snowcats6 t1_j2al6sb wrote on December 30, 2022 at 9:06 PM

Are these not also examples from Home Alone 2: Lost In New York? In which case, he would want to increase measures since they were resilient to his defenses the previous year. In fact, they even caught up to him and he was gonna get his fingers bitten off one by one until the old man saved him. Then he sees these guys a year later in a different city and knew what they were capable of and also realized he needed to up the ante.

Icy1551 t1_j2b8ohn wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:44 PM

I want someone to power scale the Old Man, dude had enough strength to do what 4 bricks at nearly terminal velocity, a couple dozen paint cans, a swinging metal pipe, an entire tool dresser, and a fuckin' blowtorch with one shovel swing.