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=== Real Life ===
* A popular means of assassination. [[John F. Kennedy]] famously went out this way, along with [[Abraham Lincoln]]. Most recently, so did both [[Osama Bin Laden]] and [[Muammar Gaddafi]]. [[Adolf Hitler]] also went out like this, but by way of suicide. In the case of the Philippine politician Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, his [[Boom! Headshot!]] death was the detonator to the [[wikipedia:People Power Revolution|People Power Revolution]] led by his widow Corazón, which would bring down the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
* Badly subverted in hunting ranges, where it's not uncommon to see deer afflicted with a severed jaw or an exposed brain because an amateur hunter thought he could take it down with a headshot. In those cases, the range's owners have to intervene themselves to put the deer out of its misery.
* Vice-president Dick Chenney accidentally shot a fellow hunter in the face/head with a shotgun [[wikipedia:Dick Cheney hunting incident|one time.]]
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