History CruelAndUnusualDeath / AlexRider

** Magnum Payne floats backwards into a zero-g floating knife, which impales him through the back of his head.

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* The [[BigBad Big Bads]]:

** Tom Turner and Belinda Troy (and a shark) are impaled by a set of underwater spikes.
** Conrad has his back broken by a large magnet -- because of all the metal in his body -- and then drowns because of the extra weight.

** Leonard Straik has a poisonous Cone Snail shoved down his throat.

** An unnamed security guard is consumed by carnivorous plants, after Alex accidentally pushes him into a patch of them.

** A scene in ''Stormbreaker'' sees him trapped in a car crushing machine.

** In Snakehead, Winston Yu decides to harvest his organs, but leave him alive - basically a living organ bag.

** A scene in ''Eagle Strike'' sees him trapped in a car crushing machine.

** Giovanni and Eduardo Grimaldi chase Alex down in a steam-powered locomotive. Alex fills a thermos with fuel and throws it into the train's stack, causing it to explode and derail the train, throwing them into the side of a mountain.

** Nadia Vole is stung to death by a Portuguese man-o-war
** Michael J. Roscoe falls sixty stories down an elevator shaft after accidentally stepping into a hologram of an elevator
** Tom Turner and Belinda Troy (and a shark) are impaled by a set of underwater spikes
** Conrad has his back broken by a large magnet (because of all the metal in his body) and then drowns because of the weight
** Charlie Roper is crushed in a giant bottle by falling quarters
** Max Grendel is stung by a suitcase full of scorpions
** Nile is sent back to Earth from space after being hit with a giant fireball
** Adam Wright has a hole blown in his chest by a medallion made of cesium while showering
** Magnum Payne floats backwards into a zero-g floating knife which impales him through the back of his head.

** Leonard Straik has a poisonous Cone snail shoved down his throat.

** An unnamed security guard is consumed by a carnivorous plant, after Alex accidentally pushes him in a patch of them
** Dragana Novak is stabbed up her nose and into her brain with sharpened wires

** In Stormbreaker, he is left at the mercy of the Portuguese man-o-war that would kill Vole.

** In Stormbreaker, he is left at the mercy of the Portuguese man-o-war that would kill Vole
** In Snakehead, Winston Yu decides to harvest his organs, but leave him alive - basically a living organ bag.
** A scene in ''Eagle Strike'' sees him trapped in a car crushing machine.

** In the first chapter of ''Crocodile Tears'' alone, a devastating nuclear disaster is set off. We hear what happens to those in the room where the first explosion is triggered.

The books, have had a large number of very graphic and almost cringe-worthy deaths:
* Nadia Vole is stung to death by a Portuguese man-o-war
* Michael J. Roscoe falls sixty stories down an elevator shaft
* Dr. Hugo Grief is blown up in a helicopter by a flying snowmobile
* Tom Turner and Belinda Troy (and a shark) are impaled by a set of underwater spikes
* Conrad has his back broken by a large magnet (because of all the metal in his body) and then drowns because of the weight
* Charlie Roper is crushed in a giant bottle by falling quarters
* Damien Cray is sucked into the engine of Air Force One with the remains being described as a "cloud of red gas"
* Max Grendel is stung by a suitcase full of scorpions
* Nile is sent back to Earth from space after being hit with a giant fireball
* Julia Rothman is crushed by a falling hot air balloon platform
* Adam Wright has a hole blown in his chest by a medallion made of cesium while showering
* Nikolai Drevin has the top half of his plane fall on them before it explodes
* Magnum Payne floats backwards into a zero-g floating knife which impales him through the back of his head.
* Winston Yu is killed by having every bone in his body smashed to bits by the vibrations of a bomb going off underwater as he's riding away in a yacht. The result is described as still looking like a human for roughly half a second before collapsing into an unrecognisable heap of skin and gore.
* In the first chapter of ''Crocodile Tears'' alone, a devastating nuclear disaster is set off. We hear what happens to those in the room where the first explosion is triggered.
* Myra Bennet is eaten by crocodiles.
* Desmond [=McCain=] gets blown up by a drum full of jet fuel.
* Erik Gunter gets stung by a scorpion AND smashed in the nose with a gun AND breaks his neck in a fall.
* Razim gets ''cooked from the inside out in a pile of salt.''
* Dragana Novak is stabbed up her nose and into her brain with sharpened wires

Even Alex Rider himself has been threatened with this. Most notably in Stormbreaker (where he is left at the mercy of the Portuguese man-o-war that would kill Vole) and Snakehead (Where Winston Yu decides to harvest his organs, but leave him alive). A scene in ''Eagle Strike'' even sees him trapped in a car crushing machine.

* Conrad has his back broken by a large magnet (because of all the metal in their body) and then drowns because of the weight

* In the first chapter of ''Crocodile Tears'' alone, a devastating nuclear disaster is set off. We hear what happens to those in the room where the first explosion is triggered. Graphically. ''The first chapter''.
* Myra Bennet is eaten by crocodiles,