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** Averted many times in ''[[Evil Dead]] 2''. Ash swings off the head of his girlfriend with a spade and then buries her. When she comes back he retaliates, with a chainsaw. Ash made a point of teaching everyone the lesson in time for ''[[Army of Darkness]]'':
{{quote|'''Ash:''' It's a trick; get an axe.}}
*:* The evil sheriff in the remake of ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' {{spoiler|gets hit with his own cop car, then backed over with it, and run over again as the [[Final Girl]] uses it to escape the town.}}
:*** Similarly, inIn the otherwise forgettable modern [[B-Movie]] ''Monster Man'', the film ends with the two survivors stealing the monster truck driven by the titualar horrifically deformed Satan-worshipping redneck, ploughing it into him, and then spending about five minutes of screen time (and 8 hours of actual time) running back and forth over him with it, reducing him to a great smear of mashed flesh and crushed bones. Which, because his Satanist sister used [[Black Magic]] on him to make him into her useful servant, still has an intact mouth in it [[Madness Mantra|burbling]] [[And I Must Scream|"You can't kill me... you can't kill me...!"]]
*:* In [[Pandorum]], when Bower, Nadia and Manh manage to take down one of the mutants, they don't [[Not Quite Dead|lean in closer so it can open its eyes and jump at them]] - they immediately stab it about twenty more times.
*:* ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' is guilty of this too, as noted below, it ''does'' finally get its act together in the finales of the first two movies. In the first, they hold a gun on the killer's "dead" body in case he's about to come back... he does try to, and promptly gets drilled right between the eyes. In ''Scream 2'', they don't even wait for the killer to try to come back before shooting the corpse in the head, just to make sure.
* ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' did it TWICE. Same girl, same killer, leaves him "dead" with his knife right next to him, and there can't have been more than five minutes between them.
** The reverse also happens in just about every movie in the series; they kill off Michael in some [[Made of Iron|increasingly ridiculous]] and stunningly final way, only to have him survive. At the end of the second one, he ''was actually intended to have died,'' but when the Michael-less third movie flopped (it's actually good, watch it), they had him come back in number four. And five. And six. For the record:
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