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** [[Characters/SouthParkKennyMcCormick Kenny McCormick]] in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness first few episodes]]. "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E1CartmanGetsAnAnalProbe Cartman Gets an Anal Probe]]" had him blasted by aliens, trampled by a herd of cows, and finally, ran over by Officer Barbrady chasing said cows, with only the latter killing him. In "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E2WeightGain4000 Weight Gain 4000]]", he is crushed by a teepee, but doesn't die until Mr. Garrison (whom was actually aiming for Kathie Lee Gifford) shoots him, which sends him to slide down a flagpole. "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E3Volcano Volcano]]" shows Kenny crushed by a flaming boulder, but he emerges out of it alive, only for his arm to catch on fire, as the boulder rolls back onto him. Towards the end of the episode, it is shown that Kenny, somehow, survived the whole ordeal, only for him to be shot by a stray bullet from Ned's hunting rifle, which finally kills him.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' did this hilarious in their TonightSomeoneDies episode, when Ponce de Leon, serial litterer, is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoisted By His Own Petard]]: His wrists are bound by beer can holders, his skin is slashed by razor-sharp candy wrappers, a plastic bag flies onto his head, he slips on some garbage, cracks his head on a glass bottle, and finally drowns in a bag full of his own blood.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' did this hilarious in their TonightSomeoneDies episode, when Ponce de Leon, serial litterer, is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoisted By His Own Petard]]: His wrists are bound by beer can holders, his skin is slashed by razor-sharp candy wrappers, a plastic bag flies onto his head, he slips on some garbage, and finally drowns in a bag full of his own blood.

* Mrs. Tweedy from ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''. She seems at first to get the DisneyVillainDeath treatment but ends up landing head-first into the pie machine's gravy valve while boiling hot gravy rises up towards her. Somehow, she even manages to survive the pie machine's explosion, only for Mr. Tweedy to literally slam the door on her. Even then, her fate is left ambiguous.

'''This is a DeathTrope, so [[SpoileredRotten EXPECT SPOILERS!]]'''

* Hagire Rinichiro of "Manga/DeadmanWonderland" is shot point-blank in the chest by Ganta's [[HandCannon Ganbare gun]] (an evolved branch of sin capable of destroying buildings and one-shotting anyone unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of its projectile) with the blast sending him straight into Senji's blade, losing half of his limbs before falling from a great height and possibly being crushed under debris. Despite the punishment, Hagire survives long enough to [[SelfSurgery patch himself up]] and reappear for [[ClimaxBoss one last round]] [[OneManArmy against multiple deadmen]] until his defense is broken and he's flung into the air, stabbed and incinerated before finally being put out of his misery with a headshot from Ganta.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Each individual member of [[Characters/AmphibiaTheCore the Core]] has died once of old age already. In the modern day, it is first defeated in single combat by Sasha who severs its connection to its host, then utterly obliterated by Anne using the full power of the calamity gems.

* ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'':
** This is the best way to describe the death of Shockwave. He takes concentrated fire from NEST and all the Autobots, badly damaging him and leaving his eye hanging out. He still has the power to fight, even when Optimus then punches half of his side off. It takes Optimus ripping his head apart and tearing out his eye to finally kill him.
** Brawl from [[Film/{{Transformers}} the first movie]] is even worse in this regard. He gets one of his missile pods ripped of by Jazz, Blasted several times by Jazz and Ironhide, pumped full sabots rounds (which is an ''anti-tank round'' for some context) by Lennox's team, has one of his arms cut off by Ratchet before getting knocked down. He gets up later and take several more sabot rounds and blast by Bumblebee before finally dying. Surprisingly nobody seems to think they need to do [[Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter Tommy Jarvis]] when his torso is noticeably twitching.

** Tragically, Ratchet has the same fate in Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction He gets blasted with plastic explosives, shot with multiple missiles, gets his leg blasted off, blasted by Lockdown's Face-Gun so badly his torso barely recognizable, and gets his [[AndShowItToYou Spark ripped out of his chest]]

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': In the battle of Boston alone, where he finally meets his end, [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] [[spoiler:is mauled half a dozen times by Godzilla, blasted again and again by a super-charged atomic breath, thrown into buildings, and the foundation of the city. What finally does Ghidorah in is when Godzilla's Fire form vents nuclear heat with enough force to level Boston, ''twice'', resulting in Ghidorah's side heads and most of his body being incinerated by the blasts. And after ''that'', Godzilla still has to stomp on Ghidorah's still alive body and point-blank him with another blast of nuclear heat, and ''finally'' Godzilla roasts the remaining head with an atomic blast which goes up the head's neck from the cut while it's held in Godzilla's jaws]]. {{Justified|Trope}}, as Ghidorah's HealingFactor practically ''requires'' his death to be this.

* In ''Film/TrueRomance'', after Alabama is beaten enough by Virgil, she stabs him in the foot with a corkscrew, sets him on fire with an AerosolFlamethrower, hits his head with both a toilet lid and a bust of Elvis, and then grabs a shotgun to finish him off. And even after Virgil's dead, Alabama hits the corpse with the unloaded weapon for good measure!

# [[RuleOfFunny It's]] [[BlackComedy funny.]]

* A ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch features a man trying to shoot a pursuing werewolf. The werewolf tells the man that he can only be killed by a silver bullet. The man's response: Whipping out a chain gun and [[MoreDakka blasting the werewolf with it long enough]] to only leave behind a [[LudicrousGibs thick red paste]] which the man shovels into a bucket, pours gasoline over, [[KillItWithFire sets on fire]], snorts the ashes like cocaine, [[ToiletHumour shits it all out]], and flushes it down the toilet where we see the inner workings of a sewage treatment plant going to work on the remains.
-->[[GameMaster "The book says he's still not dead!]] [[InsaneTrollLogic It HAS to be a silver bullet!"]]

* Rasputin pulls this yet again in the first volume of ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'', when he is harpooned through the chest and then incinerated and ''still'' doesn't go down completely until the eponymous big red guy [[HeadCrushing crushes his still-ranting and raving skull]] with his Right Hand of Doom. And even then his ghost comes back a few time to plot revenge against H.B. and friends.
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'' has a bunch:

* ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX'':
** "In the Beginning" has Frank Castle fighting a mobster's insane muscular lackey Pittsy. After trading punches (and shivs) with him, Frank tosses him out of a window, where he lands several stories down onto a spiked wrought iron fence, impaling him through the torso. Frank then jumps from the window and lands on the thug. Later, the thug (fence still jutting through him), stumbles towards Frank; who [[ChunkySalsaRule blasts him in the face with a shotgun.]] Even then, Frank has to mentally reassure himself that the next steps the guy takes are just reflexive. \\\
When Frank later "meets" the lackey's sister, after gunning her down he makes a point of emptying the clip into her, just to make sure.
** Even more ridiculous is [[WorthyOpponent Barracuda]]. Over the course of several fights, Frank stabs him, gouges his eye out, knocks out his teeth four times, cuts off the fingertips of his left hand, strangles him with barbed wire, shoots him point blank in the groin, chest, and face with a shotgun, tosses him into shark-infested waters, blows him up with a claymore, fractures his skull with a wrench, bites off another one of his fingers, breaks his arm, bites a chunk out of his face, stabs him again, hooks up a car battery to his testicles for an hour and a half, shoots him with an M-60, breaks his nose, tears off said nose with pliers, [[OnlyAFleshWound cuts off his arm with an axe]], cuts the remaining hand off with the next swing, shoots him in the throat and finally [[ChunkySalsaRule shoots his head to bits with an AK-47]], then [[KillItWithFire lights the bits on fire just to be sure.]]
** Punisher himself spends about the entire "Homeless" arc dying. Still wounded from the Bullseye fight, he fights Elektra, getting stabbed and beaten. Then he is ambushed at his former home by the Kingpin and despite getting shot about a dozen times he manages to kill the thugs and then fights the Kingpin, who flees into the city where Punisher follows him and executes him, then goes all the way back to his home and dies there. Keep in mind that he is also [[OldSuperhero 65 years old]] and has been a vigilante for about 36 years, probably having been shot and wounded probably hundreds of times during that.
-->'''Nick Fury:''' Autopsy's taking forever. I asked the coroner for a cause of death and he just laughed. He's up to eight pages of injuries with no end in sight.
* [[spoiler: Black Noir]] in ''ComicBook/TheBoys''. [[spoiler: After killing [[BigBad Homelander]] he drags himself out of the White House with half of his head missing, his limbs burned to the bone, and his guts hanging out behind him. Then, he was continuously shot at by a full platoon of marines (including some tanks), leaving him with no hands, no feet, no ab muscles, one arm missing, and his entire body pierced with more holes than [=SpongeBob=], and he still managed to stand up. ''Then'', Butcher came at him, cracked open his skull with a crowbar, and ripped out a large chunk of his brain, and it wasn't enough to take him down. ''And then'', Butcher crushed the brain chunk in his hand in front of Black Noir's eyes, and ''only then'' he finally died.]]

* The Anti-Monitor in ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. Jiminy Christmas, but he was a doozy to take down, and then to make him ''stay'' down: First, he was assaulted by pretty much every last surviving hero from several universes (which did dick-all); the first one to get to him was Doctor Light, who hit him with the energy of a ''star'' after he had his power drained by Alex Luthor. Then, he was poisoned by Earth's wizards, who had magically altered his minions, the shadow demons, which he absorbed to replenish his power. Then, Franchise/{{Superman}} hit him with a bunch of asteroids and a ''moon''. When he came back for more, frickin' ''{{ComicBook/Darkseid}}'' blasted him using Alex as a conduit, which caused the Anti-Monitor to fall into a star. When he flew out again as a ball of plasma, still screaming bloody murder, Superman finally shattered him into smithereens. He still came back, years later, in Green Lantern Comics... it seems he's simply an integral part of his evil universe and will be reborn even when killed for real.
* {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''. First Franchise/{{Batman}} shoots him with a god-killing weapon. Then [[ComicBook/TheFlash Barry Allen and Wally West]] trick him into hitting himself with The Omega Beam. Then [[TheGrimReaper Black Racer]] destroys his body, Franchise/WonderWoman binds his essence, and it still takes Superman shouting the musical equivalent of the Multiverse and the Miracle Machine to take down what's left of him. And all of this was ''after'' he was mortally wounded by his son Orion, which is [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum what made all this necessary in the first place.]]
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' villain The Russian in both mainstream Marvel continuity and ''ComicBook/PunisherNoir''. The ''Noir'' version especially, surviving explosions, knife wounds, dozens of bullets, and more. He eventually dies after having his arm bitten off by an alligator and catching a slug right between the eyes, but before he goes he not only kills the offending beast, he brags to the Punisher about being invincible.
* From [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} That Other Wiki]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Secret_Society_of_Super_Villains_members the circumstances of Amos Fortune's death]]: ''"Professor Amos Fortune had half of his face blown off in Villains United #6, surviving only to be thrown from a moving helicopter in Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special before absorbing energy and exploding in JSA Classified #16."''
* The trope is referenced after ComicBook/{{Colossus}} (who was thought to be dead after his HeroicSacrifice) came back in Creator/JossWhedon's ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'';

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' has the death of [[spoiler:the fifth ComicBook/{{Robin}}, Damian Wayne]]. He had his back broken, was riddled with arrows, thrown through a wall and remained DefiantToTheEnd, only succumbing after being stabbed through the heart. [[spoiler:Kid's]] got ''guts''.
** In the story of how Jason Todd came back to life and became the Red Hood, the police believe that Jason had gone through this - beaten, blown up, buried alive and dug himself back out. One officer mentions Rasputin but another mentions Lazarus since he was alive.
* [[spoiler:Darth Krayt]] of ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'', is fried by Force lightning, stabbed in the back of the neck with a lightsaber, tossed off a cliff, and finally fried by Force lightning ''again''. [[spoiler:Then comes back, and Cade stabs him through the chest, then [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill FLIES HIS BODY INTO A SUN.]]]]
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': He ultimately survives, but it's [[BlackComedy almost comical]] how much misfortune Chief Judge Sinfield endures after PJ Maybe schemes to assassinate him. First, he secretly infected Sinfield with a fungus that nearly killed him, but he began to recover so Maybe was forced to infect him again with a virus that ''still'' didn't do the job. Then he survives a suicide attack organized by a group of angry mutants independent from Maybe, who finally uses his robot servant to simply assassinate Sinfield in the open, an attempt that is foiled by Dredd.

** Your average raid boss would have to be hit with [[HellFire Fel flames]], [[HolyHandGrenade Righteous Judgement]], [[DeusExMachina any number of plot devices]], [[EvilisDeathlyCold Runic frost energy]], [[ThePlague enough disease to kill off an army]], [[RainOfArrows copious amounts of arrows]] [[MoreDakka and bullets]], [[MindRape have it's soul and mind shattered repeatedly]], [[SpamAttack and hammered a variety of]] [[{{BFS}} swords]] [[DropTheHammer hammers]], axes, daggers (usually featuring poisons) and more, ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill every few seconds]]'' for upwards of 5 or more minutes before going down.

Even with the legend having been debunked, it remains much more popular than the truth because the true story of Rasputin's death is boring, whereas [[RuleOfCool the fake story is much cooler]]. His death is also disputed, as [[MemeticMutation without Rasputin, who would be]] Creator/AlanMoore? Finally, the myth of Rasputin's death fulfills five' of the possible reasons listed above.

Even with the legend having been debunked, it remains much more popular than the truth because the true story of Rasputin's death is boring, whereas [[RuleOfCool the fake story is much cooler]]. His death is also disputed, as [[MemeticMutation without Rasputin, who would be]] Creator/AlanMoore? Finally, the myth of Rasputin's death fulfills ''all five'' of the possible reasons listed above.

** Even more ridiculous is [[WorthyOpponent Barracuda]]. Over the course of several fights, Frank stabs him, gouges his eye out, knocks out his teeth four times, cuts off the fingertips of his left hand, strangles him with barbed wire, shoots him point blank in the groin, chest, and face with a shotgun, tosses him into shark-infested waters, blows him up with a claymore, fractures his skull with a wrench, bites off another one of his fingers, breaks his arm, bites a chunk out of his face, stabs him again, hooks up a car battery to his testicles for an hour and a half, shoots him with an M-60, breaks his nose, tears off said nose with pliers, [[OnlyAFleshWound cuts off his arm with an axe]], shoots him in the throat and finally [[ChunkySalsaRule shoots his head to bits with an AK-47]], then [[KillItWithFire lights the bits on fire just to be sure.]]

* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': Quaritch survives his airship crashing, the loss of his mech's air supply, and not one but two Na'vi arrows the size of Olympic javelins to the chest.

However, his killers wanted to portray him as [[TheLegionsOfHell a near-indestructible son of Satan]], so they made up an elaborate story about how he survived poison, beating, and bullet wounds only to drown in the Neva after being wrapped up in a blanket and tossed into the river. Later embellishments by Yusupov (he thought up a new one every time he was short on money) even had Rasputin dying of hypothermia, having partially succeeded in attempting to claw through the blanket and ice that covered him, and to top it off, another version said that when they cremated him, his body was trying to get up again as it burned.

# [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Someone really hates them]] [[{{Revenge}} and wants them to]] '''''[[ColdBloodedTorture suffer]]'''''.

** "In the Beginning" has Frank Castle fighting a mobster's insane muscular lackey Pittsy. After trading punches (and shivs) with him, Frank tosses him out of a window, where he lands several stories down onto a spiked wrought iron fence, impaling him through the torso. Frank then jumps from the window and lands on the thug. Later, the thug (fence still jutting through him), stumbles towards Frank; who [[ChunkySalsaRule blasts him in the face with a shotgun.]] Even then, Frank has to mentally reassure himself that the next steps the guy takes are just reflexive. \\
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* The BodyOfTheWeek of the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "Pandora" was found shot, stabbed, strangled, and with a pencil shoved into the side of his neck, before having been thrown out of a fourth-floor window to the ground below. Quoth Castle, seeing the body: "Gives new meaning to the term, 'overkill.'"