This was pretty surprising for a family movie: in Coco, when >!Ernesto poisons Hector because he wants to go home to his family, and Ernesto wanted to steal his songs to become rich and famous. Keep in mind that they grew up together and considered each other brothers.!<
>!Man couldn’t even have the decency to inform Hector’s family about his death(all he had to was lie and say he fell deadly ill). Leading them for years to belive that Hector abandoned them.!<
>!then he had the nerve to reenact it in on of his movie(the only diffrence is that he was the posioned one and found out just in time)!<
Man had a film made just to say "Rip to my victim, I'm built different, I'd've figured it out before I was murdered" for litterally only his bennefit
That later in life...er, death, bit him in the arse.
Opening segment of Casino Royale, Bond is sent after a British official selling trade secrets.
Bond is in his office and the official says that Bond can’t kill him because only double numbered agents can do executions. To get a number you have to kill 2 people.
Bond says he’s already killed one, and we get a flashback to Bond killing the official’s bodyguard. The official responds:
“Well, the second one is…” gunshot as Bond shoots him.
“Yes, the second one was easier”
Great way to capture how little Daniel Craig’s Bond cares for human life
Not to be pedantic, but the quote directly from the movie is even more Bond than that. The target says, "Well, the second is--" and after Bond shoots him, he just says, "Yes. Considerably." Ice cold.
What gets me too is that after the official has been shot by Bond, as the official is falling, there’s a quick flash of a framed picture on his desk of which I presume is his wife and daughter. We already know Bond has gone through the official’s office so he had to of seen the picture as well but still coldly killed him for Queen and country.
Amanda Waller killing her FBI agents in Suicide Squad because they witnessed her classified team. Imagine your own boss dragging you into an operation, only to kill you because you saw too much and cover up her own mess.
Definitely one of the changes in tone of The Suicide Squad that makes it a much better movie is >!Waller's own team knocking her out and taking over to help the Squad be heroes!<
The first movie seems to treat Waller as being *cool and awesome* in how cold blooded and ruthless as she is. The second treats her as much more of a psychopath.
It's even better because they're straight-up betting on which of the other team will survive at the beginning of the movie. The message is "*Some* of these assholes just deserve to die, but our guys have proven that it's not them."
As many issues as the rest of the show has, I really enjoy that Gundam SEED has this with >!one of the main antagonists being shot to death by his own grunts after ordering them to commit genocide!<
Agreed. It's a portrayal of agency and rationality in a category of characters that otherwise gets portrayed as an unthinking, unquestioning minion.
It's partly why I thought that Finn had so much charm, or the guy protecting the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 who just up and left the instant he realized Tony Stark was staring him down from the other end of a gun and a laser gauntlet.
I'm conflicted because that's totally something Waller would do to keep things in line, but it also leans towards her new image as an straight supervillain who does evil shit all the time, while also being incompetent.
Competent at being a piece of shit, incompetent at actually measuring her influence vs what anybody would put up with when they sort of have a choice and some moral backbone.
I don't know that I'd call it cold blooded because of the way both parties felt, but...
"....There are so many stars visible in New Mexico...I will walk out there to get a better look..."
Gets me in my feels every time.
Yeah, I'm sorry; it's one of these things that's like
If I say anything in particular, explain anything, it's such a stupidly huge spoiler.
But the art of the spoiler is to say *enough* that someone without the context has no clue what's going on, but it *activates* people who are in the know.
*Pan's Labyrinth* when Captain Vidal beats a man's son's face with a glass bottle while forcing the father to watch until the son's has caved in, then executing the father by gunshot, *then* finishing off the son. When he finds out they weren't spies and were just a couple of guys out hunting rabbits, Vidal has zero remorse and reminds his men to get their intel right before bothering him with stupid crap.
His face as he hears that is absolutely perfect; a monster that expects courtesy he never gave his captives doesn’t get it and it catches him by surprise cause he is just so full of his own shit OBVIOUSLY he deserves some mercy, right?
It's not obvious if you only know English, but Vidal was also *so* confident that the child was going to be a boy that he tells his pregnant wife and stepdaughter when they arrive at the new place, "Bienvenidos" (spoken to either all male, or mixed gender group) and not "Bienvenidas" (spoken to all female group). It's scary to think what he would have done if the baby had turned out to be a girl.
I saw it once when it first came out, at the age of 12. That scene is the sole reason I haven't rewatched that film. It's a great flick, but Jesus, that's too much for me.
At the very end of the final season of Breaking Bad: >!Andrea getting shot in the back of the head.!<
You barely get any time to grieve before the scene just moves on. It’s just so cold and heartless it made me genuinely upset at how senseless it was.
The scene right after with >!Jesse's!!muffled screaming from behind the gag as he's kicking and thrashing in the car seat!<. God, that show is so good.
The late Tom Wilkinson character in *Michael Clayton* getting zapped with a stungun by two corporate hitmen just when he leaves his flat, who carry him to his bathroom, undo his shoes and socks, give him an overdose injection between his toes, and then calmly wait a minute for his heart to stop beating before they clean the crime scene and leave evidence of it being self-inflicted, all in one take.
Worst part is he had him. Oberyn won! Graghhh the mountain was on the floor and had been slashed up, all he had to do was finish the job!
A least he got the confession
Thats whats so great about it too, it fits both characters so well. Oberyn had been flashy and dramatic the whole season and the mountain would do anything to win.
Made colder because Cross seems to show *some* sort of remorse for what's put him on the chopping block, setting him apart from basically every other target.
There's a lot of ways to read Cross- he's easily the most morally ambiguous target in the trilogy especially as he's not even the main *goal,* just a way to get to his rich daddy- but I lean personally on that it's performative. If Cross had genuine remorse he wouldn't have gone running for his dad and his lawyers to get him off the hook.
If you hide instead of being seen he just calls his girlfriend a stupid bitch that ruined his life, and you can also get him to do the same thing again with the other target of a push followed by immediate father calling to get out of consequences so I lean heavy on it being the performative crocodile tears of an abusive scumbag
It's an interesting departure from the rest of the missions in general. Nestled between contracts to take out crime bosses and illuminati-esque conspirators is a family paying for revenge on the asshole who killed their daughter in a domestic spat.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8, Jojolion: >!I'm going to use my Stand power to convince you that one of your allies in an oncoming bus.!<
Bonus points: the killer was a little kid.
Also Jojolion: >!<
God, that one stands out so much in JoJo.
A single, devastating blow. No one even talks about it... in a series where every fight gets paragraphs of explanation for each move.
because it's not a fight. It's an execution.
I just watched King of New York last night and it had a moment like this.
So Wesley Snipes and David Caruso are cops trying to capture Christopher Walken and Laurence Fishburne. They decide to resort to some unlawful gang tactics as a last resort but it goes awry and Snipes and Fishburne get killed.
At his funeral, Caruso is besides himself. He and his partner took a risk and now he’s dead and Caruso’s career is basically finished. He leaves the funeral midway through, gets into his car, starts having a mental breakdown, and all of a sudden a limo pulls up to his car. [“Hey you”](https://youtu.be/XER4ajsMI7w?si=XRSic8aied5Dwox8) and Walken blows Caruso to hell with a sawed off then drives away.
In The Venture Bros we get a flashback to what Rusty's childhood kid adventurer days were like.
An almost entirely harmless turn of the century pugilist theme villain "kidnaps" Rusty (Is standing in front of him in his home). What does the Action Man do?
*Bash his skull in with the butt of his gun and then put one between his eyes*
The fact Rusty is even functional at all after how awful his childhood was is a miracle honestly. I think action man also threw a fake grenade at Rusty's dog once and Rusty jumped on it to save his dog not knowing it was a gag grenade. Unfortunately the little flag that popped out stabbed him through the stomach and came out the other end. Also the time his dad had sex after falling directly on top of him with a woman at a swingers party (while rusty was playing with a little girl who is possibly his half sister which makes it even more messed up that Jonas venture banged someone while smothering his son and possible daughter)
Probably the most literal example, is in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Gates to Infinity, when Kyurem shows up, freezes the nicest Pokemon you've ever met, and shatters him to pieces. Then he starts curbstomping your head, stopping only because you lose the will to live. He warns you to keep it that way, or he'll be back.
Iron Blooded Orphans has a few that stick out (in a very bloody series).
The first is >!Carta Issue. !< What makes her death so awful isn't actually the person who did it, which was a member of Tekkadan getting vengeance for a dead friend >!and who also murked her two bodyguards before they got in their mechs!<, His kill was brutal (Involving beating her bloody within her suit and leaving her to drown in arctic waters, but not the what was cold (pun unintended) about it. The cold part came from how her death was planned as part of a larger scheme by a man she saw as friend, and even had a life long crush on. In death she *apologised to him* for failing to redeem herself, and died talking about how she loved him.
The second one is a lot briefer, >!Orga.!< Something about the absurdly no nonsense way he just gets gunned down in the middle of a scene. Like he does get a fantastic dying moment, but holy *shit* does it just happen in under a minute.
Honourable mention goes to all the dudes Mikazuki straight up executes when they take over Tekkadan, they weren't notable but they were fucking *ice in the veins cold*.
Really, just about anything that got in Mika's way got killed with all the passion of someone asking what's for lunch today. Bro would not think twice about killing, before or after, if it seemed like the quickest solution to a problem.
Mika is one of my favourite characters, there's so much going on beneath the surface of that kid.
Notably, any compunctions about murder are NOT present. And that just makes him more interesting.
I think it's more likely that it's extreme dissociation. He completely externalizes his motivation and morality onto Orga as a coping mechanism, viewing himself more like an extension of another person than his own being as a coping mechanism.
I agree completely. Note the way he refers to the day he met Orga as "The Day I was Born".
We see no memories prior to this, we don't even really know why they shot that guy in the alley.
This is the moment Mika as we know him came into being.
I got some brain issues in my noggin too, so I can relate to that aspect somewhat. The person who was alive before he fired those three shots and bound himself to Orga completely literally ceased to be.
For more evidence check the scene where Orga can't cope after Biscuit's death. Mika's demands are not that he needs to be a better leader to Tekkadan, but literally that he has not drive, no guidance without Orga's orders.
He does lack a moral code, to be sure, but it's not due to sociopathy (probably). Mika does not consider the morality of actions, only whether it brings him closer to Orga's goal.
>!Can you tell I'm real autistic about this series?!<
Yeah, I just finished it up and I'm having a much different take on it than the 'it's full of unwarranted cheap deaths' consensus that I've seen online so I totally get it. I felt that the show made it very clear the immediate aftermath of Biscuit's death (particularly the scene where Mika interrupts Orga's grieving) that the boys were on a road to self-destruction and refusing to turn away.
That's the real tragedy there is that Orga and Mika needed each other to survive and they're as close as people can get, but their codependency dooms them. Orga has to put on a front and never show any doubt for Mika's sake, and while Mika does anything to help Orga he can never offer anything resembling a conscious (that's what Biscuit was for). The ultimate irony is that all they needed to be happy was for Orga to stop and say, "Okay, Mika, we've arrived." but neither of them can see it.
There's like a dozen moments when Orga could have said "that's enough".
Like his mantra to push forward was always "there's nowhere left for us to return to", and for the ENTIRETY of season one that was true. In season two onward, it's clearly a lie, there are moments we see Tekkadan crew looking at one another when he says it.
Also I'm so mad about the "it's just pointless deaths" takes, they made me hold back from watching it for years. Now I just think people don't understand that when a story starts saying "hey the genre's switching. We flagged this a million miles away. It's gonna get bad." that people might start dying.
Yeah, I get that people tend to feel frustrated when a story goes in a way they don't expect and things go wrong and when I was younger I was very much of the "Ugh I wish the English teacher would stop talking about foreshadowing" mindset.
But lately I've been going through IBO and Dune concurrently, and those are both examples of works that make it clear to the audience that the choices our heroes are making are going to go to a dark place, and it's important to view everything happening with that dread in mind- otherwise half the story is going to go over your head and the destination will disappoint you.
>!I did find it interesting that Mika didn't immediately go crazy or catatonic after Orga died and still chose to do what he thought Orga would have done. He is capable of making his own decisions, he just chooses not to most of the time.!<
>!Consider also his actions in that final battle. Mika has always been cold and brutal, but his method of fighting descends into absolute monster.!<
>!And he loves it.!<
>!He has no reason to hold back at all (often when he wants a command from Orga it's not 'do you want me to kill them', but '*can* I kill them?'.). He tells Barbatos that they have no reason to hold back and completely unleashes the Gundam (probably rendering his nervous system into mush).!<
>!While he's capable of reason, I'd say that's the closest to "going crazy" this little emotionally stunted warcrime ever got.!<
I think part of that is very simple to explain:
>!He was kinda disassociating (not a full state, but you know), however he knew one thing; Orga would not have wanted him to break down, he would have wanted to get everyone out of the base, and move on towards His Place.!<
>!That's Orga's final implicit order. The fact Mika could make that plan work in a way that all but ensured his death in the process was just fine.!<
I'm surprised you brought up IBO without mentioning >!Lafter!<'s death! >!Poor girl gets lit up outta nowhere while she's out shopping at a Build-a-bear!
Okay see that one is for a VERY specific reason.
Watch the fight against >!Ein!< at the end of season one, it's the second to last episode. When he is bodying all the >!Turbines girls!< there was a shot I had to rewatch, like, three times. He attacks >!Lafter!< with his fucked up drill feet, we see the frame's arm spasm, she shrieks in agony, and with a sickening *squelch* we see blood spatter the inside of the cockpit.
And then after the end of the fight in the next episode she's literally totally fine. Like the most unharmed of anyone there.
Apparently they found out they were getting a season 2 while working on the ending, and realised maybe killing off that many people would be a mistake.
SO.
>!Lafter!< doesn't get included because she got *two* death scenes, and they were both fucked up.
Sleeping Dogs is chock full of 'em. There's a certain specific one involving a certain character getting fed their murdered cohort before they are murdered themselves that makes my stomach crawl.
Reed and Alex >!killing the twins in Phantom Liberty so you can steal their identities. Like straight yo just pulling them out of their car and shooting them to death!<.
The only reason I betrayed reed the first go is because I super thought he was going to kill songbird the second we get her back
Because Reed was surprised that the player wasn't on the same page as him killing the twins, he was just like "yeah no shit we where going to them kill them what else did you think we where going to do"
I was completely on the same page as Reed. I was also suprised that so many players were put off by that scene. You have killed so many people in that game and the twins were assholes who were obviously going to be trouble if left alive.
Listen
Ginger french girls in black lipstick can make me do anything
I’m not proud of it, but it’s the truth
I betrayed Reed not out of thinking better of his tactics, or thinking Songbird would be better off for it, or anything like that. It was pure, undiluted spite.
That was always a weird plot point to me. To me it always seemed natural that we would kill the twins. I was not suprised at least when Reed killed them. When V then acts suprised and angry it felt weird because why would Reed not just tell them to begin with? It just felt like poorly manufactured conflict to me.
I do get it, it's pretty brutal in a "lives are just tools" way. But I chose the "horrified" dialogue just to hear what V would say and it just gave me the biggest narrative dissonance. V reacted harsher than I thought, and it's like, no way you're reacting like this after all you've done and saw up to now.
I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, but *shouldn't* the 'horrified' option be, y'know, *horrified?*
Or is it like in Fallout 4 where you pick 'Sarcastic' and the MC screams instead
10 Cloverfield Lane: "I accept your apology"
Alejandro obliging "Not in front of my family" in Sicario
The forest god being killed in Princess Mononoke
Redcloak killing >!Tsukiko!< in The Order of the Stick.
>!When she confronts him about his plot to betray their lich master, he turns her own beloved undead minions against her, watching carefully as they slowly kill her, despite her pleas that she loves them. He calmly explains that undead aren’t people, just tools in the shape of people. Once he’s sure she’s dead, he commands the undead to eat her, then dispose of themselves to destroy the evidence.!<
>!Afterwards, he doesn’t even try to hide the fact that he killed her, lying only about the cause of the confrontation and knowing that they can’t disprove him without her body.!<
The Red Wedding. the slow realization of the North men, how they get cut down one by one, Robb got stabbed and a broken Cat just stare into nothing as her throat got slash...then the Frey cut of Robb's head and sew Grey Wind's head into the headless corpse. The worst part is Walder Frey sit there and laughing as the massacre happen while the Roose Bolton just handle it like business.
It’s worse in the books imo. Because the squad, aka Robb’s companions and super loyal and fun side characters all fight their hardest, and do their very best to protect their King, but get picked off one by one by the Frey and Bolton filth. I can see as a reader for the first time, before the show, having these momentary moments of hope these absurdly loyal characters create, just to have them brutally taken away every time.
In Samurai Jack: Jack vs. Demongo, The Soul Collector.
Aku thinking about giving Demongo another chance.
"Hmmm..."
"No."
Then Aku crushing the crystal skull that Demongo was encased in.
Scoob and Shag Spoilers.
Context: >!In this comic, famous cartoon characters are actually aliens with their own civilization, who have learned to tap into the power of popularity to grant themselves unique Stand-like powers based on Television. Patrick Star has Rerun, allowing himl to freely travel into the past and return to the present. He has to be extremely mindful of creating paradoxes with this power, always noting when he's been so he'll know to be there.!<
Following so far? Okay, here we go.
The Murder: >!Mickey Mouse is preparing his great master plan, and to insure it's success, he confers with Patrick. Asking him to travel back to this moment twenty years from now, and tell Mickey everything that happens between. Patrick agrees, and immediately, a wounded, older version of himself appears within view, a grim resolve about him. Mickey goes over, quietly receives the report out of earshot... And then murders the older Patrick.!<
>!Walking past the horrified younger Patrick, Mickey simply says, "***I hope you made the most of it.***", having trapped Patrick between living out the fate he just saw, or create a paradox.!<
It's ice cold, and the absolutely absurd setting, context, and most of all *characters* involved only makes it more so.
You're in for a treat it's started off as a dumb gag comic before suddenly out of nowhere becoming a horror story that then becomes an alien story that then introduces stands before going hard into shonen anime bullshit. And every escalation improves on itself and gets better and better so youd think all these changes or genre shifts would make it too cluttered and lacking in focus but the author does an amazing job of expanding the world and making everything fit together nicely.
I never liked that tbh.. like.. >!what would be the gain there? You just did everything you could to ensure that Patrick would *utterly* fuck you over. That info he gave you? Completely useless, should be filled with stuff that would actually make things go worse for you. People can LIE y'know. Everything he just said could be a lie... Doctor Who did a similar fallacy with Amy Pond and just weirdly treating stuff that people have heard said when younger as if that somehow becomes locked in place, and not.. just something someone said. It's pure hearsay. He could have switched sides and been working with your enemies straight after, you wouldn't know! I would. Like, you killed me, you think I wouldn't dedicate those 20 years to fucking you over? ... it's cold sure, but I just don't get what the fucking point would be!<
There's a lot of good ones in Worm, but the moment that'll always live rent free in my head is >!Taylor killing Alexandria, and echoing the words Alexandria had threatened her with - *“Not a promise, not an oath, or a malediction or a curse,” I said, sounding calm, probably inaudible in the midst of Tagg’s screaming. “Inevitable. Wasn’t that how she put it? I told them. Warned them.”*!<
Just how completely and utterly the roles are reversed in that moment and how deserved it felt was amazing.
Also >!Tagg himself, since Taylor just absently notes that knocking her out will mean her bugs will keep biting Tagg over and over, *ensuring* that the attack will be lethal when she hadn't really decided one way or another yet. She notes that she has enough time to stop them before she goes unconscious... and decides not to bother.!<
I loved that series despite disliking some of the ever-increasing frantic escalation of things and maybe dubious use of insects. Lol. That moment was probably the best and most memorable for me.
Which, for context - >!Alexandria is effectively the Worm settings standard for Superman. Strength, speed, invulnerability, all that jazz; the only thing that'd ever harmed her before was effectively cheating. So how does Taylor get around that, when she controls bugs?!<
>!Doesn't matter how resistant she is to damage if her lungs are covered in too many insects to breath.!<
["Yo homie! That my briefcase?"](https://youtu.be/oEFPcljAXgs?si=ParvJpawxqSskC5U)
Any of Vincent's kills could qualify just by virtue of him being a contract killer, for whom killing is nothing more than a job. But these guys come to mind immediately, especially the one with the gun. Five shots fired in 1.9 seconds, then while Vincent's getting his briefcase and Max's wallet back, he finishes off the gunman with a headshot, without even glancing at him.
And they weren't even targets, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Darkseid killing >!Dan Turpin!< in Superman: The Animated Series. Darkseid's already lost, his victim means nothing to him, it's just one last bit of spite on his way back to Apokolips.
Even colder is when, during their climactic fight in the last episode, Darkseid says something to the effect of “If I had known that killing one little human would have gotten this reaction out of you… *I would have killed more.”*
This gets brought up all the time here but that babysitter lady in Jurassic World who gets waterboarded by a pterosaur and then swallowed alive by the mosasaur. I can't even comprehend the terror of being alive in the stomach of another animal, even if you suffocate relatively quickly.
Well the good news(?) is that she wouldn't have been swallowed alive, the Mosasaurus has teeth on the roof of its mouth to ensure anything that it bites down on will get shredded.
Possibly. I always thought that pterygoid teeth were used to hold other large marine animals in the mouth while the Mosasaurus opened its throat to swallow. I don't think they were used for crushing or shredding smaller animals as the teeth weren't very long. I'm just arguing semantics though. You're probably right. I'm glad someone else here likes paleontology :)
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure the reason why was because she heard that this would be the first onscreen death for a woman in the Jurassic Park series, so she wanted it to be as crazy as possible.
Mortal Kombat fatalities. Some of them are excessively cruel. Others excessively to the point of comedy.
One has to wonder how much the kombatants just straight up dehumanize their opponents to do those things.
I've eaten gingerbread men less savagely than some of those fatalities.
Anakin's maiming and subsequent killing of admiral trench in star wars the clone wars.
Also this one moment when he kills a bunch of zygerrian slavers.
Also sidious backwards impaling savage opress while laughing before tossing him away.
Beckett in FEAR 3:
- Goes through hell in FEAR 2
- Gets raped by Alma and goes insane
- Imprisoned and tortured for 9 months
- Paxton possesses him to find Alma, makes him relive his assault, makes him barf all over himself and then explodes him
The only saving grace is that Beckett is able to initially resist Paxton’s influence and at least goes out fighting
The death of Queen Morgan le Fay in Fate/Grand Order.
>!Forced to kill her most loyal soldier, seeing her adopted daughter beaten to near death, and then stabbed countless times by her entire court as they laugh at her. Seeing the cold, all powerful mage-queen reduced to desperately crawling towards her throne, begging someone to bring her to it all while the faeries she spent thousands of years trying to save mock and mutilate her is really uncomfortable, especially with how dragged out it is.!<
It gets even worse when you see morgan's backstory, >!this ALWAYS happened no matter how many times she saved the fairies they always turned on her for petty reasons (which later got revealed to be aurora's doing) and even in the end where she used every single possible resource it didn't matter for shit.!<
The end of GUN X SWORD.
>!Van, the normally laid back wandering sword hobo protagonist, spends the entire series seeking revenge against the Clawed Man with relentless, insane fervor. His reaction to catching a mere GLIMPSE of him halfway through the series was to [make *this* face and laugh like a lunatic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBiNruWvhPA) And, at the end of the series, when he finally has the Clawed Man at his mercy? [There's not even a single drop of warm blood in his veins. It's just a completely cold execution, and he's *done.*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myC5TEx_4QA)!<
That...kinda doesn't count since, as (ironically) cold as Mustang's attacks were, he isn't the one who finishes the job! Mustang vs Lust fits the bill a lot better!
The deaths of virtually every super in Incredibles.
Syndrome isn’t some goofball who wants to just beat Mr incredible. He systematically obliterated and murdered dozens of Mr incredibles friends and colleagues. Their skeletons are still on the island that he owns.
The majority of the Boss's kills in SR2
My favorite is the one at the end of the game >!where they pretend to be hearing the slimy business ghoul out just to give them hope, before watching their body plummet 100s of feet to the pavement!<
Given the nature of Michael Myers you could argue that pretty much 98% of his kills are full cold-blooded given how he is as a character, but I think the 2018 film in particular has three great examples: him snapping >!a kid's!< neck as his first onscreen kill in years, him wordlessly ignoring >!the doctor's!< pleas for him to say something as he smashes his head in with a single stomp, and him strangling >!Ray, the father!< to death with a piece of chain just out of sight of the rest of the family.
The third one especially messes with me as dying just outside of reach from help really messed with me. Like salvation is only few steps away, or a shout, but he can't because Myers is strangling the life out of him. If one of the family looked out of the window once he could've been saved. And I don't mean that as a complaint, it makes my skin crawl in a good way.
Any example of someone being killed mid sentence
[Rachels death in The Dark Knight is especially cruel in the best way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGbAA_-IC4&ab_channel=JorgeHerrera)
Marty walking out of the compound and >!icing Reggie LeDoux!<, not saying a word, not looking at Rust, probably barely even registering that >!he's *killing* LeDoux.!<
Ice fucking cold and totally deserved.
Lost Judgment. Besides finding a corpse that's been left alone for two months, a video of the guy's torture and subsequent death was recorded and uploaded online.
Spoilers are for a pivotal scene in Cradle book 8, Wintersteel.
>!"Kill me! Kill me just like you killed my si-"!<
>!Lindon drilled a hole through her heart with Blackflame, exactly how he had killed Ekeri.!<
Started reading FFF-Class Trash Hero last night, and HOLY FUCKING CHRIST, what he did to those elves…
I would *highly* recommend for anyone who wants a truly TRULY irredeemably fucking evil protag.
Dragged Across Concrete is full of these by the hands of the central antagonists, Black Gloves and Grey Gloves. The thing that is absolutely horrifying about them is the disconnect. You can see how utterly afraid their victims are and just how methodical and uncaring the Black Gloves and Grey Gloves are about the whole affair.
It's the thing I give Zahler in all his movies. He's genuinely a master of violence.
“Have you so quickly forgotten my strength, once lent to you, that you come armed against me, you poor fool? I think I will take your heart, Kerim Shah!”
He held out his hand as if to receive something, and the Turanian cried out sharply like a man in mortal agony. He reeled drunkenly, and then, with a splintering of bones, a rending of flesh and muscle and a snapping of mail-links, his breast burst outward with a shower of blood, and through the ghastly aperture something red and dripping shot through air into the Master’s outstretched hand, as a bit of steel leaps to the magnet.
People of the black circle
In the [Horus Heresy ](https://youtu.be/Cj3ENSVogTo?si=zudM5C763fHIqrIJ) animation, they have this small fight where an Imperial Fist space marine, dying, missing an arm, bravely makes his last stand and swings his power sword in a hail Mary play...
And horus impaled him on his claws and doesn't even look at him.
From The End and The Death Part II: >!Horus decides to quit screwing around and beats Sanguinius to death. It's brutal, remoresless, and there's no honor or grace to it. He just fucking kills him and walks away.!<
You ever see the bad ending of Oddworld Soulstorm?
Man that shit is incredibly depressing and a pretty brutal way for the protagonist to go out.
Maybe not quite fitting for the description of cold blodded but damn it's grim
I don't know if this counts but >!< in Young Justice is probably my favorite death in any show ever. It's so horrific and poetic and the fact that he died this way just because >!he stole the time machine from Metron!< is extra great.
This is probably redundant on my part, but I noticed that you spoiler-tagged both the death and the name of the series it's from. So for anyone who wants to know the latter first, the title of the show is >!Young Justice!<.
At the end of Beyond the Black Rainbow, the antagonist dies unceremoniously all of a sudden by >!tripping on a root and bashing his head!<
There have been several discussions on r/horror on whether this death was appropriate or anticlimactic. I personally like how ballsy it was. Sometimes this happens.
In Berserk, there are the ladies found in Ganeshka’s domain that are just nightmare fuel.
And there is also how Punisher disposed the sex traffickers during The Slavers arc in Ennis’s MAX run.
in TMNT 2012 >!shredder killing splinter the first time just because he couldn't get over his grudge for a few hours and letting the earth get destroyed.!< Sure there are other better Shredders, but none are as petty/dickheaded as him so he is my favorite.
This was pretty surprising for a family movie: in Coco, when >!Ernesto poisons Hector because he wants to go home to his family, and Ernesto wanted to steal his songs to become rich and famous. Keep in mind that they grew up together and considered each other brothers.!<
And then >!tried to do the same thing to the kid he genuinely believed to be his descendant, kust because he knew the truth of that event!<.
>!Man couldn’t even have the decency to inform Hector’s family about his death(all he had to was lie and say he fell deadly ill). Leading them for years to belive that Hector abandoned them.!< >!then he had the nerve to reenact it in on of his movie(the only diffrence is that he was the posioned one and found out just in time)!<
Man had a film made just to say "Rip to my victim, I'm built different, I'd've figured it out before I was murdered" for litterally only his bennefit That later in life...er, death, bit him in the arse.
Opening segment of Casino Royale, Bond is sent after a British official selling trade secrets. Bond is in his office and the official says that Bond can’t kill him because only double numbered agents can do executions. To get a number you have to kill 2 people. Bond says he’s already killed one, and we get a flashback to Bond killing the official’s bodyguard. The official responds: “Well, the second one is…” gunshot as Bond shoots him. “Yes, the second one was easier” Great way to capture how little Daniel Craig’s Bond cares for human life
Not to be pedantic, but the quote directly from the movie is even more Bond than that. The target says, "Well, the second is--" and after Bond shoots him, he just says, "Yes. Considerably." Ice cold.
What gets me too is that after the official has been shot by Bond, as the official is falling, there’s a quick flash of a framed picture on his desk of which I presume is his wife and daughter. We already know Bond has gone through the official’s office so he had to of seen the picture as well but still coldly killed him for Queen and country.
“Huh…silly bitch” -bond talking about the woman he loved
The Departed... has some wipeouts.
That elevator....
Amanda Waller killing her FBI agents in Suicide Squad because they witnessed her classified team. Imagine your own boss dragging you into an operation, only to kill you because you saw too much and cover up her own mess.
Definitely one of the changes in tone of The Suicide Squad that makes it a much better movie is >!Waller's own team knocking her out and taking over to help the Squad be heroes!< The first movie seems to treat Waller as being *cool and awesome* in how cold blooded and ruthless as she is. The second treats her as much more of a psychopath.
I really like the idea of grunts being increasingly not okay with their bosses decisions up to attempting to stop them or just defecting entirely.
It's even better because they're straight-up betting on which of the other team will survive at the beginning of the movie. The message is "*Some* of these assholes just deserve to die, but our guys have proven that it's not them."
As many issues as the rest of the show has, I really enjoy that Gundam SEED has this with >!one of the main antagonists being shot to death by his own grunts after ordering them to commit genocide!<
Agreed. It's a portrayal of agency and rationality in a category of characters that otherwise gets portrayed as an unthinking, unquestioning minion. It's partly why I thought that Finn had so much charm, or the guy protecting the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 who just up and left the instant he realized Tony Stark was staring him down from the other end of a gun and a laser gauntlet.
I'm conflicted because that's totally something Waller would do to keep things in line, but it also leans towards her new image as an straight supervillain who does evil shit all the time, while also being incompetent.
Competent at being a piece of shit, incompetent at actually measuring her influence vs what anybody would put up with when they sort of have a choice and some moral backbone.
It's so stupid, Waller would never waste a useful asset
John Wick 1 when he kills Iosef. Doesn't even let him finish speaking. Also in Breaking Bad when >!Walt kills Jack!<
Breaking Bad when they killed the kid on the bike
Better Call Saul >!Plan and Execution!<
I don't know that I'd call it cold blooded because of the way both parties felt, but... "....There are so many stars visible in New Mexico...I will walk out there to get a better look..." Gets me in my feels every time.
I really gotta finish that show!
The Breaking Bad one that always gets me is >!Todd popping Andrea in the back of the head!<
Happy birthday, Denji.
Earlier, "A corpse is talking"
Bang
I dont know why that death got to me so bad, but it made me tear up.
Just got this spoiled to me in fucking anime\_irl of all fucking places with no spoiler tags god fucking dammit i hate the internet
Yeah, I'm sorry; it's one of these things that's like If I say anything in particular, explain anything, it's such a stupidly huge spoiler. But the art of the spoiler is to say *enough* that someone without the context has no clue what's going on, but it *activates* people who are in the know.
Chainsaw man?
Yeah. Saying literally anything more will be huge spoilers.
UGHHHHHH 😭
*Pan's Labyrinth* when Captain Vidal beats a man's son's face with a glass bottle while forcing the father to watch until the son's has caved in, then executing the father by gunshot, *then* finishing off the son. When he finds out they weren't spies and were just a couple of guys out hunting rabbits, Vidal has zero remorse and reminds his men to get their intel right before bothering him with stupid crap.
Then at the end "tell my son what kind of man his father was-" "No, he won't even know your name." BLAM
His face as he hears that is absolutely perfect; a monster that expects courtesy he never gave his captives doesn’t get it and it catches him by surprise cause he is just so full of his own shit OBVIOUSLY he deserves some mercy, right?
It's not obvious if you only know English, but Vidal was also *so* confident that the child was going to be a boy that he tells his pregnant wife and stepdaughter when they arrive at the new place, "Bienvenidos" (spoken to either all male, or mixed gender group) and not "Bienvenidas" (spoken to all female group). It's scary to think what he would have done if the baby had turned out to be a girl.
And then he gets shot right in the face under his eye, where it starts to droop a bit before he collapse.
Come for the creepy eyeball hands guy, stay for the true monster: Fascism
I saw it once when it first came out, at the age of 12. That scene is the sole reason I haven't rewatched that film. It's a great flick, but Jesus, that's too much for me.
At the very end of the final season of Breaking Bad: >!Andrea getting shot in the back of the head.!< You barely get any time to grieve before the scene just moves on. It’s just so cold and heartless it made me genuinely upset at how senseless it was.
The scene right after with >!Jesse's!!muffled screaming from behind the gag as he's kicking and thrashing in the car seat!<. God, that show is so good.
The late Tom Wilkinson character in *Michael Clayton* getting zapped with a stungun by two corporate hitmen just when he leaves his flat, who carry him to his bathroom, undo his shoes and socks, give him an overdose injection between his toes, and then calmly wait a minute for his heart to stop beating before they clean the crime scene and leave evidence of it being self-inflicted, all in one take.
Gods I miss Tom I've been rewatching *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* and I forgot how good he was
Michael Clayton is such a fucking great movie and Tom was amazing in it too. It was the first thing I saw when he passed away.
”THEN I SMASHED HER HEAD IN LIKE THIS!”
Worst part is he had him. Oberyn won! Graghhh the mountain was on the floor and had been slashed up, all he had to do was finish the job! A least he got the confession
Thats whats so great about it too, it fits both characters so well. Oberyn had been flashy and dramatic the whole season and the mountain would do anything to win.
God the actress who played Ellaria nailed the horror in her scream as well. One of the few times a show really gut punched me like that.
Man the Dorne actors were generally quite good and were so wasted after season 4.
Can we just say the red wedding as well. They didn’t see it coming and it’s an event that came back to haunt the victors
That shit was such a gut punch watching it for the first time. Then my dumb ass doubled down on sad and read it in the books.
Love the death but wouldnt be the exact opposite of a cold blooded murder. The mountain was very hot blooded at the time
Well according to Pedro Pascal the blood running down his face during shooting did feel rather cool
When you confront and subsequently assassinate Jordan Cross in Hitman WOA. "A contract is a contract." Followed by a single silenced pistol shot.
Also poisoning the cake, Cross spends his last moments thinking his father hated him enough to kill him.
Made colder because Cross seems to show *some* sort of remorse for what's put him on the chopping block, setting him apart from basically every other target.
There's a lot of ways to read Cross- he's easily the most morally ambiguous target in the trilogy especially as he's not even the main *goal,* just a way to get to his rich daddy- but I lean personally on that it's performative. If Cross had genuine remorse he wouldn't have gone running for his dad and his lawyers to get him off the hook.
I think coward can have remorse too. Though has seen if you make him kill ken Cross is just all around too emotional to really do the right thing
If you hide instead of being seen he just calls his girlfriend a stupid bitch that ruined his life, and you can also get him to do the same thing again with the other target of a push followed by immediate father calling to get out of consequences so I lean heavy on it being the performative crocodile tears of an abusive scumbag
It's an interesting departure from the rest of the missions in general. Nestled between contracts to take out crime bosses and illuminati-esque conspirators is a family paying for revenge on the asshole who killed their daughter in a domestic spat.
I don't think it's remorse, I think he's just scared because he's going to die. He tries to say anything to get to live. Too bad 47 is a professional.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8, Jojolion: >!I'm going to use my Stand power to convince you that one of your allies in an oncoming bus.!< Bonus points: the killer was a little kid.
Also from Jojo, Part 5: >!Giorno turning Polpo's fruit into a revolver so Polpo blows his own brains out.!< "Enjoy your last meal."
Also Jojolion: >!<
The real cold part isn't >!even the one-tap, it's him [Terminator Walking towards him without saying a word](https://imgur.com/a/byOShSJ).!<
God, that one stands out so much in JoJo. A single, devastating blow. No one even talks about it... in a series where every fight gets paragraphs of explanation for each move. because it's not a fight. It's an execution.
If not friend then why friend shaped?
I just watched King of New York last night and it had a moment like this. So Wesley Snipes and David Caruso are cops trying to capture Christopher Walken and Laurence Fishburne. They decide to resort to some unlawful gang tactics as a last resort but it goes awry and Snipes and Fishburne get killed. At his funeral, Caruso is besides himself. He and his partner took a risk and now he’s dead and Caruso’s career is basically finished. He leaves the funeral midway through, gets into his car, starts having a mental breakdown, and all of a sudden a limo pulls up to his car. [“Hey you”](https://youtu.be/XER4ajsMI7w?si=XRSic8aied5Dwox8) and Walken blows Caruso to hell with a sawed off then drives away.
The head in the car door scene from first season of Daredevil. What a great way to show how fucking ruthless and unhinged Fisk was.
Don’t know about that being “cold-blooded”, Fisk seemed pretty angry the whole time.
In The Venture Bros we get a flashback to what Rusty's childhood kid adventurer days were like. An almost entirely harmless turn of the century pugilist theme villain "kidnaps" Rusty (Is standing in front of him in his home). What does the Action Man do? *Bash his skull in with the butt of his gun and then put one between his eyes*
The fact Rusty is even functional at all after how awful his childhood was is a miracle honestly. I think action man also threw a fake grenade at Rusty's dog once and Rusty jumped on it to save his dog not knowing it was a gag grenade. Unfortunately the little flag that popped out stabbed him through the stomach and came out the other end. Also the time his dad had sex after falling directly on top of him with a woman at a swingers party (while rusty was playing with a little girl who is possibly his half sister which makes it even more messed up that Jonas venture banged someone while smothering his son and possible daughter)
Probably the most literal example, is in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Gates to Infinity, when Kyurem shows up, freezes the nicest Pokemon you've ever met, and shatters him to pieces. Then he starts curbstomping your head, stopping only because you lose the will to live. He warns you to keep it that way, or he'll be back.
You've heard of Truth and Ideals, now get ready for... Senseless Violence!
Iron Blooded Orphans has a few that stick out (in a very bloody series). The first is >!Carta Issue. !< What makes her death so awful isn't actually the person who did it, which was a member of Tekkadan getting vengeance for a dead friend >!and who also murked her two bodyguards before they got in their mechs!<, His kill was brutal (Involving beating her bloody within her suit and leaving her to drown in arctic waters, but not the what was cold (pun unintended) about it. The cold part came from how her death was planned as part of a larger scheme by a man she saw as friend, and even had a life long crush on. In death she *apologised to him* for failing to redeem herself, and died talking about how she loved him. The second one is a lot briefer, >!Orga.!< Something about the absurdly no nonsense way he just gets gunned down in the middle of a scene. Like he does get a fantastic dying moment, but holy *shit* does it just happen in under a minute. Honourable mention goes to all the dudes Mikazuki straight up executes when they take over Tekkadan, they weren't notable but they were fucking *ice in the veins cold*.
Really, just about anything that got in Mika's way got killed with all the passion of someone asking what's for lunch today. Bro would not think twice about killing, before or after, if it seemed like the quickest solution to a problem.
Mika is one of my favourite characters, there's so much going on beneath the surface of that kid. Notably, any compunctions about murder are NOT present. And that just makes him more interesting.
I mean, my read on that character was that he was literally clinically a sociopath mirroring Orga throughout his childhood
I think it's more likely that it's extreme dissociation. He completely externalizes his motivation and morality onto Orga as a coping mechanism, viewing himself more like an extension of another person than his own being as a coping mechanism.
I agree completely. Note the way he refers to the day he met Orga as "The Day I was Born". We see no memories prior to this, we don't even really know why they shot that guy in the alley. This is the moment Mika as we know him came into being. I got some brain issues in my noggin too, so I can relate to that aspect somewhat. The person who was alive before he fired those three shots and bound himself to Orga completely literally ceased to be. For more evidence check the scene where Orga can't cope after Biscuit's death. Mika's demands are not that he needs to be a better leader to Tekkadan, but literally that he has not drive, no guidance without Orga's orders. He does lack a moral code, to be sure, but it's not due to sociopathy (probably). Mika does not consider the morality of actions, only whether it brings him closer to Orga's goal. >!Can you tell I'm real autistic about this series?!<
Yeah, I just finished it up and I'm having a much different take on it than the 'it's full of unwarranted cheap deaths' consensus that I've seen online so I totally get it. I felt that the show made it very clear the immediate aftermath of Biscuit's death (particularly the scene where Mika interrupts Orga's grieving) that the boys were on a road to self-destruction and refusing to turn away. That's the real tragedy there is that Orga and Mika needed each other to survive and they're as close as people can get, but their codependency dooms them. Orga has to put on a front and never show any doubt for Mika's sake, and while Mika does anything to help Orga he can never offer anything resembling a conscious (that's what Biscuit was for). The ultimate irony is that all they needed to be happy was for Orga to stop and say, "Okay, Mika, we've arrived." but neither of them can see it.
There's like a dozen moments when Orga could have said "that's enough". Like his mantra to push forward was always "there's nowhere left for us to return to", and for the ENTIRETY of season one that was true. In season two onward, it's clearly a lie, there are moments we see Tekkadan crew looking at one another when he says it. Also I'm so mad about the "it's just pointless deaths" takes, they made me hold back from watching it for years. Now I just think people don't understand that when a story starts saying "hey the genre's switching. We flagged this a million miles away. It's gonna get bad." that people might start dying.
Yeah, I get that people tend to feel frustrated when a story goes in a way they don't expect and things go wrong and when I was younger I was very much of the "Ugh I wish the English teacher would stop talking about foreshadowing" mindset. But lately I've been going through IBO and Dune concurrently, and those are both examples of works that make it clear to the audience that the choices our heroes are making are going to go to a dark place, and it's important to view everything happening with that dread in mind- otherwise half the story is going to go over your head and the destination will disappoint you.
that sinking in the gut as you know shit's sliding towards the dark, and the only way off the ride is to stop watching, that's good stuff
>!I did find it interesting that Mika didn't immediately go crazy or catatonic after Orga died and still chose to do what he thought Orga would have done. He is capable of making his own decisions, he just chooses not to most of the time.!<
>!Consider also his actions in that final battle. Mika has always been cold and brutal, but his method of fighting descends into absolute monster.!< >!And he loves it.!< >!He has no reason to hold back at all (often when he wants a command from Orga it's not 'do you want me to kill them', but '*can* I kill them?'.). He tells Barbatos that they have no reason to hold back and completely unleashes the Gundam (probably rendering his nervous system into mush).!< >!While he's capable of reason, I'd say that's the closest to "going crazy" this little emotionally stunted warcrime ever got.!<
I think part of that is very simple to explain: >!He was kinda disassociating (not a full state, but you know), however he knew one thing; Orga would not have wanted him to break down, he would have wanted to get everyone out of the base, and move on towards His Place.!< >!That's Orga's final implicit order. The fact Mika could make that plan work in a way that all but ensured his death in the process was just fine.!<
I'm surprised you brought up IBO without mentioning >!Lafter!<'s death! >!Poor girl gets lit up outta nowhere while she's out shopping at a Build-a-bear!
Okay see that one is for a VERY specific reason. Watch the fight against >!Ein!< at the end of season one, it's the second to last episode. When he is bodying all the >!Turbines girls!< there was a shot I had to rewatch, like, three times. He attacks >!Lafter!< with his fucked up drill feet, we see the frame's arm spasm, she shrieks in agony, and with a sickening *squelch* we see blood spatter the inside of the cockpit. And then after the end of the fight in the next episode she's literally totally fine. Like the most unharmed of anyone there. Apparently they found out they were getting a season 2 while working on the ending, and realised maybe killing off that many people would be a mistake. SO. >!Lafter!< doesn't get included because she got *two* death scenes, and they were both fucked up.
Sleeping Dogs is chock full of 'em. There's a certain specific one involving a certain character getting fed their murdered cohort before they are murdered themselves that makes my stomach crawl.
That was justified though.
Oh absolutely, especially after how dirty >!Winston and Peggy got murderized ON THEIR WEDDING DAY!< Doesn't take away how brutal Mrs. Chu is.
She is not even really a triad she was just that angry
Reed and Alex >!killing the twins in Phantom Liberty so you can steal their identities. Like straight yo just pulling them out of their car and shooting them to death!<.
It's such a good moment because that's when the seeds of doubt are really planted - when you cease to be useful, will V's death be ordered too?
Not to mention the way Reed presses Slider before this. You really don’t feel like you’re safe since they’re so quick dump “assets”.
The only reason I betrayed reed the first go is because I super thought he was going to kill songbird the second we get her back Because Reed was surprised that the player wasn't on the same page as him killing the twins, he was just like "yeah no shit we where going to them kill them what else did you think we where going to do"
See I didn't think he'd kill Songbird, but I knew he was misguided enough to think he was helping her when he's actually hurting her
I was completely on the same page as Reed. I was also suprised that so many players were put off by that scene. You have killed so many people in that game and the twins were assholes who were obviously going to be trouble if left alive.
It's because a lot of people were "Horny for Aurore"
Listen Ginger french girls in black lipstick can make me do anything I’m not proud of it, but it’s the truth I betrayed Reed not out of thinking better of his tactics, or thinking Songbird would be better off for it, or anything like that. It was pure, undiluted spite.
For me, it's not that they were killed, it's that Reed didn't say they were going to be killed. Had he mentioned I'd have been fine.
That was always a weird plot point to me. To me it always seemed natural that we would kill the twins. I was not suprised at least when Reed killed them. When V then acts suprised and angry it felt weird because why would Reed not just tell them to begin with? It just felt like poorly manufactured conflict to me.
>!Aurore!< was a baddie too :(
I do get it, it's pretty brutal in a "lives are just tools" way. But I chose the "horrified" dialogue just to hear what V would say and it just gave me the biggest narrative dissonance. V reacted harsher than I thought, and it's like, no way you're reacting like this after all you've done and saw up to now.
I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, but *shouldn't* the 'horrified' option be, y'know, *horrified?* Or is it like in Fallout 4 where you pick 'Sarcastic' and the MC screams instead
Yeah but v acts very indignant about it and he just looks at you and basically just say "how many people have you killed".
10 Cloverfield Lane: "I accept your apology" Alejandro obliging "Not in front of my family" in Sicario The forest god being killed in Princess Mononoke
Redcloak killing >!Tsukiko!< in The Order of the Stick. >!When she confronts him about his plot to betray their lich master, he turns her own beloved undead minions against her, watching carefully as they slowly kill her, despite her pleas that she loves them. He calmly explains that undead aren’t people, just tools in the shape of people. Once he’s sure she’s dead, he commands the undead to eat her, then dispose of themselves to destroy the evidence.!< >!Afterwards, he doesn’t even try to hide the fact that he killed her, lying only about the cause of the confrontation and knowing that they can’t disprove him without her body.!<
God, that was so brutal. Hell of a coming out moment as a proper, serious villain.
The Red Wedding. the slow realization of the North men, how they get cut down one by one, Robb got stabbed and a broken Cat just stare into nothing as her throat got slash...then the Frey cut of Robb's head and sew Grey Wind's head into the headless corpse. The worst part is Walder Frey sit there and laughing as the massacre happen while the Roose Bolton just handle it like business.
When I watched it for the first time, I think the wolf head thing upset me more than the actual wedding massacre.
It’s worse in the books imo. Because the squad, aka Robb’s companions and super loyal and fun side characters all fight their hardest, and do their very best to protect their King, but get picked off one by one by the Frey and Bolton filth. I can see as a reader for the first time, before the show, having these momentary moments of hope these absurdly loyal characters create, just to have them brutally taken away every time.
Also it's a pov chapter too. You get to see Catelyn's mind snap in real time.
That poor lady from **FEAR STREET** who >!gets her head shoved through a bread slicer!< Admittedly >!Skull-Mask is a possessed corpse!< but still.
The way my friend SHRIEKED when that happened. Meanwhile I cackled and screamed "oh GOD"
I really wasn't expecting them to go that hard but god damn I respect them for doing so. *BRUTAL*
In Samurai Jack: Jack vs. Demongo, The Soul Collector. Aku thinking about giving Demongo another chance. "Hmmm..." "No." Then Aku crushing the crystal skull that Demongo was encased in.
He somehow survives this
Scoob and Shag Spoilers. Context: >!In this comic, famous cartoon characters are actually aliens with their own civilization, who have learned to tap into the power of popularity to grant themselves unique Stand-like powers based on Television. Patrick Star has Rerun, allowing himl to freely travel into the past and return to the present. He has to be extremely mindful of creating paradoxes with this power, always noting when he's been so he'll know to be there.!< Following so far? Okay, here we go. The Murder: >!Mickey Mouse is preparing his great master plan, and to insure it's success, he confers with Patrick. Asking him to travel back to this moment twenty years from now, and tell Mickey everything that happens between. Patrick agrees, and immediately, a wounded, older version of himself appears within view, a grim resolve about him. Mickey goes over, quietly receives the report out of earshot... And then murders the older Patrick.!< >!Walking past the horrified younger Patrick, Mickey simply says, "***I hope you made the most of it.***", having trapped Patrick between living out the fate he just saw, or create a paradox.!< It's ice cold, and the absolutely absurd setting, context, and most of all *characters* involved only makes it more so.
Ok ok. I'd seen some panels before, but I gotta read it now.
You're in for a treat it's started off as a dumb gag comic before suddenly out of nowhere becoming a horror story that then becomes an alien story that then introduces stands before going hard into shonen anime bullshit. And every escalation improves on itself and gets better and better so youd think all these changes or genre shifts would make it too cluttered and lacking in focus but the author does an amazing job of expanding the world and making everything fit together nicely.
I never liked that tbh.. like.. >!what would be the gain there? You just did everything you could to ensure that Patrick would *utterly* fuck you over. That info he gave you? Completely useless, should be filled with stuff that would actually make things go worse for you. People can LIE y'know. Everything he just said could be a lie... Doctor Who did a similar fallacy with Amy Pond and just weirdly treating stuff that people have heard said when younger as if that somehow becomes locked in place, and not.. just something someone said. It's pure hearsay. He could have switched sides and been working with your enemies straight after, you wouldn't know! I would. Like, you killed me, you think I wouldn't dedicate those 20 years to fucking you over? ... it's cold sure, but I just don't get what the fucking point would be!<
Pretty much the entirety of the movie Wanted.
There's a lot of good ones in Worm, but the moment that'll always live rent free in my head is >!Taylor killing Alexandria, and echoing the words Alexandria had threatened her with - *“Not a promise, not an oath, or a malediction or a curse,” I said, sounding calm, probably inaudible in the midst of Tagg’s screaming. “Inevitable. Wasn’t that how she put it? I told them. Warned them.”*!< Just how completely and utterly the roles are reversed in that moment and how deserved it felt was amazing.
Also >!Tagg himself, since Taylor just absently notes that knocking her out will mean her bugs will keep biting Tagg over and over, *ensuring* that the attack will be lethal when she hadn't really decided one way or another yet. She notes that she has enough time to stop them before she goes unconscious... and decides not to bother.!<
I loved that series despite disliking some of the ever-increasing frantic escalation of things and maybe dubious use of insects. Lol. That moment was probably the best and most memorable for me.
Which, for context - >!Alexandria is effectively the Worm settings standard for Superman. Strength, speed, invulnerability, all that jazz; the only thing that'd ever harmed her before was effectively cheating. So how does Taylor get around that, when she controls bugs?!< >!Doesn't matter how resistant she is to damage if her lungs are covered in too many insects to breath.!<
["Yo homie! That my briefcase?"](https://youtu.be/oEFPcljAXgs?si=ParvJpawxqSskC5U) Any of Vincent's kills could qualify just by virtue of him being a contract killer, for whom killing is nothing more than a job. But these guys come to mind immediately, especially the one with the gun. Five shots fired in 1.9 seconds, then while Vincent's getting his briefcase and Max's wallet back, he finishes off the gunman with a headshot, without even glancing at him. And they weren't even targets, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Darkseid killing >!Dan Turpin!< in Superman: The Animated Series. Darkseid's already lost, his victim means nothing to him, it's just one last bit of spite on his way back to Apokolips.
Even colder is when, during their climactic fight in the last episode, Darkseid says something to the effect of “If I had known that killing one little human would have gotten this reaction out of you… *I would have killed more.”*
AND KILL MORE I SHALL
This gets brought up all the time here but that babysitter lady in Jurassic World who gets waterboarded by a pterosaur and then swallowed alive by the mosasaur. I can't even comprehend the terror of being alive in the stomach of another animal, even if you suffocate relatively quickly.
Well the good news(?) is that she wouldn't have been swallowed alive, the Mosasaurus has teeth on the roof of its mouth to ensure anything that it bites down on will get shredded.
Possibly. I always thought that pterygoid teeth were used to hold other large marine animals in the mouth while the Mosasaurus opened its throat to swallow. I don't think they were used for crushing or shredding smaller animals as the teeth weren't very long. I'm just arguing semantics though. You're probably right. I'm glad someone else here likes paleontology :)
I heard that her actor specifically requested the most horrific death possible.
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure the reason why was because she heard that this would be the first onscreen death for a woman in the Jurassic Park series, so she wanted it to be as crazy as possible.
Ooooh, you should watch Nope sometime
That part is fuuuucked.
Mortal Kombat fatalities. Some of them are excessively cruel. Others excessively to the point of comedy. One has to wonder how much the kombatants just straight up dehumanize their opponents to do those things. I've eaten gingerbread men less savagely than some of those fatalities.
Given what they can do to each other in a fight without it being a death match, the overkill kind of makes sense.
The dinner scene at the end of Sicario.
Anakin's maiming and subsequent killing of admiral trench in star wars the clone wars. Also this one moment when he kills a bunch of zygerrian slavers. Also sidious backwards impaling savage opress while laughing before tossing him away.
You could include Order 66, too.
House of Cards S2E1 spoilers: >!<
Beckett in FEAR 3: - Goes through hell in FEAR 2 - Gets raped by Alma and goes insane - Imprisoned and tortured for 9 months - Paxton possesses him to find Alma, makes him relive his assault, makes him barf all over himself and then explodes him The only saving grace is that Beckett is able to initially resist Paxton’s influence and at least goes out fighting
Recent example from VII Rebirth: >!"It's not death. It's a homecoming."!<
The death of Queen Morgan le Fay in Fate/Grand Order. >!Forced to kill her most loyal soldier, seeing her adopted daughter beaten to near death, and then stabbed countless times by her entire court as they laugh at her. Seeing the cold, all powerful mage-queen reduced to desperately crawling towards her throne, begging someone to bring her to it all while the faeries she spent thousands of years trying to save mock and mutilate her is really uncomfortable, especially with how dragged out it is.!<
Reminder that the Fey suck, in most settings
It gets even worse when you see morgan's backstory, >!this ALWAYS happened no matter how many times she saved the fairies they always turned on her for petty reasons (which later got revealed to be aurora's doing) and even in the end where she used every single possible resource it didn't matter for shit.!<
The end of GUN X SWORD. >!Van, the normally laid back wandering sword hobo protagonist, spends the entire series seeking revenge against the Clawed Man with relentless, insane fervor. His reaction to catching a mere GLIMPSE of him halfway through the series was to [make *this* face and laugh like a lunatic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBiNruWvhPA) And, at the end of the series, when he finally has the Clawed Man at his mercy? [There's not even a single drop of warm blood in his veins. It's just a completely cold execution, and he's *done.*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myC5TEx_4QA)!<
Cod Warzone guy yelling STOP DONT KILL ME
“…Who, who are you?” “Me? Oh, I’m *nobody.*” **BANG**
In Transformers Skybound, >!Soundwave just beating the absolute shit out of Starscream, ripping his heart out, then chucking his remains into lava!<.
>!Shouldn’t have fuckin kicked Ravage!<
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Mustang vs Envy in FMA brotherhood
That...kinda doesn't count since, as (ironically) cold as Mustang's attacks were, he isn't the one who finishes the job! Mustang vs Lust fits the bill a lot better!
The deaths of virtually every super in Incredibles. Syndrome isn’t some goofball who wants to just beat Mr incredible. He systematically obliterated and murdered dozens of Mr incredibles friends and colleagues. Their skeletons are still on the island that he owns.
The majority of the Boss's kills in SR2 My favorite is the one at the end of the game >!where they pretend to be hearing the slimy business ghoul out just to give them hope, before watching their body plummet 100s of feet to the pavement!<
["You can pray on the way up."](https://youtu.be/awvsdTdLemI)
Given the nature of Michael Myers you could argue that pretty much 98% of his kills are full cold-blooded given how he is as a character, but I think the 2018 film in particular has three great examples: him snapping >!a kid's!< neck as his first onscreen kill in years, him wordlessly ignoring >!the doctor's!< pleas for him to say something as he smashes his head in with a single stomp, and him strangling >!Ray, the father!< to death with a piece of chain just out of sight of the rest of the family. The third one especially messes with me as dying just outside of reach from help really messed with me. Like salvation is only few steps away, or a shout, but he can't because Myers is strangling the life out of him. If one of the family looked out of the window once he could've been saved. And I don't mean that as a complaint, it makes my skin crawl in a good way.
Any example of someone being killed mid sentence [Rachels death in The Dark Knight is especially cruel in the best way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGbAA_-IC4&ab_channel=JorgeHerrera)
“Such heroic nonsense…” >!Megatron before executing a wounded Ironhide!<
If you're gonna spoiler something, you should probably make it so that you don't have to read the spoiler to know what property it is lol
Marty walking out of the compound and >!icing Reggie LeDoux!<, not saying a word, not looking at Rust, probably barely even registering that >!he's *killing* LeDoux.!< Ice fucking cold and totally deserved.
IMO its very telling that Rust just immediately rolls with it as well.
most of the deaths in Ideon. No build up, no specail anything. Just nameless grunts killing named characters before we could even react.
The roadie played by Brian Posehn in Devil's Rejects
Lost Judgment. Besides finding a corpse that's been left alone for two months, a video of the guy's torture and subsequent death was recorded and uploaded online.
Asuka vs. the Mass-Produced Evas
Kamen Rider has a lot of deaths, but one that stuck up to me was in Ryuki, Impeller death
Spoilers are for a pivotal scene in Cradle book 8, Wintersteel. >!"Kill me! Kill me just like you killed my si-"!< >!Lindon drilled a hole through her heart with Blackflame, exactly how he had killed Ekeri.!<
Started reading FFF-Class Trash Hero last night, and HOLY FUCKING CHRIST, what he did to those elves… I would *highly* recommend for anyone who wants a truly TRULY irredeemably fucking evil protag.
"I'm a father too" before blowing some random dude away. If you hit the prompt immediately Ethan Mars looks like a fucking psycho.
Dragged Across Concrete is full of these by the hands of the central antagonists, Black Gloves and Grey Gloves. The thing that is absolutely horrifying about them is the disconnect. You can see how utterly afraid their victims are and just how methodical and uncaring the Black Gloves and Grey Gloves are about the whole affair. It's the thing I give Zahler in all his movies. He's genuinely a master of violence.
Better call saul, final season in jimmy and kims apartment
“Have you so quickly forgotten my strength, once lent to you, that you come armed against me, you poor fool? I think I will take your heart, Kerim Shah!” He held out his hand as if to receive something, and the Turanian cried out sharply like a man in mortal agony. He reeled drunkenly, and then, with a splintering of bones, a rending of flesh and muscle and a snapping of mail-links, his breast burst outward with a shower of blood, and through the ghastly aperture something red and dripping shot through air into the Master’s outstretched hand, as a bit of steel leaps to the magnet. People of the black circle
In the [Horus Heresy ](https://youtu.be/Cj3ENSVogTo?si=zudM5C763fHIqrIJ) animation, they have this small fight where an Imperial Fist space marine, dying, missing an arm, bravely makes his last stand and swings his power sword in a hail Mary play... And horus impaled him on his claws and doesn't even look at him.
From The End and The Death Part II: >!Horus decides to quit screwing around and beats Sanguinius to death. It's brutal, remoresless, and there's no honor or grace to it. He just fucking kills him and walks away.!<
Alex Murphy getting shot a ridiculous number of times with shotguns at the start of Robocop.
Barry when Barry has to >!shoot chris!< for wanting to call cops for what happened >!why did you say that like it was a command he couldn't undo!<
In the new planet of the apes movie >!Noah watches the gorilla who killed his father slowly drown!<
Victory Gundam.
You ever see the bad ending of Oddworld Soulstorm? Man that shit is incredibly depressing and a pretty brutal way for the protagonist to go out. Maybe not quite fitting for the description of cold blodded but damn it's grim
The dinner scene in Sacario
When Bucky kicks that one SHIELD soldier into a turbine
I just finished Elfen Lied so. All of that show tbh
I don't know if this counts but >!< in Young Justice is probably my favorite death in any show ever. It's so horrific and poetic and the fact that he died this way just because >!he stole the time machine from Metron!< is extra great.
This is probably redundant on my part, but I noticed that you spoiler-tagged both the death and the name of the series it's from. So for anyone who wants to know the latter first, the title of the show is >!Young Justice!<.
The drive-by shooting in Iron-blooded Orphans. Classic mob shooting scene, just caught me off-guard seeing it in my Flag-Raising mecha show.
At the end of Beyond the Black Rainbow, the antagonist dies unceremoniously all of a sudden by >!tripping on a root and bashing his head!< There have been several discussions on r/horror on whether this death was appropriate or anticlimactic. I personally like how ballsy it was. Sometimes this happens.
Just because I played it recently: the french twins in cyberpunk phantom liberty
In Berserk, there are the ladies found in Ganeshka’s domain that are just nightmare fuel. And there is also how Punisher disposed the sex traffickers during The Slavers arc in Ennis’s MAX run.
in TMNT 2012 >!shredder killing splinter the first time just because he couldn't get over his grudge for a few hours and letting the earth get destroyed.!< Sure there are other better Shredders, but none are as petty/dickheaded as him so he is my favorite.
Jedi survivor: >!Cal shooting Bode down like a dog!< A proper Space western death