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* [[Discworld]]:
* [[Discworld]]:
** Pratchett's vampires seem to follow the rules listed above, although to different degrees depending on the vampire. This is because on the [[Discworld]] ''every single vampire cliché is true'', but any single cliché does not necessarily apply to ''any one vampire'', so anyone trying to kill them has to try several different ways to make sure they actually die. Vampires eventually start carrying easily broken vials of blood so they'll smash and bring them back if they're dusted, which for the ones sensitive to light as well is fairly often (especially if they work as photographers).
** Pratchett's vampires seem to follow the rules listed above, although to different degrees depending on the vampire. This is because on the [[Discworld]] ''every single vampire cliché is true'', but any single cliché does not necessarily apply to ''any one vampire'', so anyone trying to kill them has to try several different ways to make sure they actually die. Vampires eventually start carrying easily broken vials of blood so they'll smash and bring them back if they're dusted, which for the ones sensitive to light as well is fairly often (especially if they work as photographers).
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:He has serious fun with this in ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'', where various subtypes of vampire have increasingly silly requirements for true death, starting at the weirdest end of the real life myths and going from there, including mention of a vampire who wouldn't die until ''carrots got hammered in its ears''! The protagonists muse about just how much trial and error it must have taken to get it right.

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He has serious fun with this in ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'', where various subtypes of vampire have increasingly silly requirements for true death, starting at the weirdest end of the real life myths and going from there, including mention of a vampire who wouldn't die until ''carrots got hammered in its ears''! The protagonists muse about just how much trial and error it must have taken to get it right.
** As well as vampires, the [[Discworld]] has King Murune of Lancre, whose death involved [[wikipedia:Edward II of England|a red hot poker]], [[wikipedia:Henry I of England|ten pounds of live eels]], [[Ra Ra Rasputin|a three mile stretch of frozen river]], [[Richard III|a butt]] [[wikipedia:George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence|of wine]], [[Noodle Implements|a couple of tulip bulbs]], [[Hamlet|a number of poisoned eardrops]], an oyster and a large man with a mallet. The footnote detailing this also notes that he didn't make friends easily.
** As well as vampires, the [[Discworld]] has King Murune of Lancre, whose death involved [[wikipedia:Edward II of England|a red hot poker]], [[wikipedia:Henry I of England|ten pounds of live eels]], [[Ra Ra Rasputin|a three mile stretch of frozen river]], [[Richard III|a butt]] [[wikipedia:George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence|of wine]], [[Noodle Implements|a couple of tulip bulbs]], [[Hamlet|a number of poisoned eardrops]], an oyster and a large man with a mallet. The footnote detailing this also notes that he didn't make friends easily.
*** The [[All There in the Manual|Assassins' Guild Diary]] cites the case of Duke Harold of Pseudopolis, whose assassin resorted to a cudgel, length of chain, pistol crossbow, dagger, poison, and ultimately to attaching the man to an anchor, chopping a hole in a frozen river's ice, and pushing him in. The Duke ''did'' die, but three months later, of a chill he caught from the frigid dunking.
*** The [[All There in the Manual|Assassins' Guild Diary]] cites the case of Duke Harold of Pseudopolis, whose assassin resorted to a cudgel, length of chain, pistol crossbow, dagger, poison, and ultimately to attaching the man to an anchor, chopping a hole in a frozen river's ice, and pushing him in. The Duke ''did'' die, but three months later, of a chill he caught from the frigid dunking.
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* In [[Jane Yolen]] and Adam Stemple's contribution to the anthology ''The Dragon Book'', ''The Tsar's Dragons'', this happens to Rasputin, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|naturally]]. It is his [[Real Life]] death, with the only exceptions being: 1) he was pushed under the ice by dragons and 2) he had a magic charm that stopped the other attempts from killing him. Presumably because [[Reality Is Unrealistic|that man was stupid hard to kill]].
* In [[Jane Yolen]] and Adam Stemple's contribution to the anthology ''The Dragon Book'', ''The Tsar's Dragons'', this happens to Rasputin, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|naturally]]. It is his [[Real Life]] death, with the only exceptions being: 1) he was pushed under the ice by dragons and 2) he had a magic charm that stopped the other attempts from killing him. Presumably because [[Reality Is Unrealistic|that man was stupid hard to kill]].
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy]]'' gives us: "You barbarians! I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'l have you hung, drawn, and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until you've had enough! And then I will do it again! And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will JUMP on them! And I will carry on jumping on them until I get blisters, or I can think of anything even more unpleasant to do..."
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy]]'' gives us: "You barbarians! I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'l have you hung, drawn, and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until you've had enough! And then I will do it again! And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will JUMP on them! And I will carry on jumping on them until I get blisters, or I can think of anything even more unpleasant to do..."



== Live Action TV ==
== Live Action TV ==
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