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5	[[caption-width-right:300:[[Film/{{Passenger 57}} Always bet on black.]] Cause right now, he's getting [[VisualPun red all over the place]].]]
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7	->''"Boggs didn't put anything in Andy's mouth, and neither did his friends. What they ''did'' do was beat him to within an inch of his life."''
8	-->-- '''Red''', ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption''
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10	Put away the magic, energy blasts, and witty banter. BeautyIsNeverTarnished, MadeOfIron, ToonPhysics, and HollywoodHealing, if they were present in the story before, all are temporarily turned off (or worse, used by the aggressor in a way to heighten the gruesomeness and horror of the violence). This is the scene where someone pummels, punches, kicks, beats, and/or batters another person to a limp, bruised, bloody pulp. If it's a robot or other mechanical protagonist enduring one of these, expect to see lots of sparks, exposed wires, lights going out, and fluid leakage very symbolic of blood. Note that as far as {{Fight Scene}}s go, this is quite one-sided. That [[HeroicSecondWind Second Wind]] you're waiting for? Keep waiting. It doesn't end that way.
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12	Even when the victim can no longer even try to strike back (or block or dodge, for that matter), or if he never even had a chance to, the attacker just [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown keeps going]]. It takes all the victim's {{determinat\|or}}ion just to keep breathing until the attacker either gets too worn out for another hit or [[LetMeAtHim gets dragged away]] by... someone (their partner, victim's ally, a BadassBystander, the police, or a combination of those -- not that it's going to be the victim's biggest concern at this point). And sometimes, even that may not be enough -- some attackers take this to its logical conclusion and beat the victim to death (in which case, this trope may well continue to segue into PummelingTheCorpse, especially if the aggressor is just ''that'' angry).
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14	Dialogue is limited. At most, a particularly cold attacker may [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech continue to mock or insult the victim]] [[PunctuatedPounding between blows]]. One-sided witty banter may come from a DeadpanSnarker who is trash talking during the beating. Some blows are delivered off-screen; [[HellIsThatNoise sounds are sometimes more disturbing than visuals, anyway]].
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16	In short, that scene where ViolenceIsDisturbing runs high. Little to no flashiness and more brutal, often gory.
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18	If both combatants hand out a brutal beating, it's HowMuchMoreCanHeTake. If the visceral hand-to-hand element is emphasized in the beatdown, then it's ExtremeMeleeRevenge. If the victim is trying to get away, the attacker may need to inform them that YouWillNotEvadeMe. This is often the punishment for pushing a character's BerserkButton.
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20	Compare and contrast with the CurbStompBattle (where the recipient is ''usually'' defeated quickly and decisively, instead of being subjected to a prolonged assault where the recipient [[LetsYouAndHimFight has to live up to a villain's expectations]]; they also usually lack the NightmareFuel element of this trope) and contrast OnceIsNotEnough. Compare UnstoppableRage, HeadCrushing and TranquilFury. Often ends with ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill, because when an over-the-top asskicking ensues, it's probably because the attacker wants their victim ''DeaderThanDead.'' Deconstructed examples may result in a one-sided CombatBreakdown (but not the WimpFight variant). TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, when someone tells another why they're such a shitty person, and BreakThemByTalking, when someone manages to make another breakdown just from talking to them, are the verbal equivalents of this.
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22	!!Example subpages
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24	[[index]]
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39	[[/index]]

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