico was brutal and corrupt, but I still felt sorry for him after he got his eyes drilled right out of his head on Barillo's orders. Yeesh!

[Scissorjack]

The Wrath of Kahn:

"Here it comes."

Madeleine Kahn?

[Happy Clam]

They're gonna get medieval on his hillbilly ass.

PULP FICTION TRIVIA: Using your VCR and advancing it frame by frame, if you slo-oo-oo-ow down the part where Marsellius Wallace shoots off Zed's dick, you can actually see his manchunk flying off.
:eek:

As to exactly what "getting medieval" involves, let us turn to the indomitable Mr. Pin:
I thought maybe a maypole. An' then a display of country dancing, land tillage under the three-field system, several plagues, and, if my ---ing hand ain't too tired, the invention of the ---ing horse collar.

[Poysyn]

Two I liked very much (kudos for mentioning Dangerous Liaisons though) -

A Few Good Men - "I'm an officer in the United States Navy and you're under arrest you son of a bitch!"

Eye for an Eye - "I know what you've done here." "Prove it."

[usar_jag]

What? No love for the closing scene of Mad Max?

[Nic2004]

I have to heartily agree with the nominations of Sleeping with the Enemy and Wizards (I cheered out-loud at both when I first saw them... which is unheard of from me...pun intended) and nominate Die Hard when Professor Snape falls. May not qualify as come-uppance though.

Liked the Quiggly one and Princess Bride also.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

The Man Who would Be A Super, Syndrome, gets pulled into a jet engine by the cape of his costume.

Very symbolic.

[Scissorjack]

PULP FICTION TRIVIA: Using your VCR and advancing it frame by frame, if you slo-oo-oo-ow down the part where Marsellius Wallace shoots off Zed's dick, you can actually see his manchunk flying off.

Yeah, well if getting your cock shot off by Ving Rhames is just the preamble to your comeuppance, you know you're in big trouble.

[MaxTheVool]

George: Hey you, get your damn hands off, oh.
Biff: I think you got the wrong car, McFly.
Loraine: George, help me, please.
Biff: Just turn around, McFly, and walk away. Are you deaf, McFly? Close
the door and beat it.
George: No, Biff, you leave her alone.




I also nominate the real-life comeuppance of Joe McCarthy... "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

[Askia]

This was weirdly aprops, as I juuuust got through watching "Good Night, And Good Luck."

[Little Nemo]

And once again lowering the whole tone of the thread, I'll nominate the last fifteen minutes of Animal House.

[Northern Piper]

No, no, no - most of these are just crude violence.

The best comeuppance ever was in Pretty Woman:


"You work on commission don't you? Big mistake. Biiiig mistake"

[Hostile Dialect]

Quentin Tarantino is the master of the comeuppance scene. I too love the Butch saving Marsellus's ass scene in Pulp Fiction.

[Morbo]

Which one, "buried alive", or "From hell's heart I spit my last breath at thee!"?

Both. But I was referring to the latter.

[cosmosdan]

I just watched Open Range with Costner and Duvall.


"Are you the one that killed my friend?"


Blam!! right in the head.

And, the scene in Powder where the kind of a dick hunter got to feel what the deer felt and could never hunt again.

[Zeldar]

I just watched Open Range with Costner and Duvall.


"Are you the one that killed my friend?"


Blam!! right in the head.



Right on! Just saw it for the first time last night myself! Probably on the same channel as you.

Can't wait for Broken Trail tonight and tomorrow night.

Does anybody else remember Duvall, Joe Don Baker, and Robert Ryan in an oldie called The Outfit? Ryan surely gets his in fine fashion and Duvall is right there for that one, too.

[BluePitbull]

Now why would you say that? (http://www.superdickery.com/galleries.html)


Is that site a parody or actual book covers?

[Bricker]

...way back in the golden age of the mini-series, there was a brilliant mini called Chiefs. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084997/) It was the story of three generations of Police Chiefs, and their hunt for a serial killer. At the start of the third episode, Tyler Watts (Billy Dee Williams) is pulled over by one of the local sherrif deputies. The deputy smashes Watts tail light, and then arrests Watts for resisting arrest. As Watts is led through the police station, he is subjected to a few taunts from some of the other deputies in the station. One of the officers pulls out Watt's wallet, and as he flicks through it, he is hit with a sudden realization.



Police Chief Watts then proceeds to kick butt for the rest of the episode...

Actually, it wasn't sheriff's deputies -- it was the officers of Delano's own police department. They had unknowingly pulled over their new boss.

This distinction is important because the killer lived (and practiced his vile trade) just outside of the city limits, in the county, where the Delano police had no jurisdiction. Ultimately, Watts has to get the feds involved and a federal search warrant to search....

My nomination isn't a movie --it's a scene from Orson Scott Card's book The Lost Boys. A bright elementary school student is hounded, ostracized, and picked on by his class, but the abuse is begun and continued with the encouragement of his teacher. At one point, he makes a diorama that wins first prize, but she tells her class that another child won and awards that child the blue ribbon. The father, who at first couldn't believe that a teacher would do such things, had admonished his son not to make things up... but ultimately he visits the school, and learns from the principal ( who is herself unaware of the goings-on) that his son did win the prize. So he goes in to talk to the teacher, and gets her to admit to some of the worse goings-on.... then turns to leave, at which point the teacher says that she'll deny having this conversation and he'll just look like an overeager parent supporting his son.

Then he pulls from his pocket the little Radio Shack micro-cassette recorder that was running the whole time.

It was a great moment.

[Mississippienne]

Is that site a parody or actual book covers?

They're real, believe it or not.

[Chanteuse]

Diggstown.
Burce Dern, Louis Gosset Jr. and James Woods.
For the ending-
Earlier in the film Bruce Dern shows his power in the town during a boxing match by calling out to one of the boxers and giving him a thumbs down. The boxer takes a dive.

At the end of the movie, Bruce Dern has called in a tough prison boxer as a wringer for the finale of the marathan boxing match(es) that Gosset is fighting. James Woods just got out of the same prison with this guy and there may or may not be some bad blood.
Dern thinks he's just won because there is no way the beaten and tired Gosset can beat this fresh prison brawler. As the match begins, Woods calls out to the prisoner and gives him a thumbs down. The prisoner takes a dive and Woods and Gosset win the boxing marathon and a huge bet.

Its one of the few times I'm been in a theater where EVERYONE cheered. About 25% of them stood up and cheered even.


Oh, yeah!! This was the BEST!! I never saw that end coming--'twas beautifully done, and SO well-deserved! I just sat there for a few seconds going :eek: and then I cheered, while laughing my butt off!

[cbawlmer]

Does anybody else remember Duvall, Joe Don Baker, and Robert Ryan in an oldie called The Outfit? Ryan surely gets his in fine fashion and Duvall is right there for that one, too.

Yes! That movie is awesome.

[bouv]

Jack Bauer shooting Nina Meyers.
Jack Bauer shooting Christopher Henderson.

[interface2x]

I'll see your Nina Myers and Christopher Henderson and raise you a Victor Drazen.

[Yllaria]

Firefly

The Train Job

You know which kick I'm thinking about.

[Khan]

Firefly

The Train Job

You know which kick I'm thinking about.

Oh hell, Firefly is just LOADED with comeuppance:

Serenity (The Pilot): Patience and her gang ("Nice Hat") and then with Dobson getting his eye shot out

Safe: "Looks like we got here just in time. Y'know what that makes us?"
"Big damn heroes, sir."

Ariel: Mal knocking out Jayne with the air tank and then putting him in the airlock (this one is probably the best of all. Mal is not one with whom to rut).

Trash: Inara locking Yosafbridge in the trash container, and then Simon confronting Jayne in the infirmary.

Heart of Gold: I loved how Mal had his gun to the guy's face, but had a change of heart and then pistol-whipped him instead. And then "say hi to your daddy!"


Those are just my favorites, but there's good turnabout in every episode!

[Der Trihs]

The scene in Total Recall where the evil fake wife says "You wouldn't shoot me, I'm you're wife", while pulling a weapon from behind her. Arnie shoots her and says, "Consider this a divorce!"

In the same move, the scene where that guy tries to convince him he's hallucinating. He almost has Arnold convinced, until he sees the guy sweat, and blows him away.

The end of Firestarter where Charlie fries bad guys right and left, and then goes to the media.

[thinksnow]

To Die For has probably one of the best, most satisfying, endings I've ever seen. Not a terrific movie throughout, but not bad, and with the ending...it's worht a viewing.

I'll third The Train Job, etc.

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg finding the second set of explosives was pretty good, too (even if they weren't from Mathilda. :) )

[Scissorjack]

To Die For has probably one of the best, most satisfying, endings I've ever seen. Not a terrific movie throughout, but not bad, and with the ending...it's worht a viewing.

Ooh, the ice-skating scene. Good pick.

[sciurophobic]

Sin City has several, especially if your favorite form of comeuppance is dismemberment.

[Little Plastic Ninja]

The very end of "Dangerous Liaisons" when Glenn Close wipes her makeup off after the incident at the opera. Great scene.

Exactly what I came into the thread to say.

[Quint]

I'll nominate two from Unforgiven:

Little Bill: "You just shot an unarmed man!"
Munny: "He should have armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend."

&

Little Bill: "I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house"
Munny: " Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."[aims gun]
Little Bill: " I'll see you in hell, William Munny."
Munny: "Yeah." ... [BANG!]

[thinksnow]

The guys that messed with William Wallaces wife certainly got some payback.

[carnivorousplant]

The guys that messed with William Wallaces wife certainly got some payback.

I don't recall his living happily ever after... :)

[corkboard]

Yeah, great scene, but isn't it the thug who counts?
It sure was. My bad. See, the letters N-E-S-S are so close to the letters T-H-U-G on my keyboard that... um...




never mind.

[Trunk]

The Ugly's comeuppance in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Classic.

I recently read, and then saw, Interview With The Vampire. Right before day-break, Louis goes to the theater and sets fire to all the vampire's coffins. He times it just right so they have no chance of escape, and also takes a few of them out with a scythe as they emerge from their burning coffins. (does he use the scythe in the book?).

Did anyone mention Keanu and Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate?

[Zeldar]

One of those comeuppances that was so well understated as to resemble the old sadist-masochist joke

M: Hurt me!
S: No.

was in Nevada Smith where Steve McQueen's character has gone from boyhood to young adulthood chasing and tracking the Karl Malden character who violated Steve's mother and killed both his parents and burned down their cabin.

He learns gunplay from Brian Keith and manages to chase down and kill two others involved in his parents' demise before finally locating Karl. After shooting Karl's kneecaps off and blowing away his elbows, Steve just pitches his gun into the creek where Karl is bleeding away and says something like "You're not worth killing" and rides away.

After so much chase and hurt beforehand, this was a perfect finale. The movie is just okay, especially nowadays, but that scene is memorable -- even if my memory of it is not quite accurate. At least I remember the spirit of it.

[Fir na tine]

Put me down for a talky one. The scene in the bar in Good Will Hunting where Will takes down the smug student.


Not bad, but the next scene outside the bar is better.

"How do you like them apples!"

[Zebra]

Two of my many favs from the movies are


Deserve got nothing to do with it. The Unforgiven


and this scene.

Man realizes that the jig is up, looks across his office and sees a sign that reads "His judgement cometh and that right soon" then he blows his brains out.


Of course that is from The Shawshank Redemption.

[Sampiro]

Put me down for a talky one. The scene in the bar in Good Will Hunting where Will takes down the smug student.

Have you seen Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (http://imdb.com/title/tt0261392/)? That scene is parodied with the original actors (Damon, Affleck and the smug student [later on OZ with his brother) and the original setting when J & SB stumble onto the set of Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season. I won't spoil it, but if you love that scene it's worth seeing this movie for in and of itself.

[ArrMatey!]

Steve Martin making up nose-insults in 'Roxanne' (and yes, I know it was originally from Cyrano). Both good 'come-uppance' and funny! :)

[Lightnin']

Another from Firefly:

Quoth Jubal Early: "Well... here I am."

[BobLibDem]

I've always loved the way that Messala got trampled in Ben-Hur . But then he got comeuppance of his own when he told Judah that his mother and sister were lepers.

[Rebecca DiMwitter]

The very end of "Dangerous Liaisons" when Glenn Close wipes her makeup off after the incident at the opera. Great scene.

Also, shortly before this fabulous scene, her shock, horror and loss (and stumbling, hair-pulling, face-wrenching fury!) at news of Valmont's demise. Supreme. LOVE that movie for all time.

More Glenn Close: the retribution she dealt to Jeff Bridges at the end of Jagged Edge . He so had it coming.

--Beck

[Agrippina]

I would say Sejanus's arrest in I, Claudius. I love how his smug look (as he thinks he's getting a promotion) turns to horror as the Senate reads Tiberius's letter.

[Ponder Stibbons]

Madeleine Kahn?
"It's twoo, it's twoo!"

Although it's a bit of a stretch to call it "comeuppance" ... ;)

[Scupper]

Pretty much all of V for Vendetta, but especially this:


[V is surrounded by Creedy's gun-toting fingermen after V and Creedy have just killed the Chancellor]

Creedy: Defiant until the end, huh? You won't cry like him, will you? You're not afraid of death. You're like me.

V: The only thing that you and I have in common, Mr. Creedy, is that we're both about to die.

Creedy: How do you imagine that's gonna happen?

V: With my hands around your neck.

Creedy: Bollocks. Whatchya gonna do, huh? We've swept this place. You've got nothing. Nothing but your bloody knives and your fancy karate gimmicks. We have guns.

V: No, what you've have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I will no longer be standing, because if I am you will all be dead before you've reloaded.

Creedy: That's impossible. Kill him.
[the fingermen open fire on V, but he still stands after their clips are empty]

V: My turn.


Also, John Turturro (Bernie) and Gabriel Byrne's (Tom) final scene together in Miller's Crossing:


Bernie: (begging Tom to spare him again, despite all the hell he's caused) Look in your heart, Tom! Look in your heart!

Tom: What heart? >bang<

[OneCentStamp]

Am I really the first to mention The Usual Suspects?

From the moment that...

Agent Kujan sees "Kobayashi" on the bottom of the coffee mug until the final "he's gone" from Kevin Spacey's character

...is the most brutal comeuppance I can think of that didn't involve violence. The whole montage of images and quotes was just mind-blowing the first fifteen times I watched it.

[Morbo]

Just thought of another one: Clint Eastwood's revenge on Miles Mellow in The Eiger Sanction.

"Jonathan, you're not going to leave me here!!"

[Sampiro]

I would say Sejanus's arrest in I, Claudius. I love how his smug look (as he thinks he's getting a promotion) turns to horror as the Senate reads Tiberius's letter.


Oooh, that was a good one (and how appropriate Agrippina should mention it). Also, while a bit sick and wrong and nasty, Livia's look of horror when Caligula fondles her on her deathbed and assures her she'll be in hell "forever and ever and ever..." rather than a goddess with impunity. While he was evil incarnate, she deserved that.

I mentioned The Godfather earlier but didn't mention the first "This is why we don't beat Sonny Corleone's sister" scene. That was one of filmdoms truly great and inspired and impressive asskickings that was. (Gianni Russo, who played Carlo, said the look of terror on his face is not acting because James Caan got really really into the part really did beat the hell out of him, only later realizing how much actual damage he'd done.)

Mason "Fire Marshall Bill" Verger's porcine end in Hannibal is also up there even if his character was so cartoonish that you expected to see him somehow don a black hat and moustache and from his wheelchair tie Clarice to the railroad tracks.

Scar's literal fall from power at the end of The Lion Den is good both in the cartoon and onstage. Of course most Disney villains have great comeuppances.

Fagin's loss of his treasure was the perfect punishment for him in the film musical Oliver. It left him still free for the good that's in him but broke to punish the "bad 'un" in him in. (In the book of course he was hanged but then in the book he was a far dirtier villain.)

Speaking of antisemitically drawn characters in English literature, Shylock's comeuppance is great at the end of Merchant, especially as kosherly hammed by Pacino in the most recent adaptation as he's spent the last several minutes salivating while sharpening his blade and doing his "Oh, tis a second Daniel! HOO-WAH! Say hello to my leetle Jewish blade..." evil stuff.

[Sampiro]

I should specify that by comeuppance for Shylock I'm not referring to his forced conversion and death but to his turmoil at having to take a pound of flesh without drawing blood. (Is there a way to do that, I wonder, in today's technology...)

[Sampiro]

I should specify that by comeuppance for Shylock I'm not referring to his forced conversion and death but to his turmoil at having to take a pound of flesh without drawing blood. (Is there a way to do that, I wonder, in today's technology...)

And speaking of Shakespeare, the demolition at the end of Porky's 1 was good.

[Kythereia]

Firefly and Serenity mentioned here too many times? ...Never!


The Operative has learned (through Mr. Universe himself) that Mal and his crew are preparing to visit Mr. Universe's planet, and gathers all the firepower and battleships in that quadrant of the galaxy.

They wait just above orbit, hovering above the ion clouds--and soon enough, Serenity appears, high-tailing it frantically, headed straight towards them.

"Bastard's not even changing course," the Operative smirks...

...and BOOM! Out through the clouds appear a whole horde of Reaver ships, fast on Serenity's track. And the Operative's 'oh, shit' look is priceless.


Best come-uppance ever.

[Schuyler]

And once again lowering the whole tone of the thread, I'll nominate the last fifteen minutes of Animal House.

I was going to mention Dean Wormer and the parage scene too. :)

Comeuppance for me is always Robby Benson in One on One. He has just won the basketball game, proven himself as a player, and now the coach wants to patch things up. Instead, Henry Steele (Benson) delivers the line "Up your a$$ with a red-hot poker" - this before he presumably departs to a better basketball program.

[Khan]

Firefly and Serenity mentioned here too many times? ...Never!

...

Best come-uppance ever.
Yeah, that was awesome :D. Also:

You gotta love the part where the Operative's trademark finishing move doesn't work on Mal because of his war injury. It's cool that Mal then got to reciprocate the ass-whuppin', but the best part is how he proceeds to bring the Operative's idealism crashing down by showing him "a world without sin."

I'm also rather a fan of Longshanks' comeuppance in Braveheart. Wallace was executed and Scotland was ultimately subjugated by England, but the prince wasn't interested in giving him some grandchildren AND the princess had gone and cuckolded him with the child of his enemy.

[ululate]

"I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder."

[carnivorousplant]

"I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder."

But the Sicilian never knew it. He croaked thinkng he had won.

Better Prince Huperdink. "I knew it!" :) or has already been mentioned, Count Rugen.

[Malienation]

A Bronx Tale "Okay, now you can't leave..."
Spiderman "I missed the part where that's my problem"

[Skald the Rhymer]

A Bronx Tale "Okay, now you can't leave..."
Spiderman "I missed the part where that's my problem"

Did you miss the point of Spider-Man? Peter's refusal to stop the robber from making off with the wrestling match take--which is what directly leads to his being able to say that line--is what causes his uncle/foster father's death at the hands of the robber a few moments later. It's safe to say that Peter regretted uttering that sentence more than any other sentence in his entire life.

[carnivorousplant]

Peter's refusal to stop the robber from making off with the wrestling match take--which is what directly leads to his being able to say that line--is what causes his uncle/foster father's death
Sure, but without foreknowledge of events I would have gladly said it. :)

[Rufus Xavier]

I love the scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where one of Butch's gang (Harvey Logan, played by Ted Cassidy) decides he's taking over the gang and challenge's Butch to a fight. Here's the dialogue:


Butch Cassidy: No, no, not yet. Not until me and Harvey get the rules straightened out.
Harvey Logan: Rules? In a knife fight? No rules.
[Butch immediately kicks Harvey in the groin]
Butch Cassidy: Well, if there aint' going to be any rules, let's get the fight started. Someone count 1,2,3 go.
Sundance Kid: [quickly] 1,2,3, go.
[Butch knocks Harvey out]

[gigi]

To Die For has probably one of the best, most satisfying, endings I've ever seen. Not a terrific movie throughout, but not bad, and with the ending...it's worht a viewing.I loved this movie throughout and liked the ending as well.

Did anyone mention Keanu and Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate??I didn't remember that as resolved or anyone getting a comeuppance if the whole movie was one reality that didn't actually take place? :confused:

Am I really the first to mention The Usual Suspects?Again, I'm not sure on this one; did the agent deserve to be duped and this is a true comeuppance?

[Sunrazor]

Did anyone mention Keanu and Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate?
Not sure that actually qualifies as a comeuppance -- Lucifer actually comes back to continue to bedevil Kevin Lomax.

One of my favorite comeuppance scenes is at the end of Lipstick, after the man who has already raped Chris McCormick (Margeaux Hemingway) and gotten away with it, then rapes her little sister. Big sis goes pretty much postal, using a high-powered hunting rifle to kill the guy. The best moment is after the rapist's van has turned over while he's trying to escape; as he crawls out, Chris drills him right in the crotch, then finishes him off with a chest shot.

[Skald the Rhymer]

Sure, but without foreknowledge of events I would have gladly said it. :)

But Peter immediately gets his come-uppance-- about ten thousand times worse than the crooked promoters -- after saying it, which to me diminishes the value of Peter's remark. The point of the sequence is that Peter's refusal to stop the thief, however justifable it may have seemed, was WRONG.

[carnivorousplant]

But Peter immediately gets his come-uppance-- about ten thousand times worse than the crooked promoters -- after saying it, which to me diminishes the value of Peter's remark.
Again, we don't know it's going to happen. It sounds cool.

I was planning the witty reply, "Guess I don't read enough funny books", but I used my futuroscope (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0972164480/002-5517899-2168021?v=glance&n=283155) and saw that you came over to my place and beat the snot out of me, so I didn't. :)

[Skald the Rhymer]

Again, we don't know it's going to happen. It sounds cool.

I was planning the witty reply, "Guess I don't read enough funny books", but I used my futuroscope (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0972164480/002-5517899-2168021?v=glance&n=283155) and saw that you came over to my place and beat the snot out of me, so I didn't. :)

That wasn't me; it was one of my Life Model Decoys. And it's not programmed to beat the snot out of you so much as it's programmed to give you a devastating series of atomic wedgies.

[carnivorousplant]

programmed to give you a devastating series of atomic wedgies.
No snide remarks from me, and I'll keep the 'ol futuroscope running right there by the TV. :)

[Skald the Rhymer]

No snide remarks from me, and I'll keep the 'ol futuroscope running right there by the TV. :)

::sighing:: carnivorousplant, if you'd bothered to read the futuroscope manual, you'd know that it cannot be used to change the events viewed. the best you can POSSIBLY do is to track me down, knock me out, drag me to your house, disguise me sufficiently so that viewed through the futuroscrope I appear to be you, and allow me to be the recipient of the wedgie.

[Skald the Rhymer]

::sighing:: carnivorousplant, if you'd bothered to read the futuroscope manual, you'd know that it cannot be used to change the events viewed. the best you can POSSIBLY do is to track me down, knock me out, drag me to your house, disguise me sufficiently so that viewed through the futuroscrope I appear to be you, and allow me to be the recipient of the wedgie.


:smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:

[Nightingale]

I love the scene in THe Color Purple when Celie finally leaves her husband. No death or dismemberment, but she scares the living crap out of him, making a hex sign at him and declaring "Everything you do to me will come back to you." She left him standing there, unharmed but terrified. Priceless.

[Ghanima]

"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!"

I'm not sure what Fortunato did, but he certainly got his.

[carnivorousplant]

:smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:

So, you're sayin' I did this already?

Will do that already.

Sometime. Whatever.

...gotta be able to do somethin' with the race track...don't have to change shit...

[carnivorousplant]

I'm not sure what Fortunato did, but he certainly got his.

I imagine that given "the thousand injuries of Fortunato" an internet message board was involved.

[handsomeharry]

Sleepers, where all of the perv guards get theirs....a few scenes in the entire movie make it extra pleasurable to watch.

[Typo Knig]

I should specify that by comeuppance for Shylock I'm not referring to his forced conversion and death but to his turmoil at having to take a pound of flesh without drawing blood. (Is there a way to do that, I wonder, in today's technology...)

Sure! Put Antonio on a treadmill, and let him run off a pounds' worth of calories (about 3,500 food calories - cite (http://www.annecollins.com/weight-loss/calories-per-pound.htm)). Hook the treadmill to a drive shaft, and you might get some useful work out of it. Unless Portia says you can't take *sweat* from Antonio either. Lawyers - picky, picky, picky!

As a matter of fact, I am Jewish. Why do you ask? ;j

[Greekfreak]

Magneto getting his in X3.

Jan Michael Vincent starting Charles Bronson's car in The Mechanic.

Re: the orignal Mechanic. Best movie ending of all time. The re-make pussied out.

[Greekfreak]

...way back in the golden age of the mini-series, there was a brilliant mini called Chiefs. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084997/) It was the story of three generations of Police Chiefs, and their hunt for a serial killer. At the start of the third episode, Tyler Watts (Billy Dee Williams) is pulled over by one of the local sherrif deputies. The deputy smashes Watts tail light, and then arrests Watts for resisting arrest. As Watts is led through the police station, he is subjected to a few taunts from some of the other deputies in the station. One of the officers pulls out Watt's wallet, and as he flicks through it, he is hit with a sudden realization.



Police Chief Watts then proceeds to kick butt for the rest of the episode...

Great mini-series!!! Kudos for remembering it.

[Miller]

Band of Brothers, from the ep. "Why We Fight." Early in the episode, one of the Americans breaks into a fancy German home, looking for booze (iirc). He finds a picture of the house's master in the uniform of a high ranking SS officer, and smashes it. Bur his wife is still at home, and she catches the guy in his minor act of vandalism. She doesn't say anything, just gives him this withering, contemptuous look.

Later, Easy Company finds one of the Nazis labor camps. Orders come down from on high that the local citizens are to be pressed into service burying the dead. The same soldier sees the German woman again, still in her finery, struggling to haul emaciated corpses into a mass grave. The look she gives him this time is... much humbled, to say the least.

[Snowboarder Bo]

135 posts in a 6 year old thread, and I'm the first to mention Snatch?

Or the final scene of The Replacement Killers?

How about Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg's comeuppance in The Fifth Element?

I loved how Don got his in Sexy Beast.

I still laugh whenever I think of Roritor's just dessertscoffee in Brain Candy.

And of course, two of my favorite such scenes are the endings to both Escape From New York and Escape From L.A..

[Banquet Bear]

Great mini-series!!! Kudos for remembering it.

...ha! What a bump!

And since we have time traveled six years into the future, through the magic of youtube here is the scene! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQgY_pzfbA&t=4m30s)

[TonySinclair]

I hesitate to mention this among all the macho moments cited, but I've always liked the scene in "Shine" where everybody in the diner is laughing when the goofy homeless guy sits down at the piano, and then he proceeds to play "Flight of the Bumblebee" like the concert pianist he used to be.

[UntouchedTakeaway]

Another vote for "Slingblade". Dwight Yoakam's Doyle *needed* that killin'.

UT~

[silenus]

More recently:

Loki: Enough! You are, all of you are beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature, and I shall not be bullied by...

SMASH SMASH SMASH

The Hulk: Puny god.

[Glory]

Oops

[Count Blucher]

For my Light side, I loved the scene in "Roxanne" where Steve Martin has to come up with 20 better nose insults that the bar-room brawler.

The entire link below is a spoiler (because its that entire scene).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWNLhptltBg&feature=player_detailpage#t=25s


For my Dark side, the 'playing in traffic' scene in Darkman when he's interrogating Rick.


Rick: "Okay...! Don't...! I told you everything...!

Darkman: "I know, Rick. I know you did. But Lets Pretend You Didn't...!

[Baker]

In a less bloody comeuppance, it's hard to beat the Robert Shaw outcome in The Sting.

Shoot, almost to the end of the thread just now and I thought I was going to be first with this one!

Shakes fist at Zeldar!

[bathsheba]

Tania: Why don't you come have a drink with us?

Rhonda: [excited] You want to have a drink with me?

Tania: Well, yeah. We wouldn't want you to spend the entire holiday alone. It's not like in high school where you should feel you're not good enough to talk to us.

Rhonda: I don't.

Tania: If I feel you've changed, I'll tell you. I'm honest. Unlike some people, I tell it like it is.

Rhonda: The truth? I tell the truth too. Nicole's having an affair with Chook. Muriel saw them fucking in the laundry room on your wedding day. Stick your drink up your ass, Tania! I'd rather swallow razor blades than have a drink with you. Oh, by the way... I'm not alone. I'm with Muriel.

[Dendarii Dame]

Galaxy Quest...the ship was dragging mines.

Mulan Villain: "Fresh out of ideas?" Mulan (disarming him with her fan, literally): "Not quite."

[thinksnow]

135 posts in a 6 year old thread, and I'm the first to mention ...

How about Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg's comeuppance in The Fifth Element? No (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7520331&postcount=85).

[Snowboarder Bo]

No (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7520331&postcount=85).

Well excuuuuuuuuuuse me! I was only 7/8 in that post; how tragic. :rolleyes:

[Maserschmidt]

The Man Who would Be A Super, Syndrome, gets pulled into a jet engine by the cape of his costume.

Very symbolic.

That's what you get for monologuing.

[JohnT]

Rhonda: The truth? I tell the truth too. Nicole's having an affair with Chook. Muriel saw them fucking in the laundry room on your wedding day. Stick your drink up your ass, Tania! I'd rather swallow razor blades than have a drink with you. Oh, by the way... I'm not alone. I'm with Muriel.

Had no idea what movie this was from, looked it up and saw that Rachel Griffiths was the one who said this line... and I can totally see it.

[3trew]

Galaxy Quest...the ship was dragging mines.


That.

[Zebra]

None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with ME!


Much more ass kicking in the later riot scene.

[Push You Down]

...ha! What a bump!

And since we have time traveled six years into the future, through the magic of youtube here is the scene! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQgY_pzfbA&t=4m30s)


And it's a much skinnier John Goodman as the deputy?

[panache45]

Not gonna read this whole thread, to see whether this has been mentioned.

Blanche Hudson confessing to Jane that she, herself, caused the accident that crippled her. She had let Jane believe that she'd caused the accident . . . to get back at Jane for her childhood stardom.

[bathsheba]

Had no idea what movie this was from, looked it up and saw that Rachel Griffiths was the one who said this line... and I can totally see it.

The youtube clip is awesome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1eXSCaYLZc)