# Best movie "comeuppance" scenes (Spoilers)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 23, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901 "2006-06-23T19:29:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ululate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ululate)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/21 "2006-06-23T22:10:39Z")
> [@Max Carnage](#):
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> **Happy Gilmore**.
Which, of course, brings to mind the reverse-comeuppance from **Billy Madison**. _“Man, am I glad I called that guy.”_
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### Author:  [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/22 "2006-06-23T22:14:34Z")
“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?
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### Author:  [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/23 "2006-06-23T23:12:06Z")
> [@ululate](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/24 "2006-06-23T23:18:27Z")
Celie’s curse on Mister in _The Color Purple._
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### Author:  [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/25 "2006-06-23T23:53:10Z")
> [@ianzin](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/26 "2006-06-24T00:16:19Z")
Superman is a more likeable character when he’s occassionally a dick.
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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/27 "2006-06-24T01:26:42Z")
> [@ianzin](#):
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> 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 😃 )? 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.
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### Author:  [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/28 "2006-06-24T01:31:20Z")
The very end of “Dangerous Liaisons” when Glenn Close wipes her makeup off after the incident at the opera. Great scene.
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/29 "2006-06-24T03:56:41Z")
Speaking of **Bruce Dern** , his death in **The Cowboys** has to rank pretty high on this list.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/30 "2006-06-24T04:15:20Z")
> [@McNew](#):
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> **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:
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> Ness: One–
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> Ness: Two!–
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> Ness, to Stone: You got him?
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> Stone: Yeah, I got him. (shoots thug in forehead)
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> Stone: Three.
Yeah, great scene, but isn’t it the thug who counts?
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### Author:  [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/31 "2006-06-24T04:40:16Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/32 "2006-06-24T04:49:45Z")
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?” 😃 )
_Gladiator_—Commodus getting it.
_Star Trek III_—"I…have _had_…enough of _you!"_
😃
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/33 "2006-06-24T04:51:32Z")
> [@Askia](#):
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> Superman is a more likeable character when he’s occassionally a dick.
[Now why would you say that?](http://www.superdickery.com/galleries.html)
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/34 "2006-06-24T04:57:45Z")
Put me down for a talky one. The scene in the bar in _Good Will Hunting_ where Will takes down the smug student.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/35 "2006-06-24T06:14:48Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> 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!
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/36 "2006-06-24T06:35:41Z")
Maybe not the same league as other movies mentioned here, but the come-uppance ending in _Dodgeball_ was great.
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/37 "2006-06-24T06:43:04Z")
I’ve always been partial to the fate of the rapists in _Titus_. Ah, savory revenge.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/38 "2006-06-24T07:17:07Z")
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).
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/39 "2006-06-24T08:24:25Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/40 "2006-06-24T08:39:03Z")
How about Benny’s demise in _The Mummy_?
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