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| 9 | KickTheDog in {{Film}}s. |
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| 14 | * ''Film/ThreeNinjas: High Noon At Mega Mountain'': Where male lead villain Lothar shows that he's a big unsympathetic jerk. First he pops a kids balloon, then on his way back to central control, he steals a kid's ice-cream, with the kid crying after that. Later on, fifteen-year-old Rocky, the oldest of the heroes, tries to save his girlfriend from [[ChainedToARailway becoming roller-coaster roadkill]]. With a sword, Lothar engages into battle with the unarmed Rocky, to the point that they climb up the roller coaster tracks. |
| 15 | * ''Film/TwentyTwoBullets'': Pascal Vassetto shoots Charly's dog when trying to kill him. |
| 16 | * ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'': The soldiers. Not only are they going to [[MoralEventHorizon repeatedly rape a woman and teenage girl]], but they have Jim and the only soldier who tried to stop them taken out into the woods to be shot. Not only that, but one of the men who is to execute them affixes a bayonet to his rifle because he wants the sergeant to suffer. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the other soldier [[MercyKill shoots the sergeant before he's stabbed]].]] |
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| 20 | * ''Film/ActOfVengeance'': Jack, aside from the inherent dog-kicking of serial rape, adds sadistic flourishes like making his victims tell him they loved it and sing "Jingle Bells." |
| 21 | * ''Film/AguirreTheWrathOfGod'': The eponymous VillainProtagonist yells at a horse so hard that it collapses. Also, infamously tosses a squirrel monkey. |
| 22 | * ''A Kitten For Hitler'': After being given a kitten by a Jewish boy for Christmas, Hitler has the boy skinned and turned into a lampshade. |
| 23 | * ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'': Just to show how evil they are, a Mongol warrior lays a whip across the back of a young Russian peasant for daring to stand in the presence of the Mongol ambassador; and the ambassador climbs into his carriage on the back of one of his servants. Later, the Teutonic Knights toss infants onto a bonfire. |
| 24 | * ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'': |
| 25 | ** Villain-on-villain kicking: In this Creator/TimBurton film, [[spoiler: The Knave of Hearts tries to kill The Red Queen after she all but confesses her love for him]]. |
| 26 | ** Also, the Red Queen having a talking frog [[OffWithHisHead 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. |
| 27 | * ''Film/AllSuperheroesMustDie'': Rickshaw breaking his own rules to kill hostages. |
| 28 | * ''Film/{{Alligator}}'': Mr. Slade specifically orders the mutagen tested on shelter puppies. |
| 29 | * ''Film/{{Amen}}'': The Doctor elects to keep Ricardo alive as long as possible specifically to torment him with having to helplessly watch the Holocaust unfold. |
| 30 | * ''Film/AmericanGangster'': Done by a corrupt cop -- he shoots the dog. |
| 31 | * ''Film/AmericanJustice'': Sheriff Payden has several: |
| 32 | ** Shooting one of his men in the head for complaining about finding cocaine instead of money. |
| 33 | ** Taunting Justice with a racist joke while explaining his plot to frame him. |
| 34 | ** Forcing Justice back into town by threatening to have his men gang rape a woman. |
| 35 | ** Threatening to poison the mayor's dog when he tries to cooperate with Agents Cobb and Lobo. |
| 36 | * ''Film/AmericanPsycho'': |
| 37 | ** Has a literal example. When the dog of the homeless man Patrick Bateman has just stabbed to death starts barking, Bateman coolly stomps it to death, shutting it up. Later, he is at an ATM when a kitten starts rubbing against his leg. He picks it up, the scene playing like an unlikely PetTheDog (or kitty) moment... until the ATM screen reads "FEED ME A STRAY CAT," and Bateman (almost) obliges. |
| 38 | ** The book has Patrick being cruel to many more animals-- and then there's [[NauseaFuel that unfilmable scene with the starved rat, a Habitrail tube, and one of his female victims...]] |
| 39 | * In ''Film/AnAmericanChristmasCarol'', to really drive home how much of a jerk Slade is, he rips up books because the leather binding them is worth more than the paper. |
| 40 | * ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'': Not actually an example, but we have to mention that it ''literally'' happens, after the title character accidentally throws a burrito at a BadassBiker. In retribution, the biker threw away something that Ron loves: his puppy Baxter. Who he ''punts off an overpass''. [[spoiler:Baxter returns at the end, wet but unharmed.]] |
| 41 | -->'''Ron:''' THE MAN PUNTED BAXTERRRR!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH AAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! |
| 42 | * ''Film/AnimalHouse'': [[DeanBitterman Dean Wormer]], driven to his limits, expels the entire Delta House, which he is entirely justified in doing as they are collectively and individually a degenerate menace. But he goes over the line by also informing the Delta's local draft boards that they are now eligible for military service, for no reason other than malice; mind you, this is during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, where being drafted meant at the very least being sent into a war zone. |
| 43 | * ''Film/{{Arachnicide}}'': The cartel trapping L9 Commando to be eaten by giant spiders as opposed to a more practical way of killing them. |
| 44 | * ''Film/AsGoodAsItGets'': The very first scene shows Creator/JackNicholson's character putting a small dog into a laundry chute because it peed on the floor. |
| 45 | * ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'': One of the gang members shoots an ice cream truck driver, and then a little girl who went back to complain that the man gave her the wrong flavor of ice cream. |
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| 49 | * ''Film/TheBabadook'': The Babadook spends its days stalking women and slowly driving them to abuse and then murder their own children. |
| 50 | * ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': There's a scene in 1955 where Biff gets a hold of a ball belonging to a bunch of kids, and while listening to them plead to have it back, mocks them and then throws it onto a second story balcony. Not that it wasn't already obvious that Biff was a {{jerkass}}, but it was over the top. |
| 51 | ** In a DeletedScene from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Buford Tannen shoots down Marshal Strickland [[HarmfulToMinors right in front of his young son]]. He could have easily laid stake to his claim that he would let him live to see his son grow up if he surrendered and got out of his way[[note]] And because Buford was really after Marty, anyway[[/note]]. The marshal did just that, and [[YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo Buford killed him anyway.]] |
| 52 | -->'''Buford''': ILied, Marshal! ''(laughs and rides away with his gang)'' |
| 53 | * ''Film/TheBansheesOfInisherin'': Enraged by [[spoiler:the death of his beloved donkey]] Pádraic encounters old mrs. [=McCormick=] on the way to Colm's house, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial who warns him not to kill Colm's dog in response]]. Pádraic mumbles darkly that she shouldn't put ideas like that in his head. [[spoiler:Defied: Pádraic not only refuses to harm the dog, he points out while petting it that the dog would be the ''last'' thing related to Colm he'd ever hurt since it's the only part of him he still likes. Even as he threatens to burn Colm's house during mass, he tells Colm to let the dog out since he doesn't want to hurt it.]] |
| 54 | * ''Film/Batman1989'': |
| 55 | ** The Joker in the first Creator/TimBurton film had a number of examples of this, such as terrorizing Vicki Vale, disposing of his last girlfriend Alicia offscreen so he could be with her, and gassing a museum and a parade full of innocent people (though the last one was foiled by the Batman), but the worst was probably cold-bloodedly executing his unquestioningly loyal BattleButler Bob after [[YouHaveFailedMe asking him for his gun following said foiling]]. |
| 56 | ** One of the two muggers from the first sequence gets one when he turns his gun on the little boy of a tourist family the two are in the middle of robbing: "Hey lady, do the kid a favor: don't scream." The partner of the mugger in question even brings it up after telling him about "the bat," shortly before both of them get their asses kicked. |
| 57 | * ''Film/BatmanReturns'': Penguin gets several of these: |
| 58 | ** When the Fat Clown objects to Penguin's plan to kidnap and kill the first-born children of Gotham as revenge for his own ParentalAbandonment (a crossing of the MoralEventHorizon if there ever was one), Penguin simply takes out a revolver and shoots him. |
| 59 | --->'''Fat Clown:''' I mean, killing sleeping children. Isn't that a little... err...? |
| 60 | --->'''Penguin:''' (BANG!) No, it's a lot! |
| 61 | ** He also tries to run down a little old lady while going on a rampage with the remotely-hijacked Batmobile. Batman takes back control and hits the brakes just in time to keep her from being splatted. |
| 62 | --->'''Penguin:''' Helpless old lady at twelve o'clock high! |
| 63 | * ''Film/BatmanBegins'': Just to make good and sure that the audience is set against Detective Flass, a corrupt cop, he cheats a street vendor out of his money before Batman interrogates him. It also shows how uncontrollable his behaviour is. |
| 64 | * ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'': |
| 65 | ** Poison Ivy spends most of the film seducing Robin, making him fall completely in love with her and tricking him into thinking she loves him too. When the two are finally alone in her lair she flirts with him one more time and they share a kiss, only for her to immediately reveal her true colors and taunt him with mock sadness over his supposed death. She gets another moment immediately afterwards when after Robin reveals he tricked her, she shoves him from her throne into her pond to drown him, and as he struggles against the vines holding him underwater, Ivy walks off, stopping only to wave bye and mockingly tell the drowning hero "see ya!" Her personal way of breaking up with the guy she spent leading on. |
| 66 | ** There's also her moment with Nora at Mr. Freeze's hideout, in which she pulls the plug from her life support tube, [[MurderTheHypotenuse intending for her to die so that Ivy can have Freeze all to herself.]] And then lies to him afterward about who "deactivated" her. [[spoiler:Thankfully, Batman and Robin find and restore her before she can die.]] |
| 67 | --->'''Poison Ivy:''' I never was too good with competition. Who needs a frigid wife anyway? |
| 68 | * ''Film/TheBeastmaster'': Maax turning random victims into horrific monsters in constant pain just so he can have guards. |
| 69 | * ''Film/{{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.) |
| 70 | * ''Film/BeyondTheLights'': Noni goes to see Kaz after they come back from Mexico and break up just to confirm that it's really over. Before she leaves however, she asks him hopefully to confirm that regardless of what followed, their relationship was perfect when it was good. His response? "We started out on a lie. It was never going to be perfect." Ouch. |
| 71 | * In ''Film/BigGame'', Hazar makes the tour guide run for his amusement before shooting him ''with a missile launcher'', even though they are in the middle of wilderness and there would be no way the man would manage to alert anyone before Hazar and his men were long gone. |
| 72 | * ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'': The Robot Bill and Ted: "Aim for the cat, dude! Aim for the cat!" |
| 73 | * At one point in ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'', Roman Sionis, the BigBad, is being brought some bad news at his nightclub, and he unfortunately overhears a woman laughing, and immediately believes that she's laughing at him (she isn't). So how does Roman deal with this? He orders the woman to stand on a table and dance for him, in front of everyone in the club, then orders her friend to cut off her dress and rip it off her, serving to drive the poor woman to tears. This scene does wonders toward cementing Roman as a complete misogynistic scumbag. |
| 74 | * ''Film/{{Birth}}'': When Anna's fiancé beats up (ish) kid Sean. Though this isn't just a pointless act, it still sets up the fiancé for a fall. |
| 75 | * ''Film/TheBlackCobra'': The bandit leader deciding to try and kill a reporter who photographed him even after learning the photos were unusable. |
| 76 | * ''Film/BlackSunday'': [[spoiler:When Andre arrives to rescue Katia, Asa pretends to be her and tries to convince Andre to kill her out of spite for losing.]] |
| 77 | * ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': This trope is kind of spoofed when baddie Mongo punches a horse. |
| 78 | * Villains in action [[BMovie B-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. |
| 79 | * ''Film/{{Bloodsport}}'': Reigning champ Chong Li has several kick-the-dog moments, but one particularly stands out: after [[CurbStompBattle clearly winning a match]], he decides to go the extra mile and break the guy's neck. Even the judges are horrified, but they still allow him to continue in the tournament. |
| 80 | * In the Creator/ValLewton film ''Film/TheBodySnatcher'', the grave robber played by Creator/BorisKarloff gets his EstablishingCharacterMoment when he clubs a dog to death with his shovel. |
| 81 | * UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}: This happens in many, many films of this kind, such as the Captain beating his servant in ''Lagaan''. |
| 82 | * ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'': Edward Longshanks. His treatment of the Scots, his tactics (TropeCodifier for WeHaveReserves), him casually throwing his son's best friend out to his death. The list goes on. |
| 83 | * ''Film/TheBridesOfSodom'': |
| 84 | ** Persephone raping and murdering a human woman to satiate her jealousy. |
| 85 | ** Dionysus raping Samuel and threatening to break him in half if he ever resists his advances again. |
| 86 | * ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In TheMovie, when we're first introduced to the Vampire BigBad Lothos (and see his face), he ends a conversation with his henchman by announcing he wants a snack, picks up a kitten, and walks off. Evil. |
| 87 | * ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'': [[AlphaBitch Tina]] has a moment of this when she [[SpeakIllOfTheDead mocks Charlie's dead father]] ''to her face''. Thankfully, [[LaserGuidedKarma she pays for it big time that night]]. |
| 88 | -->'''Tina:''' This car is an embarrassment. You should have your dad buy you a better one. |
| 89 | * ''Film/{{Buried}}'': Paul was kidnapped by terrorists and BuriedAlive. While in the coffin, his boss calls him and says he's been fired and his family will not receive any benefits. |
| 90 | * ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'', Evan's enemy Tommy [[spoiler: burns his dog alive after seeing Evan kiss Kayleigh, Tommy's sister]] when they're 13 years old. It's an even more impacting scene than when Tommy's violence is first established by [[spoiler: beating a boy in the movie theater with the metal queue pole, and then smiling at Evan as security drags him out]]. The movie throws us a curve ball at the same time, by giving Tommy a FreudianExcuse. |
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| 94 | * ''Film/TheCalling2000'': One of the signs that the sweet US girl's cute little son is evil incarnate is that he kicks away his dog. In case that other hints [[spoiler:like not missing his mom one bit, trying to psychically murder a little girl for hogging the swing and impaling a guinea pig]] didn't work. |
| 95 | * ''Film/CharlieWilsonsWar'': The title character tells his assistant about his first foray into politics: When he was a kid, he had a dog that always dug up a neighbor's flowerbeds. The neighbor solved the problem by feeding it dog food with broken glass mixed in. The neighbor was running for city council, so Charlie (after burning up his flowerbeds) went to the poor black neighborhoods in town, where most of the people had never bothered voting in a local election, told them that this candidate had purposely killed his dog, and offered them a ride to the polls. It was enough to lose him the election. |
| 96 | * ''Film/ChildrenOfTheNight'': Czakyr murdering a bunch of children when the town nearly catches onto him. [[spoiler:Turns out he actually did worse by keeping the kids alive and conscious for decades to feed off of.]] |
| 97 | * ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'': Andrew shoves a car off the road with his telekinesis, starts video recording Steve's funeral and ignores everyone telling him to cut that out, and picks up a spider with his telekinesis and sadistically tears it apart. He has been taught well as he has been on the receiving end of this for all his life from his father and his social environment, namely school bullies and hoodlums. |
| 98 | * ''Film/ACinderellaStory'': During the pep-rally, [[TeensAreMonsters Shelby]] publicly humiliates Sam by having the other students ruthlessly chant "diner girl" at her, sending Sam into tears. She ''[[LackOfEmpathy still]]'' has them mock Sam as she's crying in the hallway. |
| 99 | * ''Film/LaCiteDeLaPeur'' (''City Of Fear''): In this French cult movie, a random cat gets kicked twice by the [[DirtyCommunists hammer and sickle wielding serial-killer]]. This is also a RunningJoke, since Les Nuls, who produced the movie, are well known for their hatred towards cats (''Le Chat Machine'' and ''CCC'', anyone?) |
| 100 | * ''Film/CloudAtlas'': ProfessionalKiller and minor villain of one of the numerous plots, [[MisterStrangenoun Mr. Smoke]] actually ''shoots'' a small dog that was yapping at him, right in front of the [[InnocentBystander innocent old lady]] who owned it (which is still this trope and not ShootTheDog). [[spoiler:The [[ChekhovsGunman old lady]] gets back at him later by [[BadassBystander beating him to death with a wrench]] [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind before he can kill the protagonists]] ]]. |
| 101 | * ''Film/ColdTurkey'': Used in a very interesting way. A town is trying to give up smoking for 30 days, so we know they aren't really "bad" people, just highly frustrated. That said, someway into the movie, a man literally ''kicks a dog'' and it hilariously goes flying. |
| 102 | * ''Film/TheColony2016'': As if Schaeffer wasn't bad enough for being a cult leader and fascist torturer, he's revealed to molest the young boys of his cult. |
| 103 | * ''Film/TheComedyOfTerrors'': As one of many {{Establishing Character Moment}}s for Trumbull, Gillie expresses pride in a coffin he constructed and humors the idea that they might use it at some point. Trumbull calls it an abomination and destroys it right in front of him. |
| 104 | * ''Film/ConAir'': Designated JerkAss Malloy makes his entrance by speeding up in his "fucking spectacular" flashy Corvette and parks, you guessed it, in the handicap parking space. |
| 105 | * ''Film/{{Contracted}}'': |
| 106 | ** Nikki [[spoiler:dumping Sam after learning she'd been with a man (even though it was rape). It's unclear if she knows or cares about that. Notably, this is what causes Sam's FaceHeelTurn.]] |
| 107 | ** While Riley was always rather creepy towards Samantha, [[spoiler:it just come across as unnecessary and cruel of her to have sex with him with the intention of infecting him.]] |
| 108 | * ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}'' has Conlan repeatedly interrupt and insult Donnie during their pre-fight press conference, then for good measure, during the fight he makes sure to hit Donnie after the bell ending the first round has rung already just to be a dick. Earlier he broke Danny Wheeler's jaw outside the ring and landed himself jail time for illegal firearm possession, but those actually drove the plot. Him antagonizing Donnie is just to make sure the audience ''really'' wants to see him get knocked out. |
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| 112 | * ''Film/{{Darkman}}'': Durant's habit of collecting fingers from people he brutalizes. |
| 113 | * ''Film/DarkPrinceTheTrueStoryOfDracula'': |
| 114 | ** Sultan Mahomed II carving a wound into Radu while making Vlad watch. |
| 115 | ** Prince Karl whipping a peasant for no reason. |
| 116 | * ''Film/DeathMachines'': |
| 117 | ** Mr. Gioletti reacts to discovering that the Death Machines beheaded his limo driver Mike, while he's having dinner with Madame Lee, by blowing away the waiter that presented him with Mike's head. Even if he's part of Madame Lee's organization, he had absolutely jack to do with the assassination. |
| 118 | ** The massacre of Frank's dojo. The target was the leader of Frank's dojo, who used it as a front for drug peddling, while everybody else in the building [[LeaveNoWitnesses was just a loose end]], |
| 119 | ** The Death Machines kidnap the daughter of banker Nathan Adams and hold her hostage so Adams will step in line with Mr. Gioletti. He refuses, so they kill Adams and his daughter -- and they also [[GratuitousRape sexually assault her for no reason]] along the way. |
| 120 | ** The random biker gang who bully the white Death Machine just for being in the same gas station/restaurant as them ultimately [[BullyingADragon end up biting way more than they could chew]]. |
| 121 | * ''Film/DemolitionMan'': Wesley Snipes plays a criminal who is not only a maniacal killer/terrorist but also a compulsive casual racist who cannot look at a Chinese suit of armour without giggling and saying "ching chong ching chong". |
| 122 | * ''Film/TheDescent'': Juno gets a few of these, such as [[spoiler:cowardly leaving her friend who she accidentally stabbed to die slowly and painfully.]] It is also revealed that [[spoiler:she was having an affair with the main character's deceased husband.]] This was before she becomes a fairly heroic uber-badass. |
| 123 | * ''Film/DesktopDesperadoes'': Alex, the main antagonist of this film doesn't bat an eye at the sigh of its cute innocent animated protagonist facing agonising torture while his newly instated boss Jane Maine watches in distress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1tr1cwiZs |
| 124 | * ''Film/DieHard'': Agents Johnson and Johnson in the first film have an exchange in which they determine that their {{plan}} to stop the terrorists (which was actually a vital part of Hans Gruber's EvilPlan) could end up with 25% of the hostages dead, but they dismiss it as being an acceptable casualty. Presumably this is to obliterate any sympathy one might have for the fact that they get blown up by Gruber five minutes later. But that poor helicopter pilot.... |
| 125 | * ''Film/{{Django}}'': |
| 126 | ** Major Jackson hunting a Mexican youth for sport. |
| 127 | ** General Rodriguez dragging a guy into the street, cutting his ear off, and shooting him InTheBack. Later, he [[spoiler:retaliates against Django betraying him by ''having his horse crush his hands''.]] |
| 128 | * The villains of ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' do this quite frequently, even by the standards of {{Politically Incorrect Villain}}s, from having a poor slave whipped for accidentally breaking eggs to having slaves fight to the death and having a slave ripped apart by dogs for not having it in him to fight anymore, as well as having Django's wife Broomhilda thrown into a torturous "[[PunishmentBox hot box]]" naked for trying to escape. |
| 129 | * ''Film/DogSoldiers'': Early on, Captain Ryan, a Special Forces commander, ironically fulfills this trope by literally shooting a dog. Not ''that'' kind of ShootTheDog, just killing it for no real reason. Later on in the movie, he attempts to shoot ''another'' dog to get it to stop barking, but he is thwarted when another character vomits on his head. |
| 130 | * ''Film/{{Dogville}}'': The whole movie would have to be recited to number the times. The movie '''vividly''' demonstrates the [[TheDogBitesBack dangers of Dog Kicking]]. Ironically, an actual dog doesn't suffer at all. |
| 131 | * ''Film/DragMeToHell'': |
| 132 | ** The protagonist [[spoiler: sacrifices her kitten]] in an attempt at placating the demon set upon her by a GypsyCurse. [[spoiler: It doesn't work when all is said and done.]] |
| 133 | ** As for Sylvia Ganush, the lady responsible for the curse to begin with, the fact that she condemned a young boy to be DraggedOffToHell 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.]] |
| 134 | * ''Film/TheDrop'': Literally. Eric Deeds beat and then put Rocco into Nadia's garbage can. |
| 135 | * ''Film/{{Duel}}'': Sally, a kindly older woman, runs a gas station and has a small roadside menagerie featuring her beloved pet snakes and other desert animals. To stop Mann from getting help, the trucker mows down the phone-booth at Sally's "Snake-O-Rama" gas-station and zoo. The trucker also runs over several of the cages, [[CoolOldLady leading to Sally frantic over the welfare of her animals.]] |
| 136 | * ''Film/Dune1984'': |
| 137 | ** Baron Vladimir Harkonnen when he pulls the heart plug from one of his slave and then does something [[{{Squick}} too gruesome to describe here]]. Rabban as well; he squishes a live mouse in a box and drinks its blood. |
| 138 | ** Rabban has an even more literal case when he kicks a dwarf for no reason whatsoever. |
| 139 | * ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsTheBookOfVileDarkness'': Bezz torments the widow and son of one man whom the dragon killed, just for fun. |
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| 142 | [[folder:E]] |
| 143 | * ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'': A quick, literal example occurs. As she walks out to offer Edward some lemonade (and flirt with him), Joyce continuously tells her excited dog to stop yipping. And finally kicks it to make it stop cramping her style. |
| 144 | * ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'': The entire Librian society has a Kick the Dog moment by proxy when a squad of anti-emotion cops begin exterminating a kennel of dogs as though they were vermin - after already executing the women and children protecting them as "sense offenders." Preston (who's gone off his emotion-suppressing medication) flinches with each gunshot, and finally [[PetTheDog steps in to save the last puppy]] with the excuse that at least one should be kept and tested for infectious disease. |
| 145 | * ''Film/ErnestGoesToJail'': Ernest's EvilTwin throws Ernest's small dog into the garbage can to stop it from barking. The dog was physically uninjured, but it apparently had no way of getting out before the real Ernest came along and rescued it, a day or so later. |
| 146 | * In ''Film/{{Exam}}'', White's process of nicknaming people - while 7/8 are simply one-word descriptors of a character's features (chiefly their hair or skin colour), they're delivered in a somewhat obnoxious and offensive manner; calling an Indian man "Brown" probably crosses the line into being racially offensive. Mocking the Chinese girl for being disqualified didn't exactly endear him to audiences either. |
| 147 | * In ''Film/EyesOfAStranger'': when SerialKiller Stanley [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kills Tracy's dog]] this ironically is not a kick the dog moment, since it is necessary for his plan, but moving things around in her apartment to mess with her (she is blind and deaf) is purely ForTheEvulz. |
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| 150 | [[folder:F]] |
| 151 | * ''Film/FatalAttraction'': Glenn Close's character, in full psycho {{Yandere}} mode, [[spoiler: killing and cooking the pet rabbit of the protagonist's daughter]]. And she kidnaps the little girl a few days later. Although she returns her unharmed, it seems likely that she wanted to terrify Dan with the notion that she *could* have harmed the child if she wanted to. |
| 152 | * ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'': |
| 153 | ** Hunter "Raoul Duke" Thompson has one of these when he [[spoiler:suggests selling Lucy into prostitution.]] Although it's really hard to tell whether or not he was serious or sober. |
| 154 | ** There's one even earlier in the movie when he throws a tip onto the patio floor of the restaurant he's in, forcing the midget employee to get on hands and knees to collect it. |
| 155 | ** Ironically, the Lucy suggestion is ''less'' a Dog Kick in the movie, where Johnny Depp plays it so over-the-top as to make clear to the audience (if not the extremely drug addled Dr. Gonzo) he's not seriously suggesting this, but rather [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone forcing Gonzo to realize]] what he'd have to become to keep Lucy around. In the book, this is much more ambiguous. On the other hand, HST objected to the tip-tossing, as he felt that such motiveless and pointless cruelty was out of character for Duke, at least while he was (comparatively) sober. |
| 156 | ** The arguable worst instance arises later. The pair have committed some crimes already at this point but manage to stay somewhat likable. That is until Dr. Gonzo terrorizes a waitress with his knife so badly she is left in tears. While arguments can be made as to how intoxicated he was, this was easily the darkest point of the book. It symbolizes things TRULY taking a turn for the worse. |
| 157 | * ''The Ferryman'': Features a literal KickTheDog moment. Well, actually it's more a of a Snap The Dog's Spine And Toss It Overboard moment. The movie gets worse from there. |
| 158 | * ''Film/FireWithFire'': David Hagan is a dog-kicking machine, slaughtering the entire families of anybody who crosses him in any way. |
| 159 | * ''Forbidden Games'' (''Jeux Interdits''): In this French film, it's not enough that the Nazis kill Paulette's parents. They have to kill her dog, too! |
| 160 | * ''Film/Frankenstein1931'': Fritz whipping the creature and then tormenting him with fire for no reason. This leads to the creature killing him and going on setting off his entire rampage. |
| 161 | * ''Film/FreddyVsJason'': |
| 162 | ** Freddy Krueger refers to a black girl as "dark meat." Not only is he a dream-invading serial child-murdering pedophile, he's also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain a casual racist]]. |
| 163 | ** Strangely, Freddy is also given one of these with the dog being ''Jason''. In his nightmare, Jason reverts into a scared disfigured child, how he was before he became an undead killing machine. Freddy then tears off his hockey mask, calls him an "ugly little shit", and shows Jason the severed head of his mother. This turns out to be a very, very bad idea. |
| 164 | * Freddy is rather fond of this in [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet his own films]] as well; simply killing someone is no fun, he'll bring their greatest fears to life, mock them with visions of their already murdered loved ones, and let them live for a while so that others think they are crazy when they try to warn them. To some degree this is justified, as he feeds on fear and wants to cause as much of it as possible before going in for the kill, but the sheer sadistic glee he takes in mockery and desecration is this trope. |
| 165 | * ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'': |
| 166 | ** Jason indulges in it on occasion, as ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII'' has him stalking people very far from his turf in Crystal Lake, and ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood The New Blood]]'' not only is he distant from Crystal Lake, but downright breaking into his victims' homes. However, literally going into the trope was avoided in ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan Jason Takes Manhattan]]'', where Creator/KaneHodder refused to film a scene of Jason kicking a dog, with him being quoted as saying: "Jason can [[GrievousHarmWithABody pull people's limbs off and beat them to death with their own arms]], things like that, but he's not gonna be kicking any dog. [[EvenEvilHasStandards You know, you gotta draw the line somewhere.]]" He ''does'' kick a poor boombox in that film, though. |
| 167 | ** ''Jason Takes Manhattan'' also has a literal case, as after the main characters get mugged, and when FinalGirl's dog starts barking at the thugs, the lead mugger, with no hesitation whatsoever, tries shooting it. |
| 168 | * Michael Myers from the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series apparently doesn't share the same sentiment, having killed several dogs over the course of his many rampages. And eating one of them, apparently. "He got hungry..." |
| 169 | * ''Film/FullMetalJacket'': |
| 170 | ** The Door Gunner is not happy enough killing unarmed civilians, he also goes out of his way to kill their water buffaloes, all of said kills being certified. |
| 171 | ** The entire platoon gets one when they throw poor Pvt. Pyle the "Blanket Party", which basically has them pinning him down in his bunk with a blanket and beating the shit out of him with bars of soap wrapped in towels. |
| 172 | [[/folder]] |
| 173 | |
| 174 | [[folder:G]] |
| 175 | * ''Film/TheGalaxyInvader'': Joe Montague gets several: |
| 176 | ** Shooting at his daughter for slapping him during an argument. |
| 177 | ** Threatening to shoot his wife for disagreeing with his alien hunt. |
| 178 | ** Trying to rape his late friend's girlfriend, and shooting her InTheBack when she escapes. |
| 179 | * ''{{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. [[EveryoneHasStandards This disgusts even Garfield, who hates Odie]]. |
| 180 | -->'''Garfield''': [[HypocriticalHeartwarming Hey, no one gets to mistreat that dog like that except me!]] |
| 181 | * ''Film/GateOfHell'': While angrily pacing around outside of a mansion, waiting to speak to the married woman he's enthralled with, the main character literally kicks the dog that came up to him. |
| 182 | * ''Franchise/GIJoe'' |
| 183 | ** ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'': [[spoiler: Zartan's murder of Cover Girl]]. |
| 184 | ** In its sequel, ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', [[spoiler: the movie reveals that Zartan murdered Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow's master, the Hard Master, and ''framed'' Storm Shadow for it.]] |
| 185 | * ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' |
| 186 | ** ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'': Occurs in this film when [[spoiler:Destoroyah not only kills Junior right in front of Godzilla, but then grabs the heartbroken Godzilla by the throat and proceeds to drag him around]] while ''laughing''. |
| 187 | ** ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'': Rowdy college students try to drown a dog that never harmed them. Until Mothra drowns them and traps them in her own silk. |
| 188 | * ''Film/{{Goemon}}'': This 2009 Japanese film probably has one of the most evil examples of this thus far. Saizo tries to assassinate the (mostly corrupt) ruler of Japan, Hideyoshi. Naturally, he fails, and is captured. After Goemon breaks him out, Hideyoshi and his men attack Saizo's home, kill his wife, and abduct his baby son. Being told that his son's life will be spared if he turns himself in, he gladly allows himself to be boiled alive in a giant vat of oil, in front of the entire city. Hideyoshi kicks him into the oil, and this is where the moment comes: when Hideyoshi throws his baby son into the vat 10 seconds later, alive. Literally every other character, be it good, evil, or in between, were disgusted by this act at best. ''At best.'' |
| 189 | * ''Film/{{Gozu}}'': ExaggeratedTrope in an extremely violent moment. Well, not so much kick the dog, as pick it up by its leash and bash it to a bloody pulp on the nearest wall. Both figuratively and literally. The moment where Ozaki clearly goes from annoyingly unstable, to dangerously insane. |
| 190 | * ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'': After Deputy Kovacs proves incorruptible, Jopling throws his cat out the window, to its death several stories below. |
| 191 | * ''Film/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. |
| 192 | * ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'': Not only does Mrs. Deagle neatly follow the AndYourLittleDogToo trope, but she attempts to kick a poor family out of their home shortly before the holidays because they are unable to pay their rent. She is established as a sort of Mr. Potter figure early in the film. None of this has anything to do with the rest of the movie and she is not really the film's villain. (That would be the Gremlins, of course!) It would seem that she is made to be so hateful for no other reason than to justify her truly tasteless death by the hands of the monsters. |
| 193 | ** The Gremlins themselves also fall under this trope, tying up the family dog with Christmas lights and, in the original script, actually killing him. |
| 194 | * In ''Film/{{Gunless}}'', while Cutter's men are terrorizing the Chinese rail camp, Cutter himself casually shoots a barking dog that is annoying one of his men. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:H]] |
| 198 | * ''Film/HarryPotter'' |
| 199 | ** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': Near the end, [[MagnificentBastard Lucius Malfoy]] literally kicks Dobby. |
| 200 | ** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': ''Everything'' Umbridge does. She can't walk down a hallway without finding a dog to kick. The film makes it even worse than [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix the book]] - they just let the monster run loose, giving her a microphone to broadcast her new rules all over the school. She uses a spell to forcibly separate a kissing couple, and uses others to tuck in someone's shirt surreptitiously, fix another's tie, etc. That sequence is full of LawfulStupid dog-kicking. |
| 201 | * ''Hassan and Naima'': This Egyptian film has a textbook case. In the first scene with the villain he starts by harasses the protagonist for going to her cousin's wedding in an explicitly sexist way. When she storms off, he kicks a tiny dog, sending him rolling five feet or so, then insults a beggar. Because he's a jerk. |
| 202 | * ''Film/HeKnowsYoureAlone'': Ray Carlton decapitating Amy's roommate and leaving her head in a fish tank for Amy to find. |
| 203 | * ''Film/HeartOfAmerica'': When Daniel confronts a bully with a gun in a bathroom at the beginning of the massacre: |
| 204 | ** '''Daniel''': You know what happens when you kick a dog one too many times? Go ahead, you can answer that one. What happens when you kick a dog long enough. |
| 205 | ** '''Paul''': I don't know. |
| 206 | ** '''Daniel''': They bite. ''[shoots Paul]'' |
| 207 | * ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'': Frank deciding to rape his own niece, and Julia helping imprison her for him. |
| 208 | * ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller'': Henry is a dog-kicking machine, spending his days wandering America killing people with absolutely no rhyme or reason. His interactions with other people indicate that murder is the only thing he truly cares about. |
| 209 | * ''Film/Hercules2014'': |
| 210 | ** [[spoiler:King Cotys massacring a bunch of villages to frame a revolutionary against his rule.]] |
| 211 | ** [[spoiler:King Eurystheus killing Hercules' family and drugging him into thinking he did it because he was jealous of Herc's accomplishments.]] |
| 212 | * In ''Film/HighlanderIIITheSorcerer'', the villain Kane's entire arc is basically one long line of atrocities to cement his evil. For instance, he slaughters a village in the opening when they don't immediately tell him where Nakano is, endangers the life of a small boy for kicks and ''rapes a prostitute''. |
| 213 | ** In the first ''Film/{{Highlander}}'', [[BigBad the Kurgan]] seems to operate on PragmaticVillainy despite his obvious insanity, until you find out [[spoiler:that after he killed Ramirez, he raped Connor's gentle housewife Heather as an act of dominance. When he pieces together many years later (from Connor's mortified reaction to the revelation) that she never told her own husband about what he did to her, he has the audacity to [[PostRapeTaunt mock the girl to Connor's face, suggesting she actually secretly enjoyed being violated]].]] |
| 214 | * ''Film/TheHitcher'': John Ryder is a dog-kicking machine, traveling the roads to murder people, including children, ForTheEvulz, and deciding to try and corrupt Jim into being just like him on a whim. |
| 215 | * ''Film/HitlerTheRiseOfEvil'': Done literally in this film to make absolutely certain that the viewer would understand that Hitler is not to be liked at all. It's kind of amusing when it's been said that he loved dogs in real life. The dog led Hitler out of a tent instead of sitting down like Hitler commanded him to. When Hitler kicked the dog a bomb went of in the tent and Hitler got away with only a few scratches. It is implied that this made him love animals as he spoke fondly of the dog in the hospital and was sad that he couldn´t find the dog after the explosion. |
| 216 | * ''Film/HollowMan'': Using his invisibility to his advantage Sebastian rapes a woman. When he discovers that Linda is sleeping with Matt, he becomes enraged and kills an invisible dog barking at him, and it is shown in infrared. |
| 217 | * ''Film/{{Hondo}}'': Apache warrior Silva [[ShootTheDog kills the title character's dog]] out of spite. Suffice to say that killing Creator/JohnWayne's canine companion is not a good idea. |
| 218 | * ''Film/HotRod'': The romantic rival pulls the rarer "run over a racoon" variant, then chuckles to himself and comments that he can't wait to tell his bro who will love it. |
| 219 | * In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas2000'', Mayor Augustus Maywho humiliates the Grinch with an electric shaver as a reminder of the brutal harassment he suffered from him in grade school. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge The Grinch does not respond well to this at all]]. |
| 220 | * ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'': President Snow orders the District 8 hospital firebombed for associating with Katniss. |
| 221 | [[/folder]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | [[folder:I]] |
| 224 | * ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': |
| 225 | ** There are several examples: |
| 226 | ** The Thuggee Cult is the most notable example, as they enslave small children to mine for Sankara Stones under very poor conditions. |
| 227 | ** Another Kick The Dog Moment occurs after Indy is under the influence of [[MindControlDevice Kali Blood]], when he smacks Short Round in the face. |
| 228 | * ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': Zoller, the subject of Goebbels' propaganda film, is portrayed through most of the movie as a kind, generous, patriotic, somewhat lovesick suitor. The guy is even a film buff. And in one of his last scenes, he shudders at watching Goebbels' glorification of his bloody war heroism. In his ''last'' scene, he takes joy in accidentally hurting Shoshanna after she turned him down one more time, barks commands and threats at her and generally gives off a rape vibe. This is the scene that makes it OK to kill him. |
| 229 | * ''Film/TheInvasion'': It's not clear what would be so bad about the new world order that's taking shape, until [[spoiler:it's made clear that anyone not affected by the change would be executed, rather than simply kept out of positions of influence and allowed to live out their lives]]. |
| 230 | * ''Film/It2017'': [[BigBad Pennywise]] might as well have puppies tied to his shoes for how much he punts them. |
| 231 | ** His initial contact with all of the kids is intended to terrify them to "fatten them up" for his eventual feast. |
| 232 | ** When he finally meets Bill face to face, he acts offended Bill thinks he isn't real -- before coolly adding he was "real enough for Georgie!" |
| 233 | ** Convincing Henry Bowers to [[spoiler:murder his father and go after the Losers]] was a ''real'' dick move, but shows that [[spoiler:Pennywise actually is starting to show fear, and takes the Losers seriously as an opposing force, as opposed to just more prey]]. |
| 234 | ** Even when [[spoiler:getting overpowered and beaten by the Losers]], Ol' Pennywise still somehow finds the gumption to [[spoiler:turn into Beverly's sexually abusive father and taunt her]]. |
| 235 | * In the movie ''Film/ItTakesTwo1995'', Clarice Kensington's EstablishingCharacterMoment has her entering Roger's place and, not knowing that his daughter is hiding behind a curtain, remarks out loud, "No wonder [his wife] died. She had absolutely ''no'' taste." This unspeakably evil act of [[SpeakIllOfTheDead Speaking Ill of the Dead]] tells us right away that Clarice is a ''horrible'' woman who clearly does not deserve Roger or his daughter. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:J]] |
| 239 | * ''Film/JackFrost1997'': Jack Frost raping a teenage girl to death with his carrot. |
| 240 | * ''Film/JohnWick'' is all about how this can not only backfire and be a really '''''skullfucking idiotic''''' move to begin with, it's basically the equivalent of putting a loaded gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger or poking a dozen hornets' nests and taunting several hangry bears while covered in honey, or playing in traffic. Iosef Tarasov, son of a Russian mob boss, decides he wants John's [[CoolCar 1969 Mustang]], but John isn't selling. Iosef breaks into John's house that night to steal the keys and beat the crap out of him and, in the process, kills John's dog Daisy because she was annoying him. Problem is, John's not only a ProfessionalKiller (a [[OneManArmy damn]] [[TheDreaded good one]], too) but an assassin of the Continental, and Daisy was a last gift from his dead wife. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Extensive payback ensues.]] |
| 241 | * ''Film/JugFace'': Loriss burning her daughter's legs with a cigarette to make her comply with a virginity test. |
| 242 | * ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'': |
| 243 | ** 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. |
| 244 | ** 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? "Oh, you didn't hear? [[spoiler:Shere Khan killed him]]. Must've been on account of you." Technically, it is true, considering [[spoiler:Shere Khan killed him for sheltering Mowgli]], but the way he worded it... ouch. |
| 245 | * ''Film/TheJurassicGames'': The sadistic Joy crushes a defenseless little dinosaur beneath her boot simply because it was in her way. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:K]] |
| 249 | * ''Film/{{Keoma}}'': Caldwell killing Keoma's dad even when he gives himself up. |
| 250 | * ''Film/KickAss2'': Averted by Motherfucker. "Kill the dog? Jesus Christ, I'm not THAT evil!" |
| 251 | * ''Film/KingKongEscapes'': In this Toho film, the villain Doctor Who shoots the old man on Kong's island when he comes to take the ape, just responding to his warnings not to take the ape with "Yes. Kong's mine now." before killing him. |
| 252 | * ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'': The scene at Balmoral Castle was this for Edward. First he showed how lightly he takes his duties as king, more interested in pleasing his girlfriend. Then he was apathetic to Hitler's march through Europe before he finally topped it off with mocking his brother Albert's speech impairment. |
| 253 | * ''Film/KissOfTheDragon'': This Creator/JetLi movie has a scene where the main bad guy forcibly injects the female lead, a woman he had tricked into prostitution, with her "fix" of heroin and sends her back to work on the street after she begs him to let her daughter go so that she can get out of the business. Apart from the earlier nasty things he did (such as framing Li for killing the diplomat), this scene marks him as a huge bastard worthy of the [[ToThePain very nasty death]] that Li gave him. |
| 254 | * ''Film/KongSkullIsland'': Towards the end, [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandExpedition Packard]] amid his VillainousBreakdown screams at one of his men -- the BabyOfTheBunch no less -- as if it's his fault that he isn't committing suicide by flinching when he has a gun pointed at his head. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:L]] |
| 258 | * ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'': In Roman times, Lady Marsh ordered a group of nuns trying to build a convent on her land raped and slaughtered. [[spoiler:Near the end it's revealed that her sacrifices don't have to be raped to death either, she just likes the ceremony.]] |
| 259 | * ''Film/TheLastAirbender'': Not only did Fire Lord Ozai scar and banish his son, he didn't even bother to give Zuko anything to help him. He did not even pretend that Zuko's quest to capture the Avatar wasn't a way to get rid of Zuko, and only gave him a ship and crew to get rid of Iroh. |
| 260 | * ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'': |
| 261 | ** Belial kills Miranda, who was no threat to him and had no way of being a threat, simply to taunt Kaulder over her corpse. |
| 262 | ** Earlier than that, the Witch Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality out of spite for stopping her from killing humanity. |
| 263 | * ''Film/ALittlePrincess1995'': Both Miss Minchin and Lavinia are established as bad'uns when they independently bully the {{woobie}} Ermingarde. |
| 264 | * ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'': |
| 265 | ** In the "Dentist" song, on the line "people will pay you to be inhumane", the dentist breaks the head off a doll belonging to a girl in the waiting room. |
| 266 | ** In the [[RecursiveAdaptation musical film version]], Audrey II, after a blatantly evil [[spoiler: phone call]], reaches into the change slot of a pay phone to see of there are any coins. AndThatsTerrible. |
| 267 | * ''Film/LittleSweetheart'': Thelma, the sociopathic, psychotic, greedy 9-year-old does it, we're just not sure when the first is, seeing as she's practically kicking the dog back and forth. |
| 268 | * ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'': Occurs when Kananga slaps Solitaire in the face after she sleeps with Bond and loses her psychic powers. |
| 269 | * ''Film/LocalHero'': SubvertedTrope due to ValuesDissonance. After Mac has adopted a rabbit he accidentally hit with his car and takes it to the village, the villagers cook and eat it. They turn out to be good people anyway. |
| 270 | * ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' |
| 271 | ** In ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' as if their work for the Enemy and their hunting of Frodo for the Ring weren't enough, the Ringwraiths decide to chop off a hobbit watchman's head and [[ImprovisedWeapon drop a door]] [[DeathByAdaptation on the gatekeeper]] in Bree as they are hunting him. |
| 272 | ** A memorable moment in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'' where the Ents get this treatment from Saruman, who selfishly cut down and destroyed their forest brethren for wood and war supplies. This however seriously backfired on the evil wizard. |
| 273 | ** In ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' the Orcs don't so much kick the dog as much as throw the heads of the dog's friends at him during the Siege of Gondor. With trebuchets. |
| 274 | * ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'': |
| 275 | ** One of the hunters zaps a little chicken-size dinosaur with a cattle prod. |
| 276 | *** TheDogBitesBack later on, along with about a [[KarmicDeath hundred]] [[DeathOfAThousandCuts of its friends.]] |
| 277 | ** And the ''T. rex'' actually eats a family dog and a running bystander while on the rampage in San Diego. |
| 278 | * ''Film/TheLovedOnes'' shows us right from the start that Brent's kidnappers mean business when they stab his dog to death. |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder:M]] |
| 282 | * ''Film/{{M3gan}}'': After Kady gets bit by her neighbor Celia's dog, M3gan waits till late at night, then murders the dog ''and'' Celia. |
| 283 | * ''Film/MadDogMorgan'': |
| 284 | ** Judge Barry flat admitting that he gives out undeservingly harsh sentences to people so the Crown can exploit their labour. |
| 285 | ** The warden of the ''Success'' letting Morgan be raped, only telling the rapists to not kill him. |
| 286 | ** Superintendant Cobham strangling an Aboriginal prisoner for not knowing where Morgan was, and later [[spoiler:ordering Morgan's corpse mutilated]]. |
| 287 | * ''Film/MadMax'': |
| 288 | ** ''Film/MadMax1'': Toecutter's gang spend their days constantly kicking dogs, raping and murdering random people ForTheEvulz. |
| 289 | ** ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Immortan Joe's entire society is a massive example. All men are work slaves and all women are sex slaves. Any men that show promise are indoctrinated as fanatical cultists, and everybody's kept borderline starving while Joe lectures them for being "addicted" to ''water'' of all things. |
| 290 | * ''Film/MadeasBigHappyFamily'': At one point, Tammy [[spoiler:gleefully throws back [[RapeAsBackstory Kimberly's rape from her uncle]] -- [[ChildByRape which resulted in Byron]] -- ''to her and Byron's faces'', just to win an argument]]. [[EveryoneHasStandards Madea even calls Tammy out on this.]] |
| 291 | * Two major examples in ''Film/TheManFromLaramie'': |
| 292 | ** Dave and his men [[EstablishingCharacterMoment immediately get themselves into Will's bad books by lassoing him, dragging him along the ground (including through the remnants of a fire), setting his wagons on fire and shooting his mules]]. It's heavily implied that Dave would have gone even further had Vic not turned up to stop him. |
| 293 | ** After paying Will off for the damage caused by Dave, Alec informs Vic that the money used will be coming out of his pay. All because Vic, despite being busy performing a task for Alec and only arriving on the scene to stop Dave when the drama was already well underway, apparently didn't keep a close enough eye on Dave to stop the trouble from occurring in the first place. When Vic tries to point out the unfairness of this, Alec instantly threatens to fire him. |
| 294 | * ''Film/TheManFromNowhere'': 500 mocking a child about killing her mother before preparing to harvest her organs. |
| 295 | * In ''Film/ManInTheAttic'', Slade literally kicks Harley's dog, which has been lovingly following him around ever since he joined the household, to drive it away from while he [[DestroyTheEvidence burns his bloodstained Ulster]]. From this point on, the dog goes from being slavishly devoted to him to afraid of him. |
| 296 | * ''Film/MarsAttacks'': The Martians are dog kicking machines. They attack the elderly and children, fire at innocent fleeing civilians, kill animals, laugh mockingly at their victims, engage in pointless acts of violence and murder, and even commit mass murder at what are supposed to be peaceful meetings like in Congress. They go so far as to outright ''show'' Nathalie they put her dog's head on her body, just to make her unhappy. |
| 297 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' has several examples: |
| 298 | ** ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'': Blonsky arrives at Bruce's apartment with his tranquilizer gun only to find he's already run for it; he shoots Bruce's dog instead (complete with comedy yelp noise). In the DVD commentary, the director actually says that there's no better way to establish a villain than by having him shoot a dog. |
| 299 | ** ''Film/IronMan2'': Justin Hammer pulls off two separate dog kicks. First, when Vanko asks Hammer to retrieve his beloved cockatoo from his former home in Russia, and Hammer tries to fob off a random pet store cockatoo on him -- as if any devoted pet owner wouldn't recognize their own. The second incident occurs shortly thereafter, when Hammer is displeased with Vanko's apparent lack of progress on Hammer's line of battle suits; he has one of his thugs stuff the poor bird in a bag and take it away along with many of Vanko's other comforts. [[BullyingADragon The two thugs Hammer tasked with this don't last long after that]]. |
| 300 | ** ''Film/{{Thor}}'': In an example of KickThemWhileTheyAreDown (at least emotionally), Loki visits the recently-[[BroughtDownToNormal depowered]] Thor [[HeroicBSOD who'd just realized that he was truly powerless after failing to lift Mjölnir]] and lies to him, telling him that their father Odin has died because of the stress brought on by the war that Thor instigated and that their mother, Frigga, [[IHaveNoSon never wants to see Thor again]]. [[DramaticIrony The kicker]] is that Thor ''[[GracefulLoser thanks Loki for visiting him and telling him this!]]'' |
| 301 | ** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': |
| 302 | *** Loki does it again. He attempts a BreakingSpeech against the Black Widow with an archaic form of the CountryMatters trope. But probably his ultimate Kick The Dog moment is when he kills Coulson. |
| 303 | ** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': Before her HeelFaceTurn, Wanda does this by not only subjecting five of the Avengers to MindRape, but making the Hulk go on an out-of-control rampage in South Africa. |
| 304 | ** ''Film/IronMan3'': |
| 305 | *** The Mandarin [[DoNotAdjustYourSet broadcasts himself on all [=TVs=] across the nation]] and shows a hostage on the floor. He declares that if the President of the United States doesn't call him within 30 seconds, he will shoot the man in the head. The president calls him, but The Mandarin shoots the poor guy anyway. [[spoiler:Not really, as The Mandarin was actually just an actor named Trevor, and the gun wasn't real, as revealed later when Tony infiltrates the mansion it was broadcast from.]] |
| 306 | *** Played straight later in the movie when [[spoiler: the man behind the "Mandarin", Aldrich Killian, murders Maya Hansen in front of Tony (who was zip-tied to a bed frame), for no purpose than to put even more misery on Tony]]. |
| 307 | ** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': [[spoiler: Malekith having Kurse murder Frigga]]. |
| 308 | ** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': Everything about how BigBad [[spoiler: Alexander Pierce]] treats [[spoiler:the Winter Soldier, aka a brainwashed Bucky Barnes]] during the scene in the bank vault. |
| 309 | ** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': [[spoiler: Tony attempting to burn Bucky's face off in front of Steve, and later shooting Sam Wilson[=/=]Falcon when he was trying to apologize after Rhodey was critically injured after falling from hundreds of feet in the air.]] |
| 310 | ** ''Film/AntMan1'': Darren chooses to experiment with his unstable ShrinkRay on baby lambs instead of mice like Hope and the scientists requested. He doesn't bat an eye when the failed experiments [[BodyHorror horrifically kill them]], while everybody else is sickened and saddened. Later, when a lamb is successfully shrunken, Darren knocks it down by flicking it with his finger for no reason. |
| 311 | ** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': |
| 312 | *** When Yondu makes it clear that he is ''not'' going after Peter, half his team of Ravagers stage a mutiny against him; Yondu is imprisoned and the other crew members still loyal to him are ''shot out into space''. Previous and future movies have established that this is a ''slow and painful'' way to go out. And then there's their abuse and humiliation of poor Baby Groot... |
| 313 | *** [[spoiler: Ego]] casually revealing to [[spoiler: his son]] Peter that [[spoiler: he deliberately gave his mother terminal brain cancer, just because he saw [[LoveIsAWeakness the love he was starting to feel for her as an]] ''[[LoveIsAWeakness inconvenience]]''. When Peter [[MoreDakka understandably retaliates]], Ego drains his life energy by force, ''then'' he takes his Walkman [[TragicKeepsake (his mother's last gift to him)]] and crushes it in his hands, even as Peter begs him not to.]] |
| 314 | ** ''Film/ThorRagnarok:'' During his LetsYouAndHimFight with Valkyrie, Loki makes her relive watching her comrades get slaughtered by Hela. |
| 315 | ** ''Film/BlackPanther2018'': Erik Killmonger secretly poisoning a museum tourist's coffee as a distraction to rob the museum's vibranium. [[{{Sadist}} He even smugly mocks her as she starts choking to death!]] |
| 316 | ** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': |
| 317 | *** There is no reason why Thanos forcibly makes Thor, whom he just met, [[spoiler:watch his brother being killed]] other than pure malice. He then twists the knife further by [[spoiler:dumping Loki's body right at Thor's feet and telling him that his death is irreversible. Also, he certainly didn't have to draw out the strangulation and his grin while doing so proves that he enjoys it.]] |
| 318 | *** The massacre on [[spoiler:half of the Asgardians. A good part of the population already died during Hela's tyranny and the Asgardian signaler reports that most of the passengers are just families. But nevertheless, Thanos lets half of the people get executed instead of letting everyone but Loki and Thor go, even though they don't really pose a threat and he knows that their number would get halved again if he should succeed with his plan.]] And of course, it's not long before he [[spoiler:wipes out half of the remaining survivors with his snap, heedless of how badly they'd just been decimated.]] |
| 319 | *** Thanos goading Quill into trying to [[spoiler:shoot Gamora had little purpose beyond psychologically torturing both of them.]] |
| 320 | *** Thanos cruelly tortures [[spoiler:his daughter Nebula to compel Gamora to do as Thanos wants, and outright says that the only reason he didn't kill her is because he would have considered it a "waste of parts".]] |
| 321 | *** Thanos also does this to [[spoiler:Wanda Maximoff after undoing her destroying Vision and the Mind Stone with the Time Stone, by backhanding her away from Vision and then ripping the Mind Stone out of his head, killing him instantly.]] |
| 322 | ** ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome:'' During their fight, [[spoiler:Mysterio]] uses a similar attack to mess with Peter Parker, calling up an illusion of [[spoiler:Tony Stark's]] grave and telling the seventeen-year-old superhero [[SurvivorGuilt it was his fault that Tony died.]] Then he makes [[spoiler:Tony's]] decomposed corpse crawl out to attack Peter... |
| 323 | -->'''[[spoiler:Mysterio]]''': If you were good enough, maybe [[spoiler:Tony]] would still be alive. |
| 324 | ** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' has [[spoiler: the Green Goblin [[ForcedToWatch forcing Peter to watch]] as he kills his Aunt May, solely to spite him for [[SaveTheVillain trying to cure him and the other villains of their physical and mental deficiencies.]] He even takes the time to mock Peter over her death during the final fight.]] |
| 325 | ** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': [[spoiler: [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Losing Vision]] and [[Series/WandaVision her children]] inspired a nasty cruel streak in Wanda, to say the least. It starts with her slaughtering many Kamar-Taj sorcerers (i.e. ''her own allies'') that she could have easily flown past in her pursuit of [[DimensionalTraveller America Chavez,]] and she only gets worse from there.]] |
| 326 | ** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'': The High Evolutionary has ''plenty'' of these moments: |
| 327 | *** His treatment of Adam Warlock is basically nothing but this, especially considering he pulled Adam out of his incubation chamber early, all but ensuring his stunted mental growth. Shown more explicitly when he tortures him just for talking back to him. |
| 328 | *** The ''second'' he believes Counter-Earth is no longer up to his delusional standards and isn't needed for his trap, he orders the whole planet incinerated and watches almost ''bored'' as innocents are violently and abruptly killed in fiery explosions, earthquakes and collapsing buildings. |
| 329 | *** When Rocket embarrasses him by perfecting his evolution process, he tells Rocket that he is an ugly mistake, that he was never going to let him and his friends live in his utopian world, and that he's been planning from the beginning to kill them as soon as he no longer needs them, just to spite him out of petty jealousy. He then mocks Rocket for not being smart enough to figure it out himself. |
| 330 | *** He personally kills Lylla right in front of Rocket just as they've finally been freed from their cages. Then to kick the pup even harder, he mocks Rocket's cries and screams ''to his face'' and outright calls him pathetic for being upset. |
| 331 | *** When he finally corners Rocket in the ship, he ragdolls Rocket around the room [[PsychopathicManchild like an angry child throwing his toy]], all the while ranting about how much of an insignificant failure and freak he thinks Rocket is. |
| 332 | *** He kept an entire dungeon full of children inside his ship and callously left them inside it to die when it became clear it was going to be destroyed. |
| 333 | *** When his henchmen pull a mutiny in order to evacuate a ship that's minutes from collapsing, he kills them all in a blind rage because they understandably don't want to go after Rocket. |
| 334 | * ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'': |
| 335 | ** For the first fourth or so of the picture, Captain Harrison Love seems less like an evil villain and more like a lawman who is only an antagonist because the hero of the movie is an outlaw. Well, we can't have that sort of thing in our summer blockbusters. In order to avoid actually having to deal with moral complexity, we're treated to an {{Anvilicious}} scene where Zorro is conversing with the Captain and he randomly takes Zorro's brother's head out of his desk drawer, where it had been "marinating" in something presumably alcoholic, and Captain Love nonchalantly drinks a cupful of it. Drawn straight from the jar. To drive the point home, he tells our hero that he keeps the heads of everyone he kills, because he just loves killing people so very much. |
| 336 | ** Also, earlier in the film, BigBad Don Rafael does this to Diego when he has him thrown in prison and steals his daughter, Elena, who was an infant at the time, just to make him suffer. To twist the knife even further, he refuses to let Diego hold her one more time before he gets carted off to prison. |
| 337 | -->'''Don Rafael''': I want you to live... with the knowledge that you have lost everything that you hold dear. I want you to suffer as I have suffered, knowing that your child should've been mine. |
| 338 | * ''Film/MaskedAvengers'': [[BigBad Number One]] of the Masked Gang, Lin Yung Chi, is shown in flashback to have abducted a guy, tortured him to death, and ordered his sister gang raped. [[spoiler:This disgusts his [[TheDragon Dragon]] enough for him to quit the gang and pull a HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 339 | * ''Film/TheMeteorMan'': The BigBad doesn't kick the dog, he ''throws a dumpster on the dog!'' [[spoiler: The dog got better]]. |
| 340 | * ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'': Early on, Joh Fredersen fires one of his overworked assistants for failing to report an accident at the [[FauxSymbolism Moloch]] Machine, effectively dooming him to working in the deplorable conditions underground. |
| 341 | * ''Film/{{Mickey}}'': The dickhead general store owner literally does this when Mickey comes into the store with her dog. |
| 342 | * ''Film/MidnightExpress'': A prisoner's pet cat is killed by a fellow inmate. The killing takes place offscreen, but we do [[ThatPoorCat hear it]]. |
| 343 | * ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'': |
| 344 | ** Dracula all but cements the fact that he is an utter bastard right near the end of the movie when he confronts Phoebe, a little girl who is five years old and has the amulet that he wants to destroy so that the creatures of the night can rule the world, with these words: "Give me the amulet, you bitch!" If calling a five-year-old a bitch isn't Kicking The Dog, we don't know what is. This scene was so bad that Duncan Regehr, who played Dracula, actually refused to do the scene in more than one take, and little Ashley Bank (Phoebe) was genuinely terrified when she saw his "evil" contact lenses. |
| 345 | ** Also, there was the scene where Drac blew up the treehouse belonging to the title group with a stick of dynamite. The kids weren't there, but Drac seemed to think they were, judging by his cold "Meeting adjourned" just before the kaboom. |
| 346 | * Shang Tsung gets several during ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'', first delivering a vicious FinishingStomp on poor Chan (while he was down, no less!), and [[YourSoulIsMine taking Art Lean's soul]] after he is killed by Goro. |
| 347 | * ''Film/TheMostDangerousGame'': Count Zaroff, as a matter of routine, locks his "prey" in his trophy room for a few hours in order to scare them enough to flee him. |
| 348 | * ''Film/MulanRiseOfAWarrior'': Mendgu's EstablishingCharacterMoment is killing prisoners for fun. |
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| 351 | [[folder:N]] |
| 352 | * ''Film/NachoLibre'': The wrestler who had originally won the battle royal for the opportunity to fight Ramses, Silencio, is fighting against a child beggar over a loaf of bread. [[LaserGuidedKarma Though Esqueleto happened to be nearby and ran over his foot, leaving him unable to participate and have the main character take his place.]] |
| 353 | * ''Film/NedKelly1970'': |
| 354 | ** Fitzpatrick getting Ma Kelly arrested by lying about an injury he got by accident. |
| 355 | ** Judge Barry sentencing Ma's infant grandson to prison just because she was holding him throughout the trial. |
| 356 | ** Superintendant Nicholson ordering everybody the Kellys gave any kind of money to arrested as an accomplice in their robberies. |
| 357 | * ''Film/{{Nekrotronic}}'': Finnegan pretending to be a loving mother to Howard so she can trick him into getting possessed. Even worse, it's revealed that [[spoiler:she's powering her nekropods by decapitating nekromancers and keeping their heads alive inside them]]. |
| 358 | * ''Film/NewTownKillers'': While chasing Sean through the subway, Alistair shoots a homeless man's dog for barking at him. He then [[DisposableVagrant shoots the vagrant]] ForTheEvulz. |
| 359 | * ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'': |
| 360 | ** Used almost to the point of gratuity; [[PsychoForHire Anton 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 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''. |
| 361 | ** The pigeon potshot is actually a sly InJoke to an earlier Coen Brothers' Dog Kicker, the [[GenericDoomsdayVillain Lone Biker of the Apocalypse]], Leonard Smalls from ''Film/RaisingArizona''. When first he is shown onscreen, he shoots a lizard with a shotgun and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill lobs a grenade at a bunny rabbit]]. |
| 362 | * ''Film/NoHoldsBarred'': The main bad guys really get their kicks from being assholes. On the part of Zeus, TheBrute of the bad guys, he beat the crap out of Rip's brother Randy to the point where he can't walk, and to add insult to injury, he then punched him out of his wheelchair and [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kicked him while he was down]]. As for Brell, the CorruptCorporateExecutive and the other main bad guy, he tried to have his old employee Samantha raped by his mooks for actually caring about Rip, hired goons to attack Rip just because he had the audacity to say no to Brell, was responsible for the abovementioned crippling incident with Zeus and Randy, and blackmailed Rip to throw a match. |
| 363 | * ''Film/NoGoodDeed2014'': Terri does this to her husband Jeffrey for cheating on her with Alexis and putting her, her children, and her friend Meg in danger by punching him in the face at the end of the movie. |
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| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:O]] |
| 367 | * ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'': The one-eyed "bible salesman" beats two of the protagonist senseless with a branch to steal whatever it was that they were keeping in that shoe box they were guarding so closely. When he finds out it's a frog (which they thought was a [[ForcedTransformation cursed]] friend), he squeezes the thing dead on his palm, and violently throws it against a tree, making one of the heroes cry. [[spoiler:He later gets what's coming for him when a burning cross drops on him.]] |
| 368 | * ''Film/Oblivion1994'': Redeye's EstablishingCharacterMoment is sauntering into town and eating a random alien bird alive. [[spoiler:Later, he responds to a woman being rescued from his gang attempting to rape her by shooting her in such a way that [[ScaryScorpions nightscorps]] will be attracted to her blood and tear her apart.]] |
| 369 | * ''Film/OfficeSpace'': Whenever you might start to think that [[PointyHairedBoss Bill Lumbergh]] is just a guy trying to do his job in a company that happens to be the IncompetenceInc capital of the world, he starts kicking around Milton, the office's resident ButtMonkey, for no apparent reason other than [[ForTheEvulz because he can]]. When it comes to light that Milton technically doesn't have a job at Initech-- he was laid off years prior and just never told (Milton's ''that'' forgettable) while continuing to get paid due to a payroll error-- Lumbergh gets even worse, apparently going out of his way to come up with new ways to demean the man while deliberately withholding the information that Milton's "missing" paycheck no longer exists, cementing for the audience that Lumbergh is every bit the soulless monster Peter says he is. |
| 370 | * ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina2'': In the opening scene, the White Lotus Sect burns a dog because [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry it's a foreign breed]]. |
| 371 | * ''Film/OneCrazySummer'': Aquila Beckersted gloats over his victory over the protagonists and punctuates his villainy by literally kicking a little girl's dog and putting it in an animal hospital. |
| 372 | * ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'': This ''Film/JamesBond'' film has perhaps the most notorious Kick the Dog moment of the franchise: Ernst Stavro Blofeld, [[VillainousBreakdown angered at]] Bond managing to foil his EvilPlan, takes perhaps the most horrific revenge on 007 possible by killing Bond's wife Tracy on their wedding day in a drive-by shooting and then scurrying off with his mistress Irma Bunt. Bond is too grief-stricken to give chase. Anytime Tracy's death is referenced in later Bond films is downright gut-wrenching. |
| 373 | * The plot of ''Film/OpenRange'' is kicked off when the villains falsely arrest and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown severely beat]] [[GentleGiant Mose]], after he defended himself from an assault by a trio of thugs, and later attack the cowboys camp and execute the aforementioned man, shoot the party's dog, and leave Button, [[WouldHurtAChild a fifteen year old boy]] shot and beaten almost to death. Afterwards, [[BullyingADragon the remaining cowboys]] swear to avenge this. |
| 374 | [[/folder]] |
| 375 | |
| 376 | [[folder:P]] |
| 377 | * ''Film/P51DragonFighter'': Grudun setting a dragon on one of his own men to show off its capabilities. The guy only lives because Rommel orders the demonstration halted. |
| 378 | * ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': [[BigBad Captain Vidal]] is woken up so he can deal with some possible rebels; an old man and his teenage son. They insist that they were hunting rabbits, but he beats the kid's face in [[GrievousBottleyHarm with a bottle]] before even letting him finish his sentence, then shoots them both. He reaches into their pack, and pulls out... a pair of rabbits. He snarls at his men that they should search these assholes before bothering him with them, and goes back to bed. Later, he asks the cooks to make him something from the rabbits. "Perhaps a stew." |
| 379 | * ''Film/PerfectAssassins'': Samuel Greely is a dog-kicking machine, operating an assassination business by abducting children and torturing them into being human attack dogs that kill themselves upon failure. Any that fail are locked in the box to trigger their trauma, and Greely is shown to laugh when watching his men torment the kids. |
| 380 | * In ''Film/ThePianist'', there's a scene where some Nazi soldiers barge into a Jewish family's apartment and demands the family stand to attention. They all do except the family patriarch, who is wheelchair-bound. When the old man obviously fails to comply with the order, the Nazi officer barks a command and then two men grab the old man in his wheelchair, carry it over to the balcony and [[DestinationDefenestration throw him to his death]]. There's also another scene where some Nazi soldiers run over an old man's legs with a car, to watch him suffer. Keep in mind, the film is based on real events... |
| 381 | * ''Film/Piggy2022'': Maca, AlphaBitch and ringleader of the girls who bully Sara for her weight, takes a picture of her and her parents at their butcher shop and posts it on Instagram with the caption "three little piggies". That is before the major incident where she and her friends nearly drown Sara at the pool and run off with her clothes. |
| 382 | * ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': |
| 383 | ** This is Cutler Beckett's job description in the sequels. Once he gets Davy Jones's SoulJar, he repeals little things like "right to due process" and "habeas corpus" and orders mass executions of anyone even suspected of sheltering a pirate, including children. This is the first scene of the third movie. He's so good at this he manages to Kick the ''Kraken'' by having it beach itself just to prove a point about magic being obsolete. Even Jack, who got eaten by the thing, feels sorry for it and considers it a [[EndOfAnAge sign of the times]]. |
| 384 | ** Barbosa gets one in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl first film]], when he maroons Jack and Elizabeth, but refuses to give them a second loaded pistol - he expects Jack to do the honorable thing and shoot Elizabeth, and then starve to death himself. |
| 385 | ** Davy Jones kills dozens of innocent people in attempting to track down Will and Jack, though which one hits as most insidious - the innocent foreigners who merely chance upon Jack's hat or the trading crew with the stern captain we actually come to know somewhat - remains to be seen. |
| 386 | *** For specific moments, there is also him ordering the defiant crewman who spurned his offer of crewmanship killed immediately and, in a rage, having the survivors of the aforementioned trading ship slaughtered wholesale without even offering them the chance to take his wretched bargain. |
| 387 | ** Blackbeard. Gleefully so. {{Subverted}} when he appears to kill Philip, but only uses poison to knock him out. Said subversion is the a JustifiedTrope by his using Philip to get Syrena's tear. |
| 388 | ** Barbossa in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]]. When his ship and crew are being swarmed by mermaids, he refuses to help or even ''recognize'' their plight, passing it off as "seagulls nesting" when the officers point out their crew's screams of terror. Admittedly, it's not like he could have actually saved them, but it was still pretty cold. |
| 389 | ** "Someone make a note of that man's bravery." |
| 390 | * ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'': In this 2001 Creator/TimBurton remake, the evil General Thade knocks the chimp Pericles against a wall, breaking his leg; thus cowed, Pericles then crawls back into the relative safety of his cage (much like a kicked dog might do). |
| 391 | * ''Film/PointBreak1991'': InvertedTrope: During a chase scene Bodhi (the bad guy) throws a dog at Johnny (the hero) to slow him down. Johnny kicks the dog out of his way. |
| 392 | * ''Film/ThePokerHouse'': This 2008 indie drama has a pretty brutal one delivered to Creator/JenniferLawrence's character after [[spoiler:she is raped]] when her mother completely ignores her current emotional state and launches into her usual spiel of verbal abuse. |
| 393 | * Sheriff Orville from ''Film/PoorPrettyEddie'' constantly hits and berates his mentally disabled nephew Odell. |
| 394 | * In ''Film/{{Preservation}}'', the hunters abduct Sean's dog Buck, kill him, and string him up from a tree for Sean to find. |
| 395 | * ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': |
| 396 | ** For the first 45 minutes, it appears that Prince Humperdinck, if somewhat a hunting-loving milquetoast that Buttercup doesn't love, is more aloof and uncaring than out-and-out evil...until he tortures Westley to death (well, [[OnlyMostlyDead mostly]]) on Count Rugen's crazy sucking machine, and lies to Buttercup to make her think Westley abandoned her. |
| 397 | ** The book is much more to the point on the subject -- the first time we see Humperdinck, he's in his Zoo of Death, where he keeps wild animals for the express purpose of killing them when he's bored. |
| 398 | * [[RichBitch LaWanda Dumore]] from ''[[Film/ProblemChild Problem Child 2]]'' establishes herself as a villain in her introduction scene by ordering a family at a nursing home thrown out onto the street (and going "Oh, boo hoo hoo" when informed of their situation), and then giving her assistant an "out of my way, fat boy!" for being in her way when she notices Ben Healy, who she is instantly attracted to. Later on, upon finding out about Junior, [=LaWanda=]'s response to her assistant asking what they should do about him basically amounts to: "When somebody has a bum leg, you don't shoot the patient; you just cut off the leg," letting us know that she is going to be Junior's enemy. |
| 399 | ** And if that wasn't enough, when she is alone with Junior, she gloats about how she always gets what she wants and how, once she's married Ben, [[OffToBoardingSchool Junior will be on the first plane to boarding school - in Baghdad]] (bonus points for there being a war on over there at the time the film was released!). |
| 400 | * ''Film/Prey2022'' has the group of French Trackers who kill buffalo only to destroy a food source of the Natives (something that was very TruthInTelevision during the colonial era). |
| 401 | * ''Film/TheProfessional'': One of Normal Stansfield's men shoots 12 year-old Mathilda Lando's much younger brother. Later, Stansfield threatens to kill an entire room full of children when he's at Tony's restaurant; if his demand hadn't been met, he definitely would have followed through. |
| 402 | * ''Film/ThePunisher1989'': Lady Tanaka reveals that she's lying about returning the mob bosses' kids if they cede territory to her, instead plotting to sell them into slavery. [[spoiler:Later, she holds one boss's kid hostage and ordering him to kill himself, flat admitting she might just kill the lad anyways.]] |
| 403 | * ''Film/ThePunisher2004'': Howard Saint responding to Frank Castle killing his son in self-defense by ordering his entire family massacred. |
| 404 | * ''Film/{{Purgatory}}'': Throwing knives at the church, and the bandit who tramples Lefty's garden just to be an asshole. |
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| 406 | |
| 407 | [[folder:R]] |
| 408 | * ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'': Having finally lost track of Indy after an extended truck chase, Colonel Dietrich throws a melon at an off-screen dog. The dog gives up its barking with a yelp. Nazis, eh? |
| 409 | * ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'': |
| 410 | ** ''Film/FirstBlood'': Art Galt tortures Rambo for no reason, triggering his PTSD-induced rampage in the first place. Then he decides to kill Rambo in cold blood for beating him up. |
| 411 | ** ''Film/RamboIV'': The Burmese military are shown forcing innocent civilians to walk through mine-infested marshes (that they created themselves so they could gamble on who would blow up first - if they were forcing the civilians to clear other people's minefields the evil would at least serve a purpose), raping women, burning down villages, forcing and drafting children in the military, and their leader, [[BigBad Major Tint]], is a [[DepravedHomosexual pedophile]] who rapes a boy off-screen for his own amusement. |
| 412 | ** After the HumanTraffickers in ''Film/RamboLastBlood'' learn they have abducted someone Rambo loves, after ambushing and beating him to near death, they decide to [[BondVillainStupidity let him live, just so he can live with the knowledge of all the things they're going to do to her]]. |
| 413 | * ''Film/RedDog'': Another example with a literal dog occurs in this film: the caretaker's wife shoots Red Dog in an attempt to kill him, but not in a ShootTheDog kind of way. |
| 414 | * ''Film/RedDawn1984'': The first target of the invading Russian Army is a high school with no strategic military significance whatsoever. They also murder a few teachers and students in the process even though they face no resistance from anyone at the time. |
| 415 | * ''Film/RenegadeTrail'': A [[{{Outlaw}} cattle thief]] named Stiff-Hat Bailey does a literal one of these in this 1939 movie, one of the [[{{Cowboy}} Hopalong Cassidy]] series, much to the fury of the dog's young owner. |
| 416 | * ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'': In the backstory, Rotti Largo killed Nathan's wife for rejecting him, then convinced Nathan that ''he'' was responsible. |
| 417 | * ''Film/{{Resolution}}'': The second time the drug dealers, Micah and Billy, show up, they shoot the dog that Charlie has been taken care of to show how serious they are. |
| 418 | * ''Film/ReturnToOz'': The Nome King enjoys a long sequence of kick the dog moments as he becomes [[HumansAreBastards steadily more human]]: to begin with, he reveals that his supposedly innocent contest is actually a death trap for Dorothy's friends, and forces Dorothy and the others to keep playing by threatening to incinerate them; then he sends the childlike Jack Pumpkinhead to participate, clearly enjoying Jack's terror; finally, he reveals that he now owns the Ruby Slippers and mockingly congratulates Dorothy for [[NiceJobBreakingItHero letting them fall into his hands.]] |
| 419 | * ''Film/Revenge2017'': As if raping and attempting to murder a young woman wasn't despicable enough already, Stan can't resist aiming for a passing spider while he's taking a leak in the desert, keeping the stream on it until the helpless animal is completely buried under suffocating mud. |
| 420 | * ''Film/TheRevengers'': The first act of the raiders who attack the ranch is to kill Benedict's dog. |
| 421 | * ''Film/{{Revolution 1985}}'': Using men in place of foxes in a fox hunt is a pointlessly cruel action. It also shows that this is why the British are considered the villains of the story. |
| 422 | * ''Film/RichardIII'': The 1995 film version (the WWII-esque one) has Richard talking to Tyrell while the latter is feeding apples to the military unit's mascot (appropriately, a boar). He hands an apple to Richard, who throws it ''at'' the boar hard enough to make it squeal. |
| 423 | * In ''Film/TheRipper1997'', Prince Albert lovingly brushes down and tends to the horse which threw him, then shuts and bolts the stall door and sets fire to the stall with the horse inside. |
| 424 | * ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'': The Sheriff of Nottingham: "Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans. No more merciful beheadings... and call off Christmas!" |
| 425 | * ''Film/RoboCop1987'': Clarence Boddicker and his gang get one of these near the beginning of the movie, and it's a ''doozy'' -- the sheer brutality with which they murder the protagonist before he is [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt]] is enough to catapult these bastards straight across the MoralEventHorizon. |
| 426 | * ''Film/{{Runaway}}'': Charles Luther killing his girlfriend after she's returned to him in a hostage exchange. Later, he abducts Ramsay's son, makes the acrophobic Ramsay confront him on a high-rise, and lets the kid go before taunting him that he's programmed his robots to kill the first person who leaves the area. |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder:S]] |
| 430 | * ''Film/SamuraiCop'': Yamashita ordering one cop's wife raped and torturing a different cop with boiling oil. |
| 431 | * ''Film/SawneyFleshOfMan'': Sawney sexually assaulting one of his victims, promising to make her his SexSlave if he enjoys it and kill her if he doesn't. |
| 432 | * ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'': Sosa's evil is made clear by his lack of qualms about the children that will be caught in a hit's collateral damage. |
| 433 | * ''Film/SchindlersList'': Amon Goeth ''loves'' doing this: |
| 434 | ** He's introduced killing a Jewish engineer for suggesting an improvement before implementing it anyways. |
| 435 | ** He makes a habit of sniping random prisoners from his rooftop ForTheEvulz. |
| 436 | ** When one prisoner tries to escape he makes him watch Goeth kill 25 others. |
| 437 | ** After developing an attraction to Helen Hirsch he blames her for it and beats her senseless. |
| 438 | * ''Film/TheScreamingSkull'': Eric's treatment of Mickey -- though in this case it's more "Repeatedly Bitchslap The Dog". |
| 439 | * ''Film/TheSearchers'': In this classic John Ford western, Creator/JohnWayne is frequently compared to the antagonist -- a Comanche chief named Scar -- but is differentiated in that while Wayne [[PetTheDog pets the dog]] before Indians raid his family's home early in the film, when we later see Scar at his camp before the cavalry raids them, Scar throws a rock off screen at a yapping dog, and we hear a pathetic whimper a second later. |
| 440 | * ''Film/SecretWindow'': One of the first ways in which the protagonist's stalker demonstrates his overall high level of dangerous creepiness is by killing the protagonist's dog...by stabbing him with a screwdriver. Of course, [[spoiler:it turns out it was actually the protagonist ''himself'' who did all that, but the point stands.]] |
| 441 | * ''Film/SevenYearsInTibet'': Chinese officers kick and smear a sand mandala that the Tibetan monks have been painstakingly working on, illustrating quite viscerally the lack of regard the Chinese government has for Tibetan culture in general. |
| 442 | * ''Severed: Forest of the Dead'': In this [[OurZombiesAreDifferent not-quite-zombies zombie movie]], one of the characters, fearful of the violent (and slightly [[AxCrazy unbalanced]]) lumberjacks in the well-defended camp, leaves in the dead of night...and leaves the gate open behind him. He's been kind of a whiny jerk and a pansy up to that point, but that action (leaving the sleeping camp vulnerable to the zombies) ensures his KarmicDeath not too long afterward. |
| 443 | * ''Film/{{Shaft}}'': In this 1970s {{Blaxploitation}} film, the title character grabs one of the BigBad's {{Mooks}} and uses him as a human shield to try and escape. The villain shoots and kills his own henchman. He lets Shaft live only because he has to report back to his employer Bumpy that the BigBad hasn't killed Bumpy's daughter, that he has taken hostage. |
| 444 | * ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': David may be a condescending and pessimistic jerk but [[JerkassHasAPoint he isn't wrong on some things]], but his comment towards Shaun after [[spoiler:the latter [[MercyKill kills his zombified mom]]]] loses him sympathy. [[spoiler:Trying to ''shoot'' him afterwards sinks it even further.]] |
| 445 | -->'''David''': [[LackOfEmpathy Well, I think we all agreed you did the right thing there.]] |
| 446 | * ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'': |
| 447 | ** [[spoiler:The Warden clearly hindering Andy's appeal for Tommy to testify, and out of the blue ordered him to serve a month in solitary confinement]]. |
| 448 | ** [[spoiler:Heywood]] did this earlier in the movie, as he taunted an emotionally-overwhelmed prisoner by reeling him in with what starts out sounding reassuring, only to go on to something that is practically the opposite of reassuring. |
| 449 | --->"''Don't you listen to these nitwits, you hear me? This place ain't so bad. Tell you what, I'll introduce you around, make you feel right at home. I know a couple of big old bull queers that'd just [[PrisonRape love to make your acquaintance. Especially that big, white, mushy butt of yours.]]''" |
| 450 | *** That emotionally-overwhelmed prisoner then broke down in tears, and [[spoiler:Heywood]] laughed at this out loud. |
| 451 | ** [[spoiler:After ordering the murder of Tommy Williams due to [[HeKnowsTooMuch his knowledge of who actually killed Andy's wife and her lover]], Warden Norton visits Andy Dufresne in solitary confinement, where he threatens to not only have him [[PrisonRape "cast down with the sodomites"]] if he pulls out of his money-laundering scheme, but also threatens to destroy everything that Andy had made to make Shawshank a better place, which includes threatening to close down the prison library and subsequently burn all the books.]] |
| 452 | *** [[spoiler:Following his visit, Norton gives Andy ''another month'' in solitary confinement, and the look on his face following Norton's visit is simply soul-crushing.]] |
| 453 | * ''Film/{{Shooter}}'': The protagonist sniper reveals that he would have just hid in the wilderness if only the bad guys hadn't shot his dog first. |
| 454 | * ''Film/Shotgun1989'': Fletcher Rivington loves to do this, regularly beating hookers to get his jollies. |
| 455 | * ''Film/ShotgunStories'': Mark, [[AmbiguousSituation possibly aided by John and Stephen]], kills Boy's pet dog by releasing a poisonous snake near it. |
| 456 | * ''Theatre/ShowBoat'': The 1950s version whittles Pete's role down to one of these scenes, taking a slave's necklace on the grounds that she probably stole it, then actually performing his role and mucking things up before being fired. |
| 457 | * ''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). And that's even ''before'' what he puts Minako through... |
| 458 | * ''Film/SinCity'': |
| 459 | ** Kevin loves forcing his future victims to watch him eat the ones he's already killed, and locked Marv's parole officer in his basement with their severed heads. |
| 460 | ** Roark Junior is a dog-kicking machine, raping and murdering hundreds of little girls for his own jollies. In fact, not only is Junior a serial pedophile, but he's unable to get any sexual gratification [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming unless his victims scream]]. |
| 461 | * ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'': Done literally, to establish how much of a {{Yandere}} Hedy is for Allie. When the puppy Hedy brought home eats some of Allie's food, Hedy kicks the puppy across the floor, mainly because she's upset that Allie isn't there to eat it. |
| 462 | * ''Animation/SkyBlue'': At the beginning, Locke orders a decaying rig to be jettisoned. When one of the Diggers protests that they need time to evacuate, Locke shoots him and threatens to kill the other if he doesn't comply, thus resulting in the deaths of numerous other Diggers. He also kicks several more dogs ''hard'' at the end, but telling would be spoileriffic. |
| 463 | * ''Film/SmoshTheMovie'': The reason why the mailman has such a chip on his shoulder towards Ian is because he threw milk-filled water-balloons at him for his [=YouTube=] Channel. |
| 464 | * ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'': Has a businessman who grabs another passenger's pet chihuahua and throws it to the snakes in an attempt to buy himself some time. [[AssholeVictim Everyone in the audience likely cheers when,]] [[LaserGuidedKarma a few seconds later,]] [[DeathByPragmatism a snake eats him]]. |
| 465 | * ''Film/{{Snatch}}'': Mickey the Irish Traveler spends the whole film rigging boxing matches and swindling people into buying nice caravans [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas for his mother]]. Brick Top establishes he is not to be fucked with by setting Mickey's mother's caravan on fire in the middle of the night with said mother sleeping inside and [[MakeAnExampleOfThem telling Mickey he will take a dive in the third round of the next bout or Brick Top will exterminate everybody else in the trailer park]]. Let us just say that a Traveler's vengeance is a hell of a thing. |
| 466 | * ''Snowtown'': In the film based on the series of killings that happened in real life, serial murderer John Bunting convinces Jamie to shoot his dog in a cruel attempt at hazing him. |
| 467 | * ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'': After [[spoiler: Eduardo was kicked out of the company]], Sean decides to rub salt to the wounds by [[spoiler: handing Eduardo his paltry check.]] Even ''[[LackOfEmpathy Mark]]'' felt [[EveryoneHasStandards that was going too far.]] |
| 468 | * The third act of ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'' opens with a failed SlaveLiberation by Hebrew warrior Ishmael, who is imprisoned to await trial. But it's not enough to simply re-capture the slaves Ishmael attempted to free. Bera, the queen of Sodom, orders them tied to a wooden wheel over a flame pit; they are then doused in oil and the wheel is turned so that they ''slowly'' burn to death, their agonised cries delighting the crowd of watching Sodomites and horrifying the imprisoned Hebrew leader Lot. |
| 469 | * ''Film/SoldierOfOrange'': A bunch of local collaborators bully an old Jewish man by throwing his bicyle into the canal. When Jan sees this he punches them both in the face and throws them into the water too. |
| 470 | * ''Sorry, Haters'': Done literally, as Phoebe, after she [[spoiler:detonates a bomb in a subway station]], throws her pet dog in front of a moving truck on a New York City street. |
| 471 | * ''Film/SpaceMutiny'': Kalgan stating his intention to sell everybody not in his conspiracy into slavery. |
| 472 | * ''Film/{{Spawn|1997}}'': Clown literally applies this trope when he attempts to eat Spawn's dog Spaz to get one back at him. |
| 473 | * ''Film/SpiderMan3'': InvokedTrope: Thomas Hayden Church, who played [[NecessarilyEvil the Sandman]], asked the director if he could be shown punching a police dog while fleeing from the cops, so it would be clear that he wasn't an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. (It was only a puppet, but it gets the point across well enough.) |
| 474 | * ''Film/TheSpirit'': The Octopus (the Spirit's nemesis) dons a Nazi uniform and gleefully melts a white fluffy kitten, seemingly just for kicks. |
| 475 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 476 | ** ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'': Shinzon's MindRape of Troi, seemingly put in the film only to point out that he's a villain to the audience members who hadn't caught on to the fact yet. |
| 477 | ** In ''Film/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.]] |
| 478 | ** In ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', the BigBad Krall attempts to drain Sulu's life in front of the captured ''Enterprise'' crew to coerce them into surrendering the MacGuffin. [[spoiler: A female crewmember finally relents and gives him what he wanted, only for him to use it to kill her later anyway for no reason other than to demonstrate the MacGuffin's power.]] |
| 479 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'' |
| 480 | ** The destruction of Alderaan by TheEmpire's Death Star in ''Film/ANewHope''. This one's [[ExaggeratedTrope particularly extreme]], to the point of being the Empire's MoralEventHorizon, considering that it was an ''entire planet'' and that Tarkin did it as a YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo on Leia, who he had moments before given the SadisticChoice of giving the Empire the location of the Rebel Base or watching Alderaan get annihilated, only to turn around and do it anyway. |
| 481 | ** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Jabba the Hutt [[FedToTheBeast feeds Oola, a defiant Twi'lek slave dancer, to his pet rancor]]. While it does set up for Luke's battle with the beast later on, it has little point other than to show how cruel he is. Plus, it means we don't feel so bad when [[spoiler:Bib Fortuna puts poison in the sithspawn's drink (reducing his life expectancy to days), and then Leia garrotes him (reducing his life expectancy to minutes, if not seconds)]]. |
| 482 | ** [[BigBad Emperor Palpatine]] ''loves'' this trope with a passion. |
| 483 | *** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', he goads Luke into killing his father, Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker, in order to fully [[FaceHeelTurn embrace the dark side.]] Vader is Palpatine's [[TheDragon Dragon]] who has been unquestionably loyal to him for years and had crossed the MoralEventHorizon again and again on his behalf. Naturally, Luke refuses, and Palpatine begins to [[ElectricTorture slowly electrocute him with his Force lightning,]] which would have killed him if Vader [[VillainousRescue hadn't intervened.]] |
| 484 | *** In the first issue of ''Darth Vader'', he makes Darth Vader go to Tatooine for a mission ''[[EvilIsPetty specifically because he knows of Anakin's painful memories there]]'' — which he openly belittles him for. He also mocks Anakin being the Chosen One, knowing how badly he threw his apprentice for a loop. All of this seems to be punishment for Vader failing to prevent the destruction of the first Death Star. |
| 485 | *** in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', after Anakin's [[WeCanRebuildHim reconstruction]] into Darth Vader, the first thing he asks Palpatine is whether or not his wife, Padmé, is safe. Padmé had just recently [[DeathByChildbirth died from childbirth,]] but neither Vader nor Palpatine were aware of that. What's the answer Palpatine decides to go with nonetheless? |
| 486 | ---> '''Palpatine:''' It seems, in your anger, you killed her. |
| 487 | *** In the FanEdit ''Film/LabyrinthOfEvil'', Padme surives, turning this line into Palpatine flat-out lying to Vader's face. |
| 488 | ** In ''Film/RogueOne'', Orson Krennic threatens to kill the engineers who worked on the Death Star unless one of them confesses to being a traitor. When Galen Erso confesses to being the traitor and explains they had nothing to do with his actions, he executes the engineers anyway out of spite. |
| 489 | * ''Film/Stitches2001'': Mrs. Albright tricks one guy into giving her his soul by tricking him into an AttemptedRape to get him shot. |
| 490 | * ''Film/Stitches2012'': Stitches beating a cat to death for happing at his nose. |
| 491 | * ''Film/TheStranger'': This Creator/OrsonWelles film provides a literal example of this trope. |
| 492 | * ''Film/StrangersOnATrain'': |
| 493 | ** In this Creator/AlfredHitchcock film, Bruno Anthony uses his cigarette to casually puncture a little boy's balloon. Just for the pleasure of being a total dick. |
| 494 | ** There's a likely homage in Creator/WesCraven's original ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'', wherein we see David Hess as Krug do the exact same before his band of socially and sexually deviant weirdos get down to the more serious business at hand. |
| 495 | * ''Film/TheStreetFighter'': |
| 496 | ** AntiHero Terry Tsurugi shows us just how ruthless he is at the start of the movie by sending a guy out a window because he couldn't afford to pay him for busting a condemned man out of prison, with his reason being that he despises people who do not keep their promises. And then he goes on to sell the guy's sister, Nachi, into sexual slavery, leaving her with a ''severe'' mad-on for Terry. Terry only turns to the side of...well, [[HazyFeelTurn not so evil]] when his next clients turn out to be {{Yakuza}}, which Terry ''hates'' with a passion. |
| 497 | ** Miss Yang, the head of the Yakuza in the movie, when her subordinates [[YouHaveFailedMe fail her]], simply has them executed. No exceptions. Not even {{Yubitsume}} is acceptable to her as a penalty. |
| 498 | * ''Film/StTrinians2007'': Has the Minister of Education kick the dog. [[spoiler:Straight into a lawn mower.]] |
| 499 | * ''Film/SuddenImpact'': A [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals literal example]]: Mick and Kruger's brothers-in-law injure Harry's dog after killing his buddy Horace (it's unclear exactly what they do to the dog, but we see the poor thing ''limping''). |
| 500 | * In ''Film/SugarHill1974'', some of the victims of Sugar's RoaringRampageOfRevenge are shown doing something cruel right before she murders them. Tank mistreats his workers, forcing them to pay for the privilege of working for him and punching a man who complains. O'Brien appears to be an EvilDebtCollector who stomps on the fruit of a shopkeeper who can't pay. King interrogates a man by [[{{Fingore}} smashing a piano lid on his fingers]]. |
| 501 | * ''Sunnyside'': Done literally in this Creator/CharlieChaplin silent short when the villain kicks a dog belonging to a young boy. The antagonist repeatedly kicks Charlie himself in the rear throughout the entire film as well. |
| 502 | * ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' |
| 503 | ** ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'': Lex Luthor shows how much of a bastard he is early on by shoving a detective in front of a train using the power-operated door to his hideout. Not to mention his smug "mind over muscle" line during the Kryptonite scene. |
| 504 | ** ''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." |
| 505 | ** Let's not forget "evil" Superman in ''Film/SupermanIII'', in which [[TiltingTowerOfPisa he straightens the Leaning Tower of Pisa]] and blows out the Olympic Torch, out of ''boredom''. Or is that just {{Superdickery}}? |
| 506 | ** [[PokeThePoodle We have another trope for that.]] |
| 507 | * In ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' Koopa literally kicks his pet dinosaur Yoshi. |
| 508 | * ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': |
| 509 | ** In order to make the SerialKiller protagonist sympathetic, Christopher Bond and Stephen Sondheim pitted him against Judge Turpin, who is pretty much a dog-kicking machine throughout the play. Among his nastier KickTheDog moments are: having Benjamin Barker, the man who would become Sweeney, transported to Botany Bay for life just so he could get at his wife Lucy, who he wanted for himself (and then raping her at a masked ball that he has the Beadle lure her to, in a crossing of the MoralEventHorizon), the sentencing of an eight-year-old boy to death by hanging, the entire WifeHusbandry plan he has for his teenage ward Johanna, and subsequently throwing her into a madhouse after learning she wants to marry the sailor Anthony Hope instead of him. |
| 510 | ** The Beadle, in addition to helping the Judge carry out his MoralEventHorizon, also gets some KickTheDog moments of his own. In the film, he savagely whips Anthony with his cane after he is thrown out on Judge Turpin's orders for "gandering" at Johanna. And in the play, he's even crueler -- he snaps the neck of the poor little bird that was Anthony's gift to Johanna before threatening him with the same if he ever steps foot on their street again. |
| 511 | ** Mrs. Lovett's cruel treatment of the Beggar Woman, which is even more damning when we learn that [[spoiler:she knows ''exactly'' who said Beggar Woman is]]. Throwing little Toby into the evil basement where she makes human-pies because he's twigged to the fact that Sweeney killed Pirelli doesn't really put her on the nice list either. |
| 512 | ** Sweeney himself very nearly [[spoiler:kills Johanna]] as he did with [[spoiler:her mother]] simply because he wanted no witnesses to his murders, a sign of how far gone he's become as a result of becoming a SerialKiller. What makes it tragic is that [[spoiler:he doesn't recognize Johanna until it is almost too late, but Lucy isn't so lucky, as Sweeney had no time until the Judge returned]]. |
| 513 | * ''Film/{{Swelter}}'' has Boyd kill several innocent people just for fun, and Kane, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil well...]] Let's just say [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the other villains aren't sad to see them go]]. |
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| 515 | |
| 516 | [[folder:T]] |
| 517 | * ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'': The first thing Thor does is disintegrate a little puppy that was passing by. Then he kicks everyone else in the cast. |
| 518 | * ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'': |
| 519 | ** Early in ''Film/TheTerminator'', the titular character ''had'' to run over some children's toys to establish that he is evil. Never mind that he'd already killed (at least) two people in exceptionally ruthless fashion. There's also a very literal example, as the humanoid Terminator in Kyle's future flashback uses his machine gun to mow down the guard dogs who detected him, although there's a GoryDiscretionShot. |
| 520 | ** In the Special Edition cut of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', the T-1000 actually kills John's dog. |
| 521 | ** A dumb racist in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' self-righteously screams at a frightened Chinese woman to "Speak English!!" on the prisoner transport. He deservingly [[DeathByRacism dies for his arrogance]] later, shot to bloody little pieces by a T600. |
| 522 | * ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'': |
| 523 | ** Nubbins' habit of GraveRobbing has absolutely nothing to do with his family's eating habits. He's just cruel like that. In fact, Drayton calls him out on the whole thing being stupid and pointless. |
| 524 | ** The Sawyers as a whole [[spoiler:tying Sally to a chair while they eat, mocking her screams the whole time]]. |
| 525 | * ''Film/ThroughBlackSpruce'': Marius and his gang kill the black bear Will had been feeding as a warning to him that his sister is next. |
| 526 | * ''Film/TigerHouse'': Before they launch their home invasion, the gang kills the family dog so it cannot bark and give away their presence. |
| 527 | * ''Film/TimeBandits'': Evil himself [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXCvyrtVHOc shows us how it is done]], by [[spoiler:not just kicking, but incinerating, Benson the dog.]] |
| 528 | * In ''Film/ToKillADragon'', the Dragon does this all the time. In the very opening, he attacks the protagonist Lancelot just to have a little fun. He then proceeds to do so in almost every scene he is in, which includes several [[GroinAttack Groin Attacks]]. |
| 529 | * ''Film/TokyoGorePolice'': [[spoiler:The Chief of Police keeping a limbless woman as a SexSlave.]] |
| 530 | * ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'': The antagonists take dog-kicking to the extreme with their hobby of running people over in their car for fun and taking pictures of the gore that ensues. The most gruesome/hilarious example is provided in the scene where [[spoiler: the main characters run over a small child riding his bicycle after taunting him and, upon realizing he is not fully dead, reverse the car over his head]]. Furthermore, the attractive females of the crew of villains seem to get sexually aroused by the carnage, so...you know. All pretty much standard fare for a Creator/{{Troma}} film. |
| 531 | * ''Film/{{Trancers}}'': Whistler orders an entire hobo camp massacred even after they turn over somebody he wants to kill. [[spoiler:Then in the climax he reneges on his deal with Jack and forces him to watch an attempt on his love interest's life.]] |
| 532 | * ''Film/Transformers2007'': Megatron gets to Kick The ''Human'': while he and Prime recover from a fall during their climactic battle, Megatron casually flicks a fleeing passerby in disgust. It's made somewhat funny that [[BitingTheHandHumor this passerby was in fact the director]], Creator/MichaelBay. |
| 533 | * ''Film/TheTreasureOfSilverLake'': Colonel Brinkley unloading his pistol into a henchman for questioning his scheme. |
| 534 | [[/folder]] |
| 535 | |
| 536 | [[folder:U]] |
| 537 | * ''Film/{{U571}}'': In this movie, the captain of the Nazi U-boat orders his men to slaughter survivors from an Allied cargo ship over his crew's protests. On the other hand, [[WarIsHell a more merciful act]] than leaving the survivors to drown or die of thirst. |
| 538 | * ''Film/Underworld2003'': In ''Rise of the Lycans'', 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. |
| 539 | * ''Film/UrbanLegend'': The villain ''[[MicrowaveTheDog microwaved]]'' a dog in order to draw one of the victims out to kill him. |
| 540 | [[/folder]] |
| 541 | |
| 542 | [[folder:V]] |
| 543 | * ''Film/VampiresKiss'': Even before going insane, Peter Loew is constantly abusing his secretary for no reason. His treatment of her just gets worse as he does lose his mind, eventually [[spoiler:raping her]]. |
| 544 | [[/folder]] |
| 545 | |
| 546 | [[folder:W]] |
| 547 | * ''WesternAnimation/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' 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]]. Thus, Scowler later gets [[LaserGuidedKarma mauled to near death by Gorgon and abandoned by the herd]] minutes later. |
| 548 | * ''Film/{{Warrior}}'': In this 2011 film: Mad Dog kicks several dogs so that we don't sympathize with him when Tommy humiliates and crushes him in the ring. He's a cocky asshole when he knocks out his first sparring partner, and also dyes his mohawk a camouflage color to mock Tommy's past as a Marine. |
| 549 | * ''Film/TheWhale'': Ellie frequently has these moments with Charlie, including telling him it's ''better off'' that his online pupils are unaware of his appearance and spiking him with drugs to incapacitate him. |
| 550 | * ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane'': If you weren't convinced yet that Jane is a little off her rocker, by the time Blanche's pet bird goes missing, you'll be quite assured to know Jane's mental status when [[spoiler: she kills the bird and puts it on a dinner plate to horrify her disabled sister]]. |
| 551 | * ''What Just Happened'': This movie has a ShowWithinAShow that everyone hates because the dog gets shot at the end. It shows the jaded audience, desensitized to all forms of human-on-human violence, bored in a movie theater. The antagonist shoots the protagonist and the audience couldn't care less. And then the antagonist shoots the protagonist's ''dog'' and everyone is mortified and scarred for life. |
| 552 | * In ''Film/WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen'', Max Fairbanks just cannot stop performing this, anything from being a two-timer (and a shitty husband ''and'' lover) up to dropping a ClusterFBomb in the middle of a Congressional hearing airing live on C-SPAN (seeming more important to tell Kevin he will not return the ring and he can go SoundEffectBleep himself than... well... not looking like he should be arrested for misconduct). |
| 553 | * ''Film/{{Whiplash}}'': [[SadistTeacher Terrence Fletcher]] [[DistinctionWithoutADifference doesn't kick dogs... he hurdles chairs, instruments,]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and wave after wave of degrading insults]] upon the puppies that make up his Jazz Band, motivating them to maintain his highly proficient standards, and that is mild, compared to his morally repugnant moments, such as [[spoiler: lying about the death of a former pupil who committed suicide (most likely as a result of the abuse), fabricating it as a sob story to motivate his students and Trying to get revenge on one of his pupils for testifying against him and getting him fired.]] |
| 554 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Judge Doom demonstrates what The Dip does to Toons (and his attitude toward them) by melting a tiny, adorable shoe toon that had cuddled up next to his foot in it. |
| 555 | * ''Film/TheWildBunch'': Angel, the only Mexican in the title band, has been handed over to Mapache after he uses one of the crates of guns meant for the General to arm his people and give them a chance against the General due to being ratted out by the mother of his former girlfriend, whom Angel had gunned down in a fit of jealousy upon finding her with Mapache. When the other members visit Mapache's village, they come across a sickening scene in which Angel is being tortured by [[WhatADrag being dragged along the ground from a rope tied to the fender of Mapache's new car]] to the joyous laughter of the villagers. Pike and Dutch are both utterly appalled by this despicable act: |
| 556 | -->'''Pike:''' God I hate to see that! |
| 557 | -->'''Dutch:''' No more than I do. |
| 558 | * ''Film/{{Witchboard}}'': [[spoiler:Melfeitor reveals near the end that the protagonist was his actual portal to return to Earth, and he was just terrorizing everybody else for fun.]] |
| 559 | * ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': It was clear from the first second the Wicked Witch of the West appeared that she was ... well, ''wicked'', particularly when she threatened Dorothy's poor dog in the TropeNamer for AndYourLittleDogToo. However, for most of the movie, she's more of a DesignatedVillain, since all she wants is to get her sister's shoes back. When she really gets solidified as evil comes at one of three points: |
| 560 | ** When she orders one of her {{Mooks}} to drown Toto anyway, even after Dorothy agreed to do whatever the Witch said, a KickTheDog moment that involved an actual dog. Or ... |
| 561 | ** When she locks Dorothy in the room with the evil hourglass (the one that would kill her once it ran out) and the crystal ball, makes Aunt Em appear in the latter, and then sadistically mocks her once she's completely broken down. Or... |
| 562 | ** When she finally has Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion cornered, she tells Dorothy she will be ForcedToWatch. She gloats: "The last to go will see the first three go before her." Even the most generous AlternateCharacterInterpretation can't make that anything but pure sadism. |
| 563 | [[/folder]] |
| 564 | |
| 565 | [[folder:X]] |
| 566 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' |
| 567 | ** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': |
| 568 | ** While Magneto may have been a complex AntiVillain with sympathetic goals, his slide toward the MoralEventHorizon is punctuated with increasingly cruel kick-the-dog moments. In particular is when Mystique [[spoiler: is hit with a "cure dart" and turns suddenly into a beautiful, stricken, and supremely vulnerable human woman. And then he promptly abandons her without a second thought.]] Not to mention the fact that she had just ''saved him''. |
| 569 | ** He also gets major dog-kicking points in the scene where his forces fight against the government. He uses ChessMotifs, telling his protege, Pyro for them to wait until the pawns (his other followers) exhaust themselves. In this moment, like the above scene, Magneto violates his own standards of decency, since if nothing else, [[WellIntentionedExtremist he supposedly cares about mutants.]] |
| 570 | ** Agent Zero killing the elderly couple who housed Logan in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. |
| 571 | ** In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Shingen contemptuously tells Yukio, who has been friends with Shingen's daughter Mariko since childhood, that she's nothing more than a "plaything" that Mariko has now outgrown. |
| 572 | ** In ''Film/{{Logan}}'', Gabriela's video shows the nurses throwing a birthday party for one of the X-23 children in the facility, complete with a cake and candles and decorations. Pierce and his mercenaries break it up and drag the kids back to their cells while Dr. Rice chews out the staff for treating the 'subjects' like actual children. |
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| 575 | [[folder:Y]] |
| 576 | * ''Film/TheYoungVictoria'': After violently manhandling [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria Princess Victoria]], Sir John Conroy ''actually'' kicks her dog, Dash, as she storms from the room. |
| 577 | [[/folder]] |
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| 584 | ->''[throws ball on house's roof]''\ |
| 585 | '''''GO GET IT!''''' Hahahaha! |
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