* '''Parodied''':
** The main character is [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pounding Wolf within an inch of his life]], but then [[HannibalLecture Wolf tells him]] [[NoFourthWall that if he is killed, the franchise will end and all of them will lose their source of income]].
** Alternatively, Wolf is [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill reduced to little more than a smear on a wall]], but before the episode ends, he's [[UnexplainedRecovery back to normal with no explanation]]. 
** Or, Wolf was KilledOffForReal, but he has countless identical brothers and cousins ([[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals and random casual acquaintances]]). Each time one of them gets offed, a new one pops up to take on the mantle.
* '''Deconstructed''': The hero's inability to defeat Wolf permanently is symbolic of his incompetence and failure, and perhaps even his cowardice and hypocrisy. Due to this, the lives that Wolf takes are the hero's responsibility, since he could stop Wolf but always fails to do so.
* '''Reconstructed''': Should the hero kill Wolf he'd lose sight of his own limitations and eventually find that his threshold for using lethal means would keep lowering until he became an even greater menace than Wolf is in the first place. The hero may be a coward, but it's not the villain but himself he's afraid of. Because the authorities can't stop the villain on their own, he's forced to keep fighting forever.

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* '''Averted''': After being captured and escaping twice and just as the trope looks about to take hold, in his third showdown with the heroes Wolf is defeated and killed in a climactic manner, with an appropriate level of emphasis.
* '''Enforced''': "We can't kill Wolf! He's far too interesting a villain, if we killed him our ratings would plummet!"
* '''Lampshaded''': After his third defeat, Wolf is being carted back to his CardboardPrison while giving the heroes a HannibalLecture mocking their refusal to kill him and pointing out they'll keep doing this forever.
* '''Invoked''': Wolf strives to become literally [[VetinariJobSecurity too important to his society's function]] for any of the good guys to kill him without dire consequences. 
* '''Defied''': After his fourth defeat, Wolf is being carted back to his CardboardPrison while giving the heroes a HannibalLecture mocking their refusal to kill him and pointing out they'll keep doing this forever, at which point team pragmatist Grit shoots him in the back of the head.

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