Stranger Things
Catharsis Factor in this series.
- After Steve's Jerkass side really comes out via him both Slut-Shaming Nancy and going out of his way to insult Jonathan's family, it's extremely satisfying to see Jonathan give Steve an absolutely brutal beatdown, even if he gets arrested afterwards.
- Bet you never thought you'd cheer so loud for a child's arm being telekinetically snapped almost in half, complete with Sickening "Crunch!", did you? But boy oh boy, did the character have it coming.
- Also, the one attack by the monster that's more satisfying than scary? Its attack on Dr. Brenner.
- When El uses her powers to give Connie a Cruel and Unusual Death that involves her brains getting scrambled — it's incredibly cathartic especially since the woman killed Benny in cold blood right in front of El.
- Billy spends Season 2 as an antagonistic force looming over the heads of Max and Steve in particular. The audience is likely cheering along with the kids to finally give it to him. Likewise, Max being the one to force Billy to back down is a welcome sight after seeing her bearing the brunt of his abuse all season.
- Mayor Larry Kline is such a smarmy asshole that the only thing more enjoyable than Hopper beating the shit out of him in his own office (and almost cutting his fucking fingers off) is seeing him arrested by the Hawkins PD and dragged out in front of all the news cameras with a look of pure disbelief on his face.
- Nancy beating the complete crap out of (and later on killing) Bruce, the Hawkins newspaper reporter who kept mocking her and being a complete Hate Sink was borderline satisfying, especially when she bluntly tells him to "Go to hell". Equally satisfying is Jonathan, after suffering a vicious beatdown from a mind-flayed Holloway, turning the tables on the host body by stabbing him in the throat with a pair of scissors. It's even better because they're the same scissors Tom was trying to stab him with only seconds beforehand.
- Dustin straight-up killing the sociopathic Russian Torture Technician who was torturing Robin and Steve by electrocuting him with his own cattle prod.
- Hopper absolutely beating the shit out of Grigori in the funhouse, followed shortly thereafter by Joyce punching Mayor Kline in the face and then kicking him in the balls. The audience desperately needed that anger relief after Alexei's death.
- Hopper finally giving the impossibly strong and smug Grigori his complete dues by having him be ripped to shreds by the Soviet key attempting to open the Upside-Down is incredibly satisfying.
- After cruelly rejecting Dustin at the Snow Ball, it’s extremely satisfying when resident Hawkins Alpha Bitch Stacy have her drink explode in her face after sneering at Eleven and Max.
- After witnessing Angela constantly bully and humiliate El while also mocking the death of Hopper, it is deeply cathartic when El finally has enough and smashes the brat's face in with a roller skate. Some viewers will get dark satisfaction in watching Angela's Smug Snake demeanor disappear as she collapses into a puddle of tears (and blood).
- After violently murdering multiple characters, it is enormously satisfying to see Vecna sustain his first injury as Max is able to escape from him with the help of her friends.
- After all the crap Yuri put the adult characters through for his own petty gain, it's immensely satisfying when Murray turns the tables on and later impersonates him.
- Although he probably didn't really deserve it, Number Two being tortured by Brenner can still be rather satisfying after the humiliation and bullying he inflicted on Eleven.
- While he has yet to face the consequences of all the things he's done so far, seeing Sullivan stranded with his convoy at the base thanks to the copter crashing on the vehicles and being forced to watch El and the others escape is satisfying enough for the moment.
- After watching him threaten to break her arms, seeing Andy gets hit in the groin and then face by Erica is deeply satisfying to watch.
- Even if he thought he was saving Max, seeing Jason get beaten down by Lucas after all the troubles he caused throughout the show is immensely satisfying to watch. And considering even more so he was the reason Eddie was labeled as the culprit in the first murders by Vecna simply because he was a nonconformist, it's not hard to see why many people didn't cry when Jason was disintegrated when Vecna's gate opened.
- Vecna being burned and shot several times after everything he did throughout the series might quite possibly be the most satisfying scene in the show, especially learning how he was responsible for many bad things that happened throughout the series.
