Killing a Character

Leash1994
Killing a Character

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Oct 2, 2007 - 13 49

In my novel, I'll need plenty of ideas on how to kill of my characters. Any ideas?
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Gun to the head. Nuclear bomb. Drowning in a river.

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Leash1994

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Well, I'd hate to give any spoilers, but there are thousands of people dying in totally different ways. Thanks for the ideas.

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A car crash. Some kind of disease. Poison. Rotten food. Electric shock. Falling down from a high building. Getting killed by a large wild animal. Suicide...

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Ooh! Thank you for the ideas!

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Brain parasites. Brain amoebas. Blood parasites. An anvil to the head. Drug overdose. Stab to the fourth lumbar down with a stiletto knife. Appendicitis. Slitting their throat. Hanging. Meningitis. Stomach wound (causes infection in the abdominal cavity and leaking of acid). Dropped in a concentrated acid. Dropped in a concentrated base. Struck by lightning. Eating poisoned toast. Falling off a building. Gored by a bull. Eaten by a shark. Pneumonia. Hit by a train. Tetanus. Tripping over a small dog and falling on a sharp iron fence post. Being hopped on by a poison toad.

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Exploding manholes. Falling bridges. Avalanche. Brown recluse spider bite. Bathing in a tub of scorpions. Vampire exploding in the sun next to an O2 can next to a gas station beside a nuclear plant. The third rail. Taking a leak on the electric fence. Choking on a gummi worm. killer penguins. Zombie sheep. Zombie voodoo cockroaches stuffed down your throat. Crossing enemy lines. Falling vending machines. Killer vending machines. bad chicken. Chicken bone in the throat.

Drowning, hanging, stabbing, shooting, immolation, asphyxiation, starvation, electrocution, dimemberment, disembowelment, hypothermia, hypertension, ruptured abscess, overdose, infection, aneurysm, embolism, cancer, crime...

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Spontaneous human combustion, killed in a mugging, poison on postage stamp, strangled by pantyhose, burglar caught and shot by homeowner, anemic with a papercut, hit by piece of comet, gored by moose, invisible man-eating lava (or just regular lava), spraycan thrown into fireplace, falling down elevator shaft, hit in head with bowling ball, electrocuted by faulty wiring, hairdryer in bathtub, nose crushed into brain, accident with a ceiling fan, falling off window-washer cart, killed by faulty microwave, football tackle, fatal airbag deployment, gas leak, mis-calculated chiropractic technique, stoned to death (with stones, or drugs), overdose, allergic reaction to bee sting, burned at stake, guillotine, cat-scratch fever, loosing at Russian Roulette, fatal seizure inflicted by strobe light, overeating at hot-dog eating contest, industrial machinery accident, killed by AI.

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I read once that if you punch someone in the nose just right with enough force it can kill them by pushing all that bone and cartilage up into their brain. I always thought that was kind of cool.

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Gods, "Spontaneous human combustion"? This is cool.

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And let's not forget the classic Kitano technique of punching *chopsticks* up someone's nose and through their brain. :)

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I read once that if you punch someone in the nose just right with enough force it can kill them by pushing all that bone and cartilage up into their brain. I always thought that was kind of cool.

^^ Are there any links to this? This sounds perfect for what I'm looking for.

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Oct 14, 2007 - 05 26

In the fourth Alanna the Lioness book, she kills someone that way. (I won't say who, coz of spoilers :) )

But I don't know whether it can actually be done. It sounds kind of plausible, though.

I say defenestration. Because it's an awesome excuse to use the word defenestration.

And what about that shovel thing? Travelling Shovel of Death (TM), wasn't it? Or was it Doom? I can't recall.

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Yup. You have to basically hit them from below, pushing the bones in their nose up through the small piece of bone and into the frontal brain. Death in two minutes. It's actually not as hard as you might think, you only have to hit them as hard as you would to break their nose and then your momentum would pretty much do the rest. It's the angle that's the tricky bit.
No I haven't done this. But I knew someone who did.

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Dude! I learned a new word today -- defenestration! Excellent. :)

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Thousands you say...

I've used the death by hemorrhage after an abortion, horrific car crash,and roadside bomb explosion.
I would say mass disease like bird flu or something like that, but the only thing wrong with that is if you want the people to die in lots of different ways, disease might kill too many off at once. Darn.
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Dropping too much acid, making the character lose touch with reality, and ultimately dying from insanity. Or tearing off his or her own skin and flesh as a result of said insanity.

Parkinson's disease.

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Or small plague.

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my favorite was always death by random ninja.

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Wow! There are literally hundreds of different deaths on just this one thread! Amazing! If you are running out of ideas (though I don't see how you could, with all these responses), watch a few CSI or Law and Order episodes. They've got some really interesting ones sometimes. My favorite? Kid is racing his friend on the highway in go-carts. He's driving behind a semi, about to pass when the semi has a tire blow out. A large chunk of the tire hits the kid and rips his head off. Pretty cool.

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That's nothing. Ender Wiggin kills two people with the nose-cartilage thing... in the same book! And both were accidental!

I'm killing my MC (who is a zombie) with anaphylactic shock from a mustard allergy. I was trying to think of the most mundane thing possible to die from (that would still leave the body intact for reanimation).

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I'll try to come up with new ones...
Falling asleep in a bowl of soup, having a hot air balloon fall from the sky and crush you, allergic reaction to bee sting, kissing a person who ate peanuts and being allergic to peanuts, allergic reaction to latex (like putting on a pair of rubber gloves) tire in the face (got to love Dane Cook), starvation, dehydration, sitting still too long having a blood clot form in your head and travel to your brain, rabies, electrocution, catching fire, having a scoreboard collapse on you, tripping down a long flight of stairs (like at a stadium), shark attack, nail gun

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Oct 15, 2007 - 14 16

You know that in the Defenestration of Prague, noone died. They all fell onto a dung heap and survived.

a gigantic vegetable dropped from above, ninja stars to the temple, doused in keroscene and set alight, rope dart to the kidneys, falling from a trapeze, faulty safety equipment, throat cut on plate glass window, goared by angry boar, arsenic added to teabags, lipstick, etc.

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Oct 16, 2007 - 20 18

Shooting them in the head.
Stabbing them.
drowing them.
Hitting them with a heavy object.
Strangling them

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Falling off a ladder, tripping down stairs, a broken elevator, a broken roller coaster, banging a hammer against something so hard it breaks and flies into their eye, driving a car into a road-gate door (so that the pole on the gate impales the driver), allergic reaction, being crushed by a vending machine, struck by lightning, UV exposure leading to skin cancer, biting their tongue off and bleeding to death, being pulled under a back hoe, getting their leg caught under a lawn mower, E. coli, rabies, the flu, accidentally swallowing bleach, adrenaline poison (can people get that? Rhinos can die from too much shock), dehydration, spontaneous combustion, hypothermia, a side-effect from otherwise harmless medicine, falling into a hole, falling in to an empty swimming pool, a hurricane, a crane breaking and dropping one of those huge bars on them...
You get the picture. :D

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I'm not sure if it's been mentioned but there's always the ol' biting someone's jugular vein out like Kiefer Sutherland does in the '60-'07 season of 24, Otherwise if you need truly absurd but true ways try the Darwin awards, they give "awards" to those who promote the "survival of the fittest "cause by eliminating themselves from the gene pool in incredibly dumb ways. Their website is here:
http://www.darwinawards.com/

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Oct 16, 2007 - 21 36

Beheading by elevators, barbed wire accidents, exploding balls of fire, impalements on the coat hooks of doors, various dismemberments, asphyxia, smothering....I advise looking up the Final Destination if you're after some of those really off-the-wall deaths. While I'm not sure if all are completely legit, they do get the creative process started. Some very nasty deaths there, with lots of opportunities to spur new ideas.

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Oct 17, 2007 - 14 13

Most of the ones I would suggest have already been suggested.
Except for this one: I've heard an excruciating death is to be had when finely crushed glass is consumed in a drink. It lacerates the digestive system and leads to death by internal bleeding.

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Two words: necrotizing fasciitis. Streptococcus pyogenes FTW!

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Oct 17, 2007 - 20 36

the main character is the one who kills him/her
but heres the twist, the dead person is familly and/or friends

as to cause, ive always been a fan of hand to hand, like neck twisting, organ shatering combat. or take a machine gun and put so much lead into him/her untill he/she is more metal than man/woman.

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the best (and only one I can think of at the moment,) is mauled by a deer.

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