YMMV / Firefly E02 "The Train Job"

• Complete Monster: The episode marks the introduction of Niska, see here for details.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Niska is an awful person through and through, but you can't help but laugh when he grumbles resignedly about getting an earful from his wife at dinner for torturing her nephew^note the corpse he shows Mal, Jayne, and Zoe to death.
  • The scene where Crow gets introduced to Serenity's engine intake is likely to have this effect. A hero killing an unarmed, defeated villain for refusing an offer (and a little bit of mouthing off), can be shocking. Following that up by taking the next mook, planting him in the exact same spot, and starting to give him the same offer delivered in exactly the same tone, with said mook rushing to agree with the hero before he's even finished a sentence is pretty hilarious.

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