# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/141 "2012-08-18T17:09:39Z")
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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/142 "2012-08-18T18:18:05Z")
For my Light side, I loved the scene in “Roxanne” where Steve Martin has to come up with 20 better nose insults that the bar-room brawler. The entire link below is a spoiler (because its that entire scene). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tWNLhptltBg/hqdefault.jpg "Roxanne - 20 Somthing Betters") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWNLhptltBg) For my Dark side, the ‘playing in traffic’ scene in Darkman when he’s interrogating Rick. Rick: "Okay…! Don’t…! I told you _everything…!_ Darkman: "I know, Rick. I know you did. _But Lets Pretend You Didn’t…!_ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/143 "2012-08-18T18:44:33Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > In a less bloody comeuppance, it’s hard to beat the Robert Shaw outcome in _The Sting_. Shoot, almost to the end of the thread just now and I thought I was going to be first with this one! \*Shakes fist at Zeldar! \* ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/144 "2012-08-19T00:12:07Z")
Tania: Why don’t you come have a drink with us? Rhonda: [excited] You want to have a drink with me? Tania: Well, yeah. We wouldn’t want you to spend the entire holiday alone. It’s not like in high school where you should feel you’re not good enough to talk to us. Rhonda: I don’t. Tania: If I feel you’ve changed, I’ll tell you. I’m honest. Unlike some people, I tell it like it is. Rhonda: The truth? I tell the truth too. Nicole’s having an affair with Chook. Muriel saw them fucking in the laundry room on your wedding day. Stick your drink up your ass, Tania! I’d rather swallow razor blades than have a drink with you. Oh, by the way… I’m not alone. I’m with Muriel. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/145 "2012-08-19T00:13:01Z")
_Galaxy Quest_…the ship was dragging mines. _Mulan_ Villain: “Fresh out of ideas?” Mulan (disarming him with her fan, literally): “Not quite.” ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/146 "2012-08-19T00:34:18Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 135 posts in a 6 year old thread, and I’m the first to mention … > > How about Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg’s comeuppance in **The Fifth Element**? [No](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7520331&postcount=85). ---
**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 19, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/147 "2012-08-19T00:40:33Z")
> [@thinksnow](#): > > [No](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7520331&postcount=85). Well excuuuuuuuuuuse me! I was only 7/8 in that post; how tragic. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/148 "2012-08-19T00:51:16Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > The Man Who would Be A Super, Syndrome, gets pulled into a jet engine by the cape of his costume. > > Very symbolic. That’s what you get for monologuing. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/149 "2012-08-19T03:24:22Z")
> [@bathsheba](#): > > Rhonda: The truth? I tell the truth too. Nicole’s having an affair with Chook. Muriel saw them fucking in the laundry room on your wedding day. Stick your drink up your ass, Tania! I’d rather swallow razor blades than have a drink with you. Oh, by the way… I’m not alone. I’m with Muriel. Had no idea what movie this was from, looked it up and saw that Rachel Griffiths was the one who said this line… and I can totally _see_ it. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/150 "2012-08-19T07:10:03Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > _Galaxy Quest_…the ship was dragging mines. That. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/151 "2012-08-19T07:18:08Z")
None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with ME! Much more ass kicking in the later riot scene. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/152 "2012-08-19T08:33:09Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …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) And it’s a much skinnier John Goodman as the deputy? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/153 "2012-08-19T22:02:04Z")
Not gonna read this whole thread, to see whether this has been mentioned. Blanche Hudson confessing to Jane that she, herself, caused the accident that crippled her. She had let Jane believe that she’d caused the accident . . . to get back at Jane for her childhood stardom. ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901/154 "2012-08-19T22:44:33Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Had no idea what movie this was from, looked it up and saw that Rachel Griffiths was the one who said this line… and I can totally _see_ it. [The youtube clip is awesome](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1eXSCaYLZc) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-comeuppance-scenes-spoilers/361901.md?page=7)