Rasputinian Death: Difference between revisions

 

Basically, it's one of the ways you can kill an [[Implacable Man]] or someone [[Made of Iron]]. In video games, this is often a [[Recurring Boss]].

Related to a [[Self-Destructive Charge]] and to [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]] (in this case, there is no kill ''besides'' overkill). Might be done because someone wants to [[Make Sure He's Dead]]. Sometimes the person actually does want to die, but screw it up so it becomes a [[Bungled Suicide]].

 

*** The 2003 anime's version of Pride is paralyzed and then incinerated repeatedly by Mustang until his body runs out of red stones. Notably this happened in the anime's [[Gecko Ending]] long before Mustang fought Lust (and killed her in the same manner) in the manga.

* [[Big Bad|Szilard Quates]] of ''[[Baccano!]]''. Number of things he survives over the course of one night (most in rapid succession) before Firo finally "consumes" him: being shot dozens of times by gangsters; getting run over by his own car; being literally stabbed in the back by his disgruntled [[Battle Butler]]; getting set on ''fire''; and having his arm sliced in two - the long way - by Firo. Okay, so he's [[Immortality]], but props anyway for taking everything up until the fire in stride.

* In ''[[Naruto]]'':

** Zabuza Momochi is bitten by a half-dozen dogs, his arms rendered useless, and stabbed with an armory's worth of weapons during his [[Self-Destructive Charge|run on Gato]] before giving a tender goodbye to his loyal companion Haku. Having accomplished his goals he died apparently because he didn't have anything else to be badass at doing.

** Kushina gave birth, got a [[Sealed Evil in a Can|bijuu]] released from her (which is supposed to kill her), chained down Kyuubi with her chakra, got her torso pierced by a giant claw, and after that she talked, and talked, and talked some more. Then she gets [[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can|sealed in her son]], where she lies dormant for several years.

* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Shishio survived being shot in the head, doused in oil and burned. And that was just his back story. In the final battle against him, he defeats Aoshi, Sanosuke and Saito, and almost kills Kenshin, though Kenshin recovers and continues to fight. In the end, Kenshin doesn't even defeat him. Technically, Shishio defeats himself by fighting for too long, overheating due to his sweat glands being destroyed when he was burned, and then finally bursting into flames.

* [[Filler Villain]] Maki Ichinose from ''[[Bleach]]'' got sliced in half, had his sword broken, thus rendering him powerless, and yet he shows up to fight Ichigo alongside Kariya. He then gets stabbed with his own broken sword, and then gets struck by lightning, by Kariya no less.

* [[Implacable Man]] Roberto from ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' is shot in the shoulder and left for dead in a burning library. He drags himself out only after everyone else leaves, with his good arm paralyzed. When he next appears he's gotten into much better shape, and eventually gets into a fight with fellow Implacable Man Inspector Runge, where he's shot in the gut but still manages to get the better of the Inspector. Runge turns the tables by jamming his thumb into Roberto's bullet wound, causing him to pass out, but only briefly as he manages to stagger to where the final confrontation between Tenma and Johan is taking place before dying.

*** Further proved by Marv's last words(before being shocked again): "Is that the best you can do, you pansies?"

** His target Kevin survives having his arms and legs cut off and most of his organs eaten by a wolf yet still calmly breathes till Marv saws his head off.

* ''[[The Punisher]]'':

** In one arc, Frank Castle's fighting a mobster's insane muscular lackey. After trading punches (and shivs) with him, Frank tosses him out of a window, where he lands several stories down onto a spiked wrought iron fence, impaling him through the torso. Frank then jumps from the window and lands on the thug. Later, the thug (fence still jutting through him), stumbles towards Frank; who [[Chunky Salsa Rule|blasts him in the face with a shotgun.]] Even then, Frank has to mentally reassure himself that the next steps the guy takes are just reflexive.

** Even more ridiculous is [[Worthy Opponent|Barracuda]]. Over the course of several fights, Frank stabs him, gouges his eye out, knocks out his teeth four times, cuts off the fingertips of his left hand, strangles him with barbed wire, shoots him point blank in the groin, chest, and face with a shotgun, tosses him into shark infested waters, blows him up with a claymore, fractures his skull with a wrench, bites off another one of his fingers, breaks his arm, bites a chunk out of his face, stabs him again, hooks up a car battery to his testicles for an hour and a half, shoots him with an M-60, breaks his nose, tears off said nose with pliers, [[Only a Flesh Wound|cuts off his arm with an axe]], shoots him in the throat and finally [[Chunky Salsa Rule|shoots his head to bits with an AK-47]], then [[Kill It with Fire|lights the bits on fire just to be sure.]]

* [[Spider-Man]]'s [[Cloning Blues|clone]], Ben Reilly. He takes a bad pumpkin bomb blast for [[Jerk Jock|Flash]], then is impaled by a Goblin Glider, then falls off a multi-story building, onto a car, and still has it in him to give his [[Final Speech]] before [[Clone Degeneration|degenerating]].

* The Anti-Monitor in ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]''. Jiminy Christmas, but he was a doozy to take down, and then to make him ''stay'' down: First, he was assaulted by pretty much every last surviving hero from several universes (which did dick-all); the first one to get to him was Doctor Light, who hit him with the energy of a ''star'' after he had his power drained by Alex Luthor. Then, he was poisoned by Earth's wizards, who had magically altered his minions, the shadow demons, which he absorbed to replenish his power. Then, [[Superman]] hit him with a bunch of asteroids and a ''moon''. When he came back for more, frickin' ''[[Darkseid]]'' blasted him using Alex as a conduit, which caused the Anti-Monitor to fall into a star. When he flew out again as a ball of plasma, still screaming bloody murder, Superman finally shattered him into smithereens.

 

== Film ==

* Rasputin gets one in ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'', when he's stabbed through the abdomen with Hellboy's horn then a [[God of Evil|dark god]] tears its way of him, grows to an enormous size then flattens him and his girlfriend with its tentacle. Poor Rasputin's having a very eventful afterlife.

* In ''[[Legend (film)|Legend]]'', the Lord of Darkness is stabbed through the heart with the horn of a unicorn, hit by concentrated rays of sunlight which is anathema to him, loses his arm and is sucked through a portal into oblivion. The end of the film implies that he has somehow survived.

* Amilyn the Vampire in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', played by Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman), begins to grunt and flail in an over the top mocking "death" scene when staked. Continues to grunt and flail for a minute, realises that the Slayer and his master are watching him, with disapproving looks. At the end of the film, now that his master is apparently dead and the Slayer is long gone, he opens his eyes again and starts doing his fake "death" scene again. "Death" groans continue throughout the credits.

* Memnon in ''[[The Scorpion King]]'' also dies like this. He is [[Annoying Arrows|pierced by an arrow]], thrown from the top of a building and '''[[Kill It with Fire|set on fire]]''' during the fall.

* After going [[Ax Crazy|insane]], Bell from the Trey Parker/Matt Stone film ''[[Cannibal! The Musical]]'' suffers a top notch Rasputinian Death, starting with getting a butcher's ax in the face, ([[Eye Scream|including through one eye]]) getting shot in the head, a sharpened stick through his other eye, and finally a pickax through the heart. Each time he appears to die like a [[Slasher Movies]] monster, [[Running Gag|only to come back again]], [[Overly Long Gag|including at the main character's hanging, which occurs years later]].

* Valentine from ''[[Poseidon]]'' (2006) immediately comes to mind. After dropping an already lethal distance from an elevator shaft, he falls into large impaling spikes. The elevator itself follows soon afterwards, crushing him and also somehow resulting in a very large [[Stuff Blowing Up|Hollywood style explosion]]. Plus, the ship sinks into the ocean at the end. The scene can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCpuDInhknI&feature=related here.]

* Parodied unto absurdum in the [[Broken Lizard]] film ''Club Dread'', to the point that the final shot features the killer's disembodied legs swimming after the survivors.

* The villain from [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Torn Curtain]]'' takes a good long while to go down, including spending most of the climactic fight with a butcher knife sticking out of his chest. Hitchcock's main goal with the film was to show how hard it could really be to kill someone.

* In ''[[What Lies Beneath]]'', it takes nearly ten minutes for Claire to {{spoiler|drown}} Norman. Every previous attempt she made to kill him failed.

* Buddy in ''[[Six String Samurai]]'' goes through about three separate sword fights in rapid succession, taking wounds that really ought to be fatal in each of them, before finally succumbing to {{spoiler|Death}}.

* In a hilarious [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] from ''[[Me Myself and Irene]]'', Charlie and Irene come across a cow that's been hit by a car. Charlie shoots it multiple times to put it out of its misery, but the cow keeps raising its head and mooing. He pistol whips, strangles, and smothers the poor animal before it stops moving. {{spoiler|The cow is shown alive during the credits.}}

* ''[[Zeiram]]'':

** In the sequel, Zeiram gets a sword through the forehead and its arm cut off, and heals up just fine. It then has a grenade stuffed under one of its breastplates, semi-crippling it. The heroine then shoots at it repeatedly until its limbs are severed and its mechanical head is obliterated. Its central head pops out, and gets shot off as well... just in time for the remaining portion to try and reform itself.

* In ''[[The Quick and the Dead]]'', Spotted Horse, who constantly brags that he "cannot be killed by a bullet," is proved right: he gets shot clean through the heart, gets back up, fires off several shots while his opponent reloads, takes a second shot to the forehead, then starts to get back up again before finally dying for real.

* In ''[[Battle: Los Angeles]]'', the first alien actually killed on-screen is given one of these. First it gets shot up by Lenihan, and falls into a pool. Then when Nantz and two other Marines arrive, the alien leaps back out of the pool, and gets drilled by all four Marines at point-blank range with about a hundred bullets before it drops back down into the pool. One of the Marines drops a grenade in the pool for good measure.

* Annie Wilkes in ''[[Misery]]'' takes a bit to go down...

* In the film adaptation of ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', the titular character is shot repeatedly at close range by half a dozen gunmen and an old man with a revolver. After staggering briefly, he then goes on to {{spoiler|deliver a short speech on ideals, kill every single gunman with short swords before they can reload, lift the old man off his feet and strangle him to death and then pass on his legacy to his apprentice}} before finally expiring without anyone ever knowing who he was.

* In ''[[Ghostbusters|Ghostbusters II]]'', the team recounts the death of [[Big Bad|Vigo the Carpathian]]:

{{quote|'''Egon''': Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505, died 1610.

'''Peter Venkman''': 105 years old, he hung in there, didn't he?

'''Peter Venkman''': Ouch. }}

 

* [[Sven Hassel]]'s WW2 novels. Whenever Porta and his gang from the 27th Penal Regiment decide to murder someone, there inevitably follows an entire chapter of bungled attempts which end in the victim either dying by accident or just going insane.

* In ''[[BattleTech]]'', specifically ''Mechwarrior: Dark Age'', Victor Steiner-Davion faces down the Clans and wins, fights a brutal civil war against his sister and claims victory while personally leading the charge, survives the Jihad, becomes a Paladin of the Sphere, and is finally snuffed by no less than ''four'' assassins in the dead of night. At the ripe old age of 107, he takes two with him.

* Patroclus, in ''[[The Iliad]]'', is slapped and unarmed by ''Apollo'', stabbed in the chest by Eupharlus, finally finished off by Hector, and ''still'' lives long enough to hear Hector's [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] and respond with his own [[Final Speech]].

* [[Jim Butcher]] also gives us <s>Invidia Aquitaine</s> Nihilus Invidia's death in the ''[[Codex Alera]]'': She was shot with a ballast bolt, one of which can go through two heavily armored legionaries. The ballast bolt was poisoned with two different kinds of poison: One that kills immediately and one that causes a nearly-incurable long-term infection in the wound. She was declared dead by a doctor, but her body disappeared; she'd [[Healing Hands|watercrafted]] herself to the point where she could move despite being mortally wounded. She mentions, later, that the crows had come for her. She was found by the Vord Queen, who stuck a great big Vord parasite on her as life support. She acted as [[The Dragon]] for a while, then came up against her (ex-)husband Attis; she sliced him in half, but he burned most of her face and a good bit of her body off. A bit later, she gets into a fight with a bunch of [[Person of Mass Destruction|the High Lords]]... and dies from being [[Death by Irony|literally stabbed in the back]] by Amara.

* [[Complete Monster|First Mate Cox]] in ''[[Nation]]'' takes an axe to the chest (blood loss, probable major organ damage), falls into a lagoon (drowning) and ultimately gets eaten by [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks|sharks]].

* 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]].

 

== Live Action TV ==

** Juliet is trapped by heavy chains, falls hundreds of feet down a shaft, detonates (or not) a nuclear bomb right next to her... and only dies in the next episode.

* Lorenzo "Happy" Morales from the ''[[CSI]]'' episode "Ending Happy". To elaborate: a drugged-up ex-boxer is fed seafood to which he is allergic, causing his throat to close up. He's then shot through the throat with a crossbow, allowing him to breathe again. He goes to attack someone, who hits him with a crowbar (hard enough to leave an impression). He's later injected with snake venom, and staggers off to rest on a chair by a swimming pool. The chair collapses under his weight and drops him into the pool, wherein he finally drowns.

* In the ''[[Monk]]'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy", the "Six-Way Killer" kills the same man six different ways. It was nothing personal. He was trying to distract attention from another murder.

* On ''[[Soap]]'', Peter Campbell was killed this way—stabbed, shot, strangled, suffocated and bludgeoned.

* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "War Stories," the death of Niska's torturer. He gets beaten up by Mal, shot several dozen times by Jayne, Wash, and Zoe, [[Railing Kill|knocked off a railing]], bounces ''very painfully'' off a steel girder, hits another girder, then gets sliced in half by a giant drill-saw, and ''then'' gets dumped into a pit of something very glowy and unhealthy-looking. We're fairly certain he's dead.

* This even happens once in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. Graham Chapman, dressed as a Mandarin and speaking with a bizarre Chinese accent, declares himself to be the new English consul in Smolensk; his predecessor "[[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much|had a heart attack, then fell out of a window onto an exploding bomb and died in a shooting accident]]."

* In the [[Grand Finale]] movie of ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', it takes a grand total of twelve simultaneous [[Finishing Move]]s (ten of which are performed by protagonist Riders in their respective [[Super Mode]]s) to destroy [[Kamen Rider ZO|Doras]].

* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': Dischordia's death. It takes the finishers of Ninjor, the Shogun Megafalconzord, ''and'' the Shogun ''Ultrazord'' to kill her.

** Hit with '''yet another''' [[Combination Attack]], this time by all six Gokaiger at once (with Silver still in his [[Super Mode]]).

** Finally, when he's still standing after all this, the team straight-up shoves their [[BFG]] into his gut and fires it point-blank, which finally finishes him off. At this point, their initial worry that Akudos is still alive is completely justified.

 

 

== Music ==

* ''Boney M'''s [[Deader Than Disco|Disco]] song, ''Rasputin'', mentions his end. Unfortunately it does not mention that he died of ''drowning,'' ending with Rasputin merely being shot 'till he was dead.

 

 

* [[Greek Mythology|Hercules]] (or Heracles before Romans) suffered such a fate, likely as there was no real other way to kill [[Made of Iron|somebody like him]]. He donned a garment contaminated with the poisoned blood of the Lernaean Hydra; for anyone else it would have proved fatal but instead Hercules suffered excruciating agony as it tore apart his body. Even as skin peeled from bone, he managed to build himself a funeral pyre by ''tearing down trees'' and ordered his companions to set him ablaze. Apparently being burned alive hurt less than the poison. Just as a general idea of how horrifically painful and potent the blood of the Hydra is: when one of Hercules' poisoned arrows ''nicked'' the centaur Chiron, it left the immortal writhing in agony (because the poison couldn't actually ''kill'' him) and begging Hercules to end his life.

* Ajax the Lesser, a "hero" (today we'd probably call him a war criminal) from [[The Trojan War]], died this way too. Good riddance. Poor Cassandra...

* English folklore states that a wizard must be killed three times before they die for good. Prescribed methods are generally stabbing, impaling, and then drowning.

** This myth is invoked with the death of Saruman in the film of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' (stabbed, impaled on a spiked wheel, drowned), and possibly with Dumbledore in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Harry Potter book 6]]'' (cursed, poisoned, hit with a killing curse, fallen off a tower).

** Likewise, Sauron and Gandalf are ''really'' hard to kill. Sauron got thrashed by a divine hound in ''The Silmarillion'', then later drowned in the Fall of Numenor, and even later was physically slain by Isildur. He didn't die for good until his Ring got dropped into Mount Doom 3,000 years later. Gandalf, for his part, survived a three-round duel with a Balrog, including a long fall, the Balrog's flames, and freezing deep water, and still wouldn't die until he chased the demon from the bottom of the earth to the highest mountain peak, and killed it. Then he collapsed of exhaustion ... but got sent back to finish his job.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[Ars Magica]]'' Gruagachan have the power to remove their souls from their bodies and hide them in small objects. Mechanically, this results in them suffering Warping in place of Fatal or Incapacitating Wounds. Certain Infernalists (with access to Incantation and Consumption) have access to a spell that has a similar effect.

** It should be noted that Dremmond's death scene [[Narm|often becomes]] quite [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the opposite of what was intended]].

* In ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', and more generally in games that use a hit point mechanic, high-level characters often survive a series of horrific traumas any one of which should be fatal - anything from being dropped off a 200-foot cliff, to being squashed by a falling block of stone, to being eaten by an enormous monster.

** The tarrasque can be slain only by inflicting enough damage to kill it (despite its extreme regeneration and epic DR), then using a ''Wish'' or ''Miracle'' spell (essentially, invoking a [[Deus Ex Machina]]) to make it stay dead. Even [[Chunky Salsa Rule|nuking its corpse]] doesn't work, because it will revive inside a week without the Wish.

* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'':

** Many newer characters possess a version of this rule. One of the first outside of Celestine was Chaplain Grimaldus of the Black Templars, although he had to pass a leadership test each turn or his will gave out and he would collapse. Justicar Anval Thawn takes it to the extreme, being able to come back from anything in the game and can continuously test for it even if he fails the first time around. This is very useful as, unlike the other examples, Thawn can claim objectives and so is a bane to the opponent during Objectives games.

** Possibly the very, very best version of this is the old 3rd edition version of the Fallen Dark Angel Cypher, who has a god looking out for him. When he loses his last wound and fails his armour save, Cypher gets a 4+ invulnerable save... On a ''3d6''. It will only fail on the roll of three 1s, a 1/216 event. The remaining 215 times he simply [[Smoke Out|vanishes]], still alive and kicking, and the other side gets no victory points for killing him. It doesn't matter what you throw onto him; the odds of it actually doing something to Cypher is very low indeed. [[All There in the Manual|By the lore]], Cypher has survived at least one Exterminatus (killing every last living organism on an entire planet) and [[Stealth Hi Bye|vanished tracelessly]] from a cell in a Black Templar battle barge.

 

 

** Let's not forget Vamp.

** Oh, and Big Boss: Had the crap beaten out of him by a professional boxer with super powers and enough strength to punch through concrete walls, electrically tortured by said boxer, then his eye was shot out, he fell down a waterfall into a river, where he nearly drowned, and later took on the boxer again, said boxer riding a nuclear tank, and his own mentor. 6 years later, he survives being caught within ground zero of the ignition launch sequence of the rocket booster of the ICBMG. Four years after that, Big Boss then managed to survive being electrically tortured at least nine times, three of the shocks even being significantly heightened in frequency. 31 years later, he faces his son in combat, taking several missiles to the face, before a nuke detonates his own fortress. He survives, rumoured to be a quadruple amputee, and is burned to death a few year later. MGS4 elaborates his past: he survived in a coma, went through surgery to replace about 50% of his body, and was in perfect working order only a few days later.

* Zagi in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]''. Granted, Yuri and Estelle don't really do that much more than fend him off the first time he's encountered, but the second time he fights the party, he's thrown off a boat, jumps back on, then is left on when it ''explodes''. Amazingly, he survived to interrupt the finals of a tournament to get at Yuri and show off his new mechanical arm. After overloading the Blastia with magic, his arm basically overloads and explodes. Then he shows up ''again'' for ''another'' round to destroy Yuri's party at the warship, and literally ''sprays himself with poison perfume'' to kill Yuri. He appears to ''finally'' die after he gets thrown off of ''another'' boat ''several'' times after he tries to get Yuri. Amazingly, Zagi survives ''yet again'' and makes it into the final dungeon because he's ''still not done''. After the ''fifth battle'' with him, Zagi is almost shutting down, but he ultimately dies by falling to his death into a near bottomless pit...after being slashed across the chest by Yuri. The party was probably just as sick of seeing him as the player was.

** Forcystus, Desian Grand Cardinal of ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', should qualify too. At the beginning of the game he is caught in a point blank explosion, tough for anyone to survive. Later in the game, he fights the party and once defeated, falls backwards into a reactor. He promptly shakes it off and meets the heroes again on the way out and is only finally killed after Lloyd stabs him in the chest.

** Nikolai to a lesser extent. He's probably more good at narrowly avoiding severe harm than withstanding massive amounts of it, but seeing as he gets into dangerous situations throughout the entire game, probably invokes [[Why Won't You Die?]] reactions from the protagonists after his [[Face Heel Turn]], and when he finally can die it's either [[No Kill Like Overkill|via an explosion, Nemesis-impalement, or in the novelizations getting ripped in half]]...

** Happens in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' to Wesker. Rocket blows up in his hand, overdosed on his meds, falls from a high-altitude aircraft, whatever you do to him in the boss fight, immersed in lava, ''two simultaneous rocket launchers to the face''. Probably qualifies as overkill, but, then again, there was no body...<ref>[[Word of God]] claims the missiles finally did him in. {{spoiler|Though one does wonder, seeing as what it took to kill Albert, what exactly it will take to kill off his perfectly immortal "brother" Alex Wesker}}.</ref>

** HUNK is of the Nikolai variety: he's known in-universe for being constantly being sent into extraordinarily dangerous situations and returning completely unharmed. [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|His teammates aren't so lucky]].

* On the gameplay side of things, just about any video game character, from Mooks to [[Big Bad]]s to the main characters have deaths like this, considering just how much ammunition/magic/sharp pointy objects you have to pump into them in order to bring them down. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Specially if unneeded]].

** Scorpion slices the opponent's stomach, causing some of their guts to fall out. He then proceeds to cut the throat area open and then kicks the opponent away, causing the head and torso to get knocked away. [[Rule of Three|And then slices the opponent's head in half, apparently just to make sure they stay dead.]]

** [[God of War|Kratos']] fatality sees him stabbing the enemy's gut, causing their insides to start falling out. While the opponent tends to their wounds, he stabs them from behind, and slices their entire upper body in half.

* [[Recurring Boss|Ridley]] gets this treatment in ''[[Metroid]] Prime''. After you finally get his health to zero (which requires dozens of super missiles or charged plasma beam shots, or a hundred or so regular missiles) he gets blasted in the chest by laser-shooting Chozo statues and falls over the edge of the Artefact Temple into a huge crater. He comes back in [[Metroid Prime]] 3, where he gets beaten by Samus again and falls into the bottom of a several-hundred-meter-deep pit. He gets better, though, and you have to fight him again later in the game.

** Ridley is more of a case of [[Joker Immunity]] than anything else; he's survived at least 6 potential "deaths". They include (in Canonical order):

*** And he was planned to be in ''Metroid Prime: Echoes'' as well, either possessed by the Ing or clad in his own version of the Dark Suit.

* In ''[[Yggdra Union]]'', at the end of chapter 8: You fight Gulcasa and injure him severely. Luciana or Aegina, whoever is still alive, comes running out to cover him. When she goes down, Gulcasa awakens Brongaa and you beat him down again. He still refuses to die quite yet, and heads stubbornly for the altar where he's supposed to complete the Ritual of Soul Unbinding, where you have to pound him to death's door A THIRD TIME (the characters hang amazed lampshades on Gulcasa's sheer determination here) before he finally actually dies. The man is a true [[Determinator]].

* Jon Irenicus from the second ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' game. If you have Minsc, Jan, or both in your party, they'll comment [[Crowning Moment of Funny|on how tiresome this is becoming]]. Jan goes as far as to say "it's like a bad play". His last words to Irenicus before the fight begins are [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"here's to a decent ending"]] (referring to the "bad play" from his earlier comment). Minsc, on the other hand, comments that "I grow tired of shouting battle cries while fighting this mage. [[Eye Scream|Boo will rip out his eyes once and for all and then he will not come back again!]]"

* In ''[[Castlevania]]: [[Aria of Sorrow]]'', which is set in the near future, we learn that Dracula was finally killed for good in 1999 by Julius Belmont. What did it take to finally end ol' Drac? First, he needed to be challenged and defeated, like in many previous Castlevanias. Then, Julius sealed the holy Vampire Killer whip inside Castlevania, to weaken Dracula's power over the castle (which is the symbol of his power). And finally, Castlevania itself was sealed within an ''eclipse'', to keep Drac's soul from ever reaching it again. It worked, though Drac reincarnated all the same. This time as a good guy, though.

* {{spoiler|John Marston}} in ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]''. When Edgar betrays him near the game's conclusion, he takes fire from about a dozen gunmen for at least fifteen full seconds. And when the smoke clears, he is still standing, and only falls over and bleeds to death moments after the bullets are already in him. [[Took a Level In Badass|Not bad for a guy who earlier nearly died from a single rifle shot in the shoulder.]]

* ''[[Halo]]: Reach'':

** Also, given that Emile gets impaled from the rear ''and then snaps the neck of the alien who did it while he's being held in the air'', and can be heard heavily breathing over the radio for several minutes afterwards, he might count as well.

* In the second fight with Dogadon in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' (see at the end of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIRjo4wCA58 this video]), it dies pretty damn spectacularly. First it gets punched backwards into the wall, then flies up, has a sort of [[Technicolor Death]] with light coming out from the boss at all angles and falls into lava head first, eventually coming up again while on fire, then sinking back in with it's hand going down last with smoke coming from it. Possibly a [[Family-Unfriendly Death]].

* In ''[[Crisis Core]]'', [[The Hero|Zack Fair]] fights off tons of army guys, all armed with guns when he only has a sword; after being shot full of bullets, he still manages to give Cloud his [[Final Speech]].

* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'':

** ''Attempted'' on [[Made of Iron|Joshua]] [[Implacable Man|Graham]], or as he's better known, [[Shrouded in Myth|the Burned Man]]. He survives (among other things) a hanging and at least five .308 rounds from NCR snipers on different occasions. Then, having [[You Have Failed Me|failed Caesar and the Legion]] at the Battle of Hoover Dam, he's covered in pitch, lit on fire, and thrown into the Grand Canyon. ''It doesn't work''.

*** Note, the battle with Frank is only this tough if [[Guide Dang It|you didn't use the mutant toe on him.]]

* In ''[[Haunting Ground]]'', {{spoiler|Lorenzo}}, the game's final boss, is put through a rock crusher, thrown into a pit of lava, ''comes back as a flaming skeleton'', before finally disintegrating into dust. Not to mention all of the previous times you could have [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|kicked him]], laid traps for him, or [[Pet Interface|sicked the dog on him]].

* Really, just about every RPG end boss that goes through multiple forms before finally going down (read: almost all of them) qualifies for this trope.

 

** One bit character has a Rasputinian Death is [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/25 this comic.]

** A later character, Rojave, has Benny in a corner. Cale and Pella both notice this and simultaneously kill him with two throw swords and a [[Rings of Death|bladed ring]] respectively. Richard then [[Incendiary Exponent|lights his head on fire]] for the fun of it. Of course, as Benny had previously [[Leave Him to Me|called the kill]], she [[Healing Hands|heals him from the brink of death]] and then smashes his head with her mace.

{{quote|'''Red Mage''': I have disposed of the zombie dragon's remains in the ancient ways. His bones I scattered and broke before I buried them. His head was buried upside down at a cross roads. I added the upside down part as an extra precaution.

'''Black Mage''': Ideally, this is how we would deal with all of our enemies. }}

** Sene'kha Vel'Vloz'ress is stabbed by her sworn enemy, captured by another clan, imprisoned with her arms in chains and legs in ''solid rock'', given to said sworn enemy, beheaded, and ''set on fire''. The Kyorl'solenurn clan does not fool around when making sure nether summoners stay down.

** Sene'kha's mate, Kess'sen, was ''horribly'' difficult to kill. He was set upon by nagas, but fought through them, then survived a manabomb, was stabbed twice, took a blast of fire dead-on, released his seed to be taken over by the demon, and had his head sliced open by Kiel'ndia's chain weapon. Hopefully, the chain weapon did the trick.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* Chef's infamously over-the-top death scene in ''[[South Park]]''.

* Dinobot's death in ''[[Beast Wars]]''. He takes on the entire Predacon force ([[Big Bad|Megatron]], [[Giant Spider|Tar]][[The Chessmaster|an]][[The Starscream|tulas]], [[Kill It with Fire|Infe]][[Proud Warrior Race Guy|rno]], [[Butt Monkey|Wasp]][[Verbal Tic|inator]], [[Biological Mashup|Quick]][[Young Gun|strike]], [[Omnicidal Maniac|Rampage]] and [[The Chick|Bla]][[Cloning Blues|ck]][[Distaff Counterpart|ara]][[Giant Spider|chnea]]) alone, exhausting all of his energy, defeating all of them, saving mankind and bashing Megatron with a makeshift hammer before dying looking like Swiss cheese.

** This is after making a noble speech, of course. And the implication is that he didn't die of his wounds directly, but from a complete drain of energy (he used the last bit to destroy an ancient artifact that could predict the future).