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-->'''Creedy:''' Die! (bang) Die! (bang bang) WHY WON'T YOU DIE? (bang bang bang click click)
-->'''V:''' Because beneath this mask lies an idea, Mister Creedy--and ideas are ''bulletproof''!
-->-- ''VForVendetta''

An old and well used [[StockPhrases Stock Phrase]], most frequently used by villains who have seen a MadeOfIron hero calmly walk through [[DeathTrap Death Traps]], fought their way out of a [[InescapableAmbush carefully laid ambush]], OutrunTheFireball from an explosion, or pull a ScopeSnipe on their [[CareerKillers highly paid killers]]. And really, at that point can you blame them?

Variations: "What does it take to kill you?", "How Many Times Must I Kill You?", and "Why won't you STAY dead?!!", which are generally reserved for when the hero comes BackFromTheDead, or returns after a NoOneCouldSurviveThat and/or NeverFoundTheBody scenario.

Although it's far more common for the villains to say it, it's not exclusive to them. If it's a good guy saying it, it will most commonly come from a [[{{Muggles}} Muggle]] type of hero or character about some supernatural or MadeOfIron villain, or by someone who is closer to the AntiHero side of the [[CharacterCalculus Morality Axis]] than to TheCape or TheMessiah and is getting frustrated with their enemy seeming to have JokerImmunity. Contrast DeadToBeginWith.

See also HealingFactor and PullingThemselvesTogether for reason that these people/things will not stay dead.

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* Formerly pictured above, [[MeaningfulName Phoenix Ikki]] from ''SaintSeiya'' keeps coming back. From the endless void, form hell, from being beaten and blasted, only to baffle the now doomed enemy.
* Fans of ''DragonballZ'' have certainly said this enough times while watching some of the fights, But two times of characters saying it comes to mind: when Frieza is fighting Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan, he begins to wonder if they're immortal because they keep coming back. (Then he notices [[HealingHands Dende healing them]]). Later he says a variant when Goku reveals he's NotQuiteDead. There are probably plenty more.
** Vegeta utters this line word-for-word while blasting at a regenerating Meta Cooler.
* ''OnePiece'': Crocodile asked this question of Luffy after impaling him and dehydrating him, in that order.
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', when Asuka's trying to stab an angel that's been so strengthened by hatching in an active volcano, her knife can't pierce it: "Die, damn you!"
** There is also Asuka fighting the 14th angel. "Why won't you collapse damn you!?"
** A much, much nastier example can be found in EndOfEvangelion. This happens three times, maybe. The first is when the JSSDF decide to try and destroy Unit 02 with a battleship, a couple of artillery and tank battalions and a small army. Needless to say, they fail. Then Asuka fights the nine Mass Production Evas. She kills them all. And then they regenerate, despite being cut in half, missing the head, missing an arm etc. Asuka probably was thinking this, except for the fact she had been [[spoiler:[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed in the eye with a lance.]]]] Then, Unit 02 and Asuka are [[spoiler:still alive after having been eviscerated, eaten and stabbed]]. And she tries to [[GraspTheSun reach up and attack them]]. So they [[spoiler:impale her again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And then they run out of spears, but by that time, Unit 02 and Asuka are both already dead]].
* ''FullMetalAlchemist'' anime - "How many times do I have to kill you before you die?"
** Justified in that the [[ArtificialHuman Homunculi]] are [[spoiler: literally powered by the lives of many humans used to create the [[SoylentGreen Red Stones.]]]] They can be killed hundreds of times and will keep coming back as long as they have lives in reserve.
* ''{{Gantz}}'' manga: The Nurarihyon fight went on and on and on, suffering quite a few explosive "deaths," just to show up in yet ANOTHER form. It gets to the point where one of the team members bemoans how this fight just never ends.
* The reaction of many a ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' fan during Watanagashi-hen ([[spoiler: and Meakashi-hen as well, although more in frustration than the confusion of the aforementioned arc]]).
* Koichiro Kase has this reaction towards the end of an episode of ''WeissKreuz'' after Ken returns unscathed from Kase's second attempt at killing him. Ken replies solemnly, "[[LikeABadassOutOfHell I don't like hell.]]"
* Done in ''YuYuHakusho'', although the circumstances are a little different than normal. When Kurama faces off with [[spoiler:the elder Toguro]], he tricks [[spoiler:Toguro]] into being caught by a cursed tree that inescapably binds its victims, then fills their heads with hallucinations while it drains the life energy out of them. Thus, although he is simply bound to the tree, [[spoiler:Toguro]] lives in an eternal hallucination of delivering fatal blow after fatal blow to Kurama, only for Kurama to shrug it off.
--> Why won't he die? Why won't he die?!
* In ''FullMetalPanic'', Sousuke has a variant of this towards Gauron, most notably in TSR where [[spoiler: Sousuke pretty much cries out, "But you're supposed to be - " with Gauron finishing, "dead?"]]. Of course, probably most of the people who watch the series would feel the same exasperation as Sousuke, considering that the guy was [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat supposed to be dead at least five times]].
* This happens in ''{{Fushigi Yuugi}}'' before the final battle. Complete with a freakin' PowerWalk.
--> '''[[spoiler:Nakago]]:''' (to [[spoiler:Tamahome]]) Damn you... I thought you were dead.
* How on Earth has {{Hellsing}} not received a mention yet? At some point in the series, almost every recurring character receives this line or similar for their astounding survivability. One noteworthy instance of Alucard's insane durability has him flying a stealth plane at breakneck speed into a [[spoiler: vampire nazi-controlled]] battleship, wading into a hail of bullets and grenades from its crew, then taking over a dozen gut shots from an enchanted bullet the size of his noggin.
* While he doesn't say the exact words (probably thinking it though) Myotismon in {{Digimon}} apparently kills [[spoiler:Wizardmon]] twice...[[spoiler:the third time actually [[HeroicSacrifice killed him]]]].
* {{Bleach}}'s Szayel Aporro Granz says this to Mayuri during their fight. "Why?! I destroyed all of your organs and tendons! So why won't you die?!"
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[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
* In ''FanFic/AnEntryWithABang'', one shipman has this reaction after a Dropship eats enough SM-2 missiles to supposedly take out a large chunk of the old Soviet air force and still isn't greatly damaged.
* In ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlelg7qjr6e Latias' Journey]]'', this phrase is applied to most of the undead horrors that keep regenerating -- some after multiple actual deaths, and one [[spoiler: having been utterly vaporized]].
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[[folder:Film]]
* One of the oldest examples in film can be found at the end of Alexander Dovzhenko's ''Arsenal'' (1928):
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OZG8w4iI_g&feature=related "Fall, damn you, FALL! Are you wearing armor or something?"]] (go to about 1.20, is where it starts)
* Frequently said by foes of [[DieHard John [=McClane=]]]
* In the movie Me, Myself, and Irene, in one scene a cow refuses to die after having a gun fired until it's empty on it, and was wrestled to death, and beaten with the gun, and left there to die. It apparently was injured, though.
* ''AustinPowers'' says this in his second movie to Robin Swallows, who inexplicably survives being [[RasputinianDeath shot, stabbed, falling from a building, being blown up]], and quite a few other things.
* In ''[[ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]] vs. [[FridayThe13th Jason]]'' a frustrated Freddy Krueger asks Jason "Why won't you DIE?"
** Note that this a ghost addressing what amounts to a zombie.
* ''SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004). Sky Captain says "Why won't you die?" [[spoiler:to the RobotGirl just before he finishes her off for good]].
* The ''VForVendetta'' movie has a terrified Creedy asking V "Why won't you die! Why won't you die!" after V massacres him and his men despite having been shot dozens of times.
** [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Because beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy,]] [[ThisIsSPARTA and ideas. Are. Bulletproof."]]
*** There's also a big steel plate in there, so that might have something to do with it. [[spoiler: And he actually does die, after limping back to his base. Home made armour is not as effective as you might think. All that stolen stuff and not a single flack jacket?]]
*** Not that he needed or even wanted to survive beyond success. In both versions of the tale, V meant for others to carry on after him, only needing to live to the point that could happen.
* Used in the movie version of ''TheCrow'' where Funboy shoots the hero several times, only to watch in horror as the hero's HealingFactor kicks in and closes the wounds right before his eyes, leading him to cry "[[FunnyAneurysmMoment Don't you ever fuckin' die?]]"
* Done to JamesBond in the film ''GoldenEye'', complete with BondOneLiner response:
--> '''Janus/Trevelyan:''' Why can't you just be a good boy and die?
--> '''Bond:''' You first. ''* gestures to Xenia* '' You, second.
** Also done in more [[WickedCultured erudite fashion]] by [[{{Moonraker}} Hugo Drax]], with a side of How Many Times Must I Kill You:
-->"Mr. Bond, you persist in defying my efforts to provide an amusing death for you."
* Two-Face says this to {{Batman}} in ''BatmanForever''. There's also the page quote above.
--> Why can't you just DIE?!
** Ironic in that immediately after he says this, Two-Face fires a rocket at him and manages to collapse the structure Batman is on and bury him underneath a whole mess of sand, which if not for the intervention of Robin, probably ''would'' have killed him.
* In the first ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie a frustrated Toad shouts "Don't you people ever die?".
** Which is more of a shout out to the fact that the answer to that question, considering the comics that originate them, is a resounding "[[DeathIsCheap NO]]".
* One of the many things that gangster Bullet Tooth Tony from ''{{Snatch}}'' is infamous for is surviving being shot 6 times by an enemy. A {{flashback}} to that event shows the guy shooting Tony screaming "Why won't you fucking die?!!" just before he runs out of bullets.
** [[spoiler:As Avi accidentally proves (using Tony's own [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]], no less), he just needed bigger bullets.]]
* Averted in ''ThePrincessBride'' where rather than raging at Wesley's unexpected return from the dead, Humperdinck calmly says "I killed you too quickly last time, a mistake I won't duplicate tonight".
* Mrs. Lovett of ''SweeneyTodd'' shouts this [[spoiler: when she finds the body of Lucy, the beggar woman, and Sweeney's wife before Judge Turpin sent him off to Botany Bay. Her throat had been cut by Sweeney, whose entire purpose for revenge was to avenge her being raped by Judge Turpin. Now, Lucy ingested poison after the Judge raped her, but it didn't kill her, and she was the only thing standing between Mrs. Lovett and a relationship with Sweeney. Whether or not Lucy was dead is up for debate, but Mrs. Lovett was probably screaming "Why Won't You Die" out of sheer rage directed towards Lucy.]]
* In the 2000 movie ''{{Film/Gladiator}}'', Emperor Commodus says a variant of this to Maximus, after the latter has just won a match that was blatantly rigged against him.
--> '''Commodus:''' What am I going to do with you? You simply won't...die.
* In ''TheSixthDay'', ArnoldSchwarzenegger gets annoyed that the QuirkyMinibossSquad keeps [[CloningBlues cloning]] themselves.
* In ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'' the villainous, and now exasperated, Lo Pan expresses a similar sentiment to his underling when he finds that Jack Burton has cheated death yet again...
-->'''Lo Pan''': Is it too much to ask, Thunder?!? ''Kill'' him! For me!
* In ''Film/TheSeaHawk'' (1940), the evil Lord Wolfingham (Henry Daniell) greets the hero, Geoffrey Thorpe (ErrolFlynn) who has escaped from numerous perils, with the words, "Have you nine lives, Captain Thorpe? Surely most of them must be used up by now." Cue {{Flynning}}.
* In TheMatrix, [[spoiler:Neo gets shot with an entire Desert Eagle clip by Agent Smith, and comes back to life able to stop bullets in mid air and fight Smith with a [[WithMyHandsTied hand behind his back]], when his powers as The One are realized.]] Then there's the Super Burly Brawl...
* Parodied in MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail, where King Arthur maims the Black Knight, who continues to try fighting even after losing his arm... and his other arm...and his legs. He decides to call it a draw at this point, until Arthur starts to leave, and which points the Black Knight declares he'll bite his legs off.
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* In ''{{Animorphs}}'', Visser Four yells "Why don't you die?!" after the characters survive yet another should-have-been-fatal blow (see, their trip through time to follow him was part of a DealWithTheDevil - an evil SufficientlyAdvancedAlien said one dying was the price. The alien's rival and sometime ally of our heroes added the stipulation that ''only'' one could die on that trip, so the team discovers that they're suddenly NighInvulnerable, regenerating even fatal wounds instantly.)
* CiaphasCain says two variants in a single fight in the novel ''For The Emperor''.
* In NeverWhere, [[spoiler:the Marquis can return from the dead]]. Thus:
-->'''Mr. Croup''': I already killed you once today. What does it take to teach some people?"
* George Orwell's essay ''Shooting an Elephant''. By the end of the essay the reader is wishing the poor damn thing would die, too.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* A slight variation: the ''DoctorWho'' episode "Dalek" has the Doctor yelling, "Why don't you just ''die''!" to the titular monster in a death machine. Counts, though, because he went to a lot of effort to wipe out their race at the cost of his own, and isn't happy this one slipped through the cracks.
** "[[ChewingTheScenery I CANNOT DIE!!!]] '''''[[ThisIsSPARTA I!!! AM!!! DAVROS!!!]]'''''"
* ''{{Psych}}'' episode "American Duos" Zapato Dulce: "You ruined everything! Why won't you die?"
* The main characters of ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' do this in speaking about archenemy Apophis.
--> '''Teal'c:''' Apophis must have transported off of Sokar's ship before it exploded.
--> '''Col. O'Neill:''' Somebody's got to teach that guy how to die.
--> Also implied about Dr. Daniel Jackson more than once... But then he DID come back from deadly situations more than once xD
* ''StarTrekEnterprise:'' The evil MirrorUniverse version of Dr. Phlox said "Would you kindly die?" to an alien prisoner who was proving frustratingly hard to kill with the (not so) good doctor's pressure chamber.
* Used ironically on TheColbertReport, during a period where Colbert was taking any excuse, however flimsy, to repeatedly show a clip of controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright:
--> '''Colbert:''' (grinning) "Why won't that story die?"
* Parodied in an episode of {{Bottom}}: On getting a whiff of the lethal alcoholic mixture Eddie carries around in his hip flask, Richie inquires 'How are you alive?'. Eddie grins, taps the side of his nose, and cheerfully replies 'I may very well not be.'
* In the 8th season of ''{{Scrubs}}'', there is briefly a new Chief Of Medicine, Dr Taylor Maddox. Despite her very friendly and personable attitude toward her co-workers, she has a very cold-blooded and by the book approach to taking care of patients, which leads {{Cloudcuckoolander}} JD to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaFozStRFBU imagine her trying to smother a patient with a pillow while shouting "Why won't you die?!!"]] because the patient's insurance coverage has run out.
* In the first season finale of ''{{Leverage}}'', there is a mundane example. An opponant growls at a badly-beaten Eliot Spencer: "Why won't you go down?" Eliot [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome laughs.]]
* Variation in {{Angel}} where Angel is fighting a demon and decapitates it. The demon's body stirs.
-->'''Angel:''' Come ''on!'' I'm holding your ''head!''
** The demon needed to be killed a certain number of times before it died.
* Tina Greer asks this in the {{Smallville}} episode ''Visage'', as her SuperStrength is not nearly enough to defeat Clark Kent.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Rugal Bernstein from ''[[TheKingOfFighters The King of Fighters]]''. He is always being featured a boss character throughout the series.
** This is more due to StatusQuoIsGod than Rugal's actual inability to die. Rugal appeared as the FinalBoss in both ''[='94=]'' and ''[='95=]''. Subsequently, {{SNK}} sees Rugal as the [[TropeCodifier ultimate]] [[SNKBoss end boss]], so they always include him in the non-canonical Dream Match games as the [[FinalBoss last opponent you have to face]] (sometimes as the TrueFinalBoss, such as in ''2002: [[UpdatedRerelease Unlimited Match]]''). [[LampshadeHanging In fact, Rugal's hobby is listed as "resurrection".]] In an inversion of TheWesley, [[EnsembleDarkhorse the fans love Rugal just as much as the producers]] to the point that there was much rage when Rugal wasn't included ''XII''. Canonically though, [[OneWingedAngel Omega Rugal]] experienced a SuperpowerMeltdown due to the [[DeadlyUpgrade Orochi power]] and died in ''[='95=]'' when his body was consumed by it. He's succeeded by his two children, Adel and Rose, who made their debut in ''2003''. [[OrIsIt However]], there are a few hints (canon or no) that Rugal [[NotQuiteDead might not be dead]], or that the Omega Rugal appearing in ''[='95=]'' was [[CloningBlues a clone]].
* Lisa Trevor from the first Resident Evil Remake. There is NO WAY to put her down permanently in-game.
* Undoubtedly a catchphrase for any player facing a HopelessBossFight.
** Similarly, the inevitable response to ThatOneBoss.
** Or a SheatheYourSword boss, if the player doesn't figure out the clues.
* ''MetalGearSolid: Portable Ops''. Null: "Why won't you die, Snake?"
** And of course, in ''MetalGearSolid'', the player is probably thinking this towards Liquid...
* ''KingdomOfLoathing'' has Ed The Undying. You have to kill him seven times before he stays down. And just to top things off your reward for smacking him down is the Holy McGuffin.
** It gets worse; Ed's still not dead. It's just by then he's [[AndIMustScream in no condition to object]] as you snatch the Holy McGuffin away.
* [[spoiler:Master Li]] says something along these lines when you succeed on breaking free of the cage he wove for you from your own doubts at the end of JadeEmpire.
* Vladimir Zakarov says this to Tequila at one point during the Penthouse stage in the John Woo game ''{{Stranglehold}}''.
--> '''Vlad:''' "Dammit! What do I have to do to make you ''die?!''"
* [[LittleMissBadass Mission Vao]] in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has an exasperated "Just Die Already!" as a BattleCry. Other than that, this trope is conspicuously absent, while people will constantly comment on characters surviving situations where NoOneCouldSurviveThat, they rarely seem to be angry or frustrated about this.
** They seem pretty willing to chalk it up to the Force...and well, [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready who you were in a past life]].
* In TheElderScrolls IV: Oblivion hostile NPCs will sometimes shout "[[PunctuatedEmphasis Why! Won't! You! Die!?]]" as a battle drags on.
** Interestingly, in one of the expansion packs, the enemies won't die, prompting one soldier to loudly scream "Why! Won't! You! Stay! DEAD?!"
* In MaxPayne, Nicole Horne issues this message to her men:
--> '''Horne:''' What do you mean, "he's unstoppable?" You are superior to him in every way that counts. You are better trained, better equipped. You outnumber him at least twenty to one. Do...your...job!
** A similar message is issued to a group of mooks earlier on in the game, with the inclusion of the phrase "He's just one lousy cop!"
---> '''Goon''': Boss...Gognitti...it's Max Payne...he came and...started cappin' us...He killed...ugh...
---> '''Gognitti''': Are you ''freakin' kidding me?'' He's just one lousy cop! You'd ''better'' be freakin' kiddin' me! '''Whack him!''' ''What's the freakin' problem?!'' Hello? Answer me! '''Hello?!'''
*** [[spoiler:Vlad]] gives a much more explicit version of this near the end of ''[[MaxPayne Max Payne 2]]''.
----> '''[[spoiler:Vlad]]:''' [[spoiler:What the ''fuck'' is ''wrong'' with you Max? Why don't you ''just '''die?''' ''You hate life, you're miserable ''all the time'', afraid to enjoy yourself even a little. Face it, you might as well be dead already. Do yourself a favor, give up!]]
* Similarly, at a certain point in ''HalfLife 2'' a frustrated Dr. Breen has this to say to the soldiers that Gordon Freeman's been killing for a while now:
--> "How could one man have slipped through your force's fingers time and time again? How is it possible? This is not some agent provocateur or highly trained assassin we are discussing. Gordon Freeman is a theoretical physicist who had hardly earned the distinction of his Ph.D. at the time of the Black Mesa Incident. I have good reason to believe that in the intervening years, he was in a state that precluded further development of covert skills. The man you have consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards simply that--an ordinary man. How can you have failed to apprehend him? "
* The trailer for LucasArts' canceled sequel to [[SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam And Max Hit The Road]] had Max yelling "Why! Won't! You! Just! Die!" at a foiled carjacker while jumping up and down on his stomach. Later given a MythologyGag in the Telltale Games series, made by the same people who were on the Lucas project.
* ''FinalFantasyV'':
-->'''Necrophobe:''' Enough of this. Die!
-->'''[[spoiler:[[BraggartBoss Gilgamesh]]]]:''' * snort* I believe [[HeyThatsMyLine that's MY line]]!!!
** An even better example from that same game: When Galuf battles Exdeath alone to save his friends, gets hit with ''everything'' the villain has got, gets his Hit Points down to zero, yet the fight doesn't end; Exdeath even asks Galuf why he won't die, and Galuf retorts, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Because they are my Friends!!"]]. Sadly [[spoiler: he dies after the battle]].
*** Getting hit by several Final Boss-level attacks ''after getting your HP down to zero'' will do that to you.
* You get a more [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Sesquipedalian]] version from Andrew Ryan in BioShock: "Why are you so resistant to the traditional methods of separating a man from his soul?"
* Both the Tasen and Komato ask this about {{Iji}}, whether you play a PacifistRun or KillEmAll.
-->'''Various logbooks:''' She's just ONE HUMAN!
** A variant of this is also used directly if you use a checkpoint before dying in a certain boss battle.
-->'''Asha:''' "No! You can't still be alive! I KILLED YOU! Oh well...I should be grateful. This means I get to ''KILL YOU TWICE!''"
** In fact, it's possible to use ''both'' checkpoints in the level and still make it back to Asha. The player has to know the game inside and out and go well out of his way to pull it off, and Asha is absolutely infuriated at the implausibility of it all.
-->'''Asha:''' "How many times do I have to kill you!? I'LL TEAR YOU TO PIECES AND FIRE EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM INTO A BLACK HOLE! TEN TIMES OVER!!!"
** And whenever you're fighting Asha, he will occasionally scream out in frustration
-->'''Asha:''' "Just '''DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!'''"
** Iji herself will sometimes shout this at her enemies if you're playing as a [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]].
* Wild Dog from TimeCrisis. He will ''ALWAYS'' return for the next game, no matter how much damage he takes or how unlikely his survival is.
* You're garunteed to think this about a Spy with Dead Ringer at some point when playing TeamFortress2. Especially if you just killed the guy three times and he's still coming back within seconds of his first demise.
* Lampshaded in ''[[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon Project Origin]]'' by Colonel Vanek, who demands to know why his five hundred-strong army of special forces commandos haven't been able to kill Becket.
* A possible response from the Eldar Guardians in DawnOfWar when facing a very durable foe.
* ''{{Portal}}'': It was a triumph and she's making a note there that she's still alive.
* [[EvilSorcerer Lord Nergal]] says this word-for-word in ''FireEmblem: Blazing Sword'' after [[spoiler: Eliwood's father pulls a TakingYouWithMe and fatally stabs him before dying.]]
* While not a video game per se, Zero Punctuation has used a panel of an imp desperately calling this out against the hero a few times now...
* Eldar Guardians in {{Dawn of War}} say this when locked in close combat, and inflect the words with a typically Eldar amount of venemous contempt.
* In ''JakAndDaxter 3'', one level features weasel like creatures which most be knocked into giant hamster wheels to extend certain bridges. To keep it from being to difficult, the weasels, while looking like they could be killed with one punch, are indestructible. This makes it possible to say, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential shoot them into a corner]] with your [[GatlingGood vulcan]] until they're literally [[MoreDakka suspended in the air by the bullets]]. This will never kill them unless you accidentally send them over the edge of a pit. [[DeadBabyComedy it's hilarious.]]
* In ''BlazBlue'', one of Ragna's battle cries is "die! Die already!" In Jin's Story Mode in ''Calamity Trigger'', he says this in one path after [[spoiler: Nu refuses to stay down.]]
* Commander Shepard in Mass Effect 2. While not explicitly stated by the Collectors (probably due to their lack of ability of vocalise very much) or Harbinger, they must all be thinking this. Despite completely obliterating the Normandy and actually having successfully killed Shepard; [[IGotBetter Cerberus decides to bring him/her back to life]].
* Nathan Drake says this to BigBad Lazarevic in the final battle of Uncharted 2. Something along the lines of "My god...why won't you die?!". Lazarevic may sometimes say it to Nate as well.
* In ''Saints Row 2'', after defeating Mr. Sunshine, the Sons of Samedi's resident voodoo practitioner, he keeps getting up after being shot repeatedly. Quite annoyed by all this, the protagonist shoots him a few more times shouting "Will you just die already?!"
* Minor example in {{Persona 4}} is when Kanji attacks a shadow, but fails to finish it, he sometimes shouts "Lay down and die already!" which often reflects the players thoughts.
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* ''BobAndGeorge'' has at least two variants [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=010531 here]] and [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=070701 here]].
* When suffering deeply from CerebusSyndrome, ''ExploitationNow'' has this line being said to the villain: "Please die this time, OK?"
* BigBad Xykon from ''OrderOfTheStick'' combines the two phrasings, albeit for non-main characters in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0459.html this strip]].
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0061.html this strip]], Nale tells Elan, "I'm reasonably certain [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0056.html I've already killed you once today]]. I'd hate for things to get repetitive."
* In ''{{Goblins}}'', when Goblinslayer's [[TheDragon Dragon]] tried to kill Big Ears with an axe that Ears was immune to, he wound up asking "How many times do I have to kill you before you'll die!?" after seeing Ears survive several killing blows unharmed.
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* In YuYuHakushoAbridged, Kuwabara has apparently already killed Byakko twice when Byakko comes back again, albeit horribly wounded. Kuwabara asks how many times he has to kill Byakko, only for Yusuke to snarkily reply "Well, ''once'' would probably suffice."
* Vegeta in DragonBallZAbridged does the same, hilariously, whilst trying to punch Gohan into oblivion as he turns into an Oozaru.
* [[WatchMen Rorschach]] does this towards [[DeadPool Deadpool]] in ImAMarvelAndImADC.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Jafar gives the second featured quote to ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''.
* Dr. Orpheus from ''TheVentureBrothers'' fights a vampire at one point, but is unacquainted with the proper vampire killing technique. He gets increasingly frustrated when the vampire he keeps blasting just gets back up. "Oh, for heaven's...Why won't he just die?"
* Slight variant in ''{{Transformers}}: TheMovie'' (the animated one) where Megatron screams "Fall! FALL!" as he shoots Optimus Prime until he finally does fall down.
** Incidentally, Megatron should have been asking himself this in {{Transformers Animated}} after he kills Starscream, who comes back from the dead for revenge... and gets killed by Megatron again... and again and again (he was immortal at the time)
* Said by Nekron in ''FireAndIce'' in a rather narmy fashion.
* [[SamuraiJack "Samurai, samurai...]][[LargeHam why won't]] '''[[LargeHam YOU DIIIIIE!?"]]'''
* In the Valentine's Day episode of ''TheSimpsons'', the skywriter with whom Homer has been struggling finally succumbs to the urge to vent:
-->"Doggone it, why won't you DIE?!"
* In the ''{{Gargoyles}}'' four-part episode, "City of Stone", a man in a mask who Demona identifies as "The Hunter" shows up to stop her. She says somewhat incredulously, "How many times must I destroy you?!" Subverted twofold: Demona has killed previous Hunters before, but their descendants always take up the mantle; and in this case the man in the mask was actually MacBeth, who is not a descendant of the Hunter and was simply wearing the mask for its symbolism.
** Before this, Demona gets such a line in "The Mirror." Towards the beginning of the episode, she orders Puck to rid her of "the human Elisa Maza." Puck playfully misconstrues and, rather than use deadly force, turns Elisa into a gargoyle. When Gargoyle-Elisa shows up to [[TookaLevelinBadass kick ass and take names]], Demona does a double take before raging, "What does it take to DESTROY you?!" Which is [[HilariousInHindsight somewhat hilarious]] as she should have realized Elisa was still alive after she made Puck "do the same to every human in the city."
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* Admit it, you've growled this at ThatOneBoss a time or two, especially if he didn't have the courtesy to stop at one [[OneWingedAngel advanced form]].
** It's easy to find yourself shouting "PLEASE DIE!" at the final boss of ''[[HalfLife Half-Life 2: Episode One]]'' while frantically running all over the place trying to avoid taking your own advice on that matter.
*** Oh, please. It's not that hard. Just get to the infinite rocket crate and you're set.
** Someone needs to tell [[SaintsRow Volition, Inc]] that shooting someone repeatedly in the face with an anti-materiel rifle ''should'' be more effective at ending a hostage situation.
** And don't ''even'' get us started on just about every damned MarathonBoss in EXISTENCE.
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-->'''Creedy:''' Die! (bang) Die! (bang bang) WHY WON'T YOU DIE? (bang bang bang)

-->'''Creedy:''' Die!(bang) Die!(bang bang) WHY WON'T YOU DIE?(bang bang bang)

-->'''Creedy:''' Die! Die! WHY WON'T YOU DIE?
-->'''V:''' Because beneath this mask lies an idea--and ideas are ''bulletproof''.

----> '''Goon''': Boss...Gognitti...it's Max Payne...he came and...started cappin' us...He killed...ugh...
----> '''Gognitti''': Are you ''freakin' kidding me?'' He's just one lousy cop! You'd ''better'' be freakin' kiddin' me! '''Whack him!''' ''What's the freakin' problem?!'' Hello? Answer me! '''Hello?!'''

* In YuYuHakushoAbridged, Kuwabara has apparently already killed Byakko twice when Byakko comes back again, albeit horribly wounded. Kuwabara asks how many times he has to kill Byakko, only for Yusuke to snarkily reply "Well, ''once'' would probably suffice."[[/folder]]

* Brian of ''FamilyGuy'' mutters "Oh, just die already" under his breath while watching Bob Barker as the host reminds viewers to spay and neuter their pets.

-> ''"The Bat's stubborn refusal to expire... is driving us insane!"''
->-- Two-Face, ''[[{{BatmanForever}} Batman Forever]]'', showing us how to say it in {{Narm}}glish.

-> ''"How many times do I have to kill you, boy?!"''
->-- Jafar, to ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''

->''"I'm indestructible, the whole universe knows that!"''
->-- TheMaster, ''DoctorWho,'' after turning up despite having been rendered DeaderThanDead last time... again.

*** Not that he needed or even wanted to survive beyond success. In both versions of the tale, V meant for others to carry on after him, only needing to live to the point that could happen. SoYeah.

* One of the {{NPC}} characters in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has an exasperated "Just Die Already!" as a battlecry. Other than that, this trope is conspiciously absent, while people will constantly comment on characters surviving situations where NoOneCouldSurviveThat, they rarely seem to be angry or frustrated about this.

* Several BioWare characters have variants of this as a BattleCry, including [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Mission Vao's]] "Just die already!"

--> '''Bond:''' You first. ''* gestures to Xenia* '' You, second.

--> '''Bond:''' You first.

* ''AustinPowers'' says this in his second movie to Robin Swallows, who inexplicably survives being shot, stabbed, falling from a building, being blown up, and quite a few other things.

* Done in ''YuYuHakusho'', although the circumstances are a little different than normal. When Kurama faces off with [[spoiler:the elder Toguro]], he tricks [[spoiler:Toguro]] into being caught by a cursed tree that lures its victims in with hallucinations. Thus, although he is simply bound to the tree, [[spoiler:Toguro]] lives in an eternal hallucination of delivering fatal blow after fatal blow to Kurama, only for Kurama to shrug it off.

* If the legends surrounding his death are true, [[RasputinianDeath Grigori Rasputin]] was beaten, poisoned, shot four times and then finally [[strike:drowned]] succumbed to hypothermia after being thrown in the Neva River.

* SCO, a company who has survived on the slim prospect of receiving royalties based on lawsuits against some of a dozen or so different companies.
* Ever tryed stepping on a bug, anyone? How many attempts did it take? How many times did you uselessly stomp your foot before resorting to [[KillItWithFire fire]]/needles/[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill guns]]/[[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer a bigger shoe]]?

* Formerly pictured above, [[MeaningfulName Phoenix Ikki]] from ''SaintSeiya'' keeps coming back. From the endless void, form hell, from being beaten and blasted, only to baffle the now doomed enemy.

*** Hah. Meta Cooler sounds like a futuristic alcoholic drink.

-->Why won't he die? Why won't he die?!

* Kazuo Kiriyama of BattleRoyale. Words cannot described how many times over he should have died, and by how ''much''.

**** Not that he needed or even wanted to survive beyond success. In both versions of the tale, V meant for others to carry on after him, only needing to live to the point that could happen. SoYeah.

* The antagonist of {{InuYasha}}, Naraku. Seriously, he is the reason Inuyasha's group took 40+ manga volumes to kill. The guy literally has no weakness since he could survive being torn to pieces and regenerate back his body.
* Sōsuke Aizen in {{Bleach}}. Fuckin' A, dude. This guy's '''SO''' much of a PhysicalGod that he can draw with friggin' [[{{Hellsing}} ALUCARD]], or move over to {{Dragonball Z}}.
**[[spoiler: It gets especially bad by the Deicide arcs, but it grows really really bad by ch 415, where has practically become the MostTriumphantExample of a Villain Sue. Ever.]]
** And Szayel says this to Mayuri during their fight. "Why?! I destroyed all of your organs and tendons! So why won't you die?!"

* Mrs. Lovett of ''SweeneyTodd'' shouts this [[spoiler: when Judge Turpin hasn't died yet, after having his neck stabbed, his throat slit, and being sent down a fifteen foot chute by the title character. She ends up kicking him until he finally just dies.]]