Best Comeuppance in Film

[Scar]

Several times bac0n and I have discussed this topic, usually after a few adult beverages. The one that always leads the conversation is the one in Daimajin. Bac0n can do it better justice than I.

So, without further ado, what are some of the best examples of comeuppance in film?

[Philip J. Fry]

The Warden from The Shawshank Redemption. Satisfying as hell.

[baby doll]

The Magnificent Ambersons is the first movie that comes to mind.

[megladon8]

I love this.

Jen and I are deliberating.

Some actual quotes...

Jen: How about that guy who got his dick shot off in RoboCop? Nah, that's not good enough...

[Scar]

I love this.

Jen and I are deliberating.

Some actual quotes...

Jen: How about that guy who got his dick shot off in RoboCop? Nah, that's not good enough...

Well, Clarence Bodicker getting stabbed in the neck, with blood splash on Robocop’s chest, and extra arterial spurts is better.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://i.gifer.com/BFw.gif

[megladon8]

Well, Clarence Bodicker getting stabbed in the neck, with blood splash on Robocop’s chest, and extra arterial spurts is better.

As long as you can do it before he sticks his foot up your ass...

Jen and I have both been drinking.

[Scar]

Teenage Scar votes for Johnny Ringo in Tombstone.

Old cynical Scar prefers Little Bill Dagget in Unforgiven.

[Kenji]

The Long Goodbye

Although that one is a little different because the satisfaction comes less from Lennox being killed - he's a monster but obviously doesn't have enough of a presence in the film for us to truly hate him - and more with seeing the typically cool and laid back Marlowe coldly shooting him dead after putting up with so much shit throughout the film. And then Marlowe dancing down the street is just icing on the cake.

[Scar]

As long as you can do it before he sticks his foot up your ass...

Jen and I have both been drinking.

The gin has been flowing in MN today.

[Scar]

https://i.gifer.com/BFw.gif


YES.

[megladon8]

https://i.postimg.cc/s2R3ttdm/7e5397-ff86e27436394853831032321e4f7e d7-mv2.png


CHOKE ON 'EM!!!

[Irish]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBC5Z_bH74U

"My name is Inigo Montoya..."

[Philip J. Fry]

https://confusingmiddle.files.wordpres s.com/2015/09/toy-story.gif?w=245

[Philip J. Fry]

https://medias.spotern.com/spots/w640/73/73296-1532336916.jpg

[Morris Schæffer]

Carter Burke from Aliens comes to mind.

[transmogrifier]

Trying to think of comeuppance that does not involve death or injury makes the question much more difficult.

Pierce in "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" from Community.
Ben Affleck in Dazed and Confused.
Lotso in Toy Story 3

[Philip J. Fry]

Trying to think of comeuppance that does not involve death or injury makes the question much more difficult.

Pierce in "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" from Community.
Ben Affleck in Dazed and Confused.
Lotso in Toy Story 3Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo.

[Skitch]

CHOKE ON 'EM!!!

YES

[Skitch]

I'm always very happy when that Nazi goes over the cliff in the tank in The Last Crusade and I see his body flop around.

[Dukefrukem]

https://i.gifer.com/BFw.gif

Good choice. BUt the Nazi's were more deserving here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA7J0KkanzM&ab_channel=Movieclips

[Dukefrukem]

Unless it's a super painful death, I'm not sure that's good enough for me. I need like a long planned out conspiracy where all parties would go to jail for a very long time.

Something akin to the ending of the Negotiator.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhNDpll2Vg&ab_channel=Movieclips

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWwN-yDCjOM&ab_channel=CanaryTrap

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEIU-bvjJNM&ab_channel=J-Summerbiker2019

[Dukefrukem]

https://youtu.be/J3UyjlaBMcY?t=292

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YNlWDv95EY&ab_channel=Movieclips

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFFrpMAor3Q&ab_channel=MichaeldeHaan

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCdXiOssbM0&ab_channel=Movieclips

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwuJBFl2Tuk&ab_channel=BlackViewHD

[Dukefrukem]

Ok I'm done for a bit.

[Dukefrukem]

The Warden from The Shawshank Redemption. Satisfying as hell.

Maybe at first but doesn't he commit suicide though? Takes the easy way out.

[Philip J. Fry]

Maybe at first but doesn't he commit suicide though? Takes the easy way out.It's not that much about the suicide, but about Andy owning him so blatantly.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YNlWDv95EY&ab_channel=MovieclipsWhat is it? I can't see it.

[Skitch]

Maybe at first but doesn't he commit suicide though? Takes the easy way out.

Yeah I like that one because he does die, but its a short comeuppance.

[Dukefrukem]

What is it? I can't see it.

It's the Breakdown (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118771/reference)ending. I wanted a clip of Kurt Russel kicking J.T. Walsh in the face.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/51b4ae23fbb2500099a34e36bd82a6 ca/tumblr_puyqgrlWMd1qj6sk2o3_500 .gifv

[Dukefrukem]

Oh fuck. How could I forget.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQLVgrrvxI&ab_channel=bdlthrasher


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQQwUjSsAY&ab_channel=benJAMIN536

[Philip J. Fry]

Yeah I like that one because he does die, but its a short comeuppance.For me the comeuppance is more about being thoroughly bested by Andy than him dying or not. As Red said "I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him."

[Skitch]

For me the comeuppance is more about being thoroughly bested by Andy than him dying or not. As Red said "I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him."

Good point, agreed. But I still wish he had to wallow in longer lol.

[Philip J. Fry]

Good point, agreed. But I still wish he had to wallow in longer lol.I guess we still have the Clancy Brown prison guard, you know, the guy Red said that cried like a little girl.

[Philip J. Fry]

And speaking of Darabont films, how about this doozy?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEbeOREWz1k

[Mysterious Dude]

Two deaths I found very satisfying:

Tommy in Goodfellas
Amon Goeth in Schindler's List

[Morris Schæffer]

It's the Breakdown (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118771/reference)ending. I wanted a clip of Kurt Russel kicking J.T. Walsh in the face.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/51b4ae23fbb2500099a34e36bd82a6 ca/tumblr_puyqgrlWMd1qj6sk2o3_500 .gifv

Wish this would come to blu-ray or UHD.

[Irish]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wXs_1V7KiA

"Am I hallucinating here? Just what in the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Learning about Cuba and having some food."

[Irish]

Dangerous Liasons, final scene:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Vo_Q0nt-k

[Irish]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UbSL3Bri4E

"The chain in those handcuffs is high tensile steel. It'll take you 10 minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you can hack through your ankle in 5 minutes."

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UbSL3Bri4E

"The chain in those handcuffs is high tensile steel. It'll take you 10 minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you can hack through your ankle in 5 minutes."

Another good one!

[Irish]

This might be my favorite: The first time Doc Holliday (Victor Mature) meets Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) in "My Darling Clementine."

https://vimeo.com/261735278

Notice the way Mature's actions are all short and violent while Fonda, in contrast, barely moves. The look on their faces at the end, traded during different beats, is also priceless.

I love the way this scene establishes the character of Doc while demonstrating to the audience, in a dramatic and entertaining fashion, that Earp is waaaaaay smarter that we may have thought --- and that he's just as dangerous as Doc is, but in a different way.

[Ezee E]

A Christmas Story.

[megladon8]

This might be my favorite: The first time Doc Holliday (Victor Mature) meets Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) in "My Darling Clementine."

https://vimeo.com/261735278

Notice the way Mature's actions are all short and violent while Fonda, in contrast, barely moves. The look on their faces at the end, traded during different beats, is also priceless.

I love the way this scene establishes the character of Doc while demonstrating to the audience, in a dramatic and entertaining fashion, that Earp is waaaaaay smarter that we may have thought --- and that he's just as dangerous as Doc is, but in a different way.

LOVE this one, and you made me need to watch this one again soon. Thank you!

[megladon8]

https://i.postimg.cc/gJtLWttB/7d4d307648d588a44083313c11a5e2 3a.jpg

Oh, COME ON!!

[DFA1979]

For me it's what happens to Harry in both versions of Night of the Living Dead.

[Dukefrukem]

That's a good one too because of how annoying that character is.

[kuehnepips]

Liberty Valance died thinking a loser shot him ...

[DFA1979]

That's a good one too because of how annoying that character is.

I like how in the original Ben shoots him when he finally gets tired of his bullshit. Then his own daughter eats him.

Then in the remake Barbara sees he is alive, is mad that he survived and shoots him.

Both are quite satisfying in their own ways.

My other pick would be Gary Oldman in The Professional.

[Yxklyx]

This is one of the most satisfying to me:

https://samsfen.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ran9.jpg

I'll also add Mr Sheldrake's fate in The Apartment and the end of that damn baby in Eraserhead.

[Philip J. Fry]

Not film, but...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStcrUVMq8dE v3gAWUEnm45AWgFzCVpv9z25A&usqp=CAU

[DFA1979]

If I'm going with a comedy one Kevin McCarthy in UHF gets exactly what he deserves.