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Once is Not Enough

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Once is Not Enough	comment	The killer is closing the distance to his cornered victim. With no place left to run the desperate victim grabs a nearby object, swings wildly and actually connects, dropping the killer to the floor. Instead of continuing to hammer the attacker, the victim drops the weapon and attempts to run even though the killer is already recovering and will easily recapture them. Can be a Justified Trope when it's clear that the villain is of The Undead or they can recover even from continual abuse, or the victim just isn't emotionally capable of beating someone to death, or if the victim needs to run because some other threat is due to arrive soon. Beware of being Wrong Genre Savvy; whaling on a downed villain may seem to work, but he may get a sudden surge of energy or overcome his shock at being hit and catch whatever weapon is being used. The Crime of Self-Defense may also come into play if the victim is from a litigious society where there is a history of that happening and thus has irrational fear of it. Contrast Kick Them While They Are Down, Curb-Stomp Battle, No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, and There Is No Kill Like Overkill, where the attacker doesn't let up, and the Double Tap, where someone shoots an apparently dead enemy again just to make sure. Examples
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Once is Not Enough / int_10b03dcf	comment	In Batman: Arkham Asylum and its sequel Arkham City, you have to use a special takedown move to make sure a mook does not get back up (and most of the time, they will).
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Once is Not Enough / int_1e015a5d	comment	The Empire Strikes Back has Luke retrieve his lightsaber, chop off one of the Wampa beast's arms, and then run out into a Hoth blizzard. He could have just finished the beast, checked the cave for more, and then stayed there until the storm passed. It may have been an ice cave, but it had to be better than just running out randomly. This may not seem like much of an example until, during the EU, Luke goes back to Hoth and nearly gets killed by the same, dismembered Wampa beast.
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Once is Not Enough / int_20459f7b	comment	Averted in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle; when Claire finally kills Mrs. Mott at the end of the film, she stays that way.
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Once is Not Enough / int_21938c93	comment	In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ultron is suffering under the combined power of Iron Man, The Vision and Thor. Then they stop for a bit, just to see what would happen. If they had kept going, perhaps Ultron wouldn't have stolen the Quinjet and killed Quicksilver.
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Once is Not Enough / int_263d5756	comment	In Live Free or Die Hard, McClane's problem with Mai could have been solved much more quickly had he bothered to confirm she was at least out of it for good.
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Once is Not Enough / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes Claire at the beginning of Season 3 when Sylar tracks her down. And then her father, who slits his throat when the powers are off and then just walks off. And then Claire again in the finale — she shoves some glass into the back of his neck, and then leaves, even though she personally brought Peter back to life after the exact same injury. Also, Mohinder in season 1, who knocks him out by slamming a giant map into him. Awesome. But then he just leaves him there, despite having shot him, point-blank, while he was helpless last time he had the chance. The fact that this didn't work really should have reinforced the necessity of doing it right this time.
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Once is Not Enough / int_2c082d05	comment	Friday the 13th Done a lot by the Final Girl in the first Friday the 13th (1980) movie. Granted, the third time she made a point of checking long enough to see a puddle of blood next to the killer's head, and promptly took that as adequate evidence to assume it was safe to leave the body and go. Uh, not so much. Averted by Tommy Jarvis in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, where after confusing Jason by dressing up as the latter as a child, then successfully driving a machete through Jason's head, sees the killer's fingers twitch, and stabs him another dozen good times. While shouting "DIE! DIE! DIE!" Unfortunately, this marked him becoming the next Jason. Part VI: Jason Lives featured the town sheriff trying to avert this; repeatedly hitting a downed Jason, who just shrugs it off. Why nobody except Jarvis did this in the first film, nobody knows. Part VII: The New Blood went to ridiculous extents with this. Psychic girl shocks Jason with power line, he walks it off. Girl drops porch on Jason, Jason's back in the 40 seconds she took to lower her guard. Girl hangs Jason with power cord and throws him through floor, he grabs her when she looks down. Girl sets Jason/house on fire, house explodes, Jason comes out on fire, but still fine. It takes resurrecting her dead father to fight Jason to finally put down the masked bastard. Every single time, she acts like, "Oh, the guy that just walked off getting a building dropped on him is definitely dead this time."
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Once is Not Enough / int_3583b777	comment	Eternal Darkness has the aversion as an important game mechanic. Once you knock an enemy down, you can perform a special, extra-violent attack to make really sure they stay down. Since the enemies are Eldritch Abominations who wreck your mind just by existing, the decisive finishing move makes you feel better and boosts your Sanity Meter.
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Once is Not Enough / int_37a5b015	comment	The last two deaths in Diary of the Dead are a direct result of this trope. Both the camera man and one of the woman knock down their friend-turned-zombie when he's chasing the latter, hit him once on the head, and leave him there, despite the woman in particular having been shown as perfectly able to finish off a friend-turned-zombie, her boyfriend no less. Naturally, the zombie gets back up, and eventually knocks one of the characters into the bathtub with a hair-dryer, and takes a bite out of the camera man.
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Once is Not Enough / int_39c20861	comment	Justified in Highlander. Duncan had just become immortal when he killed the Viking immortal Kanwulf after Kanwulf killed his father, the clan chief. He didnâ€™t know that Kanwulf wouldnâ€™t stay dead unless beheaded.
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Once is Not Enough / int_430f1f6a	comment	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers: After another night of minor injuries, he is shot roughly twenty-six times, I counted, with what looks like some kind of assault rifle, then dropped down a mine shaft, along with a lit stick of dynamite, which explodes.
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Once is Not Enough / int_49729b9c	comment	Halloween (1978): After everything else he's subjected to that night, he's shot six times at damn near point blank range and falls off of a second story balcony only to run away so quickly they don't see it happen.
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Once is Not Enough / int_4a2ff29b	comment	Averted many times in Evil Dead. It's played straight however, in the first movie when Ash stabs his possessed girlfriend and can't bring himself to dismember the corpse, causing her to attack him when he tries burying her. When she comes back after he beheaded her with a spade, he retaliates with a chainsaw. Ash made a point of teaching everyone the lesson in time for Army of Darkness:
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Once is Not Enough / int_4b790c7a	comment	Averted in Iron Man 2, when Tony Stark is attacked by Ivan Vanko on a racetrack. Happy Hogan and Pepper drive to the rescue and drive right into Vanko, smashing him up against a wall. Happy then proceeds to back up and ram him into the wall several more times. Of course Vanko is tricked out with high tech gadgetry which keeps him safe (from two and a half tonnes and 460bhp of Rolls-Royce), but the trope is nonetheless Defied with Tony yelling "HIT HIM AGAIN!"
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Once is Not Enough / int_4f618d85	comment	Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers: At the beginning (yes, these two were consecutive too) he swims away and is taken in by a vagrant, who helps him recuperate. The end is even weirder than that, but it involves lots of bullets and no plot resolution.
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Once is Not Enough / int_57ad0c07	comment	In most of the Resident Evil games, zombies will eventually die for good if they take enough damage. However, in the Nintendo GameCube remake of the first game, while the zombies will eventually "die" after taking enough damage, if their heads aren't destroyed (or, failing that, if their corpses aren't set alight), then their corpses don't simply disappear once the player leaves the room. Instead, they remain, and, after enough time has passed, they will come back to (un)life... having mutated into the far deadlier Crimson Heads. There is also the title character of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. The player can knock him down after pouring buckets of lead into him, but he will always get back up and running within short order. He can even be knocked down in the middle of a fight, only to get back up again just as a player goes to check if he dropped any special items, which usually earns them a walloping.
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Once is Not Enough / int_5a05b300	comment	Wilde Life Oscar manages to take out a spider monster with a rock, but then attempts to escape instead of following up against the obviously stunned villain. In fairness, his typical first response to spooky situations is sprinting away.
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Once is Not Enough / int_5c622d7f	comment	Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening: Subverted by Vergil after the Battle in the Rain with his brother. After having beaten down Dante, Vergil initially turns his back on his brother's body, but then instantly and remorselessly stabs him again as soon as he notices Dante beginning a Finger-Twitching Revival.
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Once is Not Enough / int_5d4da196	comment	Subverted in Spider-Man during the wrestling match. Bonesaw gets a chair and repeatedly whacks Spidey over the head, pausing only to let him try to struggle to his feet, only to smack him down again. However, his ultimate mistake is stopping to go and get another weapon (a crowbar), giving Peter enough time to get his wits together and start counter attacking. Of course, having the proportionate strength and endurance of a spider helps, Bonesaw likely didn't figure that Pete would be able to take all that punishment and still be able to fight back.
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Once is Not Enough / int_5d63cc8	comment	Averted in Inglourious Basterds with the body of Hitler whose head is pulped by numerous rounds of bullets.
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Once is Not Enough / int_6053d9f9	comment	In the Silent Hill games, if you don't either stomp on the enemies, shoot them, or whack them again after they've been knocked to the ground, they'll get up and attack you again.
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Once is Not Enough / int_69318c41	comment	Mr. Kreeg subverts this with Sam in Trick 'r Treat, blasting the latter's prone body a second time, but since Sam is the spirit of Halloween, he still gets back up.
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Once is Not Enough / int_6da9a988	comment	As the killer in the original film attacks two girls inside the room that they barricaded themselves in, they manage to momentarily knock him out with a baseball bat. They then start removing the makeshift barricade from the door, ignoring the unconscious killer lying helplessly on the floor.
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Once is Not Enough / int_6e82f5f4	comment	The evil sheriff in the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) gets hit with his own cop car, then backed over with it, and run over again as the Final Girl uses it to escape the town.
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Once is Not Enough / int_6e94492	comment	Discussed in How It Should Have Ended. How Scream Should Have Ended is shown as a lesson on how to survive a horror movie. One of the lessons is that if the killer falls, keep hitting them until they're down.
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Once is Not Enough / int_70f22bed	comment	Averted, then played straight in The Hills Have Eyes 2. They "kill," the mutant, make sure, then he gets straight back up. This happens two or three times in a row, seriously that guy was absolutely Made of Iron.
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Once is Not Enough / int_73ed0aab	comment	Jeepers Creepers. The characters are in their car, trying to escape the Creeper. He leaps in front of them, so the girl driving floors the gas pedal and runs him over! She then stops, puts the car in reverse and backs over him. She then does it again going forward, then back and forward before speeding off. She smooshed him up real good, but it sadly wasn't enough. At least she tried.
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Once is Not Enough / int_76686539	comment	Done in Mass Effect with krogans. When fighting krogans, most of them, when "dead", will drop to the ground, then regenerate some health and get back up. Definitely hurts in the midst of a multi-foe firefight. In the story, the krogan follower Wrex discovers that the Big Bad/Dragon Saren has developed a cure for the turian genophage which renders 90% of all krogan women infertile. He very seriously considers whether Shepard is doing the right thing in trying to blow up the facility. If you choose the "Renegade" option, you can argue with Wrex for a bit, then end up in a Mexican Standoff, in which you can choose to simply kill him rather than convince him otherwise. You bash him with your gun to knock him down, then shoot him... several times. After Saren dies, Shepard's first instinct (after taking control of the Citadel so that the fleet can destroy Sovereign) is to tell his/her companions to "make sure he's dead." One of them shoots Saren before confirming that he is. Of course, that doesn't stop Sovereign from animating the Reaper tech that was implanted in Saren.
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Once is Not Enough / int_7aefccf3	comment	In Hotline Miami, when you knock down an enemy with a punch, door or thrown weapon, you need to confirm the kill by ground-and-pound or the enemy will just get back up. This doesn't apply to guns or melee weapons.
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Once is Not Enough / int_867f2c52	comment	Shooter. Subverted in the love interest pumping a few more bullets into the downed mook who had threatened to cut her throat.
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Once is Not Enough / int_8c209cbe	comment	Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers: At the end, Michael is stabbed with about a dozen syringes containing something that looks like antifreeze and it beaten over the head with a lead pipe until green slime is oozing out of every hole in his face. When the camera cuts back, he has vanished completely, despite apparently having no eyes or brain left. If it weren't for the Continuity Reboot he'd still be alive today.
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Once is Not Enough / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost, multiple incidents. The characters know that humans are much more durable on the island. As such, they fail to make sure their enemies aren't going to come back.
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Once is Not Enough / int_8fbf53e0	comment	Part VI: Jason Lives featured the town sheriff trying to avert this; repeatedly hitting a downed Jason, who just shrugs it off. Why nobody except Jarvis did this in the first film, nobody knows.
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Once is Not Enough / int_9431bab8	comment	Justified for laughs on Sleepy Hollow as Crane (a man in a magical coma since the late 18th century) fires a single bullet from a gun at a demon, then tosses aside what he assumes is a now useless firearm. When his outraged partner demands to know why he didn't unload the entire clip, a surprised Crane asks "you mean it holds more than one musket?"
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Once is Not Enough / int_97171bda	comment	In Red Eye, the protagonist continually tries to run away after a single blow. She succeeded in slowing him down temporarily, but that's all.
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Once is Not Enough / int_9d25491c	comment	In Pandorum, when Bower, Nadia and Manh manage to take down one of the mutants, they don't lean in closer so it can open its eyes and jump at them - they immediately stab it about twenty more times.
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Once is Not Enough / int_a02663ea	comment	Zigzagged in Ultimate Video Rumble 3: After Lion Rafale downs the Executioner, the ever-Genre Savvy (and snarky) Yoshimitsu idly comments, "Well, he looks dead. I can't think of a better time to turn my back and put my guard down." Lion takes the hint and boots Ex in the head a few more times. Which still isn't enough, as the Executioner rises as they start to leave.
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Once is Not Enough / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: In 2 Kings 13, Elisha commands Joash to take arrows and strike the ground that he may have victory over Aram. Joash stops after three times. Elisha rebukes him, saying that if he had struck five or six times, he may have destroyed Aram. As it is, he will (and does indeed) only have three victories.
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Once is Not Enough / int_a5c66b29	comment	And in The Hills Have Eyes (2006). The protagonist has just smashed the last mutant's head in, and blasted him repeatedly with a shotgun...and he still gets back up.
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Once is Not Enough / int_aa7d9eae	comment	Being a send-up of slasher flicks, it happens multiple times in Scream (1996). For example, the killer has a victim cornered in the garage. She manages to nail him with beer bottles and whomp him with a freezer door and he goes down. She then tries to squeeze through the dog door, with predictable results. Watching it just makes you want to yell, "Finish him off, you idiot!"
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Once is Not Enough / int_b2edd00b	comment	Defied in Zombieland, where Columbus makes a rule about "Double Tapping", IE shooting the zombies more than once and making sure they're dead.
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Once is Not Enough / int_b5a2b326	comment	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind's Bloodmoon expansion has Spriggans, a hostile tree-like Plant People race with a Gaia's Vengeance tilt. Spriggans must be slain three times before they can be fully killed. Each time they are killed, they come back in a larger and more powerful form with additional magical resistances and immunities. This would be changed for all future games, where they instead have a powerful Healing Factor which kicks in when they get critically low on health. (Which really emulates the same basic effect of them going from nearly dead to fully threatening once again.)
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Once is Not Enough / int_b6d1e59b	comment	In Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, when you kill the Guardian Ape the first time, it comes back to life, then you have to kill it again. After that, the corpse disappears... and the same ape appears in a different area. There's no Victory Fakeout this time though. What do you need to do this time, however, is to finish off its dead body with the Mortal Blade so it stays dead for good. Otherwise, the boss fight resets after you leave. If you had the Mortal Blade on the first Guardian Ape fight, you're not given this option.
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Once is Not Enough / int_c0b9fa2a	comment	Averted in the movie Death Proof where they shoot the antagonist and then after he attempts to get away they actively hunt him down.
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Once is Not Enough / int_c312faba	comment	Averted by Tommy Jarvis in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, where after confusing Jason by dressing up as the latter as a child, then successfully driving a machete through Jason's head, sees the killer's fingers twitch, and stabs him another dozen good times. While shouting "DIE! DIE! DIE!" Unfortunately, this marked him becoming the next Jason.
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Once is Not Enough / int_ca677a95	comment	Little House on the Prairie: The 1981 episode "Sylvia," where the main character, a 15-year-old physically mature girl is raped by a masked assailant; she is impregnated as a result. Later, Sylvia's father is able to shoot the rapist ... but he only wounds him, and the rapist is able to get away, his fate left unknown.
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Once is Not Enough / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	Averted in The Twilight Saga. It's mentioned that burning the bodies is one of the few ways to keep a vampire down for good, so the characters always make sure to incinerate their enemies, no matter how much damage they've sustained. Notably, Edward burns Victoria's body in Eclipse even though he just ripped off her head.
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Once is Not Enough / int_d43be22a	comment	Halloween Halloween (1978) did it TWICE. Same girl, same killer, leaves him "dead" with his knife right next to him, and there can't have been more than five minutes between them. The reverse also happens in just about every movie in the series; they kill off Michael in some increasingly ridiculous and stunningly final way, only to have him survive. At the end of the second one, he was actually intended to have died, but when the Michael-less third movie flopped, they had him come back in number four. And five. And six. For the record: Halloween (1978): After everything else he's subjected to that night, he's shot six times at damn near point blank range and falls off of a second story balcony only to run away so quickly they don't see it happen. Halloween II (1981): Shot repeatedly, then blown up when an entire room full of ether ignites in a hospital. Which happens about two hours after the end of the first movie, so add them both together. Remember, this one technically did kill him. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers: After another night of minor injuries, he is shot roughly twenty-six times, I counted, with what looks like some kind of assault rifle, then dropped down a mine shaft, along with a lit stick of dynamite, which explodes. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers: At the beginning (yes, these two were consecutive too) he swims away and is taken in by a vagrant, who helps him recuperate. The end is even weirder than that, but it involves lots of bullets and no plot resolution. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers: At the end, Michael is stabbed with about a dozen syringes containing something that looks like antifreeze and it beaten over the head with a lead pipe until green slime is oozing out of every hole in his face. When the camera cuts back, he has vanished completely, despite apparently having no eyes or brain left. If it weren't for the Continuity Reboot he'd still be alive today. The villain isn't really Michael Myers - it's pure evil in his form. Kill it all you like, it'll wake up eventually. There's a reason Michael's actor is always credited as playing "The Shape".
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Once is Not Enough / int_de276825	comment	Quake's zombies can be downed by enough conventional damage, but it's a temporary respite at best - a few seconds is all it takes for them to come back up. Unless, of course, you follow up with a rocket and explode the corpse into giblets, or just blast them into bits the first time around.
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Once is Not Enough / int_e10d3c14	comment	Halloween II (1981): Shot repeatedly, then blown up when an entire room full of ether ignites in a hospital. Which happens about two hours after the end of the first movie, so add them both together. Remember, this one technically did kill him.
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Once is Not Enough / int_e293455a	comment	Subverted in "Buffy vs. Dracula". After Buffy stakes Dracula and everyone appears to leave the castle, Dracula regenerates from a mist - only to have Buffy immediately stake him again, saying, "You think I don't watch your movies? You always come back." He tries to regenerate again, but disappears after she says, "I'm standing right here." Although according to the continuation comics he's still around, so presumably he just waited until she left and got up again. Of course, he's also an occasional ally now, so twice was apparently enough to make him think better attacking her.
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Once is Not Enough / int_e7e37776	comment	Averted and inverted in the pilot for Firefly, where Dawson, the Fed, takes out Book with a single blow, then hits him a few more times, just to be sure out of vindictiveness at the Shepherd's earlier assault on him (just look at his expression). Subverted at the end of "Shindig."
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Once is Not Enough / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	Revenge of the Sith: Depending on how you count "once", Obi-Wan decides to leave Anakin behind after chopping off his hands and legs and letting him to catch fire near a lava pit.This had mixed results. Anakin ends up killing Obi-Wan, the planet Alderaan, and many many others as Darth Vader. However, it's debatable whether anyone but him could have taken out Emperor Palpatine
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Once is Not Enough / int_f0606bba	comment	In Return to Wonderland, The Mad Hatter tries to rape Calie Liddell, but she smashes a vase against his head. She says she will not repeat the mistakes girls usually make in horror films, so she breaks off a table leg and beats the shit out of him.
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Once is Not Enough / int_f74b5f80	comment	Averted, though unintentionally and in a rather creepy way in Babylon 5. During his escape from the Babyverse version of "Minilove" where he was tortured and mentally abused to near BSOD, Sheridan kills a guard. He then continues to blankly pound PPG blasts into the dead body until his friends stop him and lead him away.
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Once is Not Enough / int_f76b14b4	comment	Mentioned in The Quick and the Dead. Up until the quarterfinals, Russell Crowe's character Cort has been able to win all his Quick Draw matches with only one bullet (he's a priest and refuses to kill them) until he faces an opponent named Spotted Horse, a Badass Native who has bragged about how he cannot be killed by a bullet, complete with showing off the many, many scars on his body from bullet wounds that failed to kill him. Turns out Spotted Horse is right, he can't be killed by a bullet. It takes two, the second of which is a headshot, and even then it briefly looks like Spotted Horse is going to come back for more before he stays down after all.
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Once is Not Enough / int_fe75409e	comment	Slumber Party Massacre III runs on this, as one by one the victims hit the killer once and try to run away. Fail, rinse, repeat. This continues even after they manage to blind him.
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Once is Not Enough / int_ff775db6	comment	Part VII: The New Blood went to ridiculous extents with this. Psychic girl shocks Jason with power line, he walks it off. Girl drops porch on Jason, Jason's back in the 40 seconds she took to lower her guard. Girl hangs Jason with power cord and throws him through floor, he grabs her when she looks down. Girl sets Jason/house on fire, house explodes, Jason comes out on fire, but still fine. It takes resurrecting her dead father to fight Jason to finally put down the masked bastard. Every single time, she acts like, "Oh, the guy that just walked off getting a building dropped on him is definitely dead this time."
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Life of Pets (Fanfic) / int_2b2d9e53	type	Once is Not Enough
My Little Denarians (Fanfic) / int_2b2d9e53	type	Once is Not Enough
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Don't Go in the Woods (1981) / int_2b2d9e53	type	Once is Not Enough
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Prom Night (1980) / int_2b2d9e53	type	Once is Not Enough
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