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So, she's limited in how she can kill the bad guys...I mean it's got to be a comedy suitable for Christian readers. Here's what she wrote to me:
I'm sorry I didn't kill Judd off, very bloodthirsty of you, but I know what you mean. I did stab a stake through his leg and I PROMISE YOU he was hanged, so rest easy. :)
I've killed a few villains in my day. Read Cowboy Christmas if you want a bad guy who is particularly dead at the end. Deader than dead.
I've made two notes of how bad guys die in fiction, movies, books, whatever.
First is the 'Good bad guy' syndrome. The good bad guys tend to die while the bad bad guys go to prison. The moral there? Prison is worse than death???
And second, when the bad bad guy DOES die, you can judge how bad he is by the number of times he died.
- Shot through the heart. Bad.
- Shot through the heart, stumble back into an electric grid and be electrocuted, very bad.
- Shot through the heart, stumble back into an electric grid and be electrocuted, then fall six stories, very horribly bad.
- Shot through the heart, stumble back into an electric grid and be electrocuted, then fall six stories and land on a highway and get run over by a semi, miserably ugly viciously bad.
- Shot through the heart, stumble back into an electric grid and be electrocuted, then fall six stories and land on a highway and get run over by a semi, which overturns and explodes...
Well, you get the progression.
Mary's email reminds me of the ending of James Bond and Indian Jones movies ... and Die Hard (the ultimate Christmas movie) where there always seems one-more villain, one-more time, who needs to be killed off.
How about some comments? What are the best ways to kill off a villain? Or, what movies kill off the same villain multiple times...please list the ways. We need to create a list of the Top 10 Villain Deaths.
