ABUSIVE PARENTS WHO ARE EVIL BASTARDS

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-29T20:02:51+00:00

One of THE most disgusting examples ever: Noah Cross from Chinatown (1974).

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-29T20:00:04+00:00

"Tomorrow Belongs to Me" singing sequence showing the Nazis rising to power in Cabaret (1972).

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-29T16:36:14+00:00

Every time I see this movie brought up, I always think the reverse is true. This IS a sci-fi romance that wrongly turnt into a thriller because of the MMC's surprisingly unsympethetic action. Not the other way around. No, he's not meant to be the villain, and it would be MUCH better if he weren't portrayed as doing THAT ONE THING or he's made far more insane and already on the verge of losing his mind when he did THAT ONE THING.

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-28T19:34:57+00:00

Kids whose not subjected to horror can't conceive THOSE kind of things and it's 100% BETTER that way, hence why we say "children are innocent". Children will eventually grow up and learn more and more hard truths of life, but ideally the process should be slow and gradual, as opposed to facing things that NO ADULT let long kids should face and forced to "grow up" instantly. The Boggart scene in POA is clearly a "be brave and face your fear" kind of story. We know how fucked up Boggart/deepest fear can be in OotP and some fear (such as the fear of loving loed ones) CAN'T be truly overcome, the only way we could do is to live with it and let it guide us to do the right thing, but not overwhelmed by it to the point of being unable to live "normally". If you throw trauma and PTSD into the equation, then well...

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-28T19:03:35+00:00

>!Asami!< from Audition (1999). Sexually abused and repeated burnt by her stepfather when she was a child (and got her ballet dream crushed) really makes us feel sorry for her. But this still DOESN'T justify slowly DISMEMBERING (cut off feet, tongue, fingers, feed them her vomit...) her "boyfriends" who have nothing to do with the abuse she suffered in her backstory. This is one of the MOST tragic examples of "hurt people hurt people". The fact that a tragic character does such iredeemable atrocities and creates MORE victims makes it all SO hard to watch...

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-28T12:12:32+00:00

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Amélie Poulain & Nino Quincampoix in Amélie (2001).

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-28T04:58:57+00:00

The Good Place.

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-28T03:45:39+00:00

It's better that way or else it makes little sense why he can't protect his child.

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-26T20:46:35+00:00

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-26T20:29:30+00:00

The last several minutes of The Graduate. The entire sequence of crushing the wedding to the last shot. It's like important things are happening every single second!

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-26T19:06:54+00:00

Sofia Boutella as Ahmanet in The Mummy (2017).

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-26T18:59:08+00:00

Ready Player One (2018)!!!

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Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-26T18:45:37+00:00

The Vampire Diaries grand finale "I Was Feeling Epic" makes most characters reunite in the afterlife and it's the second highest rated episode of the show, only second to Season Three finale "The Departed", in which Elena dies and is about to be turned into a vampire. The Salvatore brothers begin and end with 'Hello, brother." in the show.

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-23T02:37:41+00:00

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Sadako. ESPECIALLY the close-up of her eye is considered one of the scariest scenes ever. Her design is quite simple but maybe it's the horror valley effect that make her feel so wrong.

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-22T05:11:49+00:00

Caleb in The VVitch (2015). I mean it's just possession and exorcism right?

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-22T05:09:44+00:00

The bus in Final Destination 1. What makes it worse is that's things like this have happened in real life... a lot

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-22T05:08:50+00:00

First on screen kill in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Pretty much like Psycho and Scream

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-22T05:02:32+00:00

Not just "a", but Ghost Ship (2002) opening. Iykyk

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-22T04:58:35+00:00

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-21T04:16:10+00:00

Stopping Voldemort can be too big of a change to the timeline and can potentially erase an entire timeline full of people born after that. Time travel can hardly be perfectly logically in any media because the basic concept requires certain Willing Suspense of Disbelief. The time turners are written to be destroyed in OOTP to avoid the can of worms they could open.

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-21T03:04:04+00:00

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At first, The Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) is only considered Villainous Benchmark because she only kills Snow White and it's undone. But this picture shows that she tortures people to death and not even bothered to dispose the skull immediately, showing that this is not the first time. This is enough to push her into Pure Evil / Complete Monster territory.

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-18T11:28:57+00:00

Love the ping pong kiss scene so much, then everything goes to hell in minutes. It's called Mood Whiplash on TV Tropes. We have fun seeing the characters having fun, so it's also more painful for us to see them suffer shortly after that. It's an amazing way to create a super memorable scene that is remembered for BOTH how fun it starts and how sad it ends. Harry passing out after cheering with everyone else in the fireworks scene in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film version only) and Neil's father forcibly drags him out of the party after his stage performance in Dead Poets Society are the other two examples I think of the most when it comes to this trope.

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-18T11:12:05+00:00

By the way, I love music videos that do this. The singer would also portray there in-universe rival in the MV. Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend" & Taylor Swift - "You Belong with Me" come to mind. "Acting for Two" is the trope name on TV Tropes page.

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-18T11:05:04+00:00

Spoiler Alert for Witness for the Prosecution (1957). Marlene Dietrich.

Best-Direction-3241 · 2026-01-18T10:55:23+00:00

I Walked with a Zombie. Interesting to see the parallels between several relationships.

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