# Best movie "comeuppance" scenes (Spoilers)
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**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, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/61 "2006-06-24T22:52:06Z")
> [@Askia](#):
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> They’re gonna get medieval on his hillbilly ass.
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> **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:
> [@Mr. Pin (as told to Terry Pratchett)](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/62 "2006-06-24T23:11:25Z")
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.”
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### Author:  [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/63 "2006-06-24T23:56:43Z")
What? No love for the closing scene of **Mad Max**?
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### Author:  [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/64 "2006-06-25T00:24:27Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/65 "2006-06-25T00:44:52Z")
The Man Who would Be A Super, Syndrome, gets pulled into a jet engine by the cape of his costume.
Very symbolic.
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/66 "2006-06-25T00:53:59Z")
> [@Askia](#):
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> **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.
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### Author:  [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/67 "2006-06-25T02:14:06Z")
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?”
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### Author:  [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/68 "2006-06-25T02:21:36Z")
This was weirdly aprops, as I juuuust got through watching “Good Night, And Good Luck.”
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/69 "2006-06-25T04:42:54Z")
And once again lowering the whole tone of the thread, I’ll nominate the last fifteen minutes of _Animal House_.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/70 "2006-06-25T04:55:16Z")
No, no, no - most of these are just crude violence.
The best comeuppance ever was in **Pretty Woman** :
> [@Julia Roberts](#):
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> “You work on commission don’t you? Big mistake. Biiiig mistake”
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/71 "2006-06-25T06:16:44Z")
Quentin Tarantino is the master of the comeuppance scene. I too love the Butch saving Marsellus’s ass scene in **Pulp Fiction**.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/72 "2006-06-25T07:01:09Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Which one, “buried alive”, or “From hell’s heart I spit my last breath at thee!”?
Both. But I was referring to the latter.
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### Author:  [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/73 "2006-06-25T12:43:28Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/74 "2006-06-25T13:37:06Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/75 "2006-06-25T13:53:10Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> [Now why would you say that?](http://www.superdickery.com/galleries.html)
Is that site a parody or actual book covers?
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/76 "2006-06-25T13:54:47Z")
> [@Banquet Bear](#):
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> …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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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/77 "2006-06-25T14:32:16Z")
> [@BluePitbull](#):
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> Is that site a parody or actual book covers?
They’re real, believe it or not.
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### Author:  [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/78 "2006-06-25T14:33:09Z")
> [@Push You Down](#):
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> Diggstown.
> Burce Dern, Louis Gosset Jr. and James Woods.
> For the ending-
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> [spoiler] 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.
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> 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. [/spoiler]
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> 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!
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/79 "2006-06-25T16:12:57Z")
> [@Zeldar](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/80 "2006-06-25T18:09:23Z")
Jack Bauer shooting Nina Meyers.
Jack Bauer shooting Christopher Henderson.
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