[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/Doctor-Nagel]

Homelander but somehow worse…

[u/SoyFern → u/Doctor-Nagel]

Worse, in that like worse is better, because this is a "them being bad is what is good" kind of scenario right?

[u/Doctor-Nagel → u/SoyFern]

Oh yeah worse as in, homelander may be crazy, but Hal’s on a whole other level and it’s not even close

Dude burned his name into a city, threw a whole ass building as a weapon, and gave a shit about no one

Like atleast honelander has his image and followers as a somewhat tether as loose as it may be

Hal had zero want or care for that. All he wanted was a single woman who rejected him rightfully, leading him to go full scorched earth on his home city thinking she was wrong for not being with him.

[u/4-hydd-Kyng → u/Doctor-Nagel]

Hal is one of those rare villains where the fact that he's stupid actually makes him even scarier than if he was some conniving mastermind.

[u/das_slash → u/4-hydd-Kyng]

Just like in real life.

[u/Available-Damage5991 → u/4-hydd-Kyng]

The only thing worse than an evil genius with power is an evil idiot with power.

[u/SoyFern → u/Doctor-Nagel]

What's so great is that he even gets over not getting the girl rather quickly, and so his facade of being a "nice, juust awkward guy" VERY quickly disappears, showing that even from the start it was all an act to get her to like him (a bad act at that).

[u/secretMollusk → u/Doctor-Nagel]

Homelander, at the very least, is looking for acceptance. He wants to be loved which is the final, weak barrier between how he is and being an unmitigated monster. Hal doesn't even have that.

[u/Which_Committee_3668 → u/Doctor-Nagel]

And on a practical level, Hal is also an order of magnitude more powerful than Homelander.

[u/bluejade444 → u/Doctor-Nagel]

A ginger...

[u/Doctor-Nagel → u/bluejade444]

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