History DisproportionateRetribution / Film

** ''Film/IronMan3'': Killian's whole vendetta is because Stark blew him off once fifteen years ago. [[spoiler:His actual crime spree is more of a combined cover-up for the failures of AIM's Extremis technology and scam/racket to create demand for the super-soldiers AIM can supply. Tony's decision to investigate and openly oppose him brings him even more directly into the line of fire.]]

* ''Film/LockUp'': Prisoner escapes in his last two weeks at Treadmore to visit his dying friend and exposes your misconduct? And he gets another five years? If you're Warden Drumgoole, that's obviously not enough. The answer is to get the prisoner randomly transferred to a HellholePrison, repeatedly attacked, stabbed, hassled, tortured, lured into a trap to extend his sentence for the rest of his life, and [[spoiler:have his friends murdered to provoke him into lashing out]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', while the BigBad's overall motivations are fairly sympathetic, [[spoiler: the reason Evelyn Deavor used a random pizza delivery man as a patsy in her "Screenslaver" ploy was because the guy was "surly" and the pizza was cold.]]

-->'''Kuzco:''' You threw off my groove!\\

-->'''Old Man:''' (''as he is falling through the air'') [=SOOOOOOOORRRRYYYYYYYyyy=]!

-->'''Yzma:''' Just think of it as [[IronicEcho you're being let go, that your life's going in a different direction]], that your body's part of a permanent outplacement.\\

*** Fortunately, the old man is fine, and after going through some CharacterDevelopment from the events of the movie, a much nicer Kuzco apologizes to him. Heartwarmingly, the old man never really held it against him and took getting thrown out in good humor.

'''Guard:''' I'm sorry, you've thrown off the Emperor's groove.\\
'''Old Man:''' (''as he is falling through the air'') [=SOOOOOOOORRRRYYYYYYYyyy=]!

* Done hilariously in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', where a harmless old man accidentally bumps into the Emperor during his song number, and gets promptly [[DestinationDefenestration thrown out]] of the nearest window.

** Fortunately, the old man is fine, and after going through some CharacterDevelopment from the events of the movie, a much nicer Kuzco apologizes to him. Heartwarmingly, the old man never really held it against him and took getting thrown out in good humor.

** Doc's murder also applies. As his tombstone says, he was killed over a matter of $80. What happened, you may ask? Doc did a shoeing job on Tannen's horse, the horse threw a shoe, which caused Tannen to break a bottle of whiskey, and he took his anger out on the horse by shooting it dead. [[NeverMyFault In Tannen's mind, it's Doc's fault all this happened, and therefore he owes him money for the horse and the whiskey]].

* In ''Film/DragMeToHell'', an old gypsy woman gets back at the main character for denying her a loan extension by ''cursing her to Hell for all eternity''. The loan extension she was denied was her ''3rd'' extension, implying that she never even bothered to pay off her previous two loan extensions before and thus ended up got her just deserts by ''not'' being granted a third one.

* In ''Film/DragMeToHell'', an old gypsy woman gets back at the main character for denying her a loan extension by ''cursing her to Hell for all eternity''. The loan extension she was denied was her ''3rd'' extension, implying that she never even bothered to pay off her previous two loan extensions before and thus ended up got her just desserts by ''not'' being granted a third one.

* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' Carl and Frank try to kill Sid countless times for accidentally ruining their salad, eating their hard-to-find dandelion, and accidentally flicking poop on them. Admittedly, these are legitimate reasons to be pissed off, but their reaction is beyond extreme.
* Syndrome in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' was just a geeky kid who wanted to be a super-sidekick using his gadgetry. After he's rather roughly dismissed by his hero, Mr. Incredible (who was trying to deal with multiple disasters at that particular moment, one of which had been caused by the kid's clumsy attempt to help, and was also on the verge of being late to his own wedding), he goes to the dark side and spends his life designing technology so he can ''kill off all the world's superheroes'', take their place, and then eventually [[CutLexLuthorACheck sell his inventions]] so that ''everyone'' can be super, depriving everyone of their uniqueness. He takes special glee in his attempts to kill/abduct Mr. Incredible's wife and kids.
** In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', while the BigBad's overall motivations are fairly sympathetic, [[spoiler: the reason Evelyn Deavor used a random pizza delivery man as a patsy in her "Screenslaver" ploy was because the guy was "surly" and the pizza was cold.]]

* In ''[[Film/{{Twilight}} Literature/BreakingDawn: Part 1]]'', Aro orders the death of the secretary because she misspelled "Carlisle" in a note.

* In ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn: Part 1]]'', Aro orders the death of the secretary because she misspelled "Carlisle" in a note.

* Horton of ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'' 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]].

** As a perfectly good example of how unforgiving, there is what he did to Lemel Bevelisk (the man who [[RetCon originally]] designed the Death Star) in the ''Expanded Universe''/''Legends'' continuity: he ''executed the man several hundred times over, using Dark Side magic to place his soul in clone bodies to continue his torment''. When the New Republic got hold of Bevelisk and judged him for his crimes, giving him a death sentence, the man was so ragged from all the horrors the Emperor had made him suffer that his last words were a tired "Make sure you do it right this time".

** ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'': There's a woman who sleeps around town with men. This breaks up a marriage and makes a woman abandon her son. The son decides to kill the sleeping-around woman, gets away with it by framing an innocent man, then decides to kill a whole bunch of OTHER people, half of which seemingly for the hell of it, and then cap off his murder spree by killing his girlfriend, the daughter of the woman sleeping around despite her having absolutely NOTHING to do with her mother's actions.[[note]]This gets even darker and bleaker when plot events in the third film heavily suggest the woman was sleeping around because of unresolved issues from being raped.[[/note]]

** ''Film/{{Scream 4}}'': The main killer wants to replace the survivor out of jealousy and wants to be famous for surviving too. So she kills a bunch of people along with a partner in the same way it happened in the first film, with little differences in order to represent what happens in most movie remakes. Then she planned to kill the original survivor and replace her as the FinalGirl. She also kills her ex-boyfriend with the intension of framing him for her murders as revenge for cheating on her. Out of of all the previous killers, [[NearVillainVictory she almost gets away with it]].

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', the newspapers stopped keeping track of the kills by Buford Tannen, [[IdenticalGrandson Biff's great-grandfather]], after he'd shot a newspaper editor who printed an unfavorable story about him in 1884, which was why Marty [=McFly=] couldn't find record of Doc Brown's murder by him in 1885.
** Doc's murder also applies. As his tombstone says, he was killed over a matter of $80. What happened, you may ask? Doc shod Tannen's horse, the horse threw a shoe, which caused Tannen to break a bottle of whiskey, and he took his anger out on the horse by shooting it dead. [[NeverMyFault In Tannen's mind, it's Doc's fault all this happened, and therefore he owes him money for the horse and the whiskey]].

* In ''Film/LifeAt40'', a grown woman threatens a 13-year-old boy with physical violence. The reason? [[spoiler: The worst thing the boy did (and no other examples are given) was that he said the woman's daughter was on his "[[SexinessScore not hot]]" list on Facebook. ]]

* In ''Film/{{Casino}}'' Nicky Santoro stabs a guy a dozen times in the throat with a pen because he was rude. His character was based off a real person, however the event was purely fiction.

* In ''Film/IronSky'', Vivian Wagner, formerly responsible for the Presidential electoral campaign, has herself transferred to the space battleship USS ''George W. Bush'' as the new commander and seeks out to bomb the Nazi moonbase to rubble. The reason: The new Führer Klaus Adler was so rude as to abruptly end the hot affair he had with her and therefore deserves to die, and she assumes he is inside the base. It simply comes in handy that the Nazis happen to launch an attack on Earth just then.