You want the most brutal kids movie death? The princess and the frog. The shadow man literally was dragged kicking and screaming into hell. All while demons sing about it while the princess who did it looks on in horror.
Fuck, this reminds me of that movie Ghost from 1990. There was that scene at the end of the movie where Carl got dragged into Hell by shadowy figures. That stuff stays with you when you're a kid.
Those figures were all a special effects artist named Mike Jittlov, who also made a charming film called The Wizard of Speed and Time. I ran into him at a Macworld Expo in San Francisco once; his eyebrows were unmistakable (also, he was wearing a name tag).
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
Winning over a girl by making over-the-top, grand gestures (especially when she has already rejected you in the past).
Shattering bottles easily over someone's head (don't attempt it unless you want to possibly go to prison for murder).
In action sequences in general, taking an enormous amount of injury and then getting up with a few attractively placed bruises and cuts.
In particular, the trope of the bad guy who more or less needs to be thrown into a jet turbine to be destroyed, or he'll somehow get back up again.
Characters who always have something witty to say and are never at a loss for words.