History Main / RasputinianDeath

** He didn't go down without a fight, either. He was truly DefiantToTheEnd, telling the entire world with his last breath that One Piece ''does'' exist (thumbing his nose at the World Government in the process by kickstarting a new age of piracy and cementing his place alongside such legends as '''Gold Roger, the former Pirate King'''). And on top of that, his BadAssLongcoat falls off immediately after, revealing that despite having hundreds of scars and wounds from knives, swords, and bullets, his back didn't have so much as one[[note]]Minus a few that were the result of getting ''IMPALED FROM THE FRONT''.[[/note]]; having never been wounded there in his ''entire life'', because he ''never retreated from an enemy'' and was ''never caught off guard.'' '''[[TheJuggernaut Not. Even. Once.]]''' Honestly, given the man he was, he would have ''wanted'' it this way.

* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'', the Masters decided, for reasons not entirely clear, to inflict such a death on one of their number, Mr Candles. They bound him in ropes and chains, stabbed him multiple times, and then fed him to the rulers of the Third City before dropping his remains into a well of pure sorrow to dissolve into nothing. [[spoiler:What was left was a pure embodiment of hunger, better known as '''''Mr Eaten'''''.

* Anderzel in the Season 6 finale of ''[[LetsPlay/MindcrackServer Mindcrack Ultra Hardcore]]''. In order, he is: shot, stabbed, set on fire, attacked by dogs, partially drowned and stabbed again.

* ''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}}, as Ghidorah's HealingFactor practically ''requires'' his death to be this.

* In ''Film/HalloweenEnds'', this happens to Michael Myers. On top of the countless injuries he sustained in the [[Film/Halloween1978 previous]] [[Film/Halloween2018 three]] [[Film/HalloweenKills films]] in this timeline, he is stabbed in the armpit, stabbed in the chest, stabbed through both hands and into the table, has a refrigerator toppled on his legs, and finally, has his throat slit. As he begins to bleed out, he attempts to pull a TakingYouWithMe on Laurie, before Allyson comes in the save her, then Laurie finishes him off by slitting his wrist. Not convinced Michael is "dead enough," Laurie and Allyson dump his corpse into an industrial shredder.

* ComicBook/SpiderMan's clone, [[ComicBook/ScarletSpider Ben Reilly]]. He takes a bad pumpkin bomb blast for [[JerkJock Flash]], then is impaled by a Goblin Glider, then falls off a multi-story building, onto a car, and still has it in him to give his FinalSpeech before [[CloneDegeneration degenerating]].

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'':

** Saphran gets a heart and two of his three lungs punctured by a lightsaber, then has [[TorsoWithAView a massive hole blown clean through his torso]] with an ancient Jedi weapon. He ''still'' lives long enough to hold a dying conversation by using his telekinetic powers to propel air through his vocal chords.

* ComicBook/SpiderMan's [[CloningBlues clone]], [[ComicBook/ScarletSpider Ben Reilly]]. He takes a bad pumpkin bomb blast for [[JerkJock Flash]], then is impaled by a Goblin Glider, then falls off a multi-story building, onto a car, and still has it in him to give his FinalSpeech before [[CloneDegeneration degenerating]].

*** The mastermind, [[spoiler: Junko Enoshima]], goes through ''all 6 executions'' shown throughout the game in a row[[note]]Shot at with countless baseballs, centrifuged on a motorcycle in an electrically-charged cage, put in a rocket that launches into space before crashing down into Earth, set on fire then hit with a firetruck, hammered in the head with a bulldozer, then finally crushed under a crusher.[[/note]], and is only killed by the final one. What's more, [[spoiler: she actually enjoys the experience, up until the last blow, which is delayed, much to her annoyance]].

** Among the many, many, many [[AnyoneCanDie many]] character deaths in Marvel's ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' is [[spoiler: Wolverine's, first having almost all his soft tissue blasted away, then having his skeleton torn apart, then having the ''individual cells'' of his last remaining bones destroyed.]].

* [[RecurringBoss Ridley]] gets this treatment in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime''. After you finally get his health to zero (which requires dozens of super missiles or charged plasma beam shots, or a hundred or so regular missiles) he gets blasted in the chest by laser-shooting Chozo statues and falls over the edge of the Artefact Temple into a huge crater. He comes back in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', where he gets beaten by Samus again and falls into the bottom of a several-hundred-meter-deep pit. He gets better, though, and you have to fight him again later in the game.

** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny]] 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.

* Squidward from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' suffers this at least twice by tumbling off a cliff before [[MadeOfExplodium exploding]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Amon. He is tossed off a platform, electrocuted, smashed into walls, crushed under debris, [[DestinationDefenestration kicked through glass]], nearly drowned, and finally killed in a boat explosion.

** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny]] in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness first few episodes]]. "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 "Weight Gain 400," 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. "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.

* Although it's not fatal, [[BigBad Vlad]] [[EvilCounterpart Plasmius']] defeat in the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode "Kindred Spirits" is in a similar vein, as he suffers several attacks which would each defeat a lesser villain. First, he is blasted by a [[BackToBackBadasses double]] [[HandBlast Ghost Ray]] attack from [[TheHero Danny]] and [[spoiler: [[OppositeSexClone Dani]]]]. He gets back up and advances on [[spoiler: Danielle]], intent on revenge... only to get hit with Danny's [[FinishingMove Ghostly Wail]], destroying his lab and throwing the [[spoiler: prime clone's]] tank into him after throwing him into a wall. Again, he gets up and transforms back into ghost form, advancing on the [[NecessaryDrawback now-depleted and helpless]] Danny. Cue [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes Danny's]] [[TrueCompanions friends]] [[CarFu crashing into him with the Spectre Speeder]] ''and'' putting the [[PowerNullifier Spectre Deflector]]]] on him while he's dazed, ''finally'' forcing him to transform back and pass out. Also, his [[spoiler: Maddie AI]] adds insult to injury by telling him she preferred [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Jack program]]]].

** Tony himself is a subversion. His tough-guy credentials come from the fact that he survived getting shot six times in one sitting, and he was still strong enough to kill his attacker with a sword. As a result you'd think that if he was going to die, he'd need some kind of over the top death like Boris. He winds up getting killed by a single stray bullet when his boss Avi [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace grabs a gun and starts recklessly shooting]] at a dog who ate an enormous diamond and then started running away. Tony's death is so random that Avi doesn't even realize what happened at first, and calls out for Tony several times before realizing that Tony isn't answering or joining him in chasing the dog. Partially justified in that Avi was blasting away with Tony's HandCannon and the film doesn't show where was Tony hit -- it may have been a headshot, for all we know.

* In ''Film/BulletTrain'', the [[BigBad White Death]] gets slashed across the abdomen with a katana, then has the sword driven so deeply into his shoulder that it becomes firmly lodged in his torso, and then gets violently thrown around as the titular train derails. He survives all this with enough strength to try and kill one of his remaining enemies, only to finally be done in when he pulls the trigger of a [[BackwardsFiringGun boobytrapped handgun]] and [[YourHeadAsplode blows half his own head off]].

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': The main villain in the episode "Warriors", from 1998 (the fifth season), the leader of a new-age supremacist group, has created a prototype muscle man who is not only unbeatable but can withstand everything without so much as flinching or feeling any pain. The group kidnaps a genetic researcher and forces her at gunpoint to share her secrets of "rapid healing" DNA (which she intends to use for good) to perfect his prototype. In the meantime, the man-mountain has beaten Walker and Trivette to pulps, {{No Sell}}ing being shot more than 10 times and Walker's powerful roundhouse kick. In their final fight, Walker is clearly losing against the muscle man, when the researcher shows up to finally throw flammable liquid and a flask in the warrior's face, finally allowing Walker an opening to kick the stunned warrior (who is enveloped in a ball of flame) into an oil field and to his doom. The bad guy's ultimate goal was to clone the prototype and create an army capable of overthrowing the world's governments and -- in ruling the world -- creating a reign of terror unmatched even by such real-life villains as UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan and UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.

** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny]] in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness first few episodes]]. "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 "Weight Gain 400," 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. "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 from a stray bullet from Ned's hunting rifle, which finally kills him.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':

%%** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny]] in "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" and TheMovie.

** ''VideoGame/Portal1''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthZgszykLs "Even though you broke my heart and killed me. And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire."]] And then [=GLaDOS=] explodes. And ''still'' has an EyeAwaken.

--->'''[=GLaDOS=]''' Crushing's too good for him... First, he'll spend a year in the incinerator. Year two: Cryogenic refrigeration wing. Then TEN years in the chamber I built where all the robots scream at you. ''Then'' I'll kill him.

--->'''[=GLaDOS=]''' [[AC: Crushing's too good for him... First, he'll spend a year in the incinerator. Year two: Cryogenic refrigeration wing. Then TEN years in the chamber I built where all the robots scream at you. THEN I'll kill him.]]

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' gives this treatment to Jack Lupino after beating him at the end of Act One of the game.
-->'''Max Payne:''' When Lupino finally went down, I wanted to make real sure he'd stay that way. V was a bad monster, turned them into freaking zombie demons from outer space.

* In ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'', [[spoiler:Lorenzo]], the game's final boss, is blown up with explosives, put through a rock crusher, thrown into a pit of lava, ''comes back as a flaming skeleton'', before finally disintegrating into dust. Not to mention all of the previous times you could have [[KickTheSonOfABitch kicked him]], laid traps for him, or [[PetInterface sicked the dog on him]].

* Gauron in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' survives being shot in the head, and having his [[HumongousMecha Arm Slave]] blown up twice. The second time, what's left of his AS falls into the ocean (Where he is attacked by sharks), but in spite of that and a case of terminal cancer he turns back up ''again'' in ''The Second Raid'', now only alive enough to have one final conversation with Sousuke. He finally dies for real after Sousuke unloads a gun into him and the entire building he's in blows up.

* [[BigBad Szilard Quates]] of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}''. Number of things he survives over the course of one night (most in rapid succession) before Firo finally "consumes" him: being shot dozens of times by gangsters; getting run over by his own car; being literally stabbed in the back by his disgruntled BattleButler; getting set on ''fire''; and having his arm sliced in two - the long way - by Firo. Okay, so he's {{immortal|ity}}, but props anyway for taking everything up until the fire in stride.

-->'''Comicbook/NickFury''': 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.

* Quinn in ''Film/{{Blade}}'' only dies after being [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] by the title hero. Before that, he is impaled, burned, beaten, etc.
* ''Film/BloodSimple'': [[spoiler: Marty]] suffers through one of these; he's shot point blank in the chest by [[spoiler: Visser]], but isn't killed, reviving just as [[spoiler: Ray]] is about to dispose of his "corpse". Being BuriedAlive seems to finish him off for good.

*** Can be hilariously averted, though, as it is possible to just run straight to the castle at the start of the game and kill him with a potlid, some old swords and sticks, and lots of determination.