Beware the Nice Ones/Film: Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|It's pointed out in the film that the Iron Giant was actually intended to be a ''ludicrously'' powerful defensive device. It's your best friend so long as you don't point something identifiable as a weapon at it or its friends. Once you ''do'' that though, the only thing that will save your puny, pitiful life is [[The Power of Friendship]]}}

* Shaun in ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'', whilst not exactly sweet and gentle, is almost supernaturally willing to put up with the slobby, selfish and lazy behaviour of his best friend Ed, and will defend Ed to anyone who criticises Ed for these qualities. Then, Shaun has an epiphany, the Dead rise and start to claim the Earth, and Ed makes the mistake of pushing Shaun's tolerance of his self-centred and increasingly reckless behaviour a little too far when he takes a trivial phone call on his mobile and puts everyone at risk:

'''Shaun''': You fuck off! ''Fuck'' fucking off! I've spent my whole life sticking my neck out for you, and all you ever do is fuck things up! Fuck things up and make ''me'' look stupid! Well, I'm not going to put up with it anymore, okay?! ''Not today!'' }}

* In a similar vein, [[View Askewniverse|Silent Bob]], of the various movies made by Kevin Smith, finally reaches his limit for Jay's abuse and idiocy and ''yells'' at Jay. Though the explosion is short-lived, it is the only time Silent Bob raises his voice.

** This example is also one of the few times that we see Jay -- who never stops crudely mouthing off and throwing his weight around -- shocked into meek compliance.

** Similarly, whenever there is fighting to be done in ''Dogma'', Silent Bob is in the thick of it. He knocks out the Golgothan with his trusty deodorant spray, and throws both Bartleby and Loki from the commuter train. You doubt? Just witness the look Silent Bob gives Bartleby and Loki when they knock out Jay, right before he gets up to tackle one of them.

* ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' has Nathan Wallace, a sweet, loving, gentle, somewhat campy man who dotes on his daughter, [[Ill Girl|Shilo]]. He also happens to be a [[Psycho for Hire|Repo Man]]. {{spoiler|In 'Let The Monster Rise', when he realises that Rotti has stolen Shilo from him, he completely snaps. It ain't pretty}}.

* ''[[Gremlins 2 The New Batch]]''. Gizmo, tired of the Gremlins abusing his gentle nature, fashions a flaming arrow out of office materials and burns Spider Mohawk alive.

'''Billy''': I don't know. I guess they pushed him too far. }}

* At the beginning of ''[[Death Wish]]'', Paul Kersey is a kind, patient man who loves his wife and daughter. A conscientious objector, he served in the Korean War as a battlefield medic, and currently makes his living as an architect in New York. One day, his home is broken into by three men who rape his daughter and kill his wife. Kersey goes to town on the local criminal scum, killing eleven men before being told by the police to leave town. But it seems there are still thieves and murderers in Chicago...

* ''[[Me Myself and Irene]]''. The introvert, kind Charlie has put up with so much crap under his life that he finally simply snaps...and [[Jekyll and Hyde|adapts a different personality.]]

* In ''Tombstone'', law-abiding Wyatt just wants to live a peaceful life with his brothers, and share a home with his lovely wife. He even turns the other cheek when The Cowboys start harassing his town. But when the "Cowboys" finally push him too far, he goes into this chilling tirade:

'''Wyatt Earp''': ''[points to Stilwell, dead]'' Take a good look at him, Ike... 'cause that's how you're gonna end up! ''[he kicks Ike]'' The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! ''[Ike flees for his life]'' So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the law's comin'! You tell 'em I'M coming... and hell's coming with me, you hear?... Hell's coming with me! }}

* "'[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'' ; Brian Mills is a nice guy who retired from a high-stress, constantly on call government job to re-establish a relationship with his adored daughter. We see him shopping for her birthday present, barbecuing with some friends. He does use non-lethal force to bodyguard a pop star , but ends up comforting her like the father he is (and could be, to her). Then some Eurotrash scum kidnap his daughter, and though he offers them a chance to give her up and walk away, [[Too Dumb to Live|they don't]]. In the mayhem that follows, [[Papa Wolf|Mills]] doesn't flinch from shooting his FRIENDS when necessary. "Apologize to your wife for me," indeed.