Note that Cenk's entire personality is to blow up and start screaming uncontrollably at anyone who disagrees with him.
So the fact that he wouldn't consider twisting a woman's arm behind her back and locking her in a room as abuse isn't surprising.
Baraka rolls in with razor-sharp arm blades and generations of Tarkatan pride behind him, only for Johnny Cage to erase his entire bloodline with a single legendary nut punch. That’s a level of disrespect that should be studied.
In Breaking Bad, Gustavo sits perfectly still and silent after being poisoned, likely to keep his heart rate low and slow the toxin’s spread through his body. It’s a subtle detail, but one that fits the show’s attention to realism and logic.