History KickTheDog / Film

** Also, the Red Queen having a talking frog decapitated just for stealing her food. As if that wasn't cruel enough, she then proceeded to instruct one of her footmen to go to the frog's home and collect his children, for the sole purpose of ''eating them''. "I love tadpoles on toast." To add insult to injury, she concludes this scene by making a remark about loving tadpoles as much as caviar... while addressing a talking fish in a-not-so indirect threat.

* Main/GranTorino: Walt's family insult his dead wife and do not give a crap during her funeral,''their grandmother's funeral'' and his granddaughter expresses her desire to him to leave her his car when he croaks. Needless to say he doesn't respond well.

'''''GO GET IT'''''! Hahahaha!

'''GO GET IT'''! Hahahaha!

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** Used almost to the point of gratuity; [[PsychoForHire Chigurh]] arbitrarily murders random innocents several times, based solely on whim and the outcome of a coin toss. He even takes a potshot at a pigeon he passes while crossing a bridge. Ironically (the irony being that he's the [[ScarilyCompetentTracker most terrifyingly]] [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy competent]] and [[ImplacableMan relentless assassin]] in film history), he misses. Utterly lampshaded early on by Deputy Wendell, who, upon surveying the scene of the drug dealers' massacre in the desert, remarks: "Aw, they even shot the dog." As if the pile of dead bodies and truckload of heroin weren't big enough clues that ''these are bad people''.

* Villains in [[BMovie B-grade action movies]] routinely do unspeakable things like this to family, friends, and property of the hero to set him on the path to violent revenge. One of the most flagrant abuses of the trope was in the Creator/ChuckNorris film ''Film/LoneWolfMcQuade''. The villain (David Carradine) goes through all the usual atrocities, including killing or maiming the hero's entire family, until -- with the most dramatic music of the movie welling up -- he kills [=McQuade=]'s border collie and leaves him lying in the dirt. At that point, Norris's wooden features almost show real emotion as he sets his jaw and goes forth seeking vengeance.

* BMovie: Villains in these action movies routinely do unspeakable things like this to family, friends, and property of the hero to set him on the path to violent revenge. One of the most flagrant abuses of the trope was in the Creator/ChuckNorris film ''Film/LoneWolfMcQuade''. The villain (David Carradine) goes through all the usual atrocities, including killing or maiming the hero's entire family, until -- with the most dramatic music of the movie welling up -- he kills [=McQuade=]'s border collie and leaves him lying in the dirt. At that point, Norris's wooden features almost show real emotion as he sets his jaw and goes forth seeking vengeance.

* ''Film/NoHoldsBarred'': The main bad guys really get their kicks from being assholes. Hell, one of the them tried to commit rape.

* ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo'': Yoshida's early murder of Angel after she tries to bribe her way out of being killed for warning one of his victims by screwing him in front of his own men. The coroner later notes that they already got her so high on methamphetamines that she would have been dead in 20 minutes anyway, [[OffWithHisHead decapitating her mid-coitus]] was redundant and done purely out of cruelty (and possibly as a warning).

* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'': After [[spoiler:killing Akela]], Shere Khan makes himself at home in the wolf pack territory, talking to Raksha's pups at one point. But during this, Raksha tells the pups to come inside, and Shere Khan blocks one pup's path just to show that he can, looking like he's going to do away with him. But then the tiger lets the pup go, letting Raksha know that he can kill her and her pups anytime, and there's nothing she or any wolf can do about it.
** King Louie later corners Mowgli, asking him where he would go without him. Mowgli retorts that he'll go back to the wolf pack and to Akela. Louie's response?
-->'''King Louie''': Oh, you didn't hear? [[spoiler:Shere Khan killed him]]. Must've been on account of you.

* ''MarvelCinematicUniverse'' has several examples:

** As for Sylvia Ganush, the fact that she condemned a young boy just for stealing her necklace (which got returned as soon as the parents discovered it, mind you) [[TooDumbToLive should have been the first indicator to the protagonist that she should never have taken up Ganush's overdue loan case in the first place when a 3rd extension was requested.]]

* ''{{Film/Garfield}}'': [[BigBad Happy Chapman]] wants a dog to star in his show so he can overshadow his more successful news anchor brother Walter in fame. So he steals Odie for his own gain and then uses a dreaded shock collar on him, and even laughs at the dog's pain from the powerful jolts.

* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'': After [[spoiler:killing Akela]], Shere Khan makes himself at home in the wolf pack territory, talking to Raksha's pups at one points. But during this, Raksha tells the pups to come inside, and Shere Khan blocks one pups path just to show he can, looking like he's going to do away with him. But then the tiger lets the pup go, letting Raksha know that he can kill her and her pups, and there's nothing she or any wolf can do about it.

* ''Series/{{Benji}}'': To show how really nasty the kidnappers are, one of them viciously kicks a small white poodle. (This is a G-rated film, so we never actually see the dog directly being kicked, but the action is clearly obvious.)

** In ''StarTrekIntoDarkness'', Harrison[[spoiler: /Khan]] has absolutely no reason to [[spoiler: [[WouldHitAGirl crush Carol Marcus's leg]]]], since she was already on the ground and knew damn well she wouldn't be able to do a thing to stop him. [[SickeningCrunch He does it anyway.]]

* ''Film/SupermanII'':
** A boy in a small town taken over by the Phantom Zone criminals makes a break for it on horseback for help. Seeing this disobedience, General Zod almost casually signals Non to stop him, which is done by taking a police car flasher light and throwing it hard and accurately enough to apparently kill both kid and horse with one blow. When a woman wails he was just a boy, Ursa purrs sadistically, "And he will never become a man."

* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', Shredder's already delivering a CurbStompBattle towards the brothers when Raphael asks "Where's Splinter?". Shredder's reply? "Ah, the rat. So, it has a name... It ''had'' a name." When Leo shouts out that [[ThatLiarLies he's lying]], Shredder just smiles evilly and asks "Do I?", which sends Leo into a furious rage.

** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': Loki does it again--this time he [[EyeScream screws out some poor guy's eye]] (it happens off camera) (and appears to enjoy it) for the purpose of [[spoiler: getting an eyescan to steal iridium]]. Most of his actions are meant to cause as much mayhem and distress as possible. He attempts a BreakingSpeech against the Black Widow with an archaic form of the CountryMatters trope, as well.

** ''Film/TheAvengers'': Loki does it again--this time he [[EyeScream screws out some poor guy's eye]] (it happens off camera) (and appears to enjoy it) for the purpose of [[spoiler: getting an eyescan to steal iridium]]. Most of his actions are meant to cause as much mayhem and distress as possible. He attempts a BreakingSpeech against the Black Widow with an archaic form of the CountryMatters trope, as well.

* ''UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans'': Viktor captures Lucian and sentences him to 30 lashes for betraying his trust. During the lashing scene, when even one lash is brutal enough to Lucian, after 21 of them Viktor remains stiff-necked about how much he ''wants'' Lucian to suffer: "By my count, that's 21. Continue." He even forbids his own daughter to intervene on pain of severe punishment.

* ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'': ''The Movie'' has [[BigBrotherBully Scowler]] attacking Patchi when all the latter did was lead the herd across the frozen lake. Which Scowler lead them across in the first place. But after Scowler mauls Patchi during their fight and shoves him into a ditch, he kicks him out of the herd and leaves him to die. And when Juniper wants to help, he refuses to let her help Patchi and [[IHaveNoSon declares that he doesn't have a brother]].

* ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'': The moment when Mrs. Coulter hits her daemon.