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{{trope}}
{{quote|"I hate to kick a man when he's dead. They just don't put up much of a fight."
|'''Officer Joe Vickers''', ''[[Psycho Cop]] Returns''}}
A character has just killed someone, usually through a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]. They keep pummeling the body long after it's clear that the victim is already dead.
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{{examples}}
* Possibly the end of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' episode seven, but it's hard to tell.▼
* [[Hellsing Ultimate|It moves me deep within my heart to watch a fresh recruit stabbing over and over into the bloated chest of a long-dead enemy.]]▼
* In the manga version of ''Ark'' by [[Sound Horizon]], Soror does this to the man who is implied to have been molesting her, with her brother doing the "it's okay, you can stop now" thing.▼
* ''{{spoiler|Renton}}'', of all people, has one of these moments in ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' (anime, at least.) [[These Hands Have Killed|Then he]] [[Heroic BSOD|notices the]] [[Squick|severed arm]] sticking to his mecha...▼
* Atem ends up doing the card game equivalent of this to Weevil/Haga in Season 4 of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' His lifepoints are already at 0 and his soul is being sucked away, but Atem just keeps attacking directly because he's angry (justifiably so).▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[Boondock Saints]]'', Rocco beats the sick hitman that he and the others were targeting to death with a cue ball until the brothers pull him off and force him to cool down.
* Subverted in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]''; Picard rears back to bludgeon a Borg he's just shot, but Lilly pulls him back ''before'' he does so. "I think you got him!"
* In ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'', Sugar Watkins curses continually while repeatedly shooting a dead bug. Even after Dizzy pushes him off he fires a few more rounds into the bug.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', the Balrogs pummel Fingon's corpse into the mud even after they kill him.
== [[Live
* The murderer of the week in the ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' episode "Bad To The Bone" provokes and beats a man several times his size to death. The gang {{spoiler|of kids}} in the episode "Fannysmakin'" also hand out such beatings to random tourists, although only one of their victims actually dies (who, ironically, wasn't a tourist).
▲== [[Manga]] and [[Anime]] ==
▲* Possibly the end of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' episode seven, but it's hard to tell.
▲* [[Hellsing Ultimate|It moves me deep within my heart to watch a fresh recruit stabbing over and over into the bloated chest of a long-dead enemy.]]
▲* In the manga version of ''Ark'' by [[Sound Horizon]], Soror does this to the man who is implied to have been molesting her, with her brother doing the "it's okay, you can stop now" thing.
▲* ''{{spoiler|Renton}}'', of all people, has one of these moments in ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' (anime, at least.) [[These Hands Have Killed|Then he]] [[Heroic BSOD|notices the]] [[Squick|severed arm]] sticking to his mecha...
▲* Atem ends up doing the card game equivalent of this to Weevil/Haga in Season 4 of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] His lifepoints are already at 0 and his soul is being sucked away, but Atem just keeps attacking directly because he's angry (justifiably so).
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[Family Guy]]'' during the execution of the ''Surfin' Bird'' record.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': In a
{{quote|''Moe [[Flash Back|thinks back]] to an episode where the Little Rascals are playing marbles. He flicks one away; it bounces into an exhaust pipe''
'''Moe:''' "Oh, no! My favorite aggie!"
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'''Director:''' "Cut! Oh my God! He's killed [[Legacy Character|the original Alfalfa]]."
'''Moe:''' (in the present) "Yeah. Luckily, Alfalfa was an orphan owned by the studio." }}
** Homer's attack on the Hamburgler in one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' (not actually fatal but the line still came up).
* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', "Apprentice: Part 1", Robin delivers one to an already mangled Slade-bot out of anger after discovering that the warehouse they went to contained neither Slade nor the Chronoton Detonator.
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