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* In the first issue of the comic book miniseries ''[[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.

* 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.]]

'''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.