History DisproportionateRetribution / Film

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', Randall, the main antagonist of the movie, antagonizes Sulley and is also a jerk to his former friend, Mike. The reason? The former bested him in their college years enough for him to pull a FaceHeelTurn and the latter hangs out with Sulley.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' steals one loaf of bread and gets a squadron of imperial guards out for his blood. (This seems far more disproportionate when viewed as an adult.)

** Barbossa in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse of the Black Pearl]]'' sees the eponymous curse on him and his crew as this. It's a fair point as the curse was originally to punish the Spaniards who persecuted the Aztecs, so it seems unfair that people who had nothing whatsoever to do with it should be punished.

* Horton of ''WesternAnimation/{{Horton Hears a Who|2008}}!'' is outcast, tied down, and caged by the animals in the jungle he lives in, and his clover is taken away and nearly tossed into boiling mud, all because he thinks that some people live on a speck that is located on the clover (which is true), as well as Sour Kangaroo's desire to [[ThinkOfTheChildren prevent the children from questioning authority and becoming like him]].

* The Danish movie ''Film/FlickeringLights''[[note]]''Blinkende Lygter'' in Danish[[/note]] had one of the main characters, in anger, pull out a pistol and shoot a mooing cow. The gunman himself, was tried of living in the middle of the woods, on the run from a mafia after a botched deal, and the cow's mooing was the last straw. Poor cow. Literally.[[note]]The scene was filmed with a stuntman, a real gun and a real cow, averting NoAnimalsWereHarmed.[[/note]]

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* ''Film/{{Romance}}'': Marie's live-in boyfriend Paul is, at his worst, a neglectful and possibly unfaithful {{jerkass}}. Marie ''murders him'' at the end of the film by [[DelayedExplosion setting up their apartment's natural gas to explode]] when he won't wake up to take her to the hospital when she goes into labor with their child. Makes you wonder if she ever heard of just dumping him. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And what did their cat do to deserve it?]]

* Toy Santa in ''Film/TheSantaClause 2'' believes that if a kid does anything bad at any time all year, the kid belongs on the naughty list. Thus, every kid in the world ends up on the naughty list. He tells the elves to stop making toys because he's going to give the whole world coal. Bernard and Curtis try to talk some sense into him early on, but he doesn't listen, and eventually [[TyrantTakesTheHelm goes completely off the deep end]].

* ''Film/GuiltByAssociation'': The judge openly says he would not give Susan twenty years if it was up to him, but statutory mandatory minimums for drug offenses tie judge's hands so there's no choice.

* The second adaptation of ''Film/ThePunisher2004''. When the BigBad's son is killed during a bust that Frank took part in, he and his wife decide to take his revenge by killing Frank's ''entire extended family''. This becomes worse when you realize that ''Frank wasn't the one who shot him'', and he was only shot ''because he was stupid enough to pull a gun out when he had a dozen SWAT surrounding him''.

* Mok, the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'', wishes to summon a demon to cause widespread death and devastation. Why? Because one of his concerts was not ''totally'' sold out (apparently, there were just two empty seats in the stadium).

* ''Film/ShallWePlay'': While they had definitely wronger her and undoubtedly were deserving of some comeuppance, Stacy gets revenge on Matt along with his friends by ''murdering'' them all.

* In the ''Film/OceansEleven'' remake Danny Ocean and his band of thieves are afraid of their target, Terry Benedict, because of his reputation for disproportionate retribution: the story the thieves tell is that he not only terrorized the guy he caught but bankrupted his brother's tractor dealership too, which goes against the band of thieves' casino-owning ally's sense of justice: "In the old days they'd just whack you." The sequel shows Terry and his thugs turning up at one of the Malloy brothers' wedding and threatening them in front of their family.
** The sequel in general, really. Toulour unleashes Benedict on the Eleven, causing the whole mess to happen, just because his mentor ''didn't felt like he had to mention him in any way, shape or form'' in some random conversation that was discussing the Bellagio heist of the previous film (presumably to compare his work with the Eleven's, and preferably as a praise).
-->'''Terry:''' I'm gonna charge them interest. A ''lot'' of interest.
-->'''Night Fox:''' ...is that fair?
-->'''Terry:''' I hope not.
** The third film may or may not be about this. Willie Bank tricks their friend Ruben (even though Danny warned Ruben this may happen), causing the latter to have a heart attack. As a result, they bankrupt the guy and steal what he loves most -- his diamond awards. And being a JerkAss that he is, Bank doesn't have any friends who'd be willing to go against Danny and his crew. Apparently, their code requires them to first give the target a chance to redeem himself and pay back what he owes Ruben. However, this crime is supposedly so heinous that some team members don't want to give Bank this option (which he ends up refusing anyway).
*** In the same film:
--> '''Terry Benedict:''' That monstrosity he (Willie Bank) calls a hotel casts a shadow over my pool. Break him!

* ''Film/{{Fanboys}}'': The fanboys destroy the Trekkie's statue all because [[SeriousBusiness they called Han Solo a bitch]].

** Miles Finch ''also'' attempts to murder him for mistaking him for an ''elf''.

'''Mitch ''': He was watching a ball game on television.\\

'''Mitch ''': His wife changed the channel.