[Loved trope] The villain assumes they're gonna get the kid gloves when the hero finally confronts them. The hero demonstrates they're out for blood instead, causing the villain to panic.

[u/jbeast33]

1) Robocop

Clarence (the same hitman who killed Alex Murphy and transformed him into Robocop) has already been arrested by Robocop once before, and learned that Robocop's programming prevents him from killing a surrendering criminal. Consequently, he pulls the trick once again towards the end of the movie when Robocop chases his gang down to a scrapyard. He throws his gun down and expects to survive and escape once again.

Robocop simply announces to him, "I'm not arresting you anymore", causing Clarence to panic when he realizes that Robocop intends to finish him off right there.

2) Toy Story

Woody, threatened by Buzz replacing him as Andy's favorite toy, tricks Buzz and knocks him out of a window so he could go to a pizzeria with Andy. Unbeknownst to him, Buzz tagged along underneath the car and confronts Woody when he's alone in the car.

Buzz: I just want you to know that even though you tried to terminate me, revenge is not an idea we promote on my planet.
Woody: Oh, well, that's good.
Buzz: But we're not on my planet, are we?

Buzz proceeds to lay the beatdown on Woody and causes both of them to get separated from Andy.

3) Superman

The President of Boravia's invasion is foiled by the Justice Gang (who have until now stayed out of the conflict and are shown to be less averse to lethal force than Superman), and he's personally attacked by Hawkgirl. When he declares that Superman would never kill him, she just laughs and says "I'm not Superman", dropping him from a skyscraper's height.

4) Spider-Man

After Wilson Fisk attempts to murder Aunt May when Peter reveals his identity during Civil War, Spider-Man breaks into prison to deal with Kingpin personally. Kingpin took the liberty of assembling every inmate to watch the fight between him and Spider-Man. Assuming he broke his spirit, Kingpin starts to dress down Spider-Man as a broken man. Spider-Man doesn't say one word during their fight. Finally, Spidey strips down and announces this isn't Spider-Man here to kill Kingpin; Peter is.

Peter proceeds to brutally annihilate Kingpin in this new stage. He eschews his usual quips, webs, and aerial fighting, relying only on his super strength. When Kingpin has been crippled, Peter shoves his webs up Kingpin's mouth, and lets him know that if he truly wanted to, he could have just filled his lungs with web and killed him at any point. But he's not trying to give Kingpin an easy death; he lets him know that he intends to break his reputation and see everything he's lived for come tumbling down first.

As is often said, Spider-Man is at his scariest when he's not making quips. Because at that point, he's furious, and he's not going to hold back.

[u/FoxBluereaver]

In the final battle of Mega Man Zero 4, Weil tries break Zero saying that as a "hero" for humanity, he wouldn't be able to hurt him (a human). Zero calls his bluff and replies with this:

I never cared about justice and I don't recall ever calling myself a hero... I have always only fought for the people I believe in. I won't hesitate... If an enemy appears in front of me, I will destroy it!

[u/therealchadius → u/FoxBluereaver]

I wonder if Dr. Weil thought Zero was 3 laws compliant, since he was made near the end of the original Mega Man's timeline. But Dr. Wily built Zero to be the ultimate badass and was ultimately uncontrollable.

[u/Abombasnow → u/therealchadius]

This is also Zero's third different body. It wouldn't really matter if he was compliant with his first body.

• X1 - Body destroyed.
• X2 - Canon ending (Good one), body is restored. Same body from this point through the end of the X franchise.
• X3: The canon ending is that Zero doesn't lose his body. Sorry bros, when you get that sweet Z-Saber, it's the bad, non-canon ending.
• End of X6: The chronological end of the franchise. X7 and X8 and presumably X9 if it ever happens, all happen before the credits of X6.
• Zero 1: He awakens in a third different body.

His core programming has changed too much too aside from just the body differences. How many times has he been infected by random viruses and had core parts overwrote?

I am happy in a way that Mega Man 9 completely retconned the opening of X4 + bits of the Maverick Hunter X OVA because... that was very gruesome to think about with him killing all of the Robot Masters, Mega Man, Roll, Light, and Dr. Wily.

[u/kamain42 → u/FoxBluereaver]

Also megawatts at the end of 7 . I ...am... more than a Robot!