In Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra kills her husband, King Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to proceed forward with the Trojan war, and Cassandra, a prophetess of Apollo.

* 1987 – Hungerford massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.

Aphrodite and Apollo rescue Aeneas from combat with Diomedes of Argos, who nearly kills him, and carry him away to Pergamos for healing.

In contrast, Jains agree with Hindus that violence in self-defense can be justified, and they agree that a soldier who kills enemies in combat is performing a legitimate duty.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

Beowulf kills Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel's mother with a sword of a giant that he found in her lair.

* Hercules ( Aeneid book VIII ) following a trail to the giant Cacus ' cave where he wrestles with him and kills him parallels Beowulf following a trail to Grendel's mother's cave where he wrestles with and kills her.

Elite players develop finger power to the extent that they can hit some power strokes, such as net kills, with less than a racquet swing.

Longshanks, worried by the threat of the rebellion, sends the wife of his son Edward, the French princess Isabella, to try to negotiate with Wallace in hopes that Wallace kills her in order to draw the French king to declare war on Wallace in revenge.

When Macbeth kills the king and takes the throne, Banquo — the only one aware of this encounter with the witches — reserves judgment for God.

Fox resumes the fight and kills Tsai before fleeing with the thief ( who is revealed to be Fox's protegée, Jen ).

In the end, Alucard kills her with only one bullet, in a matter of one second.

There are some mods which affect gameplay heavily, such as Gun Game, where players start with a basic pistol and must score kills to receive better weapons, and Zombie Mod, where one team consists of zombies and must " spread the infection " by killing the other team ( using only the knife ).

After the rest of the X-Men arrive, Xorn / Magneto kills Jean Grey with an electromagnetically induced stroke, and Wolverine decapitates him.

De Vries kills Yueh but he also dies with Leto in the assassination attempt ; however Harkonnen survives.

Victor Yannacone, Charles Wurster, Art Cooley and others associated with inception of EDF had all witnessed bird kills or declines in bird populations and suspected that DDT was the cause.

The trade-off with the remaining thief goes well until Shiragami's assassin kills the thief.

There is the ever present threat of the Yankees who steal and burn, and at one point, Scarlett kills a Yankee marauder with a single shot from Charles's pistol leaving " a bloody pit where the nose had been.

The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian " chinanto / mnigs " which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan " tzjin-anthony-ks " which kills cows at a hundred paces ; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.

They emerge from the wreck to enthusiastic applause from the audience, who assume the crash is part of the entertainment, and when Sarris attacks again, Jason kills him with an Ion Nebulizer ( blaster pistol ) and receives even greater applause.

After Patroclus has routed the Trojan army, Hector, with the aid of Apollo and Euphorbus, kills Patroclus, vaunting over him:

The Witch loses her strength and falls backwards, and the boulder kills her instantly.

It was used to good advantage in the 1991 Gulf War, where it scored many USAF air-to-air kills ; its kill probability, overall, is still less than 40 %.

In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.

" When Taji kills the old priest holding Yillah captive, he states " remorse smote me hard ; and like lightning I asked myself whether the death deed I had done was sprung of virtuous motive, the rescuing of a captive from thrall, or whether beneath the pretense I had engaged in this fatal affray for some other selfish purpose, the companionship of a beautiful maid.

* 1999 – Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.

* 1990 – The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in the New York City borough of The Bronx.

As an example, if someone kills someone else, such a nihilist might argue that killing is not inherently a bad thing, bad independently from our moral beliefs, only that because of the way morality is constructed as some rudimentary dichotomy, what is said to be a bad thing is given a higher negative weighting than what is called good: as a result, killing the individual was bad because it did not let the individual live, which was arbitrarily given a positive weighting.

* Bill Hinzman as Cemetery Zombie: The cemetery zombie who kills Johnny in the first scene was played by S. William Hinzman ( credited as Bill Hinzman ).

Bin Laden released another video tape, stating, " Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice, aimed at forcing America to stop its support for Israel, which kills our people.

His playing time soared, as he was being sent on not just for power plays but double shifts and even penalty kills.

Being the daughter of Dahak, she quickly developed supernatural powers, and kills within hours of being born, proving to Xena that there was no chance of saving her.

** Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.

Soon afterwards, around the time of his father's death, Balzac wrote El Verdugo – about a 30-year-old man who kills his father ( Balzac was 30 years old at the time ).

At that time, the time traveller kills his or her grandfather, and therefore, the time traveller is never born when he or she was meant to be.

Jaina kills Jacen in Invincible, the final novel in the series, leaving the Solo family stricken with grief, even as they acknowledge that his death was " necessary ".

Raskolnikov, the anti-hero of Dostoevsky ’ s novel Crime and Punishment, puts this philosophy into action when he kills an elderly pawnbroker and her sister, later rationalizing this act to himself with the words, "... it wasn ’ t a human being I killed, it was a principle!

Over two years the system was only employed nine times to attack German aircraft with 8 kills recorded for the loss of a single pilot.

The Basilisk, the venomous " king of serpents " with the glance that kills, was hatched by a serpent, Pliny the Elder and others thought, from the egg of a cock.

* December 30, 1974: Olean, New York, Anthony Barbaro, a 17-year-old Regents scholar armed with a rifle and shotgun, kills three adults and wounds 11 others at his high school, which was closed for the Christmas holiday.

Arthas supposedly kills Mal ' Ganis, and abandons his men in the frozen north as his soul is stolen by the blade, which was later revealed to be forged by the Lich King.

After successful kills, the women processed the bison meat and skin: the flesh was sliced into strips and dried on poles over slow fires and stored.

Overnight, he kills Mort's cat and burns down the house of Mort's ex-wife, which contained the magazine issue in which " Secret Window " was published.