Once Is Not Enough: Difference between revisions

== [[Literature]] ==

* In the first Star Wars EU Boba Fett novel, both Boba and Jango pull a [[Aerial Canyon Chase]] (involving missiles) on pursuing starfighters in canyons, and the narrator makes sure to point out that someone tried the same trick on Jango once but it only worked the first time.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** Shepard does the exact same thing in the final battle - but then, s/he's one of the most highly trained humans there is.

** After Saren dies, Shepard's first instinct (after taking control of the Citadel so that the fleet can destroy Sovereign) is to tell his/her companions to "make sure he's dead." One of them shoots Saren before confirming that he is. {{spoiler|Of course, that doesn't stop Sovereign from animating the Reaper tech that was implanted in Saren.}}

* Averted by [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] antagonist Vergil in ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' 3 who, having beaten down your player character, instantly and remorselessly stabs him ''again'' as soon as he sees Dante beginning a [[Finger-Twitching Revival]].

* In most of the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' games, zombies will eventually die for good if they take enough damage. However, in the [[Game Cube]] remake of the first game, while the zombies will eventually "die" after taking enough damage, if their heads aren't destroyed (or, failing that, if their corpses aren't [[Kill It with Fire|set alight]]), then their corpses don't simply disappear once the player leaves the room. Instead, they remain, and, after enough time has passed, they ''will'' come back to (un)life... [[Oh Crap|having mutated into the far deadlier Crimson Heads]].

* Spriggans in the ''Bloodmoon'' expansion to ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]'' will come back to life not once, but ''twice'' if killed (put another way, you have to [[Rule of Three|kill them three times]] before they stay dead). [[Fridge Logic|Even if you use Soul Trap and capture their souls.]] This is changed in ''[[Oblivion]]'', where they instead [[Everything's Worse with Bears|summon bears]].

 

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