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{{quote|''A doctor gets a phone call from his best friend, and the frantic voice at the other end says "God, oh God, my wife's dead! I shot her! What do I do!?" The doc tells his friend to calm down. "OK, now the first thing is, you have to check to make sure that she's really dead." He hears silence at the other end, then a single gunshot. "OK, that did it. What next?"''|'''Old joke'''}}
When a character subverts [[No One Could Survive That]] by making sure the dead person stays dead. Can be done with [[Instant Death Bullet|bullets]] (sometimes [[More Dakka|lots of bullets]] or [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells|special types]]), [[Kill It
One of many calling cards for the [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]. Related to [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]] and [[Rasputinian Death]] (if it's only the subsequent attempts that work). Failure to do this causes a response similar to [[Why Don't
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Part 3 of ''[[
* Sometimes, this backfires badly. In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', [[Big Bad]] Makoto Shishio originally worked as a 'manslayer' during the rebellion, but for for some reason, his employers decided to get rid of him. They knew just how tough he was, and sent a small army after him, including firearms. And when he finally went down - after killing more than half of his assailants - they decided to make REALLY sure he was dead... they poured oil over him and set him on fire, essentially cremating him on the spot... but of course, it wasn't enough, and Shishio SOMEHOW still survived, albeit with third-degree burns covering his entire body, and thus turns into the 'Bandaged up like a mummy' baddie we know.
* Though it is not shown the Blonde in ''[[Gunjo]]'' is implied to have done this.
* When ''[[
* The bad guys in ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' blow up nearly an entire ''river'' trying to kill the protagonists. They're pretty sure they probably killed the heroes, but the leader of the evil ninjas says "it's better to err on the side of caution" and the comb the river for bodies.
== Comic Books ==
* In the first issue of the comic book miniseries ''[[
▲* In the first issue of the comic book miniseries ''[[Black Orchid (Comic Book)|Black Orchid]]'', this is done to the title character using fire, as a followup to lampshading [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]] and shooting her. This is on the second page.
* In one of Toyfare's "Big Shots" strips, an assassin justifies cutting a mark's head off to his partner as making absolutely sure the job is done. He then chalks his shooting of the body multiple times after decapitating it up to spite.
== Film ==
* ''[[Scream (
▲* ''[[Scream (Film)|Scream]]'', where the [[Final Girl]] Sydney, cold as ice, puts a bullet right between the eyes of the killer when he wakes up. "Not in my movie."
▲* Rule #2 of surviving in ''[[Zombieland (Film)|Zombieland]]'': [[Double Tap]].
* In ''[[Jeepers Creepers]]'', when Trish and Darry are confronted on the highway Trish runs The Creeper over. When Dary asks is Trish thinks she's really dead, Trish shows her [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] nature and proceeds to run him over not twice but five times. Unfortunately, it got better.
* In ''[[Sin City]]'', after Hartigan's bullet causes the assassin chasing them -Roark Junior- to crash, he tells Nancy to pull over so he can go back and confirm the kill. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, while they're looking for him, Junior manages to sneak past them and stow away in their car.}}
* In ''[[
* In the movie adaptation of ''[[
== Literature ==
* One of the students in ''[[Battle Royale]]'' took advantage of being issued a bulletproof vest and getting a motorcycle helmet to trick opponents by pretending to have been shot and then taking them when their guard was down. Unfortunately, this trick failed when Kazuo Kiriyama made sure to put a bullet in his brain to be certain.
* In ''[[
* This trope is invoked retroactively to make ''[[
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'''Lord Downey:''' Yes, I understand his head was [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|several feet from his body at that point.]] }}
* The [[World War Two]] novels by [[Sven Hassel]] frequently mention that veterans never pass an enemy corpse without putting a bullet through it.
* Subverted in the ''[[Knight and Rogue Series]]''. After Michael is tossed of a cliff the mooks are ordered to go down and make that he didn't break his fall with anything on the way down. Not wanting to treck down a cliff and back up again, they pretend to go down and return saying he died.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Stargate SG
* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'': Subverted in "The Defiant One" when Sheppard seems to kill a Wraith, then puts a few more rounds into him for good measure, only for the Wraith to get back on his feet and start shooting back.
* Jack's Advice to Kim in the second season of ''[[
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Kim: I think so
Jack: Shoot him again. }}
* The comedy show Whose Line is it Anyway? says this: "He tried to murder me. When you kill someone by chopping off their head, wrapping the body in a carpet and lighting it on fire, you better make sure they're dead."
== Tabletop Games ==
* In the crime noir RPG ''Dog Town'', player criminals are urged to put three bullets, called "to-be-sures," into the heads of those they kill.
== Video Games ==
* Either bleed people out (ground headshot) in ''[[MAG]]'' or risk an enemy medic getting them back up again.
* At the end of ''[[
▲* Either bleed people out (ground headshot) in ''[[MAG]]'' or risk an enemy medic getting them back up again.
▲* At the end of ''[[Mass Effect (Video Game)|Mass Effect]]'', Shepard orders this on {{spoiler|Saren}} after the latter {{spoiler|either falls in battle with your squad or commits suicide}}. {{spoiler|Subverted when Sovereign reanimates Saren's corpse as a husk, even after one of your party members plugs him in the head one more time.}}
** In the multiplayer of Mass Effect 3, the enemies get in on the action. Losing all your health only knocks you down, where you can be revived by an ally or by using medi-gel before bleeding out. However, any nearby first-tier enemies (Cerberus Troopers, Geth Troopers, and Cannibals), if left alone, will execute downed players, killing them off for the rest of the wave.
* This is generally a good idea in ''[[Dead Space (
* After the player defeats Jack Lupino in ''[[Max Payne (
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* In EP6 of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
== Web
* [[Evil Overlord List]] Rule 13:
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* From the "[http://home.wxs.nl/~jvdriel/survivaladvice.txt The List of Character Survival Techniques v1.5]":
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In gun games, ammo is rarely so scarce that you can't spare two bullets to splatter a body's head. If ammo is scarce, refer to fantasy rule below.
Fantasy rule: [[Off
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20150221091509/http://www.richardwiseman.com/LaughLab/winner.html World's Funniest Joke]:
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* In ''[[
* In ''[[Panthera]]'', they never stop to empty a few rounds into the corpse of {{spoiler|their old master}}, even though they could only guess that he was really dead, and if he wasn't [[Healing Factor|he'd be fine in five minutes]].
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