Rasputinian Death: Difference between revisions

* 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.

* The creators of ''[[The Godfather]]'' film decided that Sonny had acquired a "Rasputin-like mystique." His assassins decide that [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]], and fill his car with machine gun fire, then take him down in a hail of bullets as he staggers from it.

* 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.]

* What happens to the teacher in ''[[Final Destination]]'' is a textbook example. An exploding computer monitor drives shards of glass into her throat, a trail of fire starts heading towards her down the trail of dripped vodka from her mug, and her attempt to pull down a towel drops a butcher-block full on knives into her chest. When the protagonist comes in to try to save her, to add insult to injury, a bookcase falls and drives the knife deeper into her chest. And then her house explodes.

* [[wikipedia:1986 FBI Miami shootout|William Matix and Michael Platt]], a pair of bank robbers in Miami, both suffered this fate during a vicious shootout with the FBI. The melee was so brutal and drawn out that it led to many law enforcement agencies ditching revolvers completely. During the fight, Platt was shot in the lung an inch from his heart, the thigh, both feet, the arm, the torso, the scalp, and the chest. Matix was hit in the arm, head, and neck and knocked unconscious. He came to and was shot three times in the face before dying.

 

* There's an urban legend about a man in France who [http://darwinawards.com/legends/legends1999-03.html attempted suicide by simultaneously hanging, poisoning, shooting, and burning himself. All on a steep cliff above the sea.] The attempt failed, when he shot himself in the head while jumping off, and the shot missed his head and instead rippped through the rope, causing him to fall into the sea and survive, which not only put out the fire but also made him spit out the poison he had swallowed earlier. He was then rescued by a fisherman - but then died of hypothermia. [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/suicide.asp Snopes] tracked the first version of the tale to forensic literature of the very late 19th century, proving that if it did happen, it had to be [[Older Than Television]]. Interestingly, in the first versions the man actually ''survives''.

* A joke, probably based on the above, ends with the punchline, "Then he had to swim as hard as he could to save his life."

 

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