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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain

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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain	comment	The ubiquitous "gotta shoot 'em in the head" scenario. For many different reasons, The Undead throughout fiction are vulnerable only to headshots. Kinda like how (many) vampires are only vulnerable to getting stabbed in the heart. Fortunately, removal of the head also works on people who are not a member of the walking dead, so you don't have to worry about it going out of fashion as a killing method. This may have a somewhat scientific basis: first, a zombie would have a lowered to nonexistent pain response, and would most likely not stop attacking until its nervous system has been effectively severed â€” since it is dead, pettier issues like "missing organs" or "blood loss" won't be as effective as they would be on the living. Second, mindless though they may seem, zombies logically have to still need brains to command to their muscles to walk, to analyze what their eyes send them, and thus know that there is a human to be eaten in front of them, etcetera. Accepting this rule is often a part of suspension of disbelief. If it doesn't work this way, and every part of the zombie can work independently of one another, you might find them Pulling Themselves Together. In this scenario, it's likely the only option is to Kill It with Fire. Subtrope of Decapitation Required. Sister trope to Boom, Headshot! and Attack Its Weak Point but distinct from them; Boom, Headshot! is when a headshot is the most efficient way to kill something, whereas this trope is where Boom, Headshot! is the only way to kill something, period. If this is the only way to kill a robot, it's Cranial Processing Unit. Related to the Chunky Salsa Rule. Most songs about zombies tend to lampshade this trope. Examples
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_170487d5	comment	Averted in ParaNorman. In one scene, one of the zombies is run over by a car and gets dismembered, which also includes his head being separated from his body. However, he doesnâ€™t die, and the next time we see the zombies, theyâ€™re finishing putting him back together.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_188d2347	comment	Cold Fear: The Exocell parasite that animates zombies nests in the cranium, feeding on the brain, and needs to be destroyed to bring the shambling corpse down.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_1b4b2f5c	comment	Played completely straight with Highschool of the Dead. Despite believing the entire situation to be insane, like something out of the movies, the characters rapidly adapt. Or get eaten in sometimes disturbingly sensual manners.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_1cc09117	comment	In Bleach, cutting off a Soul Reaper's or Hollow's head is about the only way to guarantee quick and certain death for the opponent in question. While weaker opponents can be dispatched by "just" badly mangling them, ones with sufficiently high spiritual power can survive having their entire sides and internal organs blown away as long as they get medical treatment fast enough.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_1d15909d	comment	In The Forest of Hands and Teeth, zombies can only be killed by chopping off their heads.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_20191a57	comment	In Bleak Expectations, Victorian schoolchildren apparently have a nursery rhyme on the subject;
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_243263f1	comment	Soundly lampshaded in Cockneys vs. Zombies. "Everyone knows" to shoot the zombies in the head. However, one of the gang's former friends is an insane criminal with a steel plate in his bonce from a wartime head injury, which makes his skull bulletproof(!).
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_2675c915	comment	In the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Beginning of the End", Garrett helpfully points out that he isn't dead yet since Mike Peterson didn't cut off his head. While Garrett is gloating about how invincible he is, Coulson uses a disintegrator ray to destroy Garrett's brain, along with the rest of him.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_27b84429	comment	Downplayed in The Last of Us; the Infected are most vulnerable in their heads, since the fungus that takes over and sprouts from their brains renders their skulls somewhat fragile, but enough shots to centre mass will do the trick as well. Most of Joel's mÃªlÃ©e takedowns on Infected have him either bashing their heads open against a hard surface (or with his weapon if he's holding one) or stomping on them. It seems as though gunshots to any part of the body can kill an Infected, but anyone hoping to take one out with a mÃªlÃ©e weapon or bare hands needs to aim for the head.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_2949a787	comment	The zombie wranglers of Zombie Ranch declare the front part of the brain "don't matter", but that destroying the rest is a sure way to put a zombie down or prevent an infected person from turning. If you stay away from the brain you can kill an infected person and they'll still rise again later, which leads to this fateful decision.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	In Heroes, it's the only way to kill someone with Rapid Cell Regeneration, unless you can De-power them. If impaled through the brain, they'll stay dead until the impaling object is removed, and shooting them through the head kills them permanently. A deleted scene in season 2 has Sylar trying to kill an indestructible man and steal his powers. The only way he can manage to do it is to telekinetically pull his brain out through his nose and the roof of his mouth.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_2c9b9d85	comment	In Mermaid Saga, some people who eat mermaid flesh turn into zombie-like monsters and some become immortal. In either case, though, the only way to permanently kill them is to decapitate them.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_3095b3a0	comment	Cyanide and Happiness made a joke about killing Zombie Jesus this way.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_310d6df7	comment	In Stand Still, Stay Silent the only sure way to kill troll, beast or giant is to destroy its brain. Then again, Viral Transformation makes it problematic to say where the brain is, and giants are Bodies Of Bodies...
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_32c541e6	comment	Subverted in Fullmetal Alchemist with the zombie-like "mannequin" homunculi. While destroying their heads does keep them from biting, they stay alive and it's much easier to disable them by injuring their legs.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_34fd3cf6	comment	Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Frylock is forced to decapitate a zombified Shake.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_3558eaa2	comment	The Community episode "Epidemiology" has an outbreak of zombies. Chang shouts "You have to destroy the brain!" after Rich and Britta turn into zombies while in their safe area. Unfortunately, his attempts to follow his own advice directly lead to a broken window (breaching their own defenses) and allowing the zombies to grab and infect Annie.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_3583b777	comment	Invoked in Eternal Darkness with Ulyaoth-aligned Zombies. One has to decapitate them or they will start singing and explode. However, zombies of all four Ancients will still fight without their heads (and will be momentarily stunned, comically patting their neck stump as if to say "Oi, who turned off the lights?"). Chattur'gha zombies will eventually regenerate their head and Xel'lotath's zombie will instantly produce a ghostly head in the original's place; that said, aiming for the noggin is a guaranteed way to deal good damage to them.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_3662453e	comment	Resident Evil (2002). The zombies can only be killed by severing the top of the spinal column or massive trauma to the brain.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_392a827a	comment	Resident Evil 7: Biohazard: Headshots aren't the only way to kill the Molded, but it's definitely the best and most ammo-efficient way, as they can take a surprising amount of lead to the body before succumbing (think one shotgun shell to the head vs. five or six to the torso).
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_3b7abee2	comment	The zombies from the Half-Life franchise are best dealt with this way. Although damage to the body will severely wound them, they never truly are down until their Headcrab parasites are bleeding yellow.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: Not exactly true decapitation, but the Titans can only be killed when they are slashed on the nape of their necks. The Rogue Titan usually decapitates titans with its powerful fists and then stomps on their necks in order to kill them. Later played straight in that slicing out the nape actually decapitates what's left of the human pilot inside. Played straight by Titan Shifters, however, as their Healing Factor allows them to regenerate from serious injuries that would cripple or kill normal people, including lost limbs, and while it is possible to overtax their healing with enough consecutive damage it's a hard point to reach, especially if they can trigger their Titan transformation. Destroying their heads or severing their necks are usually near instant fatal wounds for them and it's why Titans when eating them have a compunction to bite off their upper bodies around their shoulder areas. Otherwise, the only way to kill one is to leave No Body Left Behind or the Chunky Salsa Rule (preferably with their heads/spines pulped). It's heavily implied the reason for this is because the original Titan Shifter, Ymir Fritz, gained the power of Titans when an alien creature symbiotically attached itself to and merged with her spine.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_3ea4f6f5	comment	Alien/Species Crossover: Return to LV-426: Boone has run some tests on Lise, and discovered that part of her brain is responsible for triggering her body to regenerate, and believes that destroying this part of the brain would be the only way to kill her or others like her. This isn't tested in the main story, though Lise's dreams about Xenomorphs include the sense their inner mouths are primed to strike at that vulnerable spot, indicating they know what the hybrids are, how they work, and how to effectively kill them. It is confirmed in the first sequel/side story, where a Xenomorph unleashed on Alfheim by the Predator uses its inner mouth to kill one of the hybrids.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_3fc6395e	comment	Dracula is vanquished several times in The Tomb of Dracula and Dracula Lives!, but since his head is never removed afterwards to make his death permanent, he always manages to return.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_40189d8b	comment	The most important body part to remain at least somewhat intact for reanimation to work is the brain. So, Belladonna makes sure to specifically and utterly smash Wolfram's head to pulp when she kills him.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_4119a976	comment	Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse: Feral humans (and cured humans, since they retain feral physiology) can be killed in other ways (starvation, asphyxiation, electrocution, etc.), but it takes serious trauma to the brain or upper spine to be sure they're dead without those more elaborate methods. They are tough, don't feel pain, and any wounds stop bleeding by themselves in a hurry. A severed head will be conscious and responsive for several minutes before dying. However, they can certainly be hurt to the point of needing medical attention, cybernetic parts, and a long time to heal, and cured humans taking severe injuries sometimes revert back into ferals.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: The Global Occult Coalition, despite being an organization that works to kill or destroy the paranormal, invokes this trope in a number of field manuals: According to the guide on handling Type Grays, one of the most reliable methods of killing them is just to destroy the brain, however the guide also says the wide variety of causes of reanimation means Kill It with Fire is still the best option. Inverted with KTE-1181, a.k.a. "Infectious Slime Mold". An ameboid that compels hosts to walk into populated areas, then proceeds to reproduce at an exponential rate, building up pressure within the skull until the host's cranium bursts, infecting anybody nearby. Thanks to this, the entry for handling infectees explicitly warns against headshots,and instead recommends having a sniper go for well-placed shots to the chest. In one lecture, Dr. Clef says that the best way to kill a Reality Bender is to shoot them through the head before they know you're there. The article for SCP-008, a.k.a. "Zombie Plague" states that terminating the infected requires the use of "Significant Cranial Trauma".
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_43576f5	comment	In Supernatural, you kill a vampire by beheading it. Leviathans can be incapacitated through decapitation, although the head must be kept away from the body, lest it reattach.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_43ba5f0	comment	Used in the final boss battle in the Marine storyline for Aliens vs. Predator (2010). The boss is a Synth and you're in a Quick Draw duel against him; shooting him anywhere except the head won't kill him before he blows your brains out.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_43bff886	comment	The Sandman Slim novel Kill the Dead has a variant. Permanently killing a zombie requires the removal of the entire central nervous system.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_48d4a21c	comment	Averted in The Dead Next Door, where both decapitation and headshots have no effect on zombies, and the US government is searching for a way to kill them permanently.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_4c16b4e7	comment	When dealing with the undead in Tokyo Necro, the only way to really make sure that the dead stay dead is to blow out their brains. This is also why shooting fallen comrades in the head is a common practice, as to deprive an enemy necromancer of the chance of using their corpses.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_4d0612b6	comment	Seis Manos: Aside from fire, crushing the head or decapitation is the only other way to kill a mutated person.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_4e910a46	comment	Not a zombie example, but in Star Trek: Bridge Commander, destroying another ship's bridge (which can be considered a brain), will cause the entire ship to explode, even if the rest of the ship was fully intact. This is subverted with Klingon ships, as it's very easy to blow off the front of it and would be game-breakingly easy to defeat them. Though you have to wonder who's flying the thing...
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_4f7b790	comment	Eternals: The Deviants that have resurfaced on Earth can heal their injuries, making them much tougher foes. Destroying their heads is an effective way to dispatch them.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_51455a02	comment	Claymore. Due to Yoma's amazing Healing Factor, a quick kill is absolutely necessary, and even then, it's preferred to completely tear their corpses to bits. Ophelia lampshades this, telling the Awakened who breaks her neck that you need to behead Claymores to be sure.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_543bfacd	comment	Decapitation is actually the only way to kill a vampire in Bram Stoker's original Dracula. (Buffy-style staking is kind of a Plot Tumor of the Dracula-derived vampire mythos; driving a stake through the heart is used to immobilize the vamps in Dracula so it's easier to take the head off.)
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_55f6018c	comment	Juan of the Dead: The first zombie that Juan and friends (assuming it is a "vampire") try to kill keeps on attacking even though it is stabbed with a wooden stake multiple times. Later, when Juan is offering a seminar to his neighbors on how to kill the "dissidents", all present know that the only way to dispatch one is by destroying the brain. When Juan asks who knows why that is, however, nobody knows the reason, to Juan's dismay. He was hoping someone would tell him.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_5755b96a	comment	Subverted in The Order of the Stick, when Roy decapitates an undead dragon. Xykon points out that he controls it with his mind and it doesn't need eyes, ears, or a brain to follow his commands. In fact, the main thing Xykon is annoyed by is that the dragon no longer has teeth to bite with.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil zig-zags the trope, but until a certain point, it's played straight with T-Virus zombies (there's even a note in one of the mansion's rooms explaining this, adding that incineration is another way to keep the zombies down). Shooting them or their crimson heads "evolutions" anywhere else on their bodies do take them out of the fight for a good while, but only until they mutate to the next form. The crimson head's next form, the Licker, averts it quite spectacularly, in the sense that its (fully exposed) brain isn't even a weak spot — its (also exposed) heart is. Resident Evil 2: Chief Irons calls this trope out nearly word-for-word in regards to the mayor's daughter, an apparent zombie victim killed by Irons himself; he just blamed the zombies. Resident Evil 2: Actually defied in the 2019 remake. Shooting a zombie's head with a handgun is no longer a One-Hit Kill; the shotgun produces more reliable results but even then it isn't a guarantee. Headshots can still instakill a zombie in the remake. However, for this to happen you have to get a lucky critical hit. This can happen with any weapon, even the basic handgun, but more powerful guns have a higher chance. Anything short of the entire head exploding does no more damage than a body shot. The best way to deal with zombies in the remake is by shooting them in the legs. Blowing off a leg makes them unable to walk, they can only crawl pitifully slowly, making them easy to finish off with a knife. They can't attack you if they're on the ground and you're behind them. Subverted in Resident Evil 4 and 5. The "zombies" of the game, the Ganados/Majini can often be stunned by shooting them in the head, but doing so brings risks. Namely, destroying their heads may release difficult-to-kill Las Plaga, some of which can kill the hero in one hitnote Although Plagas will still erupt from their neck even if you don't shoot them in the head, so long as your guns or knife are what "killed" the regular enemy. The best option is to shoot them in the body, legs, or head once to stun them, then use melee attacks. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard: Headshots aren't the only way to kill the Molded, but it's definitely the best and most ammo-efficient way, as they can take a surprising amount of lead to the body before succumbing (think one shotgun shell to the head vs. five or six to the torso).
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_58e75a72	comment	In Warm Bodies, any human not "debrained" comes back as a zombie. Brains are, however, a zombie's favorite part, so humans that rise from zombie bites require the attacker to be somehow prevented from doing so.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_59565725	comment	In Shiki the most effective way to kill the vampires running around is to somehow disable their circulatory system. This means that the best way to make sure they stay dead is either a stake to the heart or severing the head.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_59da62aa	comment	In the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Dead Money, the Ghost People do not die unless one limb is destroyed; it doesn't have to be the head, though it's undeniably convenient. If not killed in this manner, they just revive with full health within a minute. Fortunately, you can still amputate during this period. If you have the super-mutant Dog with you, he can eat them instead, which is also a permanent death, and can teach you to kill them without needing to take a limb. Amusingly, the "Bloody Mess" perk, which greatly increases the chance of Ludicrous Gibs and is usually just a cosmetic effect (aside from a small damage boost), becomes highly useful in Dead Money since its triggering will put down a Ghost Person permanently. Frying them into piles of ash with your Holorifle also works, though it requires a good amount of luck and/or stealth since energy weapons only turn enemies to ash if you kill with a critical hit.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_5e59ce49	comment	Those infected with the Shaod in Elantris can only be killed by removing or destroying the head.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_5e91c7b	comment	Resident Evil 2: Actually defied in the 2019 remake. Shooting a zombie's head with a handgun is no longer a One-Hit Kill; the shotgun produces more reliable results but even then it isn't a guarantee. Headshots can still instakill a zombie in the remake. However, for this to happen you have to get a lucky critical hit. This can happen with any weapon, even the basic handgun, but more powerful guns have a higher chance. Anything short of the entire head exploding does no more damage than a body shot. The best way to deal with zombies in the remake is by shooting them in the legs. Blowing off a leg makes them unable to walk, they can only crawl pitifully slowly, making them easy to finish off with a knife. They can't attack you if they're on the ground and you're behind them.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_5e91c7d	comment	Subverted in Resident Evil 4 and 5. The "zombies" of the game, the Ganados/Majini can often be stunned by shooting them in the head, but doing so brings risks. Namely, destroying their heads may release difficult-to-kill Las Plaga, some of which can kill the hero in one hitnote Although Plagas will still erupt from their neck even if you don't shoot them in the head, so long as your guns or knife are what "killed" the regular enemy. The best option is to shoot them in the body, legs, or head once to stun them, then use melee attacks.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_60e6b2da	comment	In Harmony Theory, Nightmare Umbra's undead minions can only be destroyed by crushing their skulls. They regenerate from anything else, including decapitation.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_614156a8	comment	Overlord (2018): In keeping with the usual zombie portrayal, this appears to be the only way of killing supersoldiers except for being burned or blown apart-they shrug off anything less.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_61d4e874	comment	Conker's Bad Fur Day: In the beginning of Spooky, Gregg specifically states that the only way to kill the zombies is a shot through the head.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_65a21d7e	comment	In the even earlier vampire novel Carmilla they took it a step further and cremated the vampire's remains after impaling and decapitating her, then scattered the ashes in running water.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_665f48ad	comment	Mythica: Thane instructs his soldiers how to kill zombies, which includes this and burning them.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6773363c	comment	In Six Gun Savior, the only way to destroy Zathera's zombies is by removing their heads or using a blessed weapon.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: In a rare non-undead example, a Knight Radiant can only be killed by a blow to the head. Anything else, up to and including being stabbed through the heart or having part of their soul cut off, they can recover from with sufficient Stormlight.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons: Averted in 3.0 and 3.5 Editions, where undead (including zombies) are immune to the bonus damage from Critical Hits since they are sustained by supernatural forces and don't rely on any particular body parts to function. This even applies if they suffer automatic decapitation from a Vorpal Blade. In 4th Edition, a critical against a zombie is a One-Hit Kill, in a nod to this trope. The increasing prevalence of zombies in popular culture in the time between 3rd and 4th Editions was very likely the influence for the change. Downplayed in 5E, where zombies have the ability to potentially survive what would be lethal damage if they succeed a saving throw. The only ways to get around this are to either use Radiant damage or score a critical hit. But even if you don't, they don't have particularly good saving throw bonuses and it's based on how much damage the attack inflicted, so they tend to die pretty easily either way.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6ae1d164	comment	Not a zombie, but in Galaxy of Fear, Ultimate Life Form Super-Soldier Eppon, which was developed with a zombie-making project among others, has a Healing Factor that lets it shrug off any wounds... except the bomb in its head. The Stinger at the end suggests that even that isn't enough. The earlier zombies weren't even slowed down by a barrage of blaster fire, presumably including some headshots, only thing that could kill them was a compound designed to counteract the reanimation serum.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6bea0be9	comment	Episode 2 of Missing Reel, "Zombies!", since it emphasizes how Night of the Living Dead (1968) established the "aim for the head" method of killing zombies.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress undead need to be beheaded or bisected to kill them.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6cd6c4e8	comment	In iZombie, destroying the brain is just about the only way zombies can be killed.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6cd819eb	comment	In Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire, Kenspeckle Grouse mentions that decapitation is one of the few methods of killing a vampire that is effective and not pure fiction - he then adds that, in fairness, decapitation is effective against most things. Surprisingly, it's shown three books later that cutting off a zombie's head will not kill it. The body will stop working, but the head can last and keep talking for years.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6ea0c1f4	comment	Battle Tendency: Similar rules apply to the Pillar Men, who are basically souped up vampires. Esidisi survived being reduced to a brain by Hamon and only went down for good after taking another Hamon blast there. Wamuu was fatally injured by a Hamon explosion that destroyed all of his body except his head and was slowly disintegrating from that before he finally succumbed.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6ea7c33b	comment	In Altered Carbon, nearly everyone has their memories and personality stored in a stack in the back of their neck and can be transferred into a new body after death as long as the stack isn't damaged. Though the super-rich have their memories beamed up to a satellite every 48 hours.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_6fb218d7	comment	In the Doctor Who Missing Adventures novel Cold Fusion, Time Lady Patience is unable to regenerate after being shot through her brain.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_708ae58b	comment	In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, when Lorenda asks Abel and Jyrras what they know about the undead.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_73b74949	comment	Invoked in the Borderlands DLC "The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned". True to their humanoid shape, the zombies' weak point is the noggin. Granted, this is also true of every human enemy.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: In some games, the skeletal Stalfos can only be killed with headshots. However, in others, the only way to kill Stalfos is by using bombs (in order to shatter their bones). Breath of the Wild has a variation in that Stalfos spawn in groups and their bodies won't stop regenerating until all their skulls are destroyed. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The Dead Hand needs to be struck in the head, although it's unclear if it's undead or something else.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_755b343f	comment	Zig-Zagged in Halo with regard to the Flood Combat Forms. After becoming Flood, the head is useless and they can lose it with no real problem. But the vital zone is their chest, where the Infection Form is. After having their chest destroyed, the Combat Form is effectively killed... until another Infection Form comes along and reanimates it. The only way to ensure no reanimation is to destroy the corpse (most efficient way is to burn it, but continually shooting/meleeing it also works). That said, a headshot to a fallen Flood Combat Form in the first game was the quickest way to make sure a 'dead' Combat Form wouldn't rise back up to attack the player from behind.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_760f9989	comment	In Resident Evil: Degeneration, Leon warns the S.R.T. members Greg and Angela accompanying him to the hot zone to shoot the infected in the head, and he had to say it twice. They never listen, and it gets Greg bitten by a zombie, forcing him to stay behind.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_7654289b	comment	Paranoid Mage: When a nest of vampires moves into town and starts abducting and killing people, Callum learns that killing them requires either special materials that he doesn't have, or destroying their brains. So he uses tiny spatial portals to headshot them all from a sealed room in another building. The investigators are freaked out by how someone managed to shoot a dozen vampires in the head without even being seen by any of them.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_77dde353	comment	In The Zombie Hunters, this is accepted zombie-killing procedure. Justified since the Zombie Apocalypse has been going on for several years now.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_78fbc3f4	comment	Zombies from The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z are vulnerable only to headshots because the virus causes radical mutation, making everything but the brain completely vestigial. Partly averted. Removing the head renders the zombie harmless, but not destroyed. The head is still 'alive' and can still bite. In fact, the Record Attacks comics recount a rite of passage involving spending the night locked in a room full of moaning zombie heads (the author does note that it's impossible for them to moan if they lack a torso, although it has been suggested the moaning is psychosomatic; it's expected, so it's fervently imagined to happen). A soldier also recounts in World War Z how it is entirely possible to shoot the skull but miss the brain and, thus, need more than one headshot to finish the zombie. The author includes this as a warning for people not to panic that the zombie is invincible if one shot doesn't do it... unlike the men in the soldier's squad that day... Late in the war the United States developed and mass-produced very simple, and thus cheap and reliable, rifles designed from the ground up to be good at headshots, along with ammo that burns out the brain. Individual soldiers using them rack up kill counts in the thousands.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_7ae676ad	comment	Averted in Counselors and Kings- it's explicitly stated that removing the head does not destroy a zombie, though it does blind and deafen it (since the now-headless undead has no eyes or ears). Magic or completely destroying the corpse (through dismemberment or fire) is what kills it).
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_7bff7264	comment	That said, a headshot to a fallen Flood Combat Form in the first game was the quickest way to make sure a 'dead' Combat Form wouldn't rise back up to attack the player from behind.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_7e1c656a	comment	Played with in Scream 3. The killer is wearing a bulletproof vest under his Ghost Face costume, so Dewey has to shoot him in the head to kill him. This is after Sydney stabbed him in the chest with a stiletto, giving you a rather interesting take on the "stake-through-the-heart-and-cut-off-the-head" method of killing a vampire. Lampshaded earlier in the movie when Randy, in his postmortem trilogy rules video explains that the killer is going to be supernatural this time around, requiring some special means to deal with him.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: Ghouls in the series are humans mutated by radiation to merely look like zombies (though many of them are "feral" and act the part as well). Though Fantastic Racism has perpetuated a rumor that they need to be killed with headshots, they die just fine from anything that would kill a human. One ghoul in Fallout 3 hires you to kill some specific people he says are racist against ghouls and will pay you extra if you give them a Karmic Death by headshot. Except only one of them is actually racist, the others just have keys to a treasure that he wants. If you discover this and tell him he'll admit he was lying and that he just wants the keys, but he still wants the one actual racist dead. In the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Dead Money, the Ghost People do not die unless one limb is destroyed; it doesn't have to be the head, though it's undeniably convenient. If not killed in this manner, they just revive with full health within a minute. Fortunately, you can still amputate during this period. If you have the super-mutant Dog with you, he can eat them instead, which is also a permanent death, and can teach you to kill them without needing to take a limb. Amusingly, the "Bloody Mess" perk, which greatly increases the chance of Ludicrous Gibs and is usually just a cosmetic effect (aside from a small damage boost), becomes highly useful in Dead Money since its triggering will put down a Ghost Person permanently. Frying them into piles of ash with your Holorifle also works, though it requires a good amount of luck and/or stealth since energy weapons only turn enemies to ash if you kill with a critical hit.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_8258e260	comment	The Bony Beetles from Super Mario Bros. constantly pull themselves back together; the only way to permanently kill one through conventional methods that aren't the Ice Flower are by dropping their head into lava, a bottomless pit, or crushing it.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_8558d643	comment	Phantom Blood: Played straight by ghouls, as destroying their heads/brains or slicing them off their necks is the only way to stop them short of using sunlight or Hamon. Played with in regards to vampires. The mystical artifact that creates them does so by altering their brains, making total destruction of the head the only way not involving sunlight or Hamon to get rid of them, and even if you do use sunlight or Hamon they can actually survive as long as they don't get hit in the head with it. Decapitation just creates a pissed-off vampire head. If you're not using sunlight or Hamon; however, you'd need to destroy it right down to the cellular level as at least one vampire was able to regenerate (slowly) from being blown into Ludicrous Gibs by a bunch of grenades. Granted, sufficient head trauma isn't very nice for them either, as while Dio managed to shrug off getting a bullet between his eyes with only a moment's hesitation, getting his skull caved in and brain punched by Star Platinum's fist gave him one hell of a concussion that left him unable to properly move his legs until he got a blood transfusion.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Transformers: Prime: After accidentally creating a vampire/robot/zombie, Knock Out suggests this to Starscream, since he has seen human horror movies. However, since the Decepticons are not organic, it doesn't work.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_86616890	comment	In Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, an Uruk Nemesis has a chance to "cheat death" and come back to torment you unless you decapitate them (and decapitation is the only way to make sure a Nemesis with the title "the Unkillable" stays dead). However, Sauron isn't also known as "The Necromancer" for nothing In the sequel Middle-earth: Shadow of War, even this might not stop them, as they can come back as Frankenstein's monster-like beasts with their heads stitched back on, or as the undead, and in the original, the game can glitch in such a way that a decapitated Nemesis comes back with no head, still as mouthy as ever.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_876248eb	comment	In Red Markets Vectors can be killed in any of the same ways as an uninfected person, but if their brain is left intact the Blight forms a new neural nexus in it and reanimates the corpse as a Casualty in a couple days. Casualties do need a headshot but at least theyâ€™re slow.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_893f66b7	comment	In Jason X, Jason is finally put down by having his head blown apart. Unfortunately, they had the misfortune of shooting him into an Auto Doc first, and the damaged machine fixed him up better than new.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_89927923	comment	Invoked in Urban Dead; zombies killed by headshot take a 5 AP penalty to their "Stand Up" ability.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_8a344f1	comment	In Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army, if a zombie isn't killed by a headshot, it has a chance of rising again after a few seconds. Headshots are also instant kills on the most common enemies, so it's in your best interest to aim for the head as much as possible so as to conserve ammo. There are also minibosses and bosses who can only be hurt by headshots; naturally, they take a whole lot of headshots to kill.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_8dba224e	comment	In one episode of The Cleveland Show, Cleveland Jr. acknowledges that he'll have to do one of these in the event that his birth mother Loretta comes back as a zombie.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_90e2f673	comment	In BattleTech, certain mech configurations are made to be extremely resilient, and can keep firing back despite losing both arms and one leg. The usual way to take down such mech is to shoot their head (because that's where the cockpit usually is), or blowing through their torso (overloading their fusion reactor). Such mech configurations are fittingly called 'zombie mechs'.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: The only surefire way of ending a Noumu (an Artificial Human with multiple quirks), is to do this. Most of them have really strong healing powers that make damaging or even cutting off parts of their bodies minor inconveniences to them. In the High-End Noumus case, which are the most powerful of the Noumus, the head needs to be destroyed, because even if they are decapitated, the head can create a new body.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_998cbda3	comment	The Hand has the ability to resurrect people from the dead. As people like Nobu from Daredevil (2015) and Harold Meachum in Iron Fist (2017) show, Hand zombies can only be permanently killed off by decapitation.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Averted in A Song of Ice and Fire: the only way to destroy a wight is to chop them into little pieces (just dismembering them is not enough, the severed limbs will come after you) or burn them.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_a8a40154	comment	The zombies in Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend will live as long as their head is not destroyed by the sledgehammer or the shotgun. Comedically, the game is very specific that the head must be destroyed. If you simply chop it off with a bladed weapon, the zombie body will still be walking around and attacking just fine while the head rolls around on the ground.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_ab515a31	comment	Minor zombies in the House of the Dead series can be taken out like this. Bosses have their own weak points (although some are in the head).
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_abd5699	comment	Zigzagged in Plague Inc.. Necroa cannot reanimate headless corpses until you evolve Cranial Metastasis; which causes brain tissue to develop in the chest cavity. Another symptom causes the skull to thicken, making it harder for survivors and Z-Com/ Blackwater soldiers to kill them by headshot.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_ac955237	comment	In Demon Knights a vampire army besieging the protagonists can only be defeated by removing the head or destroying the heart.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The Dead Hand needs to be struck in the head, although it's unclear if it's undead or something else.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_afbc40fb	comment	Prayer of the Faithless: One of the ways to kill Revenants, as said in the Guide:
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood: Played straight by ghouls, as destroying their heads/brains or slicing them off their necks is the only way to stop them short of using sunlight or Hamon. Played with in regards to vampires. The mystical artifact that creates them does so by altering their brains, making total destruction of the head the only way not involving sunlight or Hamon to get rid of them, and even if you do use sunlight or Hamon they can actually survive as long as they don't get hit in the head with it. Decapitation just creates a pissed-off vampire head. If you're not using sunlight or Hamon; however, you'd need to destroy it right down to the cellular level as at least one vampire was able to regenerate (slowly) from being blown into Ludicrous Gibs by a bunch of grenades. Granted, sufficient head trauma isn't very nice for them either, as while Dio managed to shrug off getting a bullet between his eyes with only a moment's hesitation, getting his skull caved in and brain punched by Star Platinum's fist gave him one hell of a concussion that left him unable to properly move his legs until he got a blood transfusion. Battle Tendency: Similar rules apply to the Pillar Men, who are basically souped up vampires. Esidisi survived being reduced to a brain by Hamon and only went down for good after taking another Hamon blast there. Wamuu was fatally injured by a Hamon explosion that destroyed all of his body except his head and was slowly disintegrating from that before he finally succumbed.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_b3484036	comment	Area 51: This turns out to be the only way the Airlia can be killed since their technology heals anything else.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_b36a8308	comment	Taught to children at an early age in Fido:
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Grace's plan for dealing with zombies is to decapitate them with a 4ft claymore.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_be04427a	comment	In Contagion, taking a headshot from a bullet or charged melee weapon will drop anyone, zombie or not. Headshots are critical since zombies take an impractically large amount of torso shots to bring down.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: While plods will carry on regardless of how attached their heads are so long as they are wearing a plod mask, the Black Tongues come up with a new version of a "plod mask" that requires the corpse's head to be attached to the mask can perch on it and these are easy to dispatch with decapitation.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_bff01809	comment	Some Warhammer novels dealing with The Undead-and indeed, the Vampire Counts Army Book- state that only a headshot dissipates the Black Magic animating the corpses. You'd think that'd affect your chance to wound them... The Vampire Counts book, however, suggests that when you "wound" a zombie, you're actually smashing it into enough pieces that it can't do anything - which, given the state of decay involved in one of these things (they're literally held together with fence posts and nails), is easier than you might think.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_c1087b3a	comment	Subverted in Baskets of Guts, since The Undead cannot be really killed again, save for killing the one who raised it. This is a nasty surprise for those who rely on this trope.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_c2297a9c	comment	Subverted in Judge Dredd. Judge Anderson actually tries this on Judge Death as he's holding a woman and her baby hostage, but it barely even fazes him. Standard judge training doesn't really help if your perp is a talking corpse.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_c4399af0	comment	Simon Dark: Averted. While there are several flavors of undead in the comic Simon and his "brothers" fit the pop culture zombie concept the closest and are, at most, mildly inconvenienced by decapitation or being shot or stabbed through the head. Their hearts seem to be more important as the only one of their number to die gets ripped in half and his heart removed.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the Doctor Who episode "The Magician's Apprentice", Missy suggests that the best way to kill her so that she doesn't regenerate, is getting three snipers to shoot both hearts and her brain stem at the same time.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_c4a7b5d3	comment	Shaun of the Dead is the actual Trope Namer, inspired quote from the Romero movie, right down to the I Can't Believe I'm Saying This, and even actually quotes the trope verbatim:
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_c4eb086f	comment	Averted in 3.0 and 3.5 Editions, where undead (including zombies) are immune to the bonus damage from Critical Hits since they are sustained by supernatural forces and don't rely on any particular body parts to function. This even applies if they suffer automatic decapitation from a Vorpal Blade.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_c95c1834	comment	Averted in Outpost. The mercenaries are watching a film from World War II and realise the Nazi commander shown is their Sole Survivor. One of the mercs immediately walks into his cell and puts a bullet in his brain. "Is he dead?" / "His brains are all over the wall. That's good enough for me." Cue Mass "Oh, Crap!" when the 'dead' Nazi lifts his head to look at them and the lights go out.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_cd95b8df	comment	Dead Space: Subverted with most of the Necromorphs: a headshot alone will not kill one unless you've cut off at least one other limb, and on harder difficulties, not even then. One of the gameplay features is called "strategic dismemberment", where removing or destroying certain parts has different consequences, depending on the Necromorph. For all intents and purposes, the head counts as another limb you can dismember, and it has an effect: the monster will lose all sight and attack blindly. Played straight with certain Necromorphs, who either counts dismembering the head as enough "limbs" to cause it to drop dead, or its head is the only piece that you can dismember safely (the Infector and Crawler respectively). In Dead Space 3 there's a new enemy called the Creeper, which is a disembodied zombie head that pilots a dead space marine body. These are one of the few neromorphs who consider the head as a One-Hit Kill.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball: Namekians are able to regenerate from most wounds or missing limbs so long as their head is still intact. However, doing so takes energy and they can still be killed by a sufficiently powerful attack. Cell, an Artificial Human made of the DNA of various fighters including Piccolo, possesses the same ability, as there is a specific nucleus in his head that absolutely must be destroyednote Which caused a Plot Hole when Cell was still able to regenerate when Goku at one point completely annihilates his upper body. The dub changed this to him being to regenerate from any cell to kill him.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_d4e47577	comment	Averted in DoomÂ³. Headshots do cause a good amount of extra hurt on everything, including zombies. However, body shots work just fine, and some zombies don't even really have heads to begin with.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_d6942bf2	comment	Marvel Zombies can only be killed by destroying their brains. Decapitation just usually leaves an irritated head and a lifeless body (as shown by Zombie Wasp and Deadpool), sometimes a headless body walking around (as shown with Earth-Z's Electro).
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_d758ed0c	comment	In the first game, getting a headshot is necessary to kill zombies. Get a bodyshot and they'll just come back to life a few seconds later. Averted in multiplayer mode, where every enemy can be unlocked and played as, but are mechanically identical.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_d76bae2a	comment	Discussed almost like a mantra in After Hours when the gang discuss zombies. Subverted by Katy, who's apparently unfamiliar with the rule and mumbles something ending with "... extract Brian."
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_d9876abc	comment	In The Golgotha Series, the Tainted can shrug off most wounds; one of the only ways to put them down is a gunshot to the head.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_dd5bb86e	comment	In Heartcore, the brain is one of a demon's two weak points, the other being their heartcore. Destruction of either organ is the only way for a demon to truly die.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_e50643a0	comment	Subverted in The Return of the Living Dead. The characters assume that they can kill the zombies by destroying the brain, just like in Night of the Living Dead (1968). Nope.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_e694aadb	comment	In the Ciaphas Cain novella "Old Soldiers Never Die", the revenants created by the Plague of Unbelief keep going until/unless their spinal column is severed. (Or the whole body is destroyed by flamers.) Justified in-universe in that the Chaos-tainted virus is able to electrically stimulate the brainstem ... but can't remote-control a body that's been detached from its head.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_eafa9816	comment	Destroying the brain is the only way to kill a walker in The Walking Dead (Telltale). The only way; not even the other half of the trope will suffice, as you'll find out if you look inside the Stranger's duffel bag after his death in Episode 5 of Season 1.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_ecb39970	comment	In Undead on Arrival, it's a specific part of the brain. They don't think, so they don't need the front, they don't remember so they don't need the top, but they can bite. So to kill that zombie variant, you have to destroy the reptile part: the medulla.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_f38b71c4	comment	In Dead Space 3 there's a new enemy called the Creeper, which is a disembodied zombie head that pilots a dead space marine body. These are one of the few neromorphs who consider the head as a One-Hit Kill.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_f8705c18	comment	Played mostly straight in Hellsing. Ghouls will only stop going if they're shot in the head, with which the power of the guns the characters are using, usually destroys the head completely. It's been stated that they will stop if shot in the heart, but we only see it with the vampires controlling the ghouls. Killing them this way is seen as preferable; the victims who become like this had no choice in the matter and are brainless, flesh-eating machines. However, piercing his heart, cutting off his head, and sticking a holy blade through his brain still isn't enough to slay Alucard.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_f89f466d	comment	Averted in Torchwood: Miracle Day. The premise of the mini-series is that no one is dying, anywhere in the world. A suicide bomber is still alive despite being, well, exploded. Jack Harkness suggests that they cut off the head to see if it'll still live. They do so, and it looks like the bomber is finally dead... And His Eyes Open.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_fd8ef85e	comment	This is notably not required in Left 4 Dead or Left 4 Dead 2 unless you active the Nintendo Hard "Realism Mode" body-shots do drastically reduced damage. This makes sense because the Infected are Technically Living Zombies.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_fdf7a632	comment	In Vampire: The Requiem, vampires' Healing Factor can restore them from anything short of death (which usually takes fire, sunlight, or a lot of punishment), but decapitation is instantly lethal. One vampire comments on the oddity of being vulnerable to decapitation even though she functions just fine without her brain.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_fef54eee	comment	Eden Green plays with this by making head/brain destruction the most effective way to take out a needle-symbiote-infected human... temporarily. When their brain grows back, they may be docile and amnesiac for a time, but once they learn what was done to them, they won't be happy.
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Lupin III: Blood Seal ~Eternal Mermaid~ / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Resident Evil: Degeneration / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Keep Beach City Weird (Blog) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
DC vs. Vampires (Comic Book) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Lands of Arran (Comic Book) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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30 Days of Night (Comic Book) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
BetterAngels	seeAlso	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Scientific Pretty Cure / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Greyjoy Alla Breve (Fanfic) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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The Last Alarm (Fanfic) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Under Cover of Darkness (Fanfic) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
We Are The Nine (Fanfic) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Absurd (1981) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Dance of the Dead / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Day of the Dead (1985) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Eternals / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Hell of the Living Dead / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Innocent Blood / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
It Follows / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Jason X / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
John Carpenter's Vampires / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Juan of the Dead / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Little Monsters (2019) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Outpost / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Overlord (2018) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Return of the Living Dead / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Season of the Witch / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Starship Troopers / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Suitable Flesh / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Super Mario Bros. (1993) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
The Dead Don't Die / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
The Dead Next Door	seeAlso	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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World War Z / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Zombi 2 / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Highlander (Franchise) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Bel Dame Apocrypha / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Demon Road / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Dracula / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Fred, The Vampire Accountant / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Gil's All Fright Diner / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Mortal Engines / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
New Night / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Newsflesh / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Out of the Dark / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Quazi / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Sheep's Clothing / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Skulduggery Pleasant / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Starship Troopers / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
T2 Trilogy / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
The Great God's War / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
The Zombie Knight / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Warm Bodies / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
World War Z / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Zone One / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Absurd	seeAlso	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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I Am a Hero (Manga) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Parasyte (Manga) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Bleak Expectations (Radio) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
All of Us Are Dead / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Being Human (US) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
iZombie / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
In the Flesh / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Killjoys / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Misfits / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
MythBusters / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
ReBoot: The Guardian Code / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Santa Clarita Diet / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Torchwood: Miracle Day / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
All Flesh Must Be Eaten (Tabletop Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Deadlands (Tabletop Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Dungeon Saga (Tabletop Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Last Night on Earth (Tabletop Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Halloween Horror Nights (Theatre) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Alfred Chicken (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Aliens vs. Predator (2010) (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Battle Brothers (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Chasm: The Rift (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Conker's Bad Fur Day (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Contagion (Monochrome) (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Dead Space (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Dead Space (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Fallout: Dust (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Forgive Me Father (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Friday Night Funkin': Corruption (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
House of the Dead (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Night at the Gates of Hell (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
No More Room In Hell (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Overgrown: Genesis (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Plague Inc. (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Rebuild (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Resident Evil 2 (Remake) (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
State of Decay 2 (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Stubbs the Zombie (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
The Evil Within (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
The Walking Dead (Telltale) (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Urban Dead (Video Game) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Havenfall Is for Lovers (Visual Novel) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Wake The Dead (Visual Novel) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Scootertrix the Abridged (Web Video) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Skallagrim (Web Video) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Damsels Don't Wear Glasses (Webcomic) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures (Webcomic) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Tales of Elysium (Webcomic) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
The Adventures of Wiglaf and Mordred (Webcomic) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Seis Manos / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Zombie Ranch (Webcomic) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain

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