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A subtrope of the OneHitKill. Not to be confused with video game CollisionDamage, which is often given this name, or the [[UsefulNotes/FightingGame Fighting Game Community]] term for combos powerful enough to lead to KO. See also FingerPokeOfDoom, MakeThemRot, PsychicSurgery, and PoisonousPerson. If a character with this ability is paired with [[HealingHands the opposite ability]], see LifeDeathJuxtaposition.

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A subtrope of the OneHitKill. Not to be confused with video game CollisionDamage, which is often given this name, or the [[UsefulNotes/FightingGame Fighting Game Community]] MediaNotes/FightingGameCommunity term for combos powerful enough to lead to KO. See also FingerPokeOfDoom, MakeThemRot, PsychicSurgery, and PoisonousPerson. If a character with this ability is paired with [[HealingHands the opposite ability]], see LifeDeathJuxtaposition.
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E2OneForTheAngels One for the Angels]], after Mr. Bookman repeatedly fails to pick up on the fact that his strange visitor is Death himself, Death gets fed up with his obliviousness and gives him a visual demonstration by touching a potted flower, causing it to instantly wilt.
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** ''ComicBook/KidEternity'': Issue seven of the 1946 series had a convicted criminal named Murder Marton survive his electrocution after he's sentenced to the electric chair, in the process becoming charged with so much electrical energy that he can instantly kill whoever he touches, ultimately [[CheatedDeathDiedAnyway dying anyway]] after Kid Eternity summons Benjamin Franklin and has him use a lightning rod to drain the electricity in Marton's body.

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