History Main / BludgeonedToDeath

* In ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', Negan makes his infamous debut in issue 100 by bashing in Glenn's skull with [[ICallItVera Lucile]], a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. This scene was later adapted in the [[Series/TheWalkingDead TV series adaptation]], but with Abraham included as an additional victim.

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* In ''Anime/NinjaScroll'', Jubei tries to finish Genma by caving his head in with a furious series of punches and attacks. Unfortunately, Genma has a HealingFactor. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he's left in the way of an incoming wave of molten gold.]]

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* The page image provider is the well-known ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily''. While ComicBook/TheJoker used a crowbar to beat the second Robin, [[ComicBook/RedHood Jason Todd]], to within an inch of his life in this way, [[SubvertedTrope it wasn't the beating that killed him]]; it was the explosives in the building Joker had trapped him and his mother inside that finished the job.
* In the climax of the ''ComicBook/SinCity'' story "That Yellow Bastard", Hartigan's retribution upon the very sick title character, involving him pounding his head repeatedly into the floor, is so savage and brutal that Junior does not even have a ''head left'' when Hartigan is through.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/FeetOfClay'' begins with the murder of a priest with a blunt implement.

* This was ''Series/AllMyChildren'''s Will Cortlandt's fate at the hand of Janet Greene.

* ''{{Series/CSI}}'' has a few. One notable one was Izzy Delancey in the beginning of the miniature killer arc. Doc Robbins had fun with the guy being a washed up rocker by singing about it. "There was blunt force trauma to the back of the head and damage to the occipital bone. There was massive hemorrhaging on the brain and death was probably swift. Yeah!"
* ''Series/Dark2017'': In the 5th episode of season 3, Elisabeth beats the man, who tried to rape her and stabbed her father, with a fire extinguisher and 33 years ago, the time-travelled Katharina is killed by her own mother with a stone. Also, Helge Doppler's wounds come from bludgeoned with a stone by Ulrich-in Adam's world he did this to child Helge and deformed his ear, in Eva's world to adult Helge and deformed his eye. In both cases, it's a Main/SubvertedTrope as Helge survives.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': The episode "A Bug's Life" has Moya hosting a Marauder team who are transporting what turns out to be a virus that can [[PuppeteerParasite control its hosts]], which manages to escape and start working its way through the crew. When it takes control of Crichton, it goes to Hassan, a rather attractive female Marauder that Crichton seems to have an interest in. As it seemingly flirts with her, it suddenly shoves her down onto a table and beats her in the head with a metal rod. The whole thing is over in a matter of seconds; by the time she could react, she was already dead. Crichton himself is horrified.

* Music/SuicideSilence's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin appropiately named]] "Bludgeoned to Death", which also adds a dose of DeathByWomanScorned into the mix.

* In ''[[Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung Das Rheingold]]'', no sooner have Fasolt and Fafner received the full complement of the Nibelung hoard as payment for their building of Valhalla than they begin to quarrel over their respective shares of the spoils, the ring in particular. The giants' argument escalates quickly, which leads to Fasolt being brutally clubbed to death by Fafner and thereby becoming the first victim of the ArtifactOfDoom's curse. Wotan, who had just minutes earlier been persuaded to give up the ring over his extreme reluctance to do so, has a profound MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction.

* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/BioShock1'', Jasmine Jolene is implied to have died by being beaten to death by her boyfriend Andrew Ryan, out of anger she sold their fetus to scientists working for Frank Fontaine. [[spoiler:Ryan himself ends up committing SuicideByCop by forcing Jack to [[GolfClubbing bash Ryan's head in with a golf club]].]]
* ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'': Fontaine kills Elizabeth like this with a wrench after she retrieves the code word to control Jack for him. She fully expects it though and allows it as part of her plan to help free the Little Sisters and stop Fontaine in the end.
* ''VideoGame/BrutalDoom'': when boosted by a Berserker Pack or a Demon Rune, the Marine can execute enemies with fatalities when going barehanded: one has him neck-lifting an Imp, punching his head off and then use his body as an improvised weapon, another has him tackle an Imp and just punch him hard in the face until there's nothing left to punch.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' in-game book "The Hope of the Redoran" tells the story of a Dunmeri noble named Andas, of whom it was prophesied that "his blood shall never be spilled", and that he cannot be killed by magic, illness, or poison. Indeed, the prophecy seems to come true, leading people to call Andas "The Hope Of The Redoran," in accordance with the wording of the prophecy. When he grows up, he lords this over his friends and peers as a sign of his superiority in combat, and it gives him the arrogance to challenge his cousin Athyn (who you can meet in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'') to a duel for an important political position. It ends with Athyn beating Andas to death with a quarterstaff and the result is apparently not pretty:
--> ''"The less said about the end of the battle, the better. Suffice it to say that Athyn, wielding a simple club, battered Andas to death..."''
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'', Kratos kills Hercules by repeatedly hitting his face with the Nemean Cestus until [[HeadCrushing his entire head is flattened]] into a red paste. [[spoiler:This is also how you finish off Zeus.]]
* ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' and ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'':

* Infamously done in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'', when Abby kills protagonist Joel by mercilessly striking his head with a golf club until his skull caves in.

** One of Kano's fatalities has him smash the opponent's head with his own, the final hit [[YourHeadAsplode causing the victim's head to split apart.]]

** In the very first case of the very first game, Cindy Stone is bludgened to death with a clock shaped like "The Thinker."
** Russell Berry from "Turnabout Big Top" is killed this way, with the murder weapon not being found until the end of the case: a bust that Acro, the murderer, hid underneath his wheelchair.
** Kane Bullard from "The Stolen Turnabout" is stated to have died this way in the autopsy report, although the murder weapon is never found or brought up.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In "Read 'Em and Weep", the demon [[DemonicPossession that has possessed Cub]] leaves his body. Unfortunately, Pop fails to notice that he's back to normal and [[OffingTheOffspring smashes his head with a shovel until he dies]].

* PlayedForLaughs in Peter's third fight with Ernie the Giant Chicken in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' where Peter wins by thrashing Ernie's head with a frying pan [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill at least two dozen times]]. Ernie ''still'' turns out to be NotQuiteDead when Peter walks away.
* Played for laughs in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''WesternAnimation/GoneBatty''. As a baserunner slides into home plate, the catcher takes a baseball bat and hits him on the head with it several times, then tells the umpire that he's out. When the umpire disagrees, the catcher hauls back once more and smashes the guy's head so violently it breaks the bat in half. It's a GoryDiscretionShot with only the sound of the impact, but the umpire visibly cringes and says "Yecch, ''NOW'' he's out."
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': In the episode "Armada", Bulkhead murders a clone of Starscream by repeatedly striking him on the head with his weapon arm until he dies.