History PlayingWith / MakeSureHesDead

* '''Straight''': After killing [[LadyOfBlackMagic Marcy]], [[TheDragon Drake]] stabs her through the head before leaving.
* '''Exaggerated''': Drake had previously [[CruelAndUnusualDeath clubbed Marcy repeatedly, stabbed her 28 times, slammed her head on a wall, impaled her with a spear, whipped her until she cried, and broke her back]]. But ''just to be sure'', Drake shoots her in the head, crushes her skull, breaks all her limbs, then throws her overly-mangled corpse off a cliff.
* '''Downplayed''': Drake clubs Marcy to see if she'd react but nothing more.

** Marcy has a HealingFactor that regenerates wounds unless a vital organ is destroyed, so she could come back from an absurd amount of {{Gorn}}.
** Marcy is actually alive, so Drake is just finishing the job.
** Marcy is impeccable at playing dead.

** When [[TheWisePrince Hiro]], [[TheLancer Jack]], and [[CombatMedic Claudia]] find Marcy dead, they do everything in their power to make sure she's alive. Claudia even wastes healing spells on the corpse.

-->'''Drake:''' Marcy has fallen. Let's leave.\\
'''Marcy:''' [Thank goodness, he's leaving.]

-->'''Drake:''' Actually... shoot that corpse.\\
'''Marcy:''' [OhCrap]
* '''Parodied''': To make sure Marcy is dead, Drake orders his soldiers to each hand him a weapon that he will use to mutilate her corpse. Including but not limited to: A mace, shotgun, longsword, spear, katana, death ray, scimitar, flamethrower, laser gun, suicide bomber vest, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking poisoning]]...
* '''Zig Zagged''': After killing the entire heroic party, Drake severs Hiro's head off and stabs Claudia through the head. Marcy and Jack recover and mourn over their dead friends.
* '''Averted''': Drake decides to leave after killing Marcy, whether or not she's actually dead.
* '''Enforced''': Drake's actor tends to [=play/voice=] GenreSavvy characters, and they decided to put this scene just for him

* '''Invoked''': "We need to show that Drake is a rational villain who won't pull any punches"
* '''Exploited''': Marcy is PlayingPossum, and waits until Drake thrusts his spear to catch it, break it, then beat him up.
* '''Defied''': Lieutenant [[BodyguardBabes Alice]] suggests that Drake not defile Marcy's corpse to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity maintain his public image]].
* '''Discussed''': "First, we must make sure Marcy is dead. Hand me my spear."

* '''Deconstructed''': Drake's ingenuity and caution is mistaken for savagery by his soldiers, who begin to desert under the idea Drake has gone mad.
* '''Reconstructed''': Drake takes the time to explain to his soldiers why he mutilates corpses, even citing one instance where he chose not to and ended up losing his right eye. He also decides to be more thorough with making sure his opponent is dead (Less gore)

** Marcy is actually alive, so Drake is just finishing to job.

'''Marcy:''' [[[OhCrap SHIT!]]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': Drake had previously [[CruelAndUnusualDeath clubbed Marcy repeatedly, stabbed her 28 times, slammed her head on a wall, impaled her with a spear, whipped her until she cried, and broke her back]]. But ''just to be sure'', Drake shoots her in the head, crushes her skull, then throws her overly-mangled corpse off a cliff.

* '''Exaggerated''': Drake had previously [[CruelAndUnusualDeath clubbed Marcy repeatedly, stabbed her 28 times, slammed her head on a wall, tore her left leg off, whipped her until she cried, and broke her back]]. But ''just to be sure'', Drake shoots her in the head, crushes her skull, then throws her overly-mangled corpse off a cliff.

* '''Exaggerated''': Drake had previously [[CruelAndUnusualDeath clubbed Marcy repeatedly, stabbed her 28 times, slammed her head on a wall, tore her left leg off, whipped her until she cried, and broke her back]]. But ''just to be sure'', Drake shoots her in the head, breaks her skull, then throws her off a cliff.

* '''Exaggerated''': Drake had previously [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stabbed Marcy 28 times, slammed her head on a wall, tore her left leg off, and broke her back]]. But ''just to be sure'', Drake shoots her in the head, breaks her skull, then throws her off a cliff.

* '''Exaggerated''': Drake had previously [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stabbed Alice 28 times, slammed her head on a wall, tore her left leg off, and broke her back]]. But ''just to be sure'', Drake shoots her in the head, breaks her skull, then throws her off a cliff.