History KickTheDog / Film

* The Disney version of ''{{Cinderella}}'' has a particularly mean one on the part of [[WickedStepmother Baroness Tremaine]] and the three evil stepsisters. The Stepmother promises Cinderella to let her go to the ball... ''if'' she can find a dress, and ''if'' she finishes her chores on time. Naturally, she and the stepsisters pile on the chores so that she can never be done on time, let alone find a dress. And then, when Cinderella does come down with a dress (courtesy of her animal friends), the stepmother lets the sisters rip it to shreds.

* The Egyptian film ''Hassan and Naima'' has a textbook case. In the first scene with the villain he starts by harasses the protagonist for going to her cousin's wedding in an explicitly sexist way. When she storms off, he kicks a tiny dog, sending him rolling five feet or so, then insults a beggar. [[CaptainObvious Because he's a jerk]].

* In {{Hondo}}, Apache warrior Silva kills the title character's dog out of spite. Suffice to say that killing John Wayne's canine companion is not a good idea.

**** It really shows just how low he's fallen when, when the other toys are wanting to find him and beat the [[IncrediblyLamePun stuffing]] out of him, Woody says that he's not worth it with [[SincerityMode complete sincerity]].

* In ''TheWizardOfOz'' it was clear from the first second the Wicked Witch of the West appeared that she was ... well, ''wicked'', particularly when she threatened Dorothy's poor dog in the TropeNamer for AndYourLittleDogToo. However, for most of the movie she's more of a DesignatedVillain, since all she wants is to get her sister's shoes back. When she really gets solidified as evil comes at one of three points:

** ''Despicable Me'' has a character-establishing moment at the beginning where the protaganist comforts a child who has dropped an ice-cream cone by... giving him a ballon, after twisting it into some kind of four-legged animal. Protaganist then produces a pin and pops said ballon, and walks off contentedly. Cut to a shocked child with bits of ballon stuck to his face. Yes, he's despicable.

* {{Subverted}} in John Carpenter's ''TheThing''. When the dog actually turns out to be a shapeshifting {{Eldritch Abomination}}, it’s probably okay to kick it.

* In ''The Meteor Man'', the BigBad doesn't kick the dog, he ''throws a dumpster on the dog!'' [[spoiler:[[IGotBetter The dog got better]]]].

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* Subverted in John Carpenter's ''TheThing''. When the dog turns out to actually be a shapeshifting {{Eldritch Abomination}}, it’s probably okay to kick it.

* A [[{{Outlaw}} cattle thief]] named Stiff-Hat Bailey does a literal one of these in the 1939 movie ''Renegade Trail'', one of the [[{{Cowboy}} Hopalong Cassidy]] series, much to the fury of the dog's young owner.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''PointBreak'': During a chase scene Bodhi (the bad guy) throws a dog at Johnny (the hero) to slow him down. Johnny kicks the dog out of his way.

* AlanRickman's Sheriff Of Nottingham cements his status as the villain of ''RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' ([[HamAndCheese and the best part of the film]]) when discovers that Robin is only getting more popular:
-->'''Sheriff:''' That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans. No more merciful beheadings. And call off Christmas!

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in PointBreak: During a chase scene Bodhi (the bad guy) throws a dog at Johnny (the hero) to slow him down. Johnny kicks the dog out of his way.

* The very first scene of AsGoodAsItGets shows {{Jack Nicholson}}'s character putting a small dog into a laundry chute because it peed on the floor.

* In ''AguirreTheWrathOfGod'', a horse is yelled at, and a monkey is tossed.

* The entire scene at Balmoral Castle in ''TheKingsSpeech'' was this for Edward. First he showed how lightly he takes his duties as king, more interested in pleasing his girlfriend. Then he was apathetic to Hitler's march through Europe before he finally topped it off with mocking his brother Albert's speech impairment.

** When she locks Dorothy in the room with the evil hourglass (the one that would kill her once it ran out) and the crystal ball, makes Aunt Em appear in it, and then sadistically mocks her once she's completely broken down. Or ...
** When she finally has Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion cornered, she tells Dorothy she will be ForcedToWatch. She gloats: "The last to go will see the first three go before her." Even the most generous AlternateCharacterInterpretation can't make that anything but pure sadism.

* The entire scene at Balmoral Castle in ''TheKingsSpeech'' was this for Edward. First he showed how lightly he takes his duties as king, more interested in pleasing his girlfriend. Then he was apathetic to Hitler's march through Europe before he finally topped it off with mocking his brother Bertie's speech impairment.

* {{Bill and Ted}}'s Bogus Journey - The Robot Bill and Ted: "Aim for the cat, dude! Aim for the cat!"

** In episode VI Jabba feeds a defiant slave dancer to his pet rancor. While it does set up for Luke's battle with the beast later on it has little point other then to show how cruel he is.

** In ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' the Ringwraiths decide to chop off a hobbit watchman's head off and [[ImprovisedWeapon drop a door]] on the gatekeeper. Oh, and they try to kill off all the hobbits while they're in bed. Just in case you didn't yet realize that the creepy cloaked strangers are evil.

* Occurs in the film ''{{Godzilla}} VS Destroyah'' when [[spoiler:Destroyah not only kills Junior right in front of Godzilla, but then grabs the heartbroken Godzilla by the throat and proceeds to drag him around]] [[CompleteMonster while]] ''[[CompleteMonster laughing]]''.