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*** There's also "Eat", which has much the same result, but is slightly less disturbing.
** Warhammer also has the Killing Blow rule, which allows a weapon to instakill the target if you roll a 6 to wound. Some weapons can also Slay Outright, which means a single wound inflicted by such weapon causes the target to lose all their wounds.
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20081105143100/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=106427 Phage the Untouchable]: if Phage manages to deal combat damage to a player, that player loses the game. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090519081046/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=73559 Door to Nothingness] has a similar effect.
** Additionally, a famous early combo based around the card Channel (which allows you to exchange life for mana on a 1-1 basis) and a direct damage spell such as Fireball (which allows you to convert mana to damage on a 1-1 basis) allowed you to fry an enemy on full life in 1 shot. With a number of ultra-rare cards and a bit of luck, you could do this ''on the first turn.'' Unsurprisingly, Channel was eventually banned from all competition.
*** It's actually even worse. The "number of ultra-rare cards" you needed for this first turn kill was ONE: Black Lotus (or a Mox Ruby/Jet in a slightly different variant). The rest of the cards involved were dirt-cheap commons and uncommons.
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** Some forms of evil weather, such as the ones found in Waterburned, are instantaneously fatal to dwarves.
* One of the starting weapons in [http://colourfire.nfshost.com ColourFire]'s arcade mode is a virus that infects enemies and kills them in one hit, blowing up into even more viruses. The only trouble is its short range, and that it has to wear down their health from the inside before they die.
* In ''[[Borderlands|Borderlands 2]]'', an Overpowered Level 8 Fabled Tortoise
* In ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'': Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, the two magic users, Xhela and Mizuti, both had One Hit KO special moves. Xhela's was her level XIII special "Seal of Water" and Mizuti's was her level IX special "Planet Soul". There are also a few magnus that have death chance, and a few with 100% chance ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|such as the "Death" tarot card]]).
** In addition, a few select enemies and bosses have this. For example, during the boss fight against {{spoiler|Geldoblame after he touched the End Magnus}}, he has the ability [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Forfiet Your Life]], which causes 100% chance of death unless you have some kind of resistance, which is hard to get by that point in the game.
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== Real Life ==
* [[Truth in Television]]. Human is not a strong being and most weapons don't need many strikes to kill people.
* It is entirely possible to kill or knock out a person instantly with a single surprisingly gentle blow. However, beyond accidental cases there is [https://web.archive.org/web/20080821160401/http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040521.html little evidence for the existence of a reliable martial technique].
** It is not a ''per se'' kill, but the pain from a good hit can be enough to leave an un(der)conditioned novice brawler hurting too bad to continue fighting even if he is not outright knocked out.
** There is ''possibly'' a phenomenon where the right type of blow can produce [[wikipedia:Hydrostatic shock|hydrostatic shock,]] however the jury's still out on whether or not its real.
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