# 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:  [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/41 "2006-06-24T09:01:33Z")
> [@SpazCat](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/42 "2006-06-24T13:08:25Z")
…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.
> [@](#):
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> 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…
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/43 "2006-06-24T13:42:20Z")
> [@Steve MB](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/44 "2006-06-24T13:56:29Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> Yeah, great scene, but isn’t it the thug who counts?
Yep. Actually, he shot him in the mouth while he was counting.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/45 "2006-06-24T14:29:25Z")
**Lethal Weapon** the fight scene with Gary Busey and Mel Gibson. I thought that was a lovely in-your-face-come-uppence for Busey.
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### Author:  [@Don\_Logan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Logan)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/46 "2006-06-24T14:32:12Z")
Sigourney Weaver in **Working Girl**.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/47 "2006-06-24T14:52:52Z")
> [@cormac262](#):
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> “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_.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/48 "2006-06-24T15:33:23Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/49 "2006-06-24T16:09:47Z")
> [@Ol'Gaffer](#):
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> **Ethilrist’s** post reminded me of my favorite scene - the six-fingered man and Inigo Montoya from **The Princess Bride**.
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> “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?
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### Author:  [@ululate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ululate)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/50 "2006-06-24T17:09:36Z")
> [@Skald the Rhymer](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/51 "2006-06-24T17:24:55Z")
_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?”
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### Author:  [@Corporate\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporate_Hippie)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/52 "2006-06-24T17:45:50Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/53 "2006-06-24T19:19:52Z")
_The Wrath of Kahn:_
“Here it comes.”
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/54 "2006-06-24T19:56:18Z")
Khan’s was pretty good too, from his point of view.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/55 "2006-06-24T20:22:54Z")
> [@Skald the Rhymer](#):
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> [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)
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/56 "2006-06-24T21:35:08Z")
**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…
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### Author:  [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/57 "2006-06-24T22:09:39Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/58 "2006-06-24T22:12:06Z")
> [@Dooku](#):
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> 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!”?
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### Author:  [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/59 "2006-06-24T22:20:18Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/60 "2006-06-24T22:40:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> _The Wrath of Kahn:_
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> “Here it comes.”
Madeleine Kahn?
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