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* Most of the murder victims we actually get any introduction to in ''Burning Water'', by [[Mercedes Lackey]].
** The gang of school bullies who make the fatal mistake of trying their usual shenanigans on Lavan, later known as "Lavan Firestorm" for very good reasons in ''Brightly Burning.''
* Usually not seen in [[Discworld]], where posthumous dialogue between victims and Death tends to paint all but [[Complete Monster|the worst]] villains in a sympathetic light. Used straight with Homicidal Lord Winder from ''[[Discworld/Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'', though: a paranoid former Patrician so universally despised that, when an ''undisguised'' assassin walked up to him in the midst of a grand ball, the majority of guests either allowed it to happen, or actively distracted Winder's few supporters. Partially averted, because the target's paranoia was so great that the assassin (a young Vetinari) didn't actually have to strike him down; rather, the stress of the confrontation caused the deranged Lord Winder to suffer a fatal heart attack.
** Of course, knowing Vetinari, that may well have been the intended method of assassination.
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Friday (novel)|Friday]]''. Lieutenant Dickey is described as someone who had repeatedly tried to sleep with Janet despite being repeatedly told no, as "slimy", and as having "a size-twelve ego in a size-four soul". About a minute later, the title character kills him as he's trying to arrest one of her friends at gunpoint.
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