Live-Action Films / Broken Pedestal

King, Rex’s father in Adventures in Dinosaur City, betrayed Saur City to Mr. Big years before the film begins, resulting in his statue being defaced and Rex himself being known as the son of a traitor. It turns out King was forced to do it by drinking a mind control potion, and has been imprisoned in Mr. Big's dungeon ever since. Rex himself is a minor one for Timmy at first, too, given his Broken Ace status, but it doesn’t last long.
In American Honey, Star falls into a consuming romance with Jake and initially sees him through rose-colored glasses. However, Jake eventually reveals himself to be unworthy in Star's eyes when he insists on keeping their romance private, steals from people’s houses, and reacts violently after she accepted a customer’s proposition.
In Anchorman Wake Up Ron Burgundy, the counterpart film to Anchorman, Ron visits his mentor Jess Moondragon for advice. Moondragon recommends that Ron walk around naked in the desert. When a disappointed Ron says that isn't very helpful, Moondragon admits that he never understood why Ron looks up to him.
Angry White Man: The man who inspired Skeeter to be a country music star is Bulldog Hayes. When Walt and Floyd decide to take him to meet Bulldog Hayes in hopes of him helping Skeeter to write a song, their image of him is destroyed when they discover he's a hedonistic Jerkass who isn't even American, but a British man who speaks in a fake American Accent.
In The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Robert Ford just wanted to be like his idol Jesse, but Jesse turns out to be a murderous and depressed bully who looks down on Bob just like so many other people have. Part of his reason for killing Jesse is simple disappointment that Jesse didn’t live up to his expectations. (Of course, Jesse being a murderous and increasingly paranoid bully who threatens Bob’s life didn’t exactly help.)
The Babysitter (2017): The titular character is Bee, who babysits the protagonist Cole. Bee is gorgeous, funny, friendly, and all around an awesome Cool Big Sis, so naturally, he adores her... and is utterly horrified when he finds out she's involved in a cult that does Human Sacrifice. Surprisingly, all her good qualities are real, and she cares for Cole just as much. His final rejection of her is genuinely sad, if completely deserved.
- The Babysitter: Killer Queen: Cole's Girl Next Door Melanie becomes this as well when he learns the hard and bloody way that she's subscribed to the same cult that Bee is in. And unlike Bee, Melanie is in it for nothing more than vanity.
Batman Forever has Bruce Wayne becoming this for Nygma, who becomes the Riddler as a result of not taking well of his rejection regarding his mind-manipulating invention.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm:
- Tutar idolizes her father until she realizes all the lies he's told her, especially about women's rights.
- Having previously referred to the United States as the “greatest country in the world”, Borat decides by the end of this film that the greatest threat to Kazakhstan is not the Jew, but the Yankee.
City Hall: Kevin Calhoun joined the staff of New York City Mayor John Pappas because he believed in him and what he stands for. Then a cop and a drug dealer get into a shooting that not only kills them both, but also a six year old boy caught in the crossfire, it turns out the drug dealer was on the street because of a probation sentence given by the judge hearing the case, and the judge gave the dealer probation because Mayor Pappas called the judge and asked him to give the drug dealer probation, as a favor to a district boss who was doing a favor for the mobster who was related to the drug dealer. Needless to say, when Calhoun figures out the mayor's involvement, he's crushed.
This is the crux of The Reveal in Corvette Summer — the one who orchestrated the theft of the protagonist's prized custom Corvette Stingray was his auto shop teacher, who oversaw the car's restoration and is strongly implied to be a Parental Substitute to the protagonist. The teacher's explanation is ... inadequate, to say the least (money problems are understandable, betraying your star pupil to solve them, not so much). The car is recovered, but the pedestal isn't rebuilt.
In Cloud Atlas, Zachry and his people worship a goddess called Sonmi. It comes as a shock to him to learn that Sonmi, in fact, was a human being.
The Dark Knight Trilogy:
- Batman Begins, Henri Ducard turns out to be the real Ra's Al Ghul and an elitist Knight Templar who doesn't mind destroying cities because they are corrupt.
- The Dark Knight Rises:
  - John Blake is an idealistic young cop, whom Commissioner Gordon quickly promotes to Detective, seeing something of himself in Blake. Blake looks up both to Gordon (for being an honest cop who cleaned up the department) and Batman (whose identity he figures out pretty quickly). However, he ends up being disappointed in both: at Batman for his Refusal of the Call, and at Gordon after finding out that Gordon lied about Harvey Dent.
  - Harvey Dent becomes this to the entire population when Bane exposes his rampage eight years ago. With the White Knight's reputation in the gutter, it doesn't take long for the population to start, as the Joker predicted, "losing their minds" as they simply gives up on everything they'd been made to believe and starts to riot and plunder the city when Bane encourages them to do so.
The Eiger Sanction: Jemina is a Wide-Eyed Idealist who is shaken to discover that her superior officer is an ex-Nazi and that he and Pope set Baq up to be killed and aren't the least bit remorseful about it.
In Eraser, John Kruger is a US Marshal working for Witness Protection and is the best at what he does partially because of his mentor Robert DeGuerin, who turns out to be one of the key figures behind the conspiracy to sell top-secret magnetic weapons to The Mafiya. Subverted in that, while Kruger has a great deal of respect for his mentor, Kruger's only real love is his job, so when DeGuerin turns out to be The Mole, Kruger simply shrugs and adds him to the list of people that need to be "erased".
In Firestorm (1998), Jesse discovers that his mentor Wynt started the forest finger for a land developer to build a training school for fire fighters.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Dr. Emma Russell used to be considered one of the best of the best scientists in Monarch, but after she betrays everyone and allies with eco-terrorists to sacrifice billions of people, everyone is shocked, dismayed and disgusted. Even Emma's own daughter turns on her in the end.
GoldenEye: James Bond's reaction changes from admiration to shock and contempt once he realizes not only is former 00 agent Alec Trevelyan alive, but has become a Rogue Agent who wants to ruin England's economy by using the titular Kill Sat for an old grudge he's been harboring for many years.
The Great White Hype:
- Mitchell Kane, after his Face–Heel Turn, to his documentary team. They idolised him and truly believed he was an incorruptible Intrepid Reporter. They're dismayed when he sells out and becomes a highly paid flunky for the very man he was supposedly trying to bring down.
- Terry Conklin to one particular fan. A young disabled boy in a wheelchair really latches onto Terry's long shot (in reality, no shot) challenge for the heavyweight championship, equating it to the boy's own struggle to walk again. When Terry is easily defeated in the first round after only landing one good punch, and then responds by crawling away with his tail between his legs, the boy is crushed.
In the 1980 John Ritter movie Hero At Large, Steve Nichols becomes a national hero for foiling a robbery while dressed as Captain Avenger. But when a reporter announces that the last robbery he foiled was staged, specifically to make him look like a hero, the crowd turns on him.
Hits has the Internet rally around a common citizen who rails against his city government in an effort to simply fix the pothole outside of his house. When he finally gets his triumphant moment in a live-streamed town hall, he digresses into a racist and antisemitic tirade that horrifies all of his erstwhile supporters.
Nicholas Angel relates such a story about his uncle in Hot Fuzz.
Nicholas Angel: I don't remember a time when I didn't want to be a police officer... apart from the summer of 1979 when I wanted to be Kermit the Frog. It all started with my Uncle Derek. He was a Sergeant in the Met. He bought me a police pedal car when I was five. I rode around in it every second I was awake - arresting kids twice my size for littering and spitting. I got beaten up a lot when I was young, but it didn't stop me. I wanted to be like Uncle Derek.
Danny Butterman: He sounds like a good bloke.
Nicholas Angel: Actually, he was arrested for selling drugs to students.
Danny Butterman: What a cunt...
Nicholas Angel: Probably bought the pedal car with the proceeds. Needless to say, I never went near it again. I just let it rust. But I never lost the profound sense of right and wrong I felt at the wheel of that pedal car. I had to prove to myself that the law could be proper and righteous and for the good of humankind. It was from that moment that I was destined to be a police officer.
In The Innkeepers, Claire is a huge fan of former sitcom star Leanne, and is incredibly disappointed when Leanne makes her feel like a loser for not doing anything with her life. They warm up to each other, though.
Joker (2019): Arthur Fleck's idol is late night talk show host Murray Franklin. That admiration is gone when Murray shows footage of Arthur's embarrassingly bad stand-up routine on his show to mock and humiliate him. When Arthur goes on Murray's show in person, he ends up shooting Murray in the head, killing him instantly.
The first half of Kein Pardon is all about this: Peter has been a huge fan of entertainer Heinz Wäscher for some twenty years, then discovers what a jerk he is behind the scenes. Despite this (and the generally silly tone of the movie), the moment when Wäscher gets fired (okay, when he finally realizes it) is a Tear Jerker.
Layer Cake: The narrator, Gene, and Morty view Jimmy with deep respect and loyalty right up until they hear the tape where Jimmy sells information about their friends to the police for money. He also offends Morty with a racist slur, mocks Gene as Dumb Muscle, and expresses contempt for the narrator while trying to get him arrested.
[Gene's] listening to the geezer he was devoted to for twenty years selling information Gene's told him in confidence to the police and not only that, belittling him, talking about him like he's a fuckin dog.
In the second Legally Blonde movie, Elle heads to Washington to push a bill to help out animals who are used for product testing. She works under Victoria Rudd, a Congresswoman Elle has long seen as a champion and trailblazer to get ahead. Elle is hurt when Rudd's chief of staff, Grace, has been working to get a homeowners bill pushed against Elle's bill. But when Grace reveals she has nothing to do with this, Elle realizes Victoria herself was blocking her bill. It turns out a major donor will invest in Victoria's opponent if she doesn't kill Elle's bill and she went along with it. Elle realizes Victoria has long given up any of her "change Washington" spirit and independent fire and is just another career politician doing anything to keep hold of her seat. It ends up subverted as by the end of the film, Victoria comes around to support Elle, admitting that the woman's fire has reminded Victoria of the person she used to be and wants to go back to fighting for what she believes in. Elle is happy to see Victoria returning to the idol she revered.
Malcolm X: Elijah Muhammad for Malcolm. He starts out worshiping the man to the point he says he'd gladly die for him. However, on learning that Muhammad is using his position to take sexual advantage of young women, then has the ones he impregnates expelled from the NoI, Malcolm is utterly appalled and leaves, rethinking his belief system. His public renunciation of the NoI eventually leads to his assassination.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- In Iron Man 2, Whiplash sets out to invoke this trope among the public regarding Iron Man.
Whiplash: If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe in Him.
- Black Panther (2018):
  - T'Challa's admiration towards his father is shaken when he learns that T'Chaka killed his brother N'Jobu and abandoned his nephew Erik in the slums of Oakland as a child; said child would endure a life of racism and suffering only to grow up into the villain Killmonger. He wonders what kind of king, or what kind of man would do such a thing.
  - W'Kabi's closeness and faith in T'Challa takes a serious dent when he failed to apprehend Klaue the first time, especially since his desire for vengeance was established earlier. This basically sets him up to destabilize T'Challa's reign when Erik comes to see him with the dead Klaue.
- Thor: Ragnarok: When Thor finds out that his father not only hid his history of bloody conquest from him, but also hid a secret, evil half sister destined to bring about Ragnarok, he is severely disillusioned. It is implied that he also feels betrayed that Odin lied to him about being the rightful heir to the throne, and now views his father’s penchant for judging the worthiness of all his children as emotional manipulation rather than good parenting.
  - That being said, Thor’s reaction to learning Odin’s secrets was nowhere near as dramatic as Loki’s reaction to learning similarly devastating secrets from him in the first Thor movie. Finding out that Odin hid that he was a member of a species he was taught to hate and that he adopted him for political purposes, at least at first, destroys what trust he has in his father. Their relationship doesn’t start to mend again until Thor: Ragnarok, just before Odin’s death.
- Thor: Love and Thunder: This trope plays a big role in the origin of Gorr the God Butcher. In the beginning of the movie, a desperate and suffering Gorr meets his god Rapu shortly after his daughter died. He expected help and a reward for his worship, but instead gets mocked by Rapu as the latter sees his follwers as pieces of crap who only exist to worship him. This leads to Gorr renouncing his faith in Rapu, killing him, and vowing to kill all gods.
  - Thor idolized Zeus ever since he was a child as they shared Shock and Awe powers, only to be disappointed when Zeus turns out to be a Dirty Coward who refuses to help save the universe from Gorr.
In Monster Trucks, Trip was initially fond of his father before his father basically betrays Trip to his superiors.
Mystery Date (1991): Tom idolized his older brother, Craig, but soon learns that Craig is hiding his real life...
Not Okay: Rowan and almost everyone else sees Danni as this after the truth comes out about Danni being a fraud after she had briefly gained respect as a supposed terrorism survivor.
Point of Origin: Lang cannot believe at first that John Orr, the arson investigator who taught him everything he knows, is suspected of setting all the fires. But as the evidence accumulates, he accepts his mentor was an arsonist. He still looks like a kicked puppy when Orr is arrested and later found guilty.
In A Pure Formality, the inspector is a huge fan of the French author Onoff. His admiration comes to an end when he meets the author, accused of murder, in person in his office.
In The Rocketeer, Jenny Blake greatly admires film star Neville Sinclair until she finds out he's a creep and a Nazi spy.
In the 1952 film noir Scandal Sheet, Steve McClearly is an eager reporter who gladly does the work of sensationalist stories for his editor, Mark Chapman. When a murder at a "Lonely Hearts Dance" occurs, Steve gladly sparks it into the hunt for a killer, all trying to impress his boss with a great story. He finds a witness who may know a link to the crime..only for the man to reveal what the audience knew: Chapman is the killer. And it turns out the victim was Chapman's ex-wife (who he really never divorced) who he killed in a fight when she was ready to expose his life of deceit. Steve is less disappointed in Chapman being a killer than realizing he's never been the "crusading newspaperman" he presented himself as.
Steve: Julie figured you right off. But me, wet-behind-the-ears McClearly...I went for the sleigh ride. I practically built a pedestal for Chapman! The great newspaperman. A great guy. There should be a special Putilizer Prize for suckers, the McClearly. Just another one of your stupid slobs!
Dr. Paul Ruth of Scanners. Turns out he's responsible for the entire Bizarre Baby Boom, he unethically tested ephemerol on his pregnant wife, and severed all connections with his two sons, the older one ending up committed to a mental hospital at one point until he later became a psychopathic terrorist leader, while his younger son was sent out into the world as a drifter and monitored regularly until he might find some use for him.
In Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, Sharpay admires Amber Lee Adams, the star of the Broadway musical My Best Friend And Me, and spends most of the film kissing up to her and even works as her assistant so that her dog Boi can get the leading role. However, it is later revealed that Amber Lee is really a backstabbing dog-hater and even bigger Alpha Bitch than Sharpay herself. While Sharpay didn't believe Peyton about her at first, she discovers the harsh truth when she overhears Amber Lee discussing how she plans to completely write out the dog role so she can remain the star of the show leaving Sharpay heartbroken.
SHAZAM! (2019): Billy Batson spent years looking for his biological mother, rejecting the foster families he's been sent to live with. When his current foster family find her for him, what he finds is heartbreaking. He remembered her as a loving mother, while the real person was a depressed and tired teen mother who was too upset with her husband getting arrested and her parents disowning her that she let him get taken by the police and put into foster care. Rather than taking him into foster care herself and explain she can't care for him, she choose to abandon him and her responsibilities as a parent. She never bothered looking for him, instead trying to move on with her life and end up with an even worse life. Billy then gives her the compass she gave him at the carnival, which she doesn't even remember, to show he no longer considers her family.
Shield for Murder: Sgt. Mark Brewster becomes disappointed when he finds out that his friend and Mentor Barney Nolan is a thief and murderer.
Silence: Rodrigues doesn't want to believe that his mentor Fr. Ferreira apostasized, and is horrified to find out it's true. This helps lead him to apostasize himself.
In Slaxx, the Final Girl Libby chose to work at Canadian Cotton Clothiers because she believed in its stated mission of corporate responsibility and fair-trade labor practices. In truth, it's all a lie for marketing purposes, and the evidence, in the ghost of a 13-year-old Indian farm laborer who died due to unsafe working conditions, is now stalking their flagship boutique and killing everyone inside as vengeance. When Libby learns this, she turns to her manager Craig and bitterly tells him "you were supposed to be the good guys."
Happens in Snowpiercer, when the hero learns that his elderly mentor was actually The Mole.
Sean to Mark in The Social Network. Mark admires Sean's power and ideas but his faith wavered when he finds out about Sean's arrest for partying and doing drugs with under-aged interns.
Spider-Man 3: Spider-Man is believed to be this courtesy of a fake photo submitted by Eddie Brock that resembles Spider-Man robbing the bank. He becomes a Rebuilt Pedestal after Peter exposes the scam and gets Eddie fired.
In The Squid and the Whale, Walt idolizes his father, and completely takes his side in the divorce, often refusing to spend time at his mother's house. Towards the end, he has a change of heart, after a therapy session causes him to realize his father was never around when he was a kid and he finds his father putting the moves on Lili, who he had a crush on.
In Star Trek, Zefram Cochrane is revered as a visionary, the man who invented warp drive and ushered humanity into the stars. In person, he's an alcoholic and depressed man whose only motivation is his own self-benefit. As he puts it: "You wanna know what my vision is? Dollar signs. Money. I didn't build this ship to usher in a new era for humanity. You think I wanna go to the stars? I don't even like to fly! I take trains!" Unlike most examples of this trope, the crew doesn't actually seem that disappointed, or at the very least they hide it well^note. Ultimately, first contact turns Cochrane into the man that the crew remembers. Cochrane himself seems to become aware later on that he becomes a Broken Pedestal, and that the reasons he really did it will be lost to history.
Cochrane: This other guy you keep mentioning, this historical figure? I never met him. I can't imagine I ever will.
Riker: Someone once said, "Don't try to be a great man; just be a man, and let history make its own judgments."
Cochrane: That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
Riker: [grinning] You did, ten years from now.
As everyone knows, in Star Wars, Luke Skywalker grows up wondering what happened to his father Anakin, but his foster parents only tell him vaguely that he had been a pilot of a civilian ship and died during the Clone Wars. Obi-Wan Kenobi meets Luke and tells him that Anakin was once his apprentice and one of the most noble and powerful Jedi he had ever known and that he was also skilled as a pilot, a great hero. Luke wonders aloud how such a great hero could have died, and Obi-Wan tells him that his father was betrayed and killed by The Empire's dark enforcer, Darth Vader, and this causes Luke to hate Vader, even more so when Vader eventually kills Obi-Wan too. Luke spends the first two films following in the footsteps of his father, seeking to emulate him as much as he can, and hopes to avenge his death at the hands of Vader. However, Vader eventually reveals the truth to Luke — he is Luke's father, once named Anakin Skywalker, and the Empire's ruthless enforcer of terror and fear Galaxy-wide. Needless to say, he doesn't take this very well. A double example, as Luke not only loses faith in Anakin, but also Obi-Wan who lied by omission and died before he could reveal the truth when, per Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn in extended material, Luke could hear it without putting him in danger of going the same way as his father or dying because he didn’t believe a hermit well known for being crazy and went home where there were stormtroopers.Thankfully, he eventually reconciles with both of them.
- Speaking of Luke; in The Force Awakens, the big plot of the movie was hunting down the missing Luke Skywalker, who was their last hope in fighting the First Order. After so much adventure and searching, we finally get to the scene where Rey meets Luke at the very end of the movie, her handing him Anakin's old lightsaber. The start of The Last Jedi? Starts with Luke taking and casually tossing away the lightsaber over his shoulder. We learn that Luke has become a very bitter old man and he'd rather be left alone. It turns out, he's actually become a rare example of the pedestal being himself, feeling responsible for "The Great Luke Skywalker", the legendary Jedi who destroyed the Empire, having driven his own nephew to the dark side of the Force, leading to the slaughtering of his students at the Jedi Temple and the rise of the First Order. All of this because he almost killed Ben Solo over a force vision of his actions as Kylo Ren, which he backed off from at the last minute.
In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), April started the film admiring Eric Sacks for publicly opposing the actions of the Foot Clan, until it was revealed that not only is he a member of the Foot Clan, he is the Shredder's right-hand-man. That pedestal was completely obliterated by the end of the film when it was revealed Sacks killed April's father after the later discovered the true purpose of Project Renaissance and tried to stop the former.
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Shredder teams up with Krang to Take Over the World. Just before the climax, Krang reveals he had been using Shredder all along, and he promptly turns his back on Shredder and freezes him.
Terminator Genisys Done twice to Kyle Reese. The reveal that John Connor was overtaken by Skynet and became its most deadly enforcer, T-3000, is this to him after he goes to the year 2017 to stop Skynet from going online under the name Project Genisys. And this is after Kyle learned that the alternate timeline changed everything in the 1980s, so that Sarah Connor is already a battle harden soldier and not a Damsel in Distress before he shows up, and the original T-800 and T-1000 are trying to kill him so he doesn't remember that he needs to stop Skynet in 2017.
In ¡Three Amigos!, the German states that Ned, one of the titular Amigos, was once his childhood icon, and that he watched Ned's films, where Ned played the Fastest Gun in the West religiously and practiced his own Quick Draw for hours every day, hoping to become as fast as Ned. Then he learned about how trick photography could make anyone look like a quick draw and was bitterly disappointed in his former hero. He demands to duel Ned, ignoring Ned's warning that he never used trick photography and really is that fast. The German soon regrets not listening to Ned's warning.
German: I looked up to this man, I studied his every move! It was my dream to be as fast as Ned Niederlander! I practiced every day for hours and hours. He was a god to me! But then I found out about movie tricks. Trick photography. I was crushed.
Senior narcotics officer Alonzo Harris to rookie cop Jake Hoyt in Training Day. At the start of the film Jake is an Eager Rookie determined to impress the veteran, highly decorated senior/supervisor. Before long he sees that Alonzo doesn't give much of a damn about protecting innocent people, and is in fact willing to endanger them to serve his own goals. By halfway he's realized that Alonzo and his entire unit are corrupt, although for a short time he buys into Alonzo's excuses of being a Pragmatic Hero using ruthless and unethical means to achieve good ends in a dirty world. Then soon after he learns Alonzo truly only is out for himself, and is even willing to kill other cops to get what he wants.
Jake: [Ripping Alonzo's detective badge off] You don't deserve this.
In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Optimus reunites with his mentor Sentinel Prime, who was believed to have been lost in Cybertron's final battles. Optimus, with all due respect, offers Sentinel back the Matrix of Leadership, but Sentinel declines, saying that Optimus knows more about the human world than he does. It's later revealed that Sentinel has sided with Megatron, compromising the beliefs he taught Optimus in order to ensure the survival of the Cybertronian race. Optimus, after recovering from his shock, battles Sentinel, eventually executing him with (the now dead) Megatron's fusion shotgun.
- Transformers: Age of Extinction: By this time, the humans Optimus and the Autobots fought so hard to protect have turned on them, with a CIA faction actively working with their alleged Creators to hunt them down. And then Optimus learns about their role in Ratchet's death, to the point he is willing to up and leave the Earth, or even kill those responsible for ending his friend's life.
In Trick or Treat, Eddie, the protagonist was a fanboy of the film's Big Bad, Sammi Curr, who gradually shows his true colors over the film. When Eddie tries to break off contact with him, we get this gem.
You got to be loyal to your heroes...they can turn on you.
Uncle Sam: Jody is an extremely patriotic boy who idolizes his late maternal uncle, Master Sergeant Sam Harper, and wants to be just like him. He stops doing so when his mother and aunt reveal that Sam was actually an alcoholic psychopath who abused both of them to the extent they were afraid for their lives, and only joined the military so he could get a free pass to kill people.
Wall Street: Bud Fox's attitude towards his idol Gordon Gekko changes when he finds out that Gekko plans to dissolve the company and sell off Bluestar's assets in order to access cash in the company's pension plan, leaving the entire Bluestar staff (including Bud's father) unemployed. Racked with the guilt of being an accessory to Bluestar's impending destruction, Bud decides to disrupt Gekko's plans by driving up Bluestar's stock before manipulating it back down by secretly allowing Larry Wildman to buy a controlling stake in Bluestar at a discount. The sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps reveals that because of his actions, Gekko has been estranged with his family, primarily his daughter, as she blames him for her brother's suicide.
"It is me, your grandfather!" "I buried my grandfather." Ichiro and Mariko, respectively, later on in The Wolverine. Right before she stabs him in the throat. Also, Yukio's look right before the latter did it suggests that she felt disappointed realizing what kind of a person the man who saved her life is.
The World's End: A mutual example between Gary, and then the gang to him, especially Andy. Gary has the good old days so ingrained in his head that when he meets Andy, Steve, Oliver, Peter and Sam years later, he feels like he's talking to strangers. Whereas they are concerned that he's been doing nothing with his life and making self-destructive choices that have hindered any growth in him as a person. Gary ends up disappointed that his friends and the girl he fancied at school have changed and they're disappointed that he hasn't.
Randy Robinson in The Wrestler is this to his daughter, Stephanie. After disappointing her by missing out on his promise to have dinner with her, is abandoned by her for the final time with no chance of forgiveness, which leads to his final journey to self-destruction.

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