# 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:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/81 "2006-06-25T18:30:03Z")
I’ll see your Nina Myers and Christopher Henderson and raise you a Victor Drazen.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/82 "2006-06-25T19:20:10Z")
Firefly
The Train Job
You know which kick I’m thinking about.
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### Author:  [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/83 "2006-06-25T19:53:51Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> Firefly
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> The Train Job
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> You know which kick I’m thinking about.
Oh hell, Firefly is just LOADED with comeuppance:
[spoiler]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!”
[/spoiler]
Those are just my favorites, but there’s good turnabout in every episode!
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/84 "2006-06-25T21:33:38Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/85 "2006-06-25T21:57:04Z")
**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. 🙂 )
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/86 "2006-06-25T22:09:31Z")
> [@thinksnow](#):
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> **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.
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### Author:  [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/87 "2006-06-25T22:47:36Z")
**Sin City** has several, especially if your favorite form of comeuppance is dismemberment.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/88 "2006-06-25T22:59:16Z")
> [@Alias](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/89 "2006-06-25T23:21:11Z")
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!]
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### Author:  [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/90 "2006-06-26T00:56:53Z")
The guys that messed with William Wallaces wife certainly got some payback.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/91 "2006-06-26T01:51:21Z")
> [@thinksnow](#):
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> The guys that messed with William Wallaces wife certainly got some payback.
I don’t recall his living happily ever after… 🙂
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### Author:  [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/92 "2006-06-26T12:29:21Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/93 "2006-06-26T14:26:50Z")
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**?
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/94 "2006-06-26T14:59:32Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/95 "2006-06-26T16:49:55Z")
> [@don't ask](#):
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> 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!”
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/96 "2006-06-26T16:56:02Z")
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**.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/97 "2006-06-26T16:57:33Z")
> [@don't ask](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/98 "2006-06-26T16:58:38Z")
Steve Martin making up nose-insults in _‘Roxanne’_ (and yes, I know it was originally from Cyrano). Both good ‘come-uppance’ and funny! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/99 "2006-06-26T17:29:49Z")
Another from _Firefly_:
Quoth Jubal Early: “Well… here I am.”
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/100 "2006-06-26T17:30:40Z")
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.
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