History YMMV / KissOfDeath

!!The 1947 film

* CompleteMonster: [[{{Sadist}} Tommy Udo]] is a [[GigglingVillain giggling psychopath]] whose [[FauxAffablyEvil talkative, friendly demeanor]] belies a monster who would murder anyone for any reason his mind could dream up. Already put behind bars for a brutal murder he committed prior and establishing his cruelty to his cellmate, Nick Bianco, by telling him he'd eagerly gouge out the eyes of a guard annoying him in his patrol duty until the man dropped dead, Udo corners the wheelchair-bound mother of a man he believe ratted him out and [[StaircaseTumble tosses her to her death]] down a flight of stairs with a gigantic smile on his face. Acquitted for his murder later and now possessed of a seething hatred of Nick for testifying against him, Udo makes it his mission to destroy him and even his family, not-so-subtly threatening to target Nick's wife and kids while remarking his preferred murder of "squealers" is to shoot them in the belly to let them "roll around for a long time, thinking it over" and finally managing to shoot Nick while laughing his head off. A perpetually-grinning, unstable nightmare of a man, Udo is one of the most frightening villains to ever come out of the early FilmNoir genre.

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw&t=97s Tommy murdering the wheelchair-bound woman by pushing her down the stairs.]]

!The film

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw&t=97s Tommy pushing the wheelchair-bound woman downstairs by murdering her.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[{{Sadist}} Tommy Udo]] is a [[GigglingVillain giggling psychopath]] whose [[FauxAffablyEvil talkative, friendly demeanor]] belies a monster who would murder anyone for any reason his mind could dream up. Already put behind bars for a brutal murder he committed prior and establishing his cruelty to his cellmate, [[TheProtagonist Nick Bianco]], by telling him he'd eagerly gouge out the eyes of a guard annoying him in his patrol duty until the man dropped dead, Udo corners the wheelchair-bound mother of a man he believe ratted him out and [[StaircaseTumble tosses her to her death]] down a flight of stairs with a gigantic smile on his face. Acquitted for his murder later and now possessed of a seething hatred of Nick for testifying against him, Udo makes it his mission to destroy him and even his family, not-so-subtly threatening to target Nick's wife and kids while remarking his preferred murder of "squealers" is to shoot them in the belly to let them "roll around for a long time, thinking it over" and finally managing to shoot Nick while laughing his head off. A perpetually-grinning, unstable nightmare of a man, Udo is one of the most frightening villains to ever come out of the early FilmNoir genre.

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw&t=97s Tommy pushing the wheelchair-bound woman downstairs by murdering her.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Tommy Udo crosses it when he shoves elderly, wheelchair-bound mother of a man down stairs in the wheelchair and kills her.

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw&t=97s Tommy pushing the wheelchair-bound woman fall downstairs by murdering her.]]

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw&t=97s Tommy pushing the wheelchair-bound woman fall downstairs by killing her.]]

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw&t=97s Tommy pushing the wheelchair-bound woman falldown stairs by killing her.]]

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WEvWcVoFw Tommy pushing the wheelchair-bound woman falldown stairs by killing her.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Tommy Udo crosses it when he shoves elderly, wheelchair-bound mother of a man down stairs in the wheelchair and kills her.

* CompleteMonster: Tommy Udo is a psychotic killer who shows his [[{{sadist}} sadism]] by finding the elderly, wheelchair-bound mother of a man he believes betrayed him and [[StaircaseTumble shoving her down the stairs in the wheelchair]], killing her. Udo is a loose cannon who fully intends to murder TheHero--and the hero's [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--simply out of paranoia the hero might know something about Udo's business due to sharing a cell with him years prior. Utterly [[AxCrazy insane]], the {{giggling|Villain}} Tommy Udo was an early example of a CompleteMonster in film.

* MoralEventHorizon: Tommy Udo crosses it when he shoves elderly, wheelchair-bound mother of a man down stairs in the wheelchair and kill her.

* CompleteMonster: Tommy Udo is a psychotic killer who shows his [[{{sadist}} sadism]] by finding the elderly, wheelchair-bound mother of a man he believes betrayed him and [[StaircaseTumble shoving her down the stairs in the wheelchair]], killing her. Udo is a loose cannon who fully intends to murder TheHero--and the hero's [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--simply out of paranoia the hero might know something about Udo's business due to sharing a cell with him years prior. Utterly [[AxCrazy insane]], the {{giggling|Villain}} Tommy Udo was an early example of a CompleteMonster in film.

* CompleteMonster: Tommy Udo is a psychotic killer who shows his [[{{sadist}} sadism]] by finding the elderly, wheelchair-bound mother of a man he believes betrayed him and [[StaircaseTumble shoving her down the stairs in the wheelchair]], killing her. Udo loose cannon who fully intends to murder TheHero--and the hero's [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--simply out of paranoia the hero might know something about Udo's business due to sharing a cell with him years prior. Utterly [[AxCrazy insane]], the {{giggling|Villain}} Tommy Udo was an early example of a CompleteMonster in film.

* CompleteMonster: [[GigglingVillain Tommy Udo]] is a psychotic killer who shows his [[{{sadist}} sadism]] by finding the elderly, wheelchair-bound mother of a man he believes betrayed him and [[StaircaseTumble shoving her down the stairs in the wheelchair]], killing her. Udo loose cannon who fully intends to murder TheHero--and the hero's [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--simply out of paranoia the hero might know something about Udo's business due to sharing a cell with him years prior.

* CompleteMonster: Richard Widmark's sadistic, [[GigglingVillain giggling]] Tommy Udo was one of the earliest examples of a complete monster in a Hollywood film. Udo shows his sadism by finding the elderly, wheelchair bound mother of a man he believes betrayed him and shoves her down the stairs in the wheelchair, killing her. Udo is a sadistic murderer and a loose cannon who fully intends to murder the hero's children and the hero himself simply out of paranoia the hero might know something about Udo's business due to sharing a cell with him years prior.