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* '''Webcomic/WildeLife''' At the end of Chapter 10, Eliza Proctor, a powerful witch and guardian of the area, and Oscar, a normal guy, discuss Eliza's actions in the previous chapter with [[spoiler:an animal person who is infected with an incurable illness called "The Madness" which slowly corrupts and destroys the person from within. After killing the corrupted person, she turned to Clifford, a teenage animal person the corrupted one had been stalking, demanding to know if he was bitten and only dropping her sword when he assures her he wasn't]]. Oscar now seriously wonders if she would ever kill their friend if he too was corrupted. Eliza gives a blunt "Yes."
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* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', Black Mage mentions that he killed his own brother, who was blind. When questioned about it, he responds that it was an act of mercy, and it would've been far more cruel to let his brother live after what BM had done to his eyes. Black Mage gets points for the most sadistic and needlessly elaborate "mercy kill" of all time; he trapped his blind brother in an uneven room filled with sharp corners and tiger pits. Then pushed him into one of the tiger pits when it looked like he was going to make it across.
* ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'':
** It's revealed that [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Walter and Alucard]] did this to [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster Jeeves]] when he was mortally wounded in World War II, since he could not fall into the hands of the Nazis and Jeeves refused to be turned into a vampire. Officially, he's listed as MIA, presumed dead.
** Walter himself ended up mercy killed when he was brainwashed by [[spoiler: the I-Jin of Jeeves]] to work for Millennium. His brainwashing could be broken only temporarily, his choices were death or being forever binded to Integra. He chose death. [[spoiler: To make it even sadder, his own daughter had to do the deed.]]
* In chapter 8 of ''Webcomic/Aurora2019'', Alinua puts a feral chimera out of its misery by magically draining the life from it.
* In ''Webcomic/TheBeastLegion'' , [[http://www.thebeastlegion.com/comic/issue-04-page-37-xeus-decides/#.VNYWxvmUd8E upon defeat]] Gorgorath pleads to Xeus to free him from his cursed existence.
* The [[BigBad Sovereign of Sorrow]], from ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'', apparently wants to do this to ''[[OmnicidalManiac everyone]]''.
* In ''Webcomic/CuantaVida'', BLU Medic does this to BLU Sniper after Sniper is DrivenToSuicide after losing his lover and then his eyes. He ''claims'' to have done this at the Sniper's request, but a little while after that he tries to do it again when the BLU Scout gets [[GameBreakingInjury a crippling injury on his leg]]; "a Scout that can't run is a dead weight". The Scout was ''not'' consulted about this beforehand, and fortunately the BLU Spy is able to intervene.
* ''Webcomic/DeepRise'': In a civilization of immortals, this is more often than not the way to go.
* Parodied in ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'', [[http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20100801.html Alien Shout Out ahoy]].
* Mr. Rovainen from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040324 does it]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040326 preemptively]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'':
** When an owlbear savages several prison guards working for Dellyn, he orders his men to capture it alive, intending to subject it to several months of torture as punishment. When none of the guards are looking, one of the prisoners reaches out of his cell and {{Neck Snap}}s the beast.
** Done unintentionally by [[PropheticName Saves-A-Fox]]. In an attempt to ScrewDestiny, she killed the fox she was supposed to save, and later found out it was actually suffering from a disease that sounds suspiciously similar to rabies.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** After her lusus is left crushed and dying under a landslide, Vriska puts her out of her misery by beheading her.
** In in the trolls' session, this situation comes up between [[spoiler:Tavros and Vriska. Vriska is beaten within an inch of her life by Aradia, and Tavros manages to get her to her Quest Bed, which will ensure her resurrection and ascension to higher power. She then asks Tavros to kill her himself, doing it quickly so that she doesn't have to die a slow, agonizing death of bleeding out. Tavros, however, is unable to bring himself to do it, and runs away crying. Vriska never really forgives him for this "moment of weakness".]]
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/TheLastHalloween''. It turns out that Robert [[spoiler:is a monster who killed his human only after being asked to do so to end his human's suffering]]. The problem is, [[spoiler:the aforementioned suffering was Robert's fault in the first place]].
* In ''Webcomic/MenInHats'', Aram [[http://meninhats.com/d/20040802.html uses this as an analogy]] to justify shredding Beriah's report:
-->'''Aram''': See me shredding the papers? This is the only humane way to deal with them. Like putting a dog to sleep instead of letting it run around with a tumour in its brain.\\
'''Beriah''': ...Is that why Scruffy's gone?\\
'''Aram''': No, that dog was just ugly.
* In the finale of ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', as [[spoiler: Dave is at the most incoherent, babbling, falling apart stage of his [[MadScientist mental]] [[FreakOut breakdown]], ''Madblood'']] attempts this via a headshot. The shooter being a hopeless melodrama queen, he gives a speech. Having been through ''exactly the same thing'', he makes it short.
--> '''[[spoiler: Madblood]]''': He would do the same for me.
** By the way, the MercyKill ''does not work'', because [[spoiler: Dave's just [[BrainUploading uploaded himself]] into Lovelace's mainframe]].
* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0133.html This strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''.
* Spoofed in ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}''. When Mr. Spender is attacked by a bat monster, it digs its teeth into his shoulder. A teary-eyed Isabel attempts to put him out of his misery, prompting Spender to scream "ISABEL NO MERCY KILLS!"
* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' -- [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/11/14/ "A Ring And A Prayer"]].
* ''Webcomic/RubyQuest'':
** Bella was trapped at her station by life support, watching the Metal Glen degenerate into total chaos. She's been there for a year. [[ICannotSelfTerminate She actively helps Ruby and Tom get to her so they can finally kill her]]. It's a TearJerker when they do.
** It's subverted with Stitches and Jay, because the players went OffTheRails. [[spoiler: With Stitches, they were supposed to kill him after he attacked them (having no other way to put him down), and get the key to a medicine cabinet holding a jar of tranquilizer- [[SequenceBreaking the cabinet that]] [[DungeonBypass Tom had already bashed open]] [[CuttingTheKnot with the Bludgeony Caneshovel]]. Because they had the tranquilizer, they were able to subdue him with that, stuff him in a locker, [[VideoGameCaringPotential and give him a picture of the Metal Glen's patients together and happy]]. It was a good thing they did that too, since Stitches saved Tom from having to make a HeroicSacrifice against Ace at the end. Jay was trapped in the water filtration system by hooks, and players decided to save him instead of kill him, making him their EleventhHourRanger.]]
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'':
** After hearing that Zoe is supposedly spending her days with torturous wounds that will never heal, Riff states that he is going to do this to Zoe.
** Gwynn gets revenge against a cruel zombie named Jane, and Jane is eventually reduced to nothing but a disembodied head. Torg eventually recovers her head and uses it for his usual pranks, causing Jane to beg for death. After a HeelRealization, realizing that zombies are tormented souls and not playthings, he finally decides to give her one.
* In ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', Quentyn's horse Ember has been gutted and had its back broken by a dragon, and cannot be saved, [[TearJerker only spared.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Thunderstruck}}'' offers [[http://talesfromthevault.com/thunderstruck/comic280.html a straight example]], with a good ol' NeckSnap being the method used.
* ''Webcomic/Trevor2020'': Some of the Medical team suspect Dr. Maddison did this to Trevor to end the project and their [[spoiler: military]] contracts.
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Cutter's victims who were cut open to smuggle the first silver and then warped to create a body for the thing, using their suffering as fuel, are killed by Toma and Duane as there is no saving them but they can be freed of their suffering and they hope it will break the first silver weapon.
* '''Webcomic/WildeLife''' At the end of Chapter 10, Eliza Proctor, a powerful witch and guardian of the area, and Oscar, a normal guy, discuss Eliza's actions in the previous chapter with [[spoiler:an animal person who is infected with an incurable illness called "The Madness" which slowly corrupts and destroys the person from within. After killing the corrupted person, she turned to Clifford, a teenage animal person the corrupted one had been stalking, demanding to know if he was bitten and only dropping her sword when he assures her he wasn't]]. Oscar now seriously wonders if she would ever kill their friend if he too was corrupted. Eliza gives a blunt "Yes."
--> '''Eliza:''' How I '''felt''' about it didn't matter. Sometimes mercy takes the shape of a knife. To save him from [[AFateWorseThanDeath that]], I would have done it. [[TheFettered And I would have carried it with me for the rest of my life]].
* In ''Webcomic/TheZombieHunters'', the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent "Mercy" zombies]] perform arguably the creepiest Mercy Kill ever. They only approach sick, wounded or dying humans, and [[SuperPersistentPredator follow them]], [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou protecting them]] from ''other'' more [[SuperPoweredMooks violent]] breeds, until they collapse. Mercies then deliver a single bite to a vital artery, and [[PietaPlagiarism hold]] [[CradlingYourKill the dying victim]], gently stroking their hair and cooing softly. They'll even remain with their victim for hours [[ViralTransformation after they turn]]. [[AllThereInTheManual Website materials]] state that some traumatized [[ActionSurvivor survivors]] seek them out as a [[ICannotSelfTerminate form of suicide]], hence the name. These same supplementary materials recommend that human rescuers ''euthanize'' many survivors of [[TheBerserker Berserker]] zombies, who [[AxCrazy love to]] [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat]] their victims before biting them.
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* ''{{WebVideo/AFK}}'': Q euthanizes a gamer who's been stabbed, robbed and left for dead in the woods.
* ''Blog/AskSeriousRainbow'': Initially, Serious thought the Pinkie of her past life (aka Green Eyes) had killed her a la ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'' Pinkie. The more time passed and the more memories she got back, she began to realize that Green Eyes had ''actually'' done this after their ''Twilight'' went insane and mutilated past-life Serious, in order to spare Serious from a slow and painful death. Serious and Green Eyes do [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] to note the first sentence had been the initial plan but the person drawing the blog changed their mind.
-->'''Green Eyes:''' I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.\\
'''Serious:''' Goodbye, I love you guys.
* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': [[spoiler:The death of Cognouza is framed this way. An EldritchAbomination made of thousands of forcibly fused splintered souls in the form of a mutated, eternally hungry city made of flesh, the Mighty Nein can't think of anything to do except end their suffering. When they finally kill Lucien and destroy the last thing keeping the city together, they hear a chorus of "Thank you"s from the people of Cognouza as the souls leave towards the afterlife.]]
* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'':
** In the match between [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] and [[Manga/{{Akira}} Tetsuo]], Tetsuo enters his [[OneWingedAngel "Ego Death" form]] and [[PowerIncontinence telepathically begs for help]]. Magneto, who was [[WellIntentionedExtremist implied to have been holding back the whole time]], goes through a complete 180 and does everything in his power to end the fight quickly before giving him a painless end after [[GodzillaThreshold holding back the new Big Bang he created]].
--->'''Tetsuo:''' ...Thank you.\\
'''Magneto:''' [[[AlasPoorVillain sighs]]] You are welcome.
** The match between [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Obito Uchiha]] ends with Obito trapping Vader in a LotusEaterMachine that has him reunited with [[TheLostLenore Padme]], and wishing him peace before finishing him off quickly.
* The main page picture, "Last order" is from Website/{{DeviantArt}} and revolves around this trope.
* In the ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'' Patient Zero campaign, there's a level where you need to eliminate people infected by a terrible virus in order to prevent it from spreading. When ''WebVideo/OutsideXbox'' had a go, [[TokenEvilTeammate Jane Douglas]] dubbed the resultant instances of mass murder as "mercy sprees".
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is on the ground, sobbing and begging for the Devil to kill him in ''Film/SonOfTheMask''. Nothing ''painful'' is happening to him, mind you, he just wants out of life [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee again]].
* ''WebVideo/{{Petscop}}'': Toneth's description has a story about a person whose dog gets hit by a car and survives, and they end up being the only person who [[ShootTheDog still wants to put it down]]. This story ends up [[WallOfText going off the text box because of how long it is]].
-->''It makes me think about the dog actually. Because when the car hit him I thought "at least it will be over soon." He survived it, and I was the only one who still wanted to put him down.''
* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', this happens to [[spoiler:the now-human Penny]] at the end of Volume 8. [[spoiler:Despite having the power of the Winter Maiden, Cinder's Grimm Arm is able to mortally wound her. Jaune tries to use his Semblance to heal her, but she tells him there's no time and subtly requests him to kill her with his sword so she can transfer the Maiden Powers to Winter. Jaune goes through with it, screaming in despair as he performs the dreaded action.]]
* ''Literature/SailorNothing'' combines this with [[spoiler:EnemyWithout. It doesn't work, however]] -- Himei has come to believe that there's hope for her to have a life that ISN'T poor, nasty, brutish, and short after all, [[spoiler:and manages to muster the HeroicResolve necessary to activate her UnstoppableRage and kill her Yamiko.]]
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* ''Website/{{Serina}}'':
** The pastoralist daydreamers will kill their nops before eating them rather than just eating them alive like their seastriker ancestors would've, despite the fact that they barely feel or respond to pain.
** Blaze, a family trunko, chooses to put the last scissortooth out of its misery quickly rather than just leave it to starve to death over hours due to developing empathy for "biters" through all her years hunting them, and despite the fact that it was her idea to systematically exterminate "biters" for the sake of the family in the first place.
** The reapers (a species of sapient aukvulture) are culturally opposed to killing for survival; the main exception to this is killing the already dying to ease suffering.
* ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': The main antagonist of the Genesis Arc is Zero [[note]][=Supermarioglitchy0=][[/note]], who has possessed their friend and former celebrity Axol. Zero manages to [[BodyHorror mutate his body]] with his features. Their method of slaying Zero was to have someone travel inside the beast and attempt to free him. Melony, Axol's girlfriend, takes to the mission and tries to free him, with no luck. Axol tells her that the only way to save the world is by sacrificing him, but not before a tearful montage of their time together.
* In ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' version one, after having gotten separated from the Intrepid Six and tortured by Cody Jenson, Marcus Roddy finally stumbles across his group again at the river, and after some of his wounds have been treated he goes to rest while everyone else continues their business. However, unknown to them, he had been given a severe concussion, and eventually fell into a coma. After they notice that he had somehow slept through everything that had happened since his arrival, including a few gunfights, they check up on him and discover what has happened. This leads to some debate, but eventually Adam shoots him instead of leaving him to be eaten alive by animals.
** Another instance happens in version three, between Will and Christian. Christian had been severely wounded by Bobby Jacks earlier, and even though they escaped his injury became steadily worse over the time they spent traveling, and eventually a large rat-like creature appeared when they stopped to rest and attacked him, viciously tearing into the wound before Will kills it. Unable to take the pain any longer and knowing he's lost too much blood to survive even if the wound were treated, Christian asks Will to shoot him. He does.
** Further examples include Serenity Halos, who suffered a grievous gunshot wound at the hands of Blood Boy, which eventually got worse and worse until, when she finally was reunited with her boyfriend Steve Digaetano, she begged for him to kill her. And Jimmy Trejo, who was fatally wounded in a fight with Harry Tsai and asked for one of his traveling companions, Laeil Burbank, to kill him rather than let him die slowly and painfully. In V4, Adrian Staib begs Samantha Ridley to finish him off after he falls down a hill and paralyzes his arms and legs.
* ''Literature/VoidDomain'': Eva comes across a woman who has been tortured constantly for potentially centuries. She puts her out of her misery. [[spoiler: However, her motivations were less pure. She needed the woman as HumanResources and had previously passed by a number of other torture victims, leaving them alone.]]
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':
** When Skitter sees [[BodyHorror what Bonesaw did to Grue]], Ballistic offers to kill him, but Skitter refuses, wanting to find some way to avoid it.
** At the end of Noelle's rampage, after Noelle has almost completely given in to her SuperpoweredEvilSide, the last thing Sundancer does before [[spoiler:returning to Earth Aleph]] is burn her to death with her sun.
** The protagonist herself shoots [[spoiler:Aster Anders]], a ''toddler'', to prevent her from suffering a FateWorseThanDeath at the hands of the Slaughterhouse Nine. This is debatable however as her paranoia and fear about the coming end of the world could just as easily be the reason why she killed her, as it was a possibility [[spoiler:Aster]] might end up being the cause. [[spoiler: She's not.]]
** Later, Contessa does this to [[spoiler:Khepri]], after her mind has degraded to the point that she can no longer think in terms that don't imply her planned conquest of all possible Earths, and she is briefly able to signal her approval through refusing Contessa's offer of help. [[spoiler: Subverted in the epilog, which reveals that Taylor survived and was somehow restored to sanity, albeit with her powers seemingly lost forever.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS1E2TroubleInLumpySpace Trouble in Lumpy Space]]", there's a conversation where Finn thinks Jake (in the throes of the Lumps) is about to request this of Finn, should he go completely Lumpy. Yes. They actually got away with referencing this. It's never actually stated, and it turns out that Jake just wanted Finn to still be friends with a Lumpy Jake. "What did you think I was saying?"
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "Francine's Flashback", Stan tells the story of how he met Francine: he found her as a transient on the side of a road and after picking her up accidentally hit a raccoon. Seeing it in pain, [[MoeGreeneSpecial he shot it in the eye]] and she fell in love with him after seeing his selfless act. When Stan accidentally erases her memory of the past 20 years, he tries to jog it by doing the same with another raccoon who's clearly still healthy, which ends up just looking like attempted murder, and Francine leaves after deciding that he's insane.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Parodied when Yakko, Wakko, and Dot have lassoed a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Jerry Lewis-style]] comedian into filming their movie ''[[Film/OldYeller Old Screamer]]'', with the comedian playing the dog. When Yakko sadly explains that they have to put the dog out of his misery, Wakko seems sad for a moment, and then (Once Wakko has been given a puppy to replace Old Screamer), to the comedian's horror, cheerfully pulls out a HyperspaceMallet to do the job...
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E8NewKidneyInTown New Kidney in Town]]", when [[FatIdiot Peter]] damages his kidney [[TooDumbToLive attempting to make homemade Red Bull using kerosene]], Lois asks if there's an alternative to him taking dialysis. Dr. Hartman says that there is and holds a revolver up to Peter's temple before Lois stops him.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]:''
** Shayera does this for the resurrected (but now an EmptyShell) Solomon Grundy in what is one of the most [[TearJerker tear jerking]] scenes in the series.
--->'''Doctor Fate:''' The beast knows only rage and seeks only Oblivion. [[AntiMagic Your mace]] may be the one object on Earth that can grant him peace.\\
'''John Stewart:''' What are you saying?\\
'''Shayera:''' Your favorite movie's ''Old Yeller'', you know exactly what he's saying.
** Darkseid, being the embodiment of unfiltered, brutal tyranny for the sake of it, views these as a reward.
--->'''Darkseid:''' It seems I have [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor you]] to thank for my resurrection. Though your world will suffer slowly, I grant ''you'' a quick death.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
** Parodied in the sketch "Franchise/ToyStory 4" where Woody [[VorpalPillow smothers Buzz with a pillow]] after [[Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest he's effectively lobotomized]] when a now college-aged Andy turns him into a bong.
** Similarly parodied with Gary the Stormtrooper, who attempts to give one to an Ewok he'd accidentally run over with a speeder. Key word being ''[[BloodyHilarious attempts]]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'':
** In "[[Recap/SamuraiJackS1E10JackAndTheLavaMonster Jack and the Lava Monster]]", a Viking chieftain has his family and village destroyed by Aku and is imprisoned in a jewel and cast into a mountain. Now turned into a monster of stone and lava, he requests this from Jack after he eludes the traps he put forth to achieve [[AGoodWayToDie a warrior's death]] to enter Valhalla and greet his comrades and loved ones. Jack is able to achieve this, giving the Viking a happy ending to his tale.
** [[Recap/SamuraiJackS5E9C The penultimate episode]] has [[spoiler: Ashi begging Jack to kill her as Aku's evil begins to overwhelm her. Jack can't bring himself to do it and surrenders, Aku taking his sword in triumph]].
* ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'': "[[Recap/Sealab2021S4E11MobySick Moby Sick]]" centers around a whale named Abelard asking Quinn to kill him because he has a terminal case of whale cancer. Quinn spends the episode wondering if he could really kill a whale while others debate on the morality of giving Abelard his Mercy Kill. [[spoiler: In the end, Quinn does decide to go through with it, but before he can, Marco reveals that he'd killed Abelard in his desire to eat the whale cancer ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]).]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Parodied when a flashback shows grade school-age Homer and Chief Wiggum playing Cops and Robbers; Homer, the robber, is wounded, and begs Wiggum for a Mercy Kill.
** Parodied again in one episode, where Homer -- after a surgery -- turns down the drink that Moe wanted to give to him. Barney immediately shouts "I can't stand to see him like that." and proceeds to (try to) [[VorpalPillow smother Homer with a pillow]]. (A ShoutOut to ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'')
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'': "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E2Yesteryear Yesteryear]]" has this trope as the critical decision Spock as a child had to make concerning his mortally wounded pet, I-Chaya. When Spock decided that putting him down was the most humane and logical choice, that was the moment he embraces the traditional teachings of Surak of logic and emotional control.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E5LandingAtPointRain Landing at Point Rain]]", when Ki-Adi and the clones exit the caves after clearing off a Geonosian blockade with flamethrowers, some troopers are seen using their blasters to put a number of burning, still-living Geonosians out of their misery.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': When Silas was [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated almost killed]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext by Nemesis Prime]], he turned the corpse of Breakdown into his new body and tried to join the Decepticons...who, due to [[EvenEvilHasStandards anger/utter horror at what had happened to Breakdown]], instead turn him into Knockout's personal science experiment, subjecting him to what appear to be painful experiments. When he's finally killed by Airachnid, it's portrayed as this trope.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':
** In "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS1E1DiaDeLosDangerous Dia de los Dangerous!]]", the latest Monarch henchman Speedy is caught in a chokehold by Brock Sampson as he is put into a temporary coma, since they can't get him to let go and that Speedy is suffering badly one of them performs a mercy kill on him by shooting him in the neck.
** Discussed in another episode when Hank drinks Goliath serum and believes he will eventually explode. Hank asks Brock to kill him before that happens, and Brock assures that it won't be necessary since they'll find a cure. Hank is comforted, but he can't help but ask Brock how he would kill him if it ever became necessary. Brock ''immediately'' tells Hank he'd snap his neck and that it'd be a quick and painless death. Hank is a little unnerved by how quickly he got an answer, since it means Brock's thought about it before.
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** '''Taekwondo''': if neither combatant KO's the other within three two-minute rounds, the winner is determined by whoever scored more points throughout the match. However, if one combatant accrues a 20 point lead at any time after the second round ends, they are declared the winner there. For reference, the most points that can be scored in taekwondo at any time is 4 points for a spinning kick to the head, so trying to do that five times in a row within two minutes without conceding even a punch to the torso is presumed impossible.
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* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': The priesthood of Kelemvor, divine Judge of the Dead, hold this as part of their - and ''only'' their - sacred duty, when presented with someone in an AndIMustScream situation.
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