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* ''[[The Godfather]]'':
** The death of Santino "Sonny" Corleone. Ambushed at a toll booth by a dozen [[Rare Guns|Tommy Gun]]-wielding gangsters, shot several dozen times inside his car, then shot some more outside the car, then shot on the ground after he died, then had his face kicked in for good measure. The commentary for the film confirms that they wanted to make sure Sonny ''stayed dead'', given that his elderly father had been repeatedly shot earlier in the film and survived, and that Sonny was known to be a tough bastard.
** At the end of the movie, {{spoiler|the elimination of the heads of the Five Families during the Baptism scene, along with Moe Greene and Tattaglia's mistress who had the misfortune of sharing his bed at the wrong time... and Carlo Rizzi, Michael's brother-in-law, for his role in Sonny's death.}} The body count for the end of Part II is relatively minor compared to Part I {{spoiler|but aside from Hyman Roth's death, there was no real need for Michael to have the other two killed...
** In ''[[Training Day]]'', {{spoiler|Alonzo Harris is a lesser version of this as a deliberate [[Shout-Out]]: first the Russians crash his car, then they shoot him in the car, and after Alonzo leaves the vehicle, battered, he is shot brutally on full-auto.}}
* ''[[Predator]]'' might be a borderline case in that the protagonists are fighting an almost invisible opponent and just happen to have his approximate position known. But then, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pNZ1oypbjo&feature=related the six people are emptying] two assault rifles, two sub-machine guns, a [[More Dakka|grenade launcher]], and a [[Gatling Good|minigun]] at a patch of jungle over the next 40 seconds, all the while reloading and continuing to fire. And they didn't even get a good hit.
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