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* In ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' novel "The Road To Hell", the Technocracy soldiers sent after Seventeen are ordered to make sure he's dead. He's not, but with all the magi-tech modifications they did to Seventeen he probably could have survived a few dozen rounds to the brain anyway.
* This trope is invoked retroactively to make ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' antagonist Teatime's introduction even more creepy and [[Badass|badass.]]
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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.
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* ''[[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 ''[[24]]''
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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."
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* This is generally a good idea in ''[[Dead Space (series)|Dead Space]]''.
* After the player defeats Jack Lupino in ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'', the next storyboard sequence begins with Max putting another half-dozen rounds into Lupino's body. Whether it's an example of this trope (and a sensible precaution given that Lupino was high on [[Psycho Serum|something best described as "PCP meets LSD"]]) or Max simply getting a bit carried away is left slightly unclear.
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* In EP6 of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', {{spoiler|Erika, unable to invoke detective's authority to determine that the "corpses" she investigated were dead or alive, decided to guarantee their death in a different way: by beheading them}}.
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== Web Originals ==
* [[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 with His Head|Behead anything you think you've killed]]...Always confirm your kills if possible. If you didn't confirm the kill, don't be surprised when you see him/her/it walking down the street or crawling through your bedroom window. }}
* The [http://www.richardwiseman.com/LaughLab/winner.html World's Funniest Joke]:
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* In ''[[Freemans Mind]]'', Gordon has explicitly stated he doesn't need to make confirmation kills. Apparently he's not at that stage of his life just yet.
* 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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