# Best movie "comeuppance" scenes (Spoilers) **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/121 "2006-07-11T18:59:51Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/122 "2006-07-11T20:42:19Z")
> [@Skald the Rhymer](#): > > 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/123 "2006-07-11T21:04:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/124 "2006-07-11T21:07:52Z")
> [@Skald the Rhymer](#): > > 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/125 "2006-07-11T21:28:05Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/126 "2006-07-11T21:29:42Z")
> [@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: ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/127 "2006-07-11T21:48:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/128 "2006-07-11T22:33:10Z")
“FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!” I’m not sure what Fortunato did, but he certainly got his. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/129 "2006-07-11T23:12:48Z")
> [@Skald the Rhymer](#): > > :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… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/130 "2006-07-11T23:17:27Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/131 "2006-07-11T23:21:06Z")
_Sleepers_, where all of the perv guards get theirs…a few scenes in the entire movie make it extra pleasurable to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/132 "2006-07-12T04:00:23Z")
> [@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…) 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 ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/133 "2012-08-18T06:06:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/134 "2012-08-18T06:08:04Z")
> [@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. > > Police Chief Watts then proceeds to kick butt for the rest of the episode… Great mini-series!!! Kudos for remembering it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/135 "2012-08-18T08:07:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/136 "2012-08-18T08:31:27Z")
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 [del]desserts[/del]coffee 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.**. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/137 "2012-08-18T09:41:54Z")
> [@Greekfreak](#): > > 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) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/138 "2012-08-18T09:57:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/139 "2012-08-18T14:48:48Z")
Another vote for “Slingblade”. Dwight Yoakam’s Doyle _needed_ that killin’. UT~ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/140 "2012-08-18T16:25:11Z")
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