After all, the comeuppance of the Big Bad is the good part of any horror story.
It even has a comeuppance ending, and the bad guy is killed.
Taranto's “comeuppance” idea rests on two odd assumptions/insinuations.
Obama got his comeuppance in 2010 when the GOP won the House.
There is, at the end, no comeuppance, just a sense of the stealth poison of materiality—its psychic numbing.
The Fromm family eventually did get their comeuppance, however belatedly.
They get their comeuppance because they refuse to work together and are selfish people who cannot follow directions.
You young smart Alecks will get your comeuppance, muttered the man.
also comeupance, 1859, presumably rooted in verbal phrase come up "present oneself for judgment before a tribunal" + -ance.
noun
A deserved chastening, esp some event that checks a wrongdoer; just desserts (1958+)
