No Holds Barred Beatdown / Film

Film — Animated

• Batman: Under the Red Hood is rife with them. Flashbacks show Robin beating mooks to the point that even Batman is alarmed. In the same film, Batman gives an epic one to Jason Todd, who just finished giving one to the Joker with a crowbar.
  • At the start of the same film there's a brutal one from Joker to Jason Todd with him pummeling him to bloody pulp with a crowbar (his beating to Joker later in the film was meant to mirror this) to the point where he can barely move and then leaves him to get killed by a bomb. Batman attempts a rescue, but arrives too late.
• The tour bus driver delivers one to Beavis in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, knocking Beavis out of his Despair Event Horizon.
• A Bug's Life: When Hopper sics his rabid grasshopper of a Mon on Flik.
• The Great Mouse Detective: Ratigan does this to Basil following his Villainous Breakdown. He's really trying to kill him. It adds to the visceral horror in that Ratigan is using claws, and actually drawing blood!
• In The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, during Zira's first attack on Simba, several lions leap on him, maul him, knock him down a cliff, and then follow after him and maul him further. He survives, but he ends up collapsing from exhaustion after barely escaping.
• In Moana, Tamatoa delivers one of these to Maui, all while singing a song about how fabulous he is.
• Mulan has Shang doing his best against Shan Yu, but the enormous Hun beats him nearly unconscious, and would probably have killed him if Mulan didn't arrive to draw Shan Yu's wrath towards her instead.
• In Nocturna, the Cat Shepherd's confrontation with the Shadow. It flings him around like a rag doll, all while the Cat Shepherd is barring the way to Tim and the North Star, urging and shouting encouragement to Tim to get over his fear. The Shadow is only stopped when Murray and Tobermory manage to run by and distract it with Murray's light, whereupon the Cat Shepherd proceeds to (seemingly) die.
• In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, utterly furious at Mario for ruining his wedding and supposedly wooing over Peach, Bowser flies into a bizarre rage as he absolutely beats the plumber to a bloody pulp. From punching him through and attempting to crush him with cars to breathing fire at him, he stops at absolutely nothing to make sure he suffers a horrible death while ranting over how he cost him his one chance at happiness. It culminates in Bowser whacking Mario into a pizzeria with his tail and belittling the poor guy, almost causing him to give up. Even when Peach, Donkey Kong and Toad step in to help, he wipes the floor with all of them and would have succeeded in killing DK had it not been for Mario gaining a second wind to keep fighting.
• Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry: When J.T. Globwobbler tells Tom and Jerry that they have to redo their worldwide race because it ended in a tie, they beat the tar out of him and take the prize together.
• In the climax of Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph is on the receiving end of one of these from a cy-bug morphed King Candy. It looks like it's all over, as Ralph is forced to watch the demise of Sugar Rush, until he gets a Heroic Second Wind and breaks free, intending to sacrifice himself, knowing that he can't beat King Candy in hand-to-hand combat.

Film — Live-Action

• Nicolas Cage gives a self-traumatizing beating to one of the men responsible for creating the snuff film in 8mm, Pistol-Whipping the bastard to death.
• Although we don't see much of it, the main character in 21 gets caught counting cards by security chief Williams and suffers a pretty convincing beating while tied to a chair. He also hints that he'll "put a hammer to the side of his face, then kill him", as honest as a sinner on trial, if he ever gets catches him again.
• Jim in 28 Days Later delivers this onto one of the soldiers that held him and his friends captive and attempted to rape his love interest, complete with dramatic music, head-smashing, and eye-gouging. He lets him have it.
• 100 Feet contains a fatal beatdown of the protagonist's Love Interest by her husband's ghost. Towards the end, the ghost's face becomes visible because it's been headbutting the guy so hard that it's gotten drenched in his blood.
• In one point in Alien: Resurrection, Purvis delivers one to Dr. Wren before killing him with a chestburster.
• In Apocalypse Now, Willard delivers one to Kurtz while using a machete. All set to the tune of The Doors' song "The End".
• American History X has what is perhaps the ultimate textbook case, as well as one of the most brutal ones.
• Batman (1989):
  • In the climax, Batman gets his ass handed to him rather badly by a Scary Black Man... before Batman kills him, anyway.
  • Before sending him to his Disney Villain Death not long after, Batman also beats the Joker to a pulp.
• Shing had the living crap beaten out of Mark Gor at one point in A Better Tomorrow.
• In Big Game, Morris deals one to Moore when he tracks him down for the first time. Thankfully, later Moore manages to keep his distance from the man.
• Rick Deckard from Blade Runner is prone to this. Whenever he fights a replicant, he takes a massive beating.
• In Blue Velvet, the main character Jeffrey gets almost beaten to death by Ax-Crazy sociopath Frank Booth.
• Jodie Foster's vigilante-creating catalyst in The Brave One.
• Brick reaches its climax with the forces of Tug and the Pin shooting it out (and with the cops, when they arrive), and Tug violating the truce that they'd met under by savagely beating the Pin to death with his bare hands. All that is actually seen is Tug's fist flying in the dark, and Pin's screams and pleas for help. The Pin is frail and physically disabled in some way, and Tug is a heavily muscled bruiser, making this a horribly one-sided fight.
• Bruce Willis movies (Sin City, Last Man Standing, Pulp Fiction, etc.) usually feature one scene where a bad guy or group of them works him over badly like this so that he can get back up and deliver some serious payback. See below for more on these.
• In Busting, Keneely and Farrel are brutally beaten by Rizzo's goons in an unsuccessful attempt to scare them off the case.
• The Butterfly Effect: When Tommy catches Evan kissing his sister in the movie theater lobby. When Tommy stalks angrily towards them, a douchebag trips him for the hell of it. Tommy gets up, gives Evan a disturbingly sadistic look, and then proceeds to smash the jerk's face with a pole barrier and then pummel him mercilessly with his fists.
• In one of the final scenes in Casino, Nicky Santoro and his brother Dominick set up a meeting in a cornfield after things have calmed down with the Mafia. Unfortunately, the bosses are still upset about the role Nicky played in the collapse of their Vegas operation; so, Nicky and Dom are met by a gang of thugs who proceed to beat Dominick to a bloody pulp while making Nicky watch, and toss him into a freshly dug grave. They then proceed to do the same thing (and worse — at one point, it looks like they cave Nicky's skull in) before tossing him into the same grave and burying them alive.
• Cherrybomb: During the film's crescendo, Crilly beats Malachy to a bloody pulp. Luke then leaps to Malachy's defence and beats Crilly over the head with a metal bar, ultimately killing him.
• A Christmas Story: Ralphie completely snaps and beats the hell out of local bully, Scut Farkas, while unleashing a string of profanities.
• Cliffhanger:
  • One of the few Sylvester Stallone films in which he gets beaten to a helpless pulp. To be fair, his opponent, Kynette is a martial-arts master. And Stallone took him down with a very satisfying Groin Attack.
  • Later on, his best friend is savagely beaten at gunpoint by Irish-psychopath Delmar, in a stomach-turning parody of a soccer game.
  • Which his buddy puts the kibosh on when he gets hold of Delmar's shotgun. "Season's over, ASSHOLE!"
• A Clockwork Orange: What Alex and his droogs do to the drunken homeless guy at the beginning of the film. After his treatment, Alex receives one from a group of bums as well as his former droogs.
• The Constant Gardener sees Justin Quayle beaten to a pulp by two hired thugs in his hotel room — deliberately muffled by a children's sing-along playing on the TV.
• Criminal: Jericho does this first to the guys whose van he steals, later to Xavier's Number Two Elsa by beating her to death with a lamp base, and finally to one of Xavier's soldiers with a hammer after arriving at the airstrip where Xavier is with a kidnapped Emma and Jill.
• The Dark Knight Trilogy:
  • In The Dark Knight, while we know he won't ever actually kill Batman, the Joker makes clear in their final confrontation he's also not going to hold back until Batman is down for good (or so he thinks). The growls from the Joker while he attacks Batman with a crowbar are chilling.
  • In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane beats the hell out of Batman in their first encounter. At the end of the film, Batman repays the favor.
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has Caesar deliver one to Koba, after Koba accuses him of loving humans more than apes, including his (Caesar's) children. Caesar barely restrains himself from going further.
• Day of the Outlaw: After Starrett wins his Brutal Brawl against Tex, Bruhn orders shorty and Denver to take him down: using their fists. Already injured by his fight with Tex, Starrett is in no condition to stand up two outlaws, and Shorty grabs him from behind while Denver pounds him to a pulp.
• Death Race: Jensen Aimes has found the man who killed his wife. Not so good for the man.
• At the end of Death Proof, Stuntman Mike, who spends the entire movie killing women, is subjected to a huge beating at the hands of three women he was trying to make his latest victims after they crash his car.
• At the end of The Delta Force, Scott McCoy delivers one to the Big Bad.
• For the scene in The Departed where Billy Costigan beats up the two Italian guys in the store.
• Drive: The Driver is a pragmatic and vicious fighter, killing one man by stabbing him with a curtain rod. Then, while saying goodbye to his not-girlfriend, he kills a hitman with them in an elevator, going to even further extremes (his love is undoubtedly his Berserk Button). She is shown to be visibly freaked out by the killing.
• Jackie Chan in Drunken Master, where his character Wong Fei-hung suffers a not only vicious but humiliating beat-down. He runs away from his master's painstaking (and slightly ridiculous) training, and stops to dry his clothes in an open hut. The owner of the hut — a notorious assassin named Thunderleg, as luck would have it — arrives, and beats Freddie up, ridicules his father, and otherwise utterly humiliates him, forcing him, in the end, to beg for mercy and run away.
• In End of Days, Jericho is betrayed by his partner^note brought back to life to serve the Big Bad and was then ambushed by a large mob of cultists, who proceed to beat Jericho to an inch of his life.
• Lacey gives one to Tony by means of a chair and a pillow in The Escapist.
• At the climax of Event Horizon, the possessed Dr. Weir proceeds to beat Captain Miller to a pulp with his bare hands, finishing with a kick that snaps Miller's spine against a wall.
• Occurs in The Expendables 2 in the final fight between Barney Ross and Jean Vilain.
• In Fargo, Shep Proudfoot gives one to Carl Showalter when it becomes clear that his parole is threatened by the man's presence. He's so angry that he beats up a prostitute, (who was in the room with Carl at the time) as well as a neighbor who comes and complains about the noise.
• The Fast and the Furious:
  • In the first film, Dom gives one to his rival, Johnny Tran, when the latter accuses him of being a snitch, causing him to fly into fury punching the Tran's face in, until security pull him off of him.
    • A past instance of this makes up an important part of Dom's backstory: After his father died horribly on the race track, Dom beat the man responsible for the crash to an inch of his life with a wrench, leading to him being banned from the track and ruining his chances of becoming a pro racer for a legal race circuit and leaving his only option for pursuing his passion for racing being the street racing scene.
  • After Roman saves Brian's life in climax of 2 Fast 2 Furious, they both kick the crap out of his would be killer until he's out cold.
  • In The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, DK beat the utter crap out of The Hero for coming around "his" girl.
  • After Sequel Escalation kicks in, starting with the forth film, and Dom evolves into a borderline Invincible Hero, pretty much any fight he gets into that's not with a main character immediately turns into this.
  • Agent Hobbs method "interrogation" in Fast & Furious 6 turns out to be pretty much this, as shown when "gets information off" one of Shaw's mercs. Later in the film, the martial arts specialist on Shaw's team manages effortlessly beat-up Roman and Han, and a few London Police officers right before them.
• Tyler Durden to the narrator near the end of Fight Club, as well as the narrator to Angel Face earlier in the film.
  "I wanted to destroy something beautiful."
• Firewall: Jack Stansfield is pretty much getting one from Bill Cox in the movie’s climactic fight until Jack hurls a pick ax into Cox’s back.
• Future World: After the women he's enslaved are freed, they start beating Big Daddy Love Lord without mercy, indicating it's fatal.
• Gangster Number One has a scene where the Villain Protagonist brutally beats someone to death, and the scene is filmed from the victim's perspective.
• Giant Little Ones: Ballas instigates one against Franky that leaves him pretty severely beaten, and physically injured for the rest of the film.
• In The Godfather, Sonny Corleone corners his brother-in-law Carlo Rizzi on a public street and beats the stuffing out of him for physically abusing his sister Connie, with Corleone associates preventing bystanders from intervening.
• As the predecessor to Casino, Goodfellas naturally has one when Tommy and Jimmy put on a merciless beating to Billy Bats, with Tommy being almost animalistic from an insult that Billy made to him a few hours earlier. After putting him in the trunk of a car and driving to bury him, they find out he's still alive, leading to Tommy stabbing him multiple times and Jimmy shooting him.
• Stephen Chow in God of Cookery gets brutally beaten by the Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin and dragged away in a trail of his own blood as a Running Gag. The humor comes from a mix of just how vicious the beating is combined with it happening repeatedly at unexpected moments.
• Godzilla:
  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla:
    • Godzilla ends up receiving one, which features long scenes of Mechagodzilla just throwing everything it has at Godzilla and King Caesar. Rather terrifying, even considering the dated special effects.
  • Mechagodzilla delivers one to Anguirus as well, firmly establishing himself as a total bastard.
  • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah sees Destoroyah, one of the most hated villains in Godzilla's Rogues Gallery, deliver one to Godzilla Junior, earning himself the ire of everyone who watched the film.
  • In Godzilla (2014), the M.U.T.O.s double-team Godzilla and give him such a pounding that he falls over unconscious, and they continue to beat on him some more. Prior to that, Godzilla curb-stomps each MUTO whenever they go one on one.
• Corporal Wallace, one of Angel Eyes's men, beats the living shit out of Tuco at the Union prison camp in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Fortunately, Tuco gets his own back when he kills Wallace with a rock.
• Halloween:
  • In Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, the villain endures a thoroughly over-the-top gauntlet of smackdown, culminating in being pinned between a large truck and a solid surface... and, when addressed, he looks up!
  • Also done in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers where Loomis tranqs Michael, drops a chain net on him, and beats him up with a two-by-four.
  • And again in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, where Tommy beats the living crap out of Michael with a pipe.
• Hangman's Knot: Following Bainter's Attempted Rape of Molly, there is a brutal fistfight between him and Major Stewart with not a single word exchanged.
• Hick: Eddie rescues Luli from a man's rape attempt, he beats him to death in spite of her protests against it.
• The Hunger Games:
  • Katniss watches footage showing one of the previous winners, who beat his final opponent to death with a brick.
  • What Katniss is subjected to upon seeing Peeta for the first time after he's rescued in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. She's thrown across the room like a sack of flour.
• The baseball bat scene from Inglourious Basterds.
• Instant Family: In a particularly awesome scene, Pete and Ellie proceed to track down and beat the ever-loving crap out of high school janitor Jacob after he sends a picture of his penis to the underaged Lizzy.
• Liberally used by the Japanese in Ip Man. The film doesn't bother hiding its nationalism.
  • Two specific examples: Master Liu tries taking on three Japanese pugilists, only to find that Conservation of Ninjutsu is not in play, and ends up getting kicked around. Later on, Ip Man's fight against General Miura culminates in the latter getting pinned to a pole and getting beat down. An arguable Lampshade Hanging of the Curb-Stomp Battle/No-Holds-Barred Beatdown occurs when scenes of Ip's practice on a dummy are interposed with the thrashing.
  • And of course there's the famous (and brutal) fight with ten Japanese Black Belts after Master Liu was executed. Ip has no reason or inclination to hold back, with his anger reflected in his expression and his tightly-clenched hands. What results is this trope, as they don't even land a single blow on him while he pummels them, breaks limbs, slams them to the mat quickly and efficiently before they have time to realize what just happened, and not a single man could even physically stand afterwards.
  • The sequel has the Twister's horrible pummeling to death of Master Hung. When Ip pays him back, though regrettably not in full, no one objects.
• Irréversible, which has a backwards plot, starts with one of the characters using a fire extinguisher to bash someone's head in.
• Jack Reacher has Reacher vs. Charlie in the climax. Considering that Charlie had killed Sandy...
  • The sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back has the fight between Reacher and the Hunter, which is arguably even more brutal than the fight with Charlie in the first movie.
• Jason Bourne has the final fight between Bourne and the Asset. It's quite possibly the most brutal fight in The Bourne Series.
• In Jupiter Ascending, Balem gives Jupiter a pretty relentless beating with a metal rod after she foils his plan. She later returns the favor.
• In The Karate Kid, Daniel gets several of these from the Cobra Kais, the worst being on Halloween. It gets so bad that Bobby tells his friends they are going too far and that they need to stop the attack.
• Kick-Ass:
  • Dave and Big Daddy are on the receiving end of one in the film's Darkest Hour; this example also crosses over into Cold-Blooded Torture as they were both tied up and helpless.
  • The fight between Hit Girl and Frank might also count after Hit Girl is knocked nearly unconscious and Frank continues to punch her (an 11-year-old, no less) in the face savagely two more times.
• In Kill Bill, The Bride receives a hell of a beating at the hands of her former partners in the incident that kicks off her Roaring Rampage of Revenge, though it's only shown in brief moments in flashback.
• Johnny Weng beat the living crap out of Ah Jong's best friend Sidney in The Killer (1989) in a scene that was very much a Tear Jerker.
• The Killer Inside Me: Lou gives one of these to both Joyce and Amy in graphic, prolonged, horrific scenes. And they both die. Except not really, because Joyce is revealed to be alive at the end, although disfigured — and then he immediately kills her for real.
• In The Kingdom, Action Girl Janet Mayes' final fight with the Giant Mook at the end of the movie definitely qualifies. Basically most of the fight has Mayes being slammed around the room by the Giant Mook, and Mayes retaliates by biting the Giant Mook's ear off, then shooting his leg, then stabbing him several times in the groin and the chest before finishing him off by stabbing him in the head. Ouch.
• Also happens in Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, when the Beast gets really pissed over being brained by Chow.
• Land Of Bad has Playboy bludgeoning Saeed Hashimi with a brick after impaling him in the chest with a machete in retaliation for being tortured and not listening to his warning about the impending air strike.
• Last Man Standing's beatdown of John Smith after the bad guys corner him without his guns in the bath in particular is inspired by the above beatdown of the Man With No Name in Fistful of Dollars. Which was itself taken from the beating received by Toshiro Mifune's Man With No Name in Yojimbo.
• Layer Cake:
  • Morty delivers one to his former accomplice whose incompetence resulted in his being imprisoned for a decade for a crime he didn't commit. It's filmed from the victim's point of view!
  • The protagonist gets a brief but very efficient one from Gene before he has a chance to tell him that the reason he killed Jimmy was because Jimmy was a police informer who was planning on screwing them both over. For a little extra scary atmosphere, consider that the thing in the freezer that Gene was banging XXXX's face on was probably the Duke's frozen corpse.
• In the Final Battle in Mad Max: Fury Road, Max defeats Rictus by beating him repeatedly into unconsciousness using one of the latter's bottles on him.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • The Avengers: Only two words — "Puny god."
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier: After stopping Project Insight, Steve drops his shield into the water below, resolutely telling his opponent, Bucky, now the Winter Soldier, that he won't fight him — not anymore. The Winter Soldier, his memory returning and his mental state on the fritz, goes into Villainous Breakdown mode, confounded by such an action done on the basis of a friendship that he has no memory of. He then proceeds to beat the crap out of an unresisting Steve, shouting that Steve is his mission while doing so.
  • Tony appears to deliver one of these to Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War. The end result is a minuscule cut on Thanos's face. Thanos smiles, wipes off a single drop of blood, and turns the fight around, proceeding to beat the ever-living shit out of Tony.
  • Avengers: Endgame has a much more dynamic example, as Wanda, still pissed at Vision's death, uses her telekinesis to utterly clean Thanos' clock. The only thing that stops her from ending him right there is Thanos calling in an orbital strike on his position. If he hadn't done that, it's heavily implied based on her hand movements that she would have literally ripped him limb from limb.
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home: Utterly furious at Aunt May's death, Spider-Man — in extreme contrast to his normally friendly, lighthearted attitude to battles — goes all in while beating the Green Goblin without an ounce of mercy. He straight up tries murdering him at the end.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: After everything he has done to Rocket and numerous civilizations across the galaxy, the High Evolutionary is subjected to one of the harshest and quickest beatdowns in the entire MCU, with every guardian working together to bring his swift and painful defeat.
• Agent Smith does this to Morpheus in The Matrix prior to capturing him.
• Mission: Impossible Film Series:
  • In the final fight scene of Mission: Impossible III, Owen Davian delivers one to Ethan Hunt. Then moments later, Ethan delivers one back to Davian.
  • The final fight scene in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol between Ethan and Hendricks also qualifies.
  • The final battle with Walker and Lane in Mission: Impossible – Fallout has Walker delivering one of these on Ethan and Lane delivering this on Ilsa and Benji.
• Jackie Chan ends up on the receiving end of this in Mr. Nice Guy. He does end up getting his payback through the employment of a very large vehicle (at that time in Chan's movies, in lieu of having a final climactic showdown, Chan would just get in a very large vehicle and drive a hole through the bad guy's base.)
• Near the end of the film The Ninth Configuration, Hudson Kane is having the stuffing beat out of him by a motorcycle gang. This is the moment that he remembers that he is not an army psychologist, but a deranged marine known as Killer Kane. Kane gets up and proceeds to deliver an epic, murderous unarmed beatdown to all the biker scum present.
• In Once Were Warriors, the character Jake Heke is the toughest guy in the neighborhood and has serious rage issues. He delivers a number of beatings to people who piss him off.
• On Dangerous Ground: Due to censorship at the time(it was 1952), we get Gory Discretion Shot scenes when cop Jim Wilson beats up crooks and suspects, but it's implied that he almost kills them.
• Panic Room features a pretty gruesome beatdown, and leaves the guy almost completely incapable of walking, moving or speaking. It actually becomes quite funny later on, though, as he's tasked with so much stuff to do, when he probably couldn't even take a crap if he tried.
• This happened between Col. Vidal and the hunter's son in Pan's Labyrinth, in one of the most squick-tastic Grievous Bottley Harm examples in modern film.
• Jesus Christ himself takes one of these in The Passion of the Christ. For pretty much the entire movie until he gets crucified, which isn't really a beatdown because it's worse.
• Jackie Chan gets to dish out a few of his own during the climax of Police Story, even giving a Shout-Out to Bruce Lee's famous "shaking fist" pose after whaling on the Big Bad's abs.
• Arnie takes one of these in Predator.
• Butch from Pulp Fiction kills an opponent in an off-screen boxing match.
• Punisher: War Zone:
  • Frank Castle does this to Jigsaw after the latter kills his sidekick, Micro. Justified because he had only one bullet left which he spent on Loonie Bin Jim. It involves him beating the guy with a bottle, kicking him while he's down and, finally, impaling him with a steel pipe and burning him.
  • Castle's fight against Loonie Bin Jim, which happened right before this scene, is practically two of this tropes put next to each other: First, Castle gets kicked in a Dynamic Entry, then his enemy proceeds to kick him, bite him and dodge all of his punches, while telling him crazy things about kidney failure. Understandably, Castle is rather pissed after getting repeatedly kicked in the groin, so he throws Jim against a wall with enough force to nearly crash it, before beating him further up. Jim only manages to escape by throwing shards of glass in Frank's eyes.
• In Purgatory, Blackjack and the gang give one to Sonny for standing up to them.
• The Purge: A scene early on in the film demonstrates a gang doing this to a person in a city.
• Played for Laughs in Red Rocket. In the parking lot of the donut shop, teenager Nash and his parents deliver a beatdown to Mikey as revenge for his breaking up of Nash's relationship with Strawberry. Nash’s middle-aged father being dressed like a gangster and acting tough adds to the Black Comedy of the scene.
• In Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker nearly falls into The Dark Side by delivering one to Darth Vader, using his lightsaber like a baseball bat and chopping off his hand. Minutes later he receives one from Emperor Palpatine using Force Lightning.
• RoboCop:
  • In RoboCop (1987), Officer Alex Murphy is on the verge of apprehending some miscreants when he is ambushed and shot. His bullet-proof vest withstands the impact of the bullet, and so the villains lay into him with bullets and shotgun blasts in a two-minute torture session; they blow off his hand and eventually the back of his head. What remains of him is turned into RoboCop. To rub things in further, RoboCop himself is subjected to a similar bout of prolonged gunfire later in the film, and is almost killed, but this time at the hands of his former colleagues in the police force.
  • In RoboCop 2, RoboCop is ripped apart and almost killed by Cain and his gang.
• Jackie Chan's character from Rumble in the Bronx gets a beatdown. A street gang corners him in a dead-end alley and proceeds to bombard him with glass bottles. Let's just say this scene was "bloody" and leave it at that.
• Salvage has Duke Desmond delivering this to Claire Parker over and over again, as she keeps reliving her death at his hands.
• Sartana: In Light the Fuse... Sartana is Coming, the titular character receives a brutal beatdown, but manages to recover from it later.
• In Savages Crossing, The Gunslinger Mory batters Serial Killer Phil unconscious and has to be stopped from killing him.
• In Saw II, Jigsaw, with cancerous brain trauma, takes a hard-earned beating from Donnie Wahlberg.
• The Shawshank Redemption features several of these, including the guards beating up an emotionally overwhelmed inmate who complains that he is not supposed to be there (said guard then leaves the inmate to die in the infirmary), the Sisters routinely beating up Andy, and the guards beating up Bogs so severely that he ends up crippled for life — and that's just counting the ones shown on-screen. Red has a way of understating this in his monotone voiceover narration, which perhaps drives home the horror even more; this kind of thing is a commonplace occurrence:
  Red: [after the guards retaliate] Two things never happened again after that. The Sisters never laid a finger on Andy again. And Boggs never walked again.
• In Short Circuit 2, Johnny 5 discovers that his new friend Oscar was a criminal mastermind and confronts him about it, but gets cornered by his henchmen and then beaten to a robotic pulp for his troubles. Ironically because he's a robot, the film is able to show the full extent of just how brutally they tear the crap out of him, not helped by the sprays of red battery fluid as he screams and begs for them to stop killing him.
• Played for Laughs in Sons of the Desert, where Ollie's wife gives him an off-screen one near the ending by throwing every dish in the house at him.
• In Sin City, when Hartigan finally takes revenge upon Junior for all the crap he's put him and Nancy through, he beats the pedophilic rapist's head in so viciously and so brutally that he doesn't even have a head left when Hartigan is finally through.
  Hartigan: EIGHT! LONG! YEARS! YOU! SON! OF! A! BITCH!
• The fight between James Bond and Mr. Hinx on the train in Spectre. Given that Hinx is the first big bad guy in the new continuity to completely outclass James in a physical confrontation, most of the fight is basically Hinx beating the ever loving crap out of him and no-selling pretty much everything James can throw at him.
• Spider-Man Trilogy:
  • The first Spider-Man movie. The moment when the hero's at his lowest is the ideal time for a Moment of Awesome, but come on! Poor Pete's had half his mask grenaded off, a severely cut lip, a gash on his side, a black eye, on and on and on. When Spidey does his Heroic Second Wind, he delivers a beatdown to Goblin in return.
  • Spider-Man 3 has our hero getting a double beatdown from Venom and the Sandman. The way the fight was going, Spider-Man would've definitely been done for if not for Harry Osborn saving him in a Big Damn Heroes moment.
• This happens to Sefton, a World War II POW, in Stalag 17. The people who beat him were his fellow prisoners, who suspected him of collaborating with the Germans. This action spurs Sefton towards finding the real collaborator, whom he glumly notes, probably "beat him the hardest."
• In Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Mitchell gets one of these from the Replicator Merrick. Intercut with scenes of the Priors torturing Vala and Daniel and of Teal'c trying to get to Celestius with a hole in his back to up the violence level.
• Star Trek
  • The Space Opera version of this happens in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, when Khan springs a completely one-side ambush on the Enterprise, and blasts her so badly over several minutes that Kirk has to surrender in order to get a chance at his heroic comeback.
  • In Star Trek (2009), Kirk gets one of these from Spock after he intentionally pisses him off in order to prove that he is "emotionally compromised", eventually going so far as to state he never loved his mother who was just killed when Vulcan was destroyed not even a day ago.
    • And before that, Spock as a child had soundly beat the crap out of an older Vulcan boy for calling Spock's mother a whore.
  • Star Trek Into Darkness: basically, anyone who gets on the wrong side of Harrison gets one of these, until he gets on the wrong side of Spock.
    • Humorously subverted when Kirk tries to pull one on Harrison, but fails to inflict any damage.
    • A non-organic example: The Enterprise gets shot full of holes and turned into a smoking wreck by the Vengeance, a fellow Federation starship. Enterprise never got to fire a single shot back.
• Many Steven Seagal films have him do this to the Big Bad. However, Seagal, being an Aikido master, often throws in a few limb-snapping grapples.
• In the game Stranglehold, Mr. Wong has his men beat the crap out of Tequila in a flashback after having intimidated Billie, Wong's daughter and the woman Tequila loved, into breaking up with him in a double-duty Kick the Dog moment.
• Lex Luthor does this to Superman with the help of a kryptonite shiv in Superman Returns.
• Happened to Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), when a mob of Foot clan members take him down and then beat him into a coma. He only survives because the other Turtles are able to get him out of there and nurse him back to health (and this takes a long time). Several of the Foot Clan also wind up on the receiving end of this when the Turtles escape in the fight that ensues soon after said beatdown (the biggest fight in the movie thus far) and Tatsu proceeds to take out his rage on them for their failure. One of the Foot, a guy named Shinsho, is beaten into much the same state as Raph was for trying to stop him — and in the original script and novelization, it's implied that the beating in question killed him.
• In Thunderbolt, after Jackie Chan's character Foh puts a dangerous criminal in jail, Cougar gets out of jail and comes looking for him. Then Cougar, who'd previously murdered a man by dragging him behind a race car, took a construction crane and used it to wreck Foh's home and try to kill him, his father, and his sisters. The epic — and extremely bloody — beat-down ended with Cougar using the crane to pick up a metal storage shed that Foh was in — and flung him around inside like a pinball.
• In later installments of the Transformers Film Series, this is basically Optimus Prime's MO.
• Alonzo delivers a pretty vicious one to Jake in the climax of Training Day.
• United 93's climactic end begins with a Zerg Rush of passengers surging forward towards the cockpit. The first terrorist to go down is pretty thoroughly Curb Stomped and beaten to death with a fire extinguisher.
• Universal Soldier: Regeneration: The main villain played by U.F.C. Champion Andre "The Pitbull" Arlovski pulls this out in spades. Rapid-fire punches? Check. Rapid-fire punches to the face? Check. Rapid-fire punches to the face that may be complemented with a protract-able blade from the lower arm upwards? Check.
• The first 10 minutes of The Warriors show a guy getting elbowed to death.
• Watchmen:
  • The film expands the Comedian's two-page fight into a four-minute, borderline-Gorn beatdown. Not only does the Comedian fail to land a single hit, but it's set to Nat King Cole's rendition of "Unforgettable."
  • Is it a scene with Rorschach? Then he's either growing dialogue at another character or beating the everliving hell out of them.
  • The extended cut also adds one delivered by Nite Owl II when he learns that Hollis Mason was murdered by some knot-tops. Remarkably, it's Rorschach who calms him down and tells him to back off.
  • In the climax, Nite Owl delivers one to Ozymandias. Ozymandias kinda lets him do it and takes it gracefully, though.
• In Whiplash, Andrew Neiman nearly gives one to Fletcher, but got dragged off the scene before he could land a single punch.
• In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant during the final battle takes a lot of punishment from Judge Doom who, being a toon endowed with inhuman strength, tosses him around like a rag doll.

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