The World's Expert on Getting Killed: Difference between revisions

*** The un-initiated Llewelen is, however much more problematic for Chigurh.

* Major Valentina Koslova from ''[[The Jackal]]'' is assigned to help Preston and Mulqueen track down the title assassin, bringing with her all her useful knowledge about the villain. Still, her confrontation with him doesn't last long.

** Repeated with the [[Badass]] hunter in ''Prey''.

* Phillip Fitzroyce, from the ''[[Jaws 3]]-D'', is described as a skilled hunter and naturalist who has every confidence he can take down the killer shark that is threatening the movie's fictionalized Sea World park. He lasts about five minutes against the beast.

* Played for (dark) laughs in ''[[Feast]]'', where "Hero", the badass-looking character who bursts onto the scene and actually seems to know what's going on, gets eaten by the creatures within seconds of his first appearance.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Club Dread]]'', when the battle-toughened security chief gets offed mid-speech.

** Well, to be fair, this was less due to any failing on Brasi's part and much more the first real failure we see from Don Corleone, indicating that the old man is showing his years and foreshadowing his inevitable retirement and replacement, first by Sonny and finally by Michael. Corleone sent Luca into this situation without expecting to be so badly and immediately outfoxed, as he thinks he is squaring off against Tattaglia, a man Corleone has zero respect for, instead of the far more intelligent and dangerous Barzini. In fact, it is not until years later that Corleone even realizes that Barzini was his opponent all along. The Don made a bad call and lost a powerful weapon, plain and simple.

** Justified by the story as a whole: every successful violent encounter works because it's a setup, tricking our outmaneuvering the enemy so that they are caught with their guard down. Luca Brasi's vicious brutality and existing kill count actually count for pretty much nothing, as none of the main characters except Michael ''really'' know anything about direct combat, instead playing the conflict like a game of chess. Michael himself lampshades this early on.

* [[Played for Laughs]] in the Coneheads movie. As Dan Akroyd is about to be executed by being forced to fight a Rancor-like creature, the prisoner before him says that he's used his years of imprisonment to study footage of the creature, determine a weak spot where he can strike, and trained until he's positive he can slay the beast. When it's his turn, he goes off confidently to victory and ''immediately'' gets his head ripped off.

* Happens towards the end in [[Spy Kids|Spy Kids 3D]] where a teen comes in who calls himself [[The Chosen One|"The Guy"]]. He enters the last level before the others do. You'd think a video game expert would last long, but one hit and all 100 hit points he had were GONE.

* The ball-collecting scientist in ''[[Planet Terror]]'' is the only person in the world who knows ''anything'' about the cause of the zombie apocalypse - a green gas referred to by professionals in the business as "the shit" - and what might be done to fix everything. Guess what happens just as he's about to tell the viewers and protagonists about it.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** Jenny Calender in the same season may count as well. Her people had handled [[Big Bad|Angelus]] before and she was the only person who had the curse that would [[Enemy Within|restore Angel's soul]], thus ending the threat. Angelus kills her quite easily, leaving the rest of the Scoobies without access to the ensoulment curse.

* On ''[[Bones]]'' the foremost expert on the serial kidnapper/killer "the Gravedigger" is killed by the Gravedigger.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[The Witcher]]'', Raymond Maarloeve, a private eye motivated by the death of his family at the hands of the organization known as Salamandra, had amassed information on the group and its head, Azar Javed, with the hopes of bringing them down. Raymond decides to aid the protagonist, Geralt, in dismantling Salamandra. The endeavor doesn't end well for him, despite Geralt successfully defending him from Salamandra's initial backlash.

** Spoiler: {{spoiler|Azar Javed himself kills Maarloeve, and begins impersonating him using magic, which Geralt may or may not discover early on, depending on the player's actions.}}

{{quote| '''Tomasso di Viterbo:''' The assassin will not appear in front of you. The assassin will come out of the shadows and--<br />

'''Ezio:''' [''rushes on foot right up to Viterbo's side, pulls him leg first off of the saddle and stabs him through the throat with the Hidden Blade as he lands''] }}

** At a closer look, though, the Ray you defeat doesn't have a tail, meaning it's probably one of the mass-produced Ray copies, not the original.

* In ''[[Exile]]/[[Avernum]] 3'', the first expedition to the surface is composed to hand-picked and trained members of the underworld's military and equipped with items personally made by a brilliant (if profoundly weird) archmage, and end up dead in various corners of [[The Empire]] within a few months. Your band of adventurers, with standard military equipment and limited support, save the world.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

== Webcomic ==