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Many an OmnicidalManiac who CrossesTheLineTwice benefits from this trope. So does the AffablyEvil or EvillyAffable villian if they make the audience appericiate the killings they do.

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Many an OmnicidalManiac who CrossesTheLineTwice benefits from this trope. So does the AffablyEvil or EvillyAffable villian FauxAffablyEvil villain if they make the audience appericiate the killings they do.
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* ''WeekendAtBernies'' and its sequel, along with any film that uses [[{{ptitle1km7m0c9}}the same schtick]].

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* ''WeekendAtBernies'' ''Film/WeekendAtBernies'' and its sequel, along with any film that uses [[{{ptitle1km7m0c9}}the same schtick]].
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* ''[[{{Ptitlec2bovk1y}} Weekend at Bernie's]]'' and its sequel, along with any film that uses [[{{ptitle1km7m0c9}}the same schtick]].

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* ''[[{{Ptitlec2bovk1y}} Weekend at Bernie's]]'' ''WeekendAtBernies'' and its sequel, along with any film that uses [[{{ptitle1km7m0c9}}the same schtick]].
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* ''HyperdimensionNeptunia'' has this following exchange:
-->'''Jade''': I'm a member of the Guild. I live on Leanbox, but I don't follow Lady Green Heart...
-->'''Neptune''': ...Why're you telling me now? What's up with this?
-->'''Jade''': [[TooDumbToLive I... I'm into girls... like... Lady White Heart.]]
-->*grack*
-->'''IF''': ...And that's that. You finished him off.
-->'''Neptune''': Oops. Well, that was for ruining the moment.
** The crowner was that Compa [[CrowningMomentOfFunny can heal his wounds, but cannot undo his death flag.]]
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* Numerous times [[hottip:*: too many to list here]] on ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' has this trope been acted out by one of the performers.
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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Clue "Dadadadada! I.Am.Your singing telegram!" BANG! *Thud*]]

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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Clue php/Film/Clue "Dadadadada! I.Am.Your singing telegram!" BANG! *Thud*]]
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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Clue "Tadadadaaa! I.Am.Your singing telegram!" BANG! *Thud*]]

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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Clue "Tadadadaaa! "Dadadadada! I.Am.Your singing telegram!" BANG! *Thud*]]
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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Clue "Tadadada! I.Am.Your singing telegram!" BANG! *Thud*]]

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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Clue "Tadadada! "Tadadadaaa! I.Am.Your singing telegram!" BANG! *Thud*]]
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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Clue "Tadadada! I.Am.Your singing telegram!" BANG! *Thud*]]
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* ''Head Office'' kills off two characters within 20 minutes. The first one is RickMoranis's character, who dies of a heart attack after his blood pressure went too high from stress. The other one is Danny [=DeVito=]'s character, who jumps to his death from the building.

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* ''Head Office'' kills off two characters within 20 minutes. The first one is RickMoranis's character, who dies of a heart attack after his blood pressure went too high from stress. The other one is Danny [=DeVito=]'s character, who jumps to his death from the building. building into the fountain.
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* ''Head Office'' kills off two characters within 20 minutes. The first one is RickMoranis's character, who dies of a heart attack after his blood pressure went too high from stress. The other one is DannyDeVito's character, who jumps to his death from the building.

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* ''Head Office'' kills off two characters within 20 minutes. The first one is RickMoranis's character, who dies of a heart attack after his blood pressure went too high from stress. The other one is DannyDeVito's Danny [=DeVito=]'s character, who jumps to his death from the building.



* ''TropicThunder'' is violent and runs on RuleOfAudacity. So much that the only death on the movie is this: Damien has just finished giving a RousingSpeech, and then gets blown to bits by a landmine.

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* ''TropicThunder'' is violent and runs on RuleOfAudacity.RefugeInAudacity. So much that the only death on the movie is this: Damien has just finished giving a RousingSpeech, and then gets blown to bits by a landmine.
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* ''Head Office'' kills off two characters within 20 minutes. The first one is RickMoranis's character, who dies of a heart attack after his blood pressure went too high from stress. The other one is DannyDevito's character, who jumps to his death from the building.

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* ''Head Office'' kills off two characters within 20 minutes. The first one is RickMoranis's character, who dies of a heart attack after his blood pressure went too high from stress. The other one is DannyDevito's DannyDeVito's character, who jumps to his death from the building.
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* ''Head Office'' kills off two characters within 20 minutes. The first one is RickMoranis's character, who dies of a heart attack after his blood pressure went too high from stress. The other one is DannyDevito's character, who jumps to his death from the building.
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* "MysteryTeam''. "Someone stole that man's face." Rather unusual in that the characters usually react very seriously to death otherwise (although the line "Two dead bodies, that's my limit!" certainly qualifies as a joke).
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* One of the most well-known examples is from ''PulpFiction'':
--> '''Vincent''': "IJustShotMarvinInTheFace!"


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* Mob Boss Momo from ''GetShorty'' keels over with a HollywoodHeartAttack on recieving a ShockParty.
* Running Theme in ''TuckerAndDaleVersusEvil''. With just about ''every single character who dies.''


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* Monica Mancuso from ''LasVegas'' flies off the roof of the casino when a gust of wind catches the "winged-style" dress she was wearing. She flies around for about five minutes before crashing into a shoe store ''more than a mile away''. Characters spend the episode debating [[BeyondTheImpossible the impossiblity of it]], and buying shoes from the store.


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* Dean from ''{{Supernatural}}'' gets a ''whole series'' of funny deaths because of a [[GroundhogDayLoop Time Loop]].
* ''DeadLikeMe'' features a lot of these.
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* People die so many times in ''GhostTrick'' that even they can find their own deaths amusing if they're ludicrous enough. It helps that we know the deaths won't stick.
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* [[TotalDrama Those poor interns.]]
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->''Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.''
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Come on, admit it. [[SeenItAMillionTimes We've all seen it.]] Some [[{{Buttmonkey}} hapless loser]] or [[{{Mook}} faceless redshirt]] bites it in a [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon strange]] and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment unusual way]]. Maybe he had an [[{{Anvilicious}} anvil]] dropped on him, or better yet a [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge]]. Maybe he keeps getting killed every week by some monster, only to [[IGotBetter come back]] to be [[TheyKilledKenny killed off again]]. Perhaps he's [[TheWoobie small, furry]], and [[HappyTreeFriends cute]], yet the death is depicted as [[{{Gorn}} gory]] and defined as possible. Any way it happens, someone is going to chuckle... unless you happen to be a MoralGuardian or easy offended, in which case it's DudeNotFunny.

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Come on, admit it. [[SeenItAMillionTimes We've all seen it.]] Some [[{{Buttmonkey}} hapless loser]] or [[{{Mook}} faceless redshirt]] bites it in a [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon strange]] and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment unusual way]]. Maybe he had an [[{{Anvilicious}} [[AnvilOnHead anvil]] dropped on him, or better yet a [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge]]. Maybe he keeps getting killed every week by some monster, only to [[IGotBetter come back]] to be [[TheyKilledKenny killed off again]]. Perhaps he's [[TheWoobie small, furry]], and [[HappyTreeFriends cute]], yet the death is depicted as [[{{Gorn}} gory]] and defined as possible. Any way it happens, someone is going to chuckle... unless you happen to be a MoralGuardian or easy offended, in which case it's DudeNotFunny.



* ''TropicThunder'' has this all over the place, most hilariously when Damien has just finished giving a RousingSpeech, and then gets blown to bits by a landmine.

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* ''TropicThunder'' has this all over is violent and runs on RuleOfAudacity. So much that the place, most hilariously when only death on the movie is this: Damien has just finished giving a RousingSpeech, and then gets blown to bits by a landmine.



* ''HotFuzz'' Every death in this film is done in a weirdly twisted, but comical way.

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* ''HotFuzz'' Every ''HotFuzz'': every death in this film is done in a weirdly twisted, but comical way.



** [[CerebusEnding Unaverted?]]



* In {{The Vampire Diaries}}, Elijah knocking off Trevor's head? Harsh, but hilarious. Elijah forcing Slater to stake himself? Awful, but hilarious. Elijah ripping out two people's hearts at THE SAME TIME? Evil, but epic.

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* In {{The Vampire Diaries}}, ''TheVampireDiaries'', Elijah knocking off Trevor's head? Harsh, but hilarious. Elijah forcing Slater to stake himself? Awful, but hilarious. Elijah ripping out two people's hearts at THE SAME TIME? Evil, but epic.
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* ''{{Firefly}}'' features the villain of the week, Crow, being kicked into Serenity's engine intake by Mal. It's clearly played for comedy, and it is pretty funny.
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* A major factor in Jewish humor, medical humor, military humor, ect.

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* A major factor in Jewish humor, medical humor, military humor, ect.humor... in fact, just humor.
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* Also the whole point of the Department of {{MarySue}}s in the {{PPC}}.

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* Also the whole point of the Department of {{MarySue}}s Mary Sues in the {{PPC}}.
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* The sudden death (at her desk) of Don's ancient secretary Miss Blankenship on ''MadMen'' (in episode 4.09, "The Beautiful Girls") is played for some of the most ridiculous laughs the series has ever seen from start of the subplot (the discovery that she's dead) to the [[FunnyBackgroundEvent shunting around of her body in a rolling chair]] to avoid being seen by the clients. The subplot ends, however, on a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming very heartwarming moment]] from [[spoiler:her former lover]] Bert Cooper: "She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She's an astronaut."
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*In {{The Vampire Diaries}}, Elijah knocking off Trevor's head? Harsh, but hilarious. Elijah forcing Slater to stake himself? Awful, but hilarious. Elijah ripping out two people's hearts at THE SAME TIME? Evil, but epic.
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* A [[SavedByTheBell SBTB: The College Years]] episode featured the death of a professor followed by the usual wacky humor.
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* ''HotFuzz'' Every death in this film is done in a weirdly twisted, but comical way.


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* [[RedDwarf Arnold J. Rimmer]]. Twice.
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* [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=318 "You know what's funny?"]]
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* In the ''{{Friends}}'' episode "The One Where Heckles Dies", there is a bit of this. Mr. Heckles dies rapping a broom on the ceiling in an attempt to get the friends in the apartment above him to quieten down.
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* ''FinalDestination'' movies can be interpreted as rather dark comedies.
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Many an OmnicidalManiac who CrossesTheLineTwice benefits from this trope. So does the AffablyEvil or EvillyAffable villian if they make the audience appericiate the killings they do.

In RealLife, this can be a coping strategy for those close to death and/or the dying.


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* A major factor in Jewish humor, medical humor, military humor, ect.

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